I just remember Bink is the player that Neverwinter Nights uses, and when they first released it for Linux, there were no videos for it. People had to convert them from Bink to Avi, or something. Then finally RAD released a binary Bink player, and that could be used... proprietary video codecs need to die...

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Quoting: pb"Find Quake II RTX on Steam with the first three levels free, the rest available if you buy Quake 2 directly."

So if I have Quake 2 on Steam, then I can play the whole game in Quake II RTX (with RTX enabled etc.)?

I've had Quake 2 on Steam for a long time, there is a trick you have to do for the expansions to work, but they also will work with the RTX version. (Can't recall what the trick actually is, I think you just move the baseq files, or whatever they're called).

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Quoting: Bogomips

Quoting: slaapliedjeHa, you triple told him!

Let's not forget the lack of resource eating software that likes to sit in the background on Windows, a driver / software model that doesn't ask for a reboot every time, etc.

I had to uninstall and reinstall with several reboots in between, my Thurstmaster Warthog last night just so I could play some Elite: Dangerous in VR... I should try to tear apart their scripting engine and try to port it to Linux...

Hmm, when I posted it, the UI was unresponsive and nothing happened (or so I thought).

That is one of the most irritating pain for me, the lack of support for some peripherals. (Logitech if you can hear me…).

Mice are ok now with piper or solaar but my G13 is a pain in the ass even if now it is somewhat working (and I love it because it is an ortholinear keyboard).

I previously had a Saitek x52, which someone wrote a library / utility for Linux, so it worked great. But then I upgraded to the Warthog beast. I guess what it comes down to is people who write such things need hardware to test with.

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Quoting: Bogomips

Quoting: AkonadyI wanna know something not related specifically to this game but with games in general.

What do you feel like playing on Linux (not native games), losing lots of fps, basically wasting the full potential of your hardware?

In a sense you are right, I use way less RAM on Linux than on Win 7.

Ha, you triple told him!

Let's not forget the lack of resource eating software that likes to sit in the background on Windows, a driver / software model that doesn't ask for a reboot every time, etc.

I had to uninstall and reinstall with several reboots in between, my Thurstmaster Warthog last night just so I could play some Elite: Dangerous in VR... I should try to tear apart their scripting engine and try to port it to Linux...

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Quoting: Breizh

Quoting: KohlyKohlManjaro for new users? Really? They purposely break important packages for various reasons. Recently, they even broke the Steam package. This was the final straw for me and why I moved back to KDE Neon.

If you want to recommend a bad user experience for new users then by all means recommend Manjaro. If you want new users to have a positive experience then recommend Ubuntu.

I already did and for now, concerned users are satisfied, with no problems. On the other hand, Ubuntu with Gnome is more and more slow, Snap is enforced with the problems of disk space, integration (locale and theme are often broken), and Ubuntu have still the same eternal problems of drivers that I never had on Manjaro.

In the worst case, Xubuntu have the advantage to be faster, and you can easily remove Snap (the standard Ubuntu use Snap even for the software center or the calculator…). Or Linux Mint. But Manjaro still the best, even more since the packages break you mention are now rare (I talk only about the main versions : XFCE and KDE (never tried the Gnome version). Community versions are still often broken…).

Snap is the reason I recommend either Debian or Pop_OS.

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Quoting: 3zekiel

Quoting: slaapliedjeWonder if he's considered porting / releasing on the AtariVCS? Most of those games would run wonderfully on the system, and would probably sell quite well right now as the system is starved for some games! And porting efforts would consist of literally just getting it on the store...

Isn't the AtariVCS standard Linux in the end ? I guess one could just install Steam or pull from GOG no ?

Yeah, it's running Debian derived operating system called apertis.
Ans while you can install on a different drive any Linux that supports Secure Boot and indeed run GOG or Steam games on it, my point was that it would be sweet to have them right there in the Atari Store, which right now is pretty slim on choices, it'd be an incredibly fast port (they're apparently DRM free at the moment as well) and great prominence for any developer to get them there quick (before the general availability of the system in March)

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Quoting: AkonadyI wanna know something not related specifically to this game but with games in general.

What do you feel like playing on Linux (not native games), losing lots of fps, basically wasting the full potential of your hardware?

Not sure if troll... but I was playing Destroy All Humans just fine at 3840x1200 the other night. Fun game!

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Wonder if he's considered porting / releasing on the AtariVCS? Most of those games would run wonderfully on the system, and would probably sell quite well right now as the system is starved for some games! And porting efforts would consist of literally just getting it on the store...

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleIf this had modding I would try to remake Stunt Car Racer's tracks in this.

Hell yeah, that'd be bad ass! I still need to try out the Atari 8bit port, but playing this head to head on the Amiga / ST was a blast back in the day.

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https://openbenchmarking.org/result/2101032-FI-TOMBRAIDE51 [External Link]
Benchmark for Tomb Raider.

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