Quoting: BomyneThis is why I only buy games on Steam... Let the Steam client do the installing.

You seem to not really understand what the topic really is.

GoG supported Linux games are easy to install. That's not the problem.

The thing is about those Windows games that still wern't supported in Linux by GoG but Linux users try to make so by manually extract the assets and running another alternative Linux game engine.

Think about gemRB, scumwm or such.

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Quoting: liamdaweI know there's a few readers here who much prefer buying from GOG, so go get it and support Linux gaming!

Thanks for thinking in us.

I'll buy it now.

PS : Glad you finally return to stay.

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Too bad this time it's not avaliable outside Steam and DRM-Free, like the original.

Well, they'll know I won't buy this one.

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Hello Armand.

I like to say only a little thing about this debate.

While I like Linux for their ideology and I would prefer an OpenPhysX that would run flawlesly on all cards of all vendors than a restricted closed source solution, I see that nVidia it's not guilty in this case for release its SDK.

nVidia is filling an empty hole. Before nVidia's release there wasn't another open source alternative avaliable that we are aware (in Linux).

Now it would be nice that game developers start to make use of it to make games gain more realism, and graphic cards open source developers try to implement it in their drivers.

As for the people who were angry with nVidia for making PhysX avaliable only on nVidia hardware, I remember that one directive at nVidia (I don't recall if was Jen Sung itself) a long time ago propose AMD to use CUDA (needed for PhysX) on its chips too, to make a coherent development and standarization of the API.

But they refuse at AMD. They argued that they plan to use Bullet API and OpenCL.

So it was AMD who didn't want to implement either CUDA nor PhysX on its cards.

Which API it's better I don't know.

It's up to the game developers to make the best aproach that make happy their customers, while benefit for the extra features and performance for each card, thought.

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Quoting: MightyTrollzor

Quoting: omer666How can we benefit from this? Do we only have to wait for devs to implement it?
Do we have something to install?

right now we don't benefit from that. We'll have to wait for developers to release games with linux ports and physx or wait until games that already have ports can work with it that couldn't before.
So yeah, we have to wait until it gets implemented by the devs. there is a package for it in the arch user repos but it will probably take a few days til the different distributions push the new updated packages to the repositories. It doesn't help us right now- but it will as soon as devs start implementing it.

I remember that Shadowgrounds and Shadowgrounds Survivor titles use it.

It use it in software (CPU) mode. And they're not precisely games that demand GPU force to run on it.

But still a curious example, thought.

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Quoting: GoCorinthiansAs said often: Steam FTW!

And GoG.com too. Those games were ready for Linux there before.

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And what happened to Two Worlds 2?

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I messed my W2 installation when I "applied" the patch.

What I did wrong was decompress the patch contents directly to the game folder.

No. The patch must be decompressed in a separated folder and then run the executable in it.

Still, the performance is disapointing.

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Well.

I installed the game and applied the patch.

The performance is disapointing.

Phenom II X4 905, 4 GB RAM, GeForce GTX 260 (192) with 896 MB, SoundBlaster X-FI Titanium.
The monitor is an old 17" TFT of 1280x1024 pixels.

On Windows the game's framerate is stable at High.

On Linux, at Middle Settings it's unplayable.

I also got a crash when exiting the game.

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I finished the original Shadowrun and I like it.

Yes, it's a matter of having a bit of time to play this campaign.

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