Wait a second. GTX 960 or GTX 960m? The difference between the two is day and night. Can anyone confirm it really is the desktop GPU inside that tiny box?

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Quoting: peterp771Works beautifully. I'm using a GTX 650 Ti and I'm averaging around 60-70 FPS. Thanks Feral!

At what details/resolution are you running it?

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Quoting: sarmadThe GTX 560 Ti is just a little bit slower than the Alienware Steam Machine, that means the game will also perform poorly on the Steam Machine. It's however still good enough for a port. I don't expect any good ports until Vulcan becomes the norm.

I thought the Alienware Steam Machine was equivalent to the 750ti. ?

Yes it is, and the 750ti is not much different from the 560 ti in terms of processing power. The 560 is around 1263 gflops compared to 1306 gflops for the 750. In terms of fill rate the 560 is actually faster than the 750! So overall it looks like people will be running this game on low settings at sub 1080p on the Steam Machine. I still question Alienware's choice for the GPU in their Steam Machine, and every port that comes out just adds additional evidence that Alienware's choice is wrong.

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The GTX 560 Ti is just a little bit slower than the Alienware Steam Machine, that means the game will also perform poorly on the Steam Machine. It's however still good enough for a port. I don't expect any good ports until Vulcan becomes the norm.

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A benchmark from Phoronix shows the same, only CS:GO saw improvement:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-catalyst-159&num=1 [External Link]

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Quoting: michawell, the graphics actually look worse than most last gen shooters atm. So not really a great advertisement for UE4.. still looking forward to newer versions. =)

I don't get that impression at all. Are you running this on a Commodore 64? You may need to update your drivers.

What are you talking about? What drivers? Look at the video posted by Liam, then Google Call of Duty PS3 and compare.

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You complain about wrappers, but what do you know about the code running on top of this wrapper? An optimized game running on an optimized wrapper might in the end run faster than a poorly optimized native game, will you still prefer the native one in this case? As a user I care about two things only: performance and stability. The technologies used by the team is their own business. When it comes to older games that will run well on today's machines even with the overhead of a wrapper, I am ok with droping my frame rate from 100 to 60 if it means lower prices or more ported games.

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Wait, what do you mean by Nvidia 970? Are we talking about the Geforce GTX 970? Isn't that almost double the gflop speed of PS4 with 4GB of VRAM? I don't see the performance good at all for such a beast card, unless you are talking about a different card.

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Quoting: BeamboomWaaaait a second: Could this be related to the recent finding in Birmingham? 'Oldest' Koran fragments found in Birmingham University?

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33436021 [External Link]

Ergo this has more to do with Birmingham, or libraries, than the Koran or islam?

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The original image from Feral was a scan of "A Thousand and One Nights," which predates the advent of Islam, so it's not directly related to the Qur'an or Islam. If it is related to anything Arabic or Persian though, any game about the Middle East (including Assassin's Creed) or Central/South Asia is a possibility. Many say the original story came from India or Persia rather than Arabia. But that's probably too easy of a guess. I'm sticking with the Witcher 3 because I want it more. :)

This is not true. The image posted by Feral is from the Islamic era, well after the advent of Islam. Also, the "A Thousand and One Nights" book is a collection of folklore tales that predates Islam, but collecting them into one book with this specific name happened in the Islamic era. However, none of this has anything to do with the Koran. I am guessing the game in question is Prince of Persia.

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Quoting: adolson

Quoting: Nyamiou

Quoting: MaelraneBUT: Valve isn't doing this because they see Linux as the great platform it is, they do all this, because they wanted to break free from Microsoft when the rumors about a (n even more) walled garden aka MS Store first appeared.

Microsoft can still potentially kill Valve business easily (and most probably will eventually try), this hasn't change at all. Windows is already moving from a product oriented business to a service oriented business, which means that services like Steam will be competitors that need to be put down and imagine how easy that would be for Microsoft.

Apparently Valve felt the threat, so it must be real, but I mean... If I'm Microsoft, how do I go about getting the millions of Steam users to leave their dozens/hundreds/thousands of games - not to mention dollars and time invested - in their Steam accounts behind and move to whatever Microsoft's solution is? If Microsoft is to make this kind of a move, they'd better do it fast, before Valve has their own platform out on the market that customers see as an easy jump-to point.

Valve doesn't only have threat from Microsoft. They also have threat from Origin and other similar services.

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