Quoting: GuestI don't have a gaming machine and BIoshock Infinite crashed only once in the first ten minutes if I remember. Played it (and the DLCs) without a problem since. Witcher 2 on the other should have never seen the light of day in this state. On one part of the map I had to save every few meters because it kept crashing and crashing. While it's a beautiful game and interesting story (I saw a streamer yesterday who could not run with 60 fps and he has a beast machine), the port is garbage. I picked up Spec Ops free on a sale and I'll be waiting for it. We need more single player games on Linux (and even more!)

The Witcher port right now is just fine.
Unfortunately it has a bad start and that permanently altered the opinion about past, present and future VP ports.

While it will never reach the same perf as in Windows (for obvious reasons), as long as you have a reasonable good machine (what we usually call a gaming machine) it will run fairly well. Don't forget that it needs a good machine in Windows as well.

On my machine (and is not what I would call a beast machine) I can play this port at well above 60 FPS while recording it also at 60 FPS.
Without recording the game hovers around 100 FPS with all max settings (minus ubersampling).

View video on youtube.com

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: dubigrasuAnd we just have an update for the game.
Pretty big performance improvement in my case, I went from around 30 FPS to 60 FPS most of the time.

Uh? The update is (officially) just for Windows, and while Steam did download 50MB of Dying Light here, it did not change the FPS at all.

Edit: Core i5 + GTX 660 here. Do you have AMD hw?

i7-4790K + GTX 780.
Like I said, just yesterday I tried the game once more and put it away due to the (still) lousy performance.
After this update though the perf just went up.

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And we just have an update for the game.
Pretty big performance improvement in my case, I went from around 30 FPS to 60 FPS most of the time.

But BTW, SSAO is still missing.

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Quoting: rune

For some developers it doesn’t make sense to spend a lot of time and money into porting something, when the income gained from it may not come close to their expenses, and we should be okay with that. As I’ve stated before, many times, we are still a tiny platform.

I have a bad feeling. Unless we get good quality ports, and not just a few, that is not going to change.
Windows users are not going to install linux or buy a Steam box if they get sub-par performance compared to windows. They will probably make their own windows based 'steam box' instead.

Well, that's the idea, we need to get the ball rolling. But we gotta start from somewhere.
For the moment they have their eyes on Linux, and that's a good start.

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I'm not that worried about VP (or Codeweavers ?) doing the port.
I'm more worried about this menacing bit:

In fact, it's still possible these ports will never see the light of day.

Also in this case it seems we have two clear choices:
1 - A VP port
2 - Nothing

So I'll take my chances with the VP port thank you very much.

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The plot thickens:

Changed App Config
launch/4/config/oslist: linux
launch/4/description: Launch
launch/4/executable: ./arma3

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Wow, 300 people working on various platforms, and only these two guys developing for Linux...maybe we should send them a cake or something, really.

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Indeed amelcher, you have shown that you have the touch.
Can you apply it on Hard Reset?

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Out now, Linux too: http://store.steampowered.com/app/332970 [External Link]

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Quoting: omer666

Quoting: marcelomendesIf the game can't have a same day launch on both platforms they are probably rushing it

They most probably don't give a damn, just like their port for the first game.

Well, that's the puzzling thing, they do care about Linux/SteamOS and have said it all over the place.
I was definitely expecting to be a simultaneous release given their radical stance regarding developing games for Windows and high confidence in SteamOS.
Interesting read: http://www.pcgamer.com/tripwire-steamos-steam-machines-and-steam-controller-will-be-the-best-thing-to-happen-to-pc-gaming-since-digital-distribution/ [External Link]

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