I'll instabuy yet another copy if it is Medieval 2 Total War.

I have multiple boxed and digital versions already -- but goto show support to Feral. I actually lost a lousy midnight to 6AM burger-flipping job whilst I was at uni, when this originally came out, as I decided I'd rather finish off a grand campaign than put up with the bogans at the job.

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Quoting: g0rg0rAre you an Nvidia fanboy or employee?

No, just realistic. AMD do not produce as good a hardware, grunt, as Nvidia (trawl through any open-source dev convos on trying to implement gfx between ATI and Nvidia hardware of the same generation). ATI also have suffered lackluster prop-driver development over the last 5 years. Open source implementation has gotten a lot better but far from where it needs to be.

I was originally a big supporter of ATI/AMD before moving to Linux (during high school,like, 2006) so I can understand if new users of linux are upset but if you've been using linux for years now and continue to buy poorly supported or implemented hardware, for specific purposes like 3D and gaming, then you can only blame yourself.

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Quoting: MaelraneAnd if nvidia will have a monopoly one day and I have to do my daily work with a proprietary driver (which will be a huge pain in the ass and a lot of monetary loss for me) I know who to blame :)

haha, ya ya. I'm not unsympathetic but that's a slippery slope argument, monopoly, considering how small a percentage that Linux gamers make up of the gaming ecosystem. By all means buy AMD on a Windows platform (as I used to) but, for the time being, if you intend to play AAA then Nvidia are the only game in town on Linux systems.

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Although I do sympathise with those who buy AMD hardware -- I think you have to accept the fact that we all know, and have for a few years now, that buying AMD hardware often leads to pain and misery for linux desktop, essp. one used for 3D and gaming.

So if you continue to buy AMD hardware, as it is generally cheaper, and knowing the last few years of poor AMD prop-driver implementations -- then you really only have yourselves to blame.

I'm not saying Feral and other companies should get away with claims that it works on all hardware but as far as I am aware the requirements section of Steam only listed Nvidia and not AMD gfx.

P.S. Thanks go out to Feral for bothering to go to the trouble of supporting such a small segment of the gaming OS market.

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Even though I consider myself a power user and/or developer, I'm glad to hear they're working on an official PPA -- this has been a long needed feature. From a security point of view I much prefer being on the downstream from Canonical/Nvidia rather than an Edger or System76 PPA. One less thing to go wrong on a linux desktop, IMHO.

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