I just have to say, performance is amazing! My system specs:

AMD FX-4130 Quad-Core
GeForce GTX 760 2GB
8GB RAM

So just above the minimum, but I'm running the game on the "High" graphics preset and getting a solid 30FPS on the campaign map and in battles. Very impressive! I could even get away with "Ultra" if I wanted, but there is some slight but noticeable stutter. Dropping down to "High" keeps everything responsive and silky-smooth.

I have to say, this really surprises me. I also have Empire: Total War, but despite being an older game, it doesn't seem to run nearly as well as Total Warhammer. I'm not sure why this is. Given my experience with Empire, I just assumed that Total Warhammer would run like a pig on anything but the lowest settings.

So kudos to Creative Assembly for some great optimization, and kudos to Feral for a great port!

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Too bad there's no single player.

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I'd be more excited if Razer products weren't complete shit.

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You what would be genuinely mind-blowing? Anything from Microsoft Studios.

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Quoting: KimyrielleNice of them to give away NWN. It's an old game, but in some regards I still consider it the best game ever made. No other game ever came with such complete modding support. I lost count how many hours I spent in the game, really.

It was also one of the very, VERY few games to release -natively- for Linux back in the days and thus was absolutely groundbreaking for out platform. The "Bah, it's a Windows game!" naysayers here really have no clue what game they are bashing here.

I still have an ancient copy of this game squirreled away on my hard drive that I installed many, many years ago when I was still running Gentoo. I haven't started it up in quite some time, so I don't even know if it still works on my set-up, but you're absolutely right that it was one of the first commercially available games that supported Linux.

Also as a point of trivia, it was originally supposed to be just a toolkit, and all the content was to be 100% user created, but BioWare decided that it wouldn't sell without a pre-made campaign, so they slapped one together just before release. I always wanted to delve into making my own modules, but I just never took the time to learn.

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I can't name just one, so here goes:

The Batman Arkham series
Anything from Blizzard (but especially Diablo 3)
Anything from Bethesda (I'd like to play Skyrim again)
Anything from Rockstar
Dragon Age: Origins (the last great BioWare game before they were swallowed by EA)
Guild Wars 2 (I still play in Wine, but performance is terrible)

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Quoting: catskinsoxBut while we're on the subject of Steam issues, can we please have working full screen videos within the steam client?

Fullscreen videos work fine for me.

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This seems like one of those things that should be so simple to fix -- Linux apps have been able to minimize to the tray without problems for over a decade -- but I guess Valve must have a reason for leaving this feature disabled, though I can't imagine what that reason might be.

At any rate, ever since I switched to Ubuntu MATE and started using Plank, this problem is effectively solved for me. Plank is an OSX inspired program dock where open programs are indicated by a single icon, so the Steam icon sits inconspicuously alongside my other pinned apps.

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I like the look of the game. If it has strong roleplaying and good combat then it doesn't need flashy graphics.

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I wonder what the actual problem is.

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