Seriously? Makes me wonder why there are any Windows games out there. I'd rather say the port didn't really pay off (because it was a released buggy and too early) and the name-calling was just the icing on the cake, or maybe even not that.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: ageresPopups can be turned off.

Why are people so open-source obsessed? Games are not open-source anyway, as well as Nvidia drivers, so what would be different if Steam goes open-source? Linux market share is too small for gamers to be capricious and picky. Why are people so open-source obsessed? Games are not open-source anyway, as well as Nvidia drivers

We are using Linux after all, not Windows, so you can answer your own question. There is no reason to make such clients closed, except for DRM. DRM can't be open by definition.

I appreciate open source software for important core components of my operating system and the applications I have to work with. I couldn't care less whether such utterly unimportant things as games are open source or not. And the Steam client? Well, it would be nice if it was open source, but far from a necessity. After all we are still talking about this rather unimportant stuff. OTOH DRM can be open source - checking a serial number against some registered serial numbers is hardly anything which requires security by obscurity. Plus there have been initiatives for open source DRM solutions - they probably never caught on.

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceI'm fairly certain it doesn't but I want to be sure. Does the Linux version of Dawn of War III have Denuvo ?

Denuvo only exists on and for Windows.

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Quoting: DaiKaiser93Waiting for GOG to add the Linux version

Humble Bundle has both the Steam and DRM free version currently on sale.

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Quoting: subJust purchased it, but it seems Little Racers STREET is not included anymore.

Sure? It shows up as gift in your Steam inventory. At least it did about 2 hours ago.

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It might be a gift, but "Little Racers STREET" doesn't even start. And according to the Steam forum I am far from alone... Anyone got this working?

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Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: liamdaweIt's hard to hit Windows levels with games that were never designed with Linux or anything but DirectX in mind.

i know this, but the reasons dont matter, what matter is the facts.

Facts stained posting incoming...

linux is better, that is a fact, but the games run worse on it because porting without an major shift in the code (like rewrite from scratch in gl) will cost performance.
the end user will not care the reason the game run slow, if he can play the game on windows and cant on linux he will blame the system, or even if he understand, he will not use it.

And your point is? What do you expect? There is a certain market share of people who (solely) use Linux for whatever reason (attitude, ecosystem, tools, tasks, ...) Quite a few people also like to play games. They are served. Period. I don't expect people to switch to Linux because here "the games run just as fast as on Windows". The vendor lock-in is impossible to break for an open source operating system. (That doesn't mean a desktop OS can not successfully replaced by OSes on other devices - see Android.)

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Quoting: elmapulthis improvment is not enough to make the performance better than windows, so no one will install linux just to play an game that he/she cant play on windows due to weak hardware.

and feral could have spent this time porting other games, sure, it cost more, but they will not make many extra sales from improving the performance on this one, porting others they will...

I'm pretty sure that Feral people are smart enough to decide what to do next for themselves. If I was in Feral's position this patronizing would drive me mad.

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With this patch the differences between OpenGL and Vulkan have become quite small (< 5%) for 3 of the 4 benchmarks. The "stronghold" benchmark however is still a lot faster: 68fps vs. 50fps. It is also the most demanding one, since all other benchmarks yield around 100fps.

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Quoting: echazarencNo differences for me between Vulkan and OpenGL
around 100fps
i7 7700K@5Ghz, GTX1060, 16 Go RAM, SSD M2

Odd. I had - with quite the same configuration (i7 6700k stock, GTX1060, 16GB) - an increase between 50 and 100%.

See my first comment:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/mad-max-meets-vulkan-in-a-new-fully-public-beta-for-linux-benchmarks-and-opengl-vs-vulkan-comparisons.9345/comment_id=89745

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