But suppose it is Hitman 2016, why is there no Mac port?

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Quoting: morbiusIt's almost certainly Hitman, I'm afraid that game is not really my cup of tea. I'd really like Valiant Hearts: The Great War or something from Capcom or SquareEnix.

Hitman is from SquareEnix and Eidos Interactive. Both Linux friendly publishers. :)

I think it could actually be the current Hitman part. Similar to Deus: Ex. Wow.

These are not my favorite games either. But it is absolutely great to have such grandiose spectacles on Linux. Must have played in any case. Next year I will update my graphics card. These games look just great have a cool story and so on. They are like movies. It's all about this.

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This must have something to do with World War one or two:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Kremlin-Bic%C3%AAtre [External Link]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_de_Bic%C3%AAtre [External Link]

(You have to copy&paste the links)

Company of Heroes 2 and Verdun are already ported to Linux. What else is there and how does Maggie fit in? I'm not hoping now that they will port Battlefield 1. ;)

Maybe Company of Heroes 1? Would fit. I think it's is the first part of Company of Heroes. Maggie is a Baby. :)

I think it is wonderful, but I am surprised that such old games are ported. I've already purchased all of this via Humble Bundle. There was a strategy pack with Total War, Company of Heroes and Warhammer 40k. I bought it at that time only because of Total War and did not believe that the others will be ported. Is fantastic but is it worthwhile for the publisher and Feral? Most people have already bought these old classic games I think.

However, it makes Linux as a gaming platform much more attractive if someone can play such old titles naively. The one or the other Linux user has been around for a while. ;)

EDIT: Now I saw that it could be Hitman. Games from this publisher (Square Enix) have already be ported and they are top sellers. This makes more sense than Company of Heroes.

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Doom 2016 is just great under Wine 2.0. Thanks to vulkan better than most ports. Many thanks to the wine developers for there great efforts.

Bethesda could use wine now for making a linux version without doubt. But then they would have to provide support. But that would be appropriate, because they take the money.

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I had similar pulse audio problems until I turned off my wlan. It was a scheduling delay in alsa-sink.c. I didn't fix it yet but turning off my wlan is a good workaround for me because I didn't need it on my desktop pc. In the case of problems it is best to start pulseaudio in debug mode. Then you see what goes wrong.

I would never change a distribution due to technical problems without having analyzed it. Antergos has a rolling release. Problems can occur at any time in any distribution. Which distributions I use is completely different from technical problems. I personally would always use a Debian based distribution because of package management and the community. But these are personal preferences. They are different for everyone. As Linux users we have the choice.

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Sounds quite reasonable. Some people are just experienced in Linux and in Windows. Nevertheless, the idea exists that the games run better under Windows.

I am doing my experiences with Doom 2016. Everything is running super (under Wine) but then there is again a problem. I think it runs better under Windows. Nevertheless, I would never switch to Windows. But I can understand, however, if people prefer to play on Windows.

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Quoting: Mountain ManSounds like you have something mis-configured then. The tearing issue is a long-standing problem for Nvidia cards in Linux (it existed long before Linux was a viable alternative to Windows for gaming), but the solution is ridiculously easy and has been around for just as long. Here's the latest Gaming on Linux article about it:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/how-to-an-update-on-fixing-screen-tearing-on-linux-with-an-nvidia-gpu.8892

Yes I know. I could not try it yet.

Quoting: Mountain ManI can't comment on sound issues because I've never encountered any for as long as I've used Linux. Ever. My sound card is a Sound Blaster Audigy that I've had for over 15-years, and it has always "just worked" in Linux, and it sounds great, so I've never seen any reason to upgrade.

I don't remember that I had problems with a sound card. I use the internal sound of my main board. But I know there are problems on other peoples systems. My sound problems seems to have nothing to do with my sound chip in particular. It's an scheduling delay in alsa-sink.c caused by my wlan chip or the module which results in random sound glitches. As a work around I just disabled my wlan. Do not need it.

Quoting: Mountain ManI've never had to do anything special to make a game work in Linux beyond the occasional routine problem solving that you have to do even in Windows, but that's par for the course for PC gaming.

Since I have never used Windows on real hardware, I can not judge that. I have your statement now, but there are still many other statements. Partly from very experienced users.

It is also very important which hardware you use. The older the better normally. I have a Skylake system and a Z170 Asus board. With new hardware there are always problems at the beginning:

https://www.pantz.org/hardware/motherboard/intel_skylake_with_an_asus_z170-ar_and_ubuntu_linux_14.04.html [External Link]

Today it's much better. But to say Skylake systems run under Linux as well as under Windows? I really do not know. I would rather not make this statement. Also I can't imagine, that such problems are also exits under Windows in this extent, because the average user would simply not be able to solve them.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: PixelPiAnd even though he does everything under Linux and has enormous knowledge, he plays exclusively under Windows, which in turn does not mean that he might not log in with his Steam Client on Linux from time to time, maybe for testing something.

It's not everyone's pleasure to fight with problems, when someone just wants to play.

I don't understand this anecdote. Playing games in Linux has not given me any more problems than my years of playing games in Windows. The times it doesn't "just work" are the rare exception rather than the rule.

I had problems so far with: Bioshock: Infinite, Deus: Ex, Total War, Metro 2033, Mad Max, Tomb Raider and some more. Tearing in nearly every Game. Sound issues a lot. Have until now found a solution for every problem. I never played under Windows but all my problems were Linux related. Also many Games are simply not available for Linux.

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Quoting: GuestAnd for the "Windows with dual-booting to Linux", it can also have a statistics on how much time is spent on the 2 OS'es.

One of my colleagues is a real Linux professional. He uses Debian unstable for many years and is one of the few people who track down and report really tricky errors and bugs for the rest of us, also in the middle of the night. I ask him whenever I have tough Linux issues. And even though he does everything under Linux and has enormous knowledge, he plays exclusively under Windows, which in turn does not mean that he might not log in with his Steam Client on Linux from time to time, maybe for testing something.

It's not everyone's pleasure to fight with problems, when someone just wants to play. Even people who are busy with Linux bugs all the time want to switch off from time to time. We have to accept that.

Valves type of survey is pretty okay.

If you want to be a Linux gamer, then you have to play under Linux.

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Quoting: GuestI don't know if it was already discussed or brought up before, but how does Steam take into account Steam users / accounts who dual-boots with Windows and Linux? Do they count it as Windows user?

I think Valve should have a separate statistics for Windows users who also dual-boots with Linux. There are probably Linux gamers who use Windows for games only available on Windows.

This was shown to me during the survey:

https://www.olivere.de/download/images/blog/steam/hw_survey_wine.png [External Link]

Is in German but you can see easily that Valve recognizes Wine as Wine:

"Hersteller: The Wine Project"
"Modell: Wine"

If you are using dual boot instead, you are, of course, counted as Windows users. By the way: Doom 2016 runs excellent under Wine 2.0. I use it under Ubuntu 16.10 with Nvidia binary driver 375.20. For Vulkan I had to install:
sudo apt-get install libvulkan-dev libvulkan1 vulkan-utils

Thats all! After this no tearing, no problems, just Doom. :)

So I think dual-boot people should consider from time to time if they could use wine.

EDIT: Had an issue with graphics quality. Need more investigation.

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