Somebody know what Ryan C. Gordon (icculus) is doing lately? The guy was THE Linux porter some years ago but I did not see his work anymore.

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Quoting: Snowdrake

Quoting: MGOidWell, maybe some mobile browser started displaying Linux instead of Android.

Or maybe some IOT computers ?

Yes, another possibility.

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Well, maybe some mobile browser started displaying Linux instead of Android.

Linux is everywhere except for desktop computers, so in my head we won the war anyway.

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The Witcher 2 work very well with mesa drivers. Performance is very good. Stable.

Spec Ops: The Line was crash happy and has low performance. Newer mesa drivers run it like TW2, though.

Bioshock Infinity still plays bad here, especially in open areas. Needs more driver work.

The good side is all of then are stable and recognize my XBone controller. I think only one Aspyr port I have (Super Meat Boy) work with it. Feral ports are fine.

The real downside of all these "porthouses" is that none of then give a crap about Surround Sound. Actually, very few ports have 5.1 sound (I'm looking at you Valve). I can remember now only Euro/American Truck Simulator and Counter Strike: Global Offensive.

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OFF Topic: Might No.9 is out.

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And since they do not sell it in Brazil, I cannot get one for a reasonable price...

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Deep Silver may be Linux friendly, but Techland is not so much. Their ports are really bad, like Virtual Programming bad. To this day I cannot launch the original Dead Island in my gaming rig (bought it before Steam allowed refunds), while all other Deep Silver games I have work just fine.

People will point out that I use a non supported setup (AMD+OSS drivers) but I can play every other Deep Silver game I have, and the performance is good. Even Liam, with a monster rig (GTX 980ti) have performance problems with Dying Light, and after several updates things are still not good enough.

I'm not touching another Techland game.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismThe reason games aren't 64 bit is because it doesn't really provide any advantage whatsoever

Well, Phoronix have done several performance tests between 32 and 64bits software and games that disagree with you. And I have seen a lot of AAA games that are now 64bits only. Even indie games in Linux, like American Truck Simulator, have only 64bits executables.

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Quoting: MGOidIn the Steam store, the Windows version is DirectX 11, and the recommended GPU is a GTX 970, same as Linux. The minimal requirement is a GTX 640, also the same as Linux, but Codemasters lists older GPUs too.

So, a DX11 game means OpenGL4.3 Linux right? OSS AMD drivers will not work with this for a few months. Grid Autostport plays very nice today with the OSS driver, but not at launch. so I must buy this in a couple of months or so.

Mesa has had more or less full 4.3 support for radeonsi for a bit over a month now. But the DX11/OpenGL equivalence depends on what extensions the particular game uses. Some games like Bioshock infinite needed 4.1 but things like Alien Isolation need 4.3 while mordor needs 4.4 or 4.5 iirc. Feral is pretty good about Mesa support and TR, which was also based of DX11, worked just fine for me with mesa git at launch.

Shadow of Mordor needs 4.3. I managed to run its benchmark some time ago using radeonsi without any graphical artifacts (besides low performance).

I expect to run all those games with good performance by the end of the year, if the OSS drivers continue to develop at the actual pace.

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In the Steam store, the Windows version is DirectX 11, and the recommended GPU is a GTX 970, same as Linux. The minimal requirement is a GTX 640, also the same as Linux, but Codemasters lists older GPUs too.

So, a DX11 game means OpenGL4.3 Linux right? OSS AMD drivers will not work with this for a few months. Grid Autostport plays very nice today with the OSS driver, but not at launch. so I must buy this in a couple of months or so.

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