Now this is good news! As a long-time Desura customer, I had begun to think that the company which inaugurated gaming for Linux just didn't care any more. Now I think that Desura does care, and it's a Good Thing. I won't be getting all my games from Steam, and that's for sure.

Thanks, Tony!

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I have been enjoying the not entirely dissimilar Pandora:First Contact, another "conquer a hostile planet" game. I have noticed on its Steam forums that beta players of CIV:BE have been complaining mightily about its problems compared to Pandora. Not that this means anything, and some serious DLC will undoubtedly make it a better game, as it did to CIV V. I'll probably get it, too, although (until I get the RMAed CPU I had to send back to NewEgg:><:) I won't be able to play any of the games I already have (Borderlands 2, BioShock Infinite, Tropico 5, Maia, etc).

Therefore, I may wait a bit for CIV:BE, especially because I have Pandora.

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Quoting: LuckyLynxHey everyone. Out of curiousity I downloaded the game in Steam. Downloaded the full 14.7GB and when I went to launch it, it said something along the lines of Missing Executable.

When I read the news that it was being ported my jaw dropped. I can't wait!

I have, in the last 2 years, downloaded several games and have gotten the "missing executable" notification at least five times. The last example was Witcher 2 last spring, and it took until June for the wrapper version to be released.

So....I download the games I know will run (Tropico 5, for example), and wait patiently for the full release. It's hardly as though I have no games to play in the meantime:whistle:...

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Of course, for me, FPS shooters have always been richly represented in the Linux world, even FOSS ones in most distros' repositories. I have Counter-Strike, Half-Life(s), Left4Dead, Metro:Last Light, Nuclear Dawn, Painkiller, Red Orchestra, and a few more. I think I have enough (for me, who isn't the most talented shooter player.

In other words, I have a lot of shooters (probably enough...), and a limited budget, and, with the number of Linux games today, the ability to be picky^_^ about which games I buy.

Geez, I never thought I'd be able to write that:D!

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I had, when dual-booting, purchased quite a few Windows games: Total Commander, Oblivion, Skyrim, X-COM, CIV V, Bioshock:Infinite, Borderlands 2, etc.

While it is very nice to see X-COM, Bioshock, and Borderlands 2 show up in my Steam library, I regret(1) that they all count as Windows sales, and (2)that mostly, I can't afford to buy a game twice. I will say that I'd bought CIV V with no DLC. The day it came out for Linux for $16.99 with all the DLC, I certainly bought that.:)

Needless to say, since I eschewed dual-booting (I was annoyed with Mint's little indiosyncracies, but for real frustration, use Windows 7 after five years of Linux:><:), I have bought Linux games from a Linux version of Steam. It's the least I can do to atone for my dual-boot days...:(

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Quoting: DissCentCan anybody explain what EON actually does? I thought it would be a source code wrapper for interpreting DirectX commands to OpenGL etc.
What confuses me then is that on their homepage they say that the source code to a game isn't needed so I guess it is something like WINE then?

http://www.vpltd.com/services/ [External Link] sez:
"We have an established and robust technology, known as eON, which was created from the ground up for gaming. It is a fully native implementation of essential Windows technologies (such as Direct3D), developed with support from our close relationships with Fortune 500 hardware and software technology companies."

That's not exactly informative, but, yeah, it's a wrapper like wine, which translates Windows commands to POSIX (the UNIX standard with which Linux was built the first time) commands and vice-versa. VP claims that they can write a custom eON for each game.

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:'(I did already buy it, so the fine, fine Feral folks won't get the payment. Unless I gift my Windows copy to someone and then buy it...:S:

BTW, for those who call this a strategy game, E:TW is not quite what you expect from the genre. The strategy is when you decide which province to want to conquer next, etc. The meat of the game is real-time tactical battles, which are pretty absorbing.

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I had to use Desurium to even be able to log in and see anything but a black window. If they do update the Desura Linux client, huzzah!

For all the press that Steam is currently getting (deservedly), I have not forgotten that Desura supported Linux first. They still are the official source of and have the official Dominions 4 forums. Illwinter, the 2 man developer team, had a bad relationship with Shrapnel, the publisher of Dominions 3, even though DOM 3 was their best-selling game by far.

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A fun little game, frustrating, but definitely fun. I've had it for some months, and it has gotten some major updates lately.

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Quoting: Sered

Quoting: Nyamiou(ProTip : Linux users should all have a NVidia card).

Before I'd use the proprietary drivers (and the nouveau drivers are no option ;)) I'd quit playing, so I'll pass and stay with AMD for the next generation(s) unless nvidia invests into open source :)

All my games (apart from The Witcher 2 and Dead Island) run perfectly fine with my 3 year old AMD card and the open source drivers. So I see no reason to switch (back) to Nvidia (I never was a fanboi for a graphics card manufacturer, but currently I'd buy AMD no question!)

I have already felt the pain of being an ATI Linux user, and when I could finally use a rig with nVidia, I saw a tremendous difference in performance. I know that ATI has an edge in the hardware of their cards (they are superior for Bitcoin mining), but I have a nephew who is 100% Windows for gaming, and he tells me that the Windows Catalyst drivers are just as poor as the Linux ones and uses nVidia for gaming. (He uses Linux to run a server; he's no fool)

When I had a new laptop, the graphics card was an ATI, who declared the card as "legacy" two months later. I developed an animus against ATI which continues to this day. I still use AMD CPUs, though.

When Painkiller:Hell and Damnation came out for Linux in a native version, it ran for me the day of release. ATI users (I know I've told this story before) had to wait some 6-8 weeks for the Catalyst developers to get their act together (with the intensive help of the game developer) before the game would run for ATI users.

Why some Linux users play closed-source games but refuse to use closed-source drivers is a head-scratcher to me.

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