Broken Age and Grim Fandango remastered

(also World of Warships under windows... please don't judge me...)

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Quoting: TheBossMy PC was nearly 3K in total. Doesn't mean I want to buy a VR headset which is currently very limited for Linux.

I understand, but you don't like VR headsets to begin with.

Quoting: HalifaxAgreed, I think anyone who visits this site is more waiting on the HTC Vive... Pre, now?

I predict the Vive is going to cost even more than the Rift: custom motion controllers, better displays, a front facing camera ...
I'm very interested in the VR technology but not at those prices. Also I have a cheap gaming box so.... let's see what happens in the upcoming years.

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Quoting: EikeDidn't meet any such problem

It must be a problem with Ubuntu then. But judging from steam forums I'm not alone and Valve games are the only ones I have sound problems with.

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Quoting: EKRboiMy PC is probably capable (5930k+3x970)

You already spent thousands for a monster PC and you have problems with spending couple hundreds more than expected for a rift? really?

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Every single Valve game has problems with sound under Linux. I had several problems like infinite loops, hiccups, and cracklings with Portal2, L4D2 and CS:GO.
I wonder if they ever played the games they ported to their own operating system (steamos)...

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What a surprise, Linux is not ready for 4K/HiDPI... who would have thought?
I think I'll stick to my dual 1920x1200 24" monitor setup still for quite some time....

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This is the worst idea ever. For what, to gain a couple of FPS, at best?
While we are losing our time speaking of this nonsense, Windows people are enjoying their fully functional and faster games...

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Quoting: Guest* It's a 16:10 resolution, which is a bit odd.

It's likely the display's resolution of the developer who did the benchmarks. Developers tend to value vertical space, hence the 16:10 ratio. Please, don't see conspiracies where there are none... ;)

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Quoting: CreakOpenGL is not a bad API. A few years ago, when it was OpenGL 3.3, it was largely better than DirectX

I've read a very interesting and thorough history of D3D vs OpenGL, from the early '90s till today, on StackExchange:

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/60544/why-do-game-developers-prefer-windows/88055#88055 [External Link]

D3D was substantially worse than OpenGL until DX8 came out. Then things changed forever and D3D won the battle.

Quoting: Creakthe skilled people went on the Microsoft side. That means that any tutorial or training now are made for DX, not for OpenGL. So it's more difficult now to write efficient OpenGL code, but completely doable.

That's true and is a very big problem. Documentation and programmers know how is orders of magnitude more on the DX side.
Also, the last advocate of OpenGL in the gaming world, John Carmack, is not in the industry any more.

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War Thunder is the proof that Linux performance can be on par with Windows, if the game is programmed in the right way. I play WT under both operating systems and I can't see any difference at all.

Unfortunately, later DX->OGL ports done by an external developer will, most of the time, be sub optimal because of budget constraints, which make impossible to rewrite the engine and so require the use of a translation layer. We must accept it as a fact of life.

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