Quoting: micmonI will pick this up up well. I stopped playing AC after part 3 but this one looks awesome.

You should have skipped 3 and gone straight to 4. It was awesome.

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The Virtual Programming port question is a really terrible.

The question really should be something like "Do you support the use of graphic API translation layers/shims in porting games to Linux?"

(Of course that would apply to DX9 Togl games which nobody seems to have an issue with.)

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Quoting: KimyrielleNWN1 and NWN2 were the only RPGs in history designed from the ground up with modding in mind. It would be a total blast being able to have them run in a modernized OSS engine one day. Because I can't see the gaming industry ever making a game like them again.

Umm, the Elder Scrolls games?

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Quoting: liamdaweNo, there are no proprietary drivers for Intel (I usually make a joke about that). The survey allows people to answer "incorrectly" for that one since I don't know how to prevent it. I assume that it's basically just Intel users who assume that their drivers are proprietary because they've never looked into it. Just shows that not all Linux users are super clued-up about that stuff, I kinda like it, breaking stereotypes or whatever :).

Hmm, use the term closed source then and don't be ambiguous.

Downloading the official packaged drivers from Intel here [External Link] would fit some descriptions of proprietary [External Link].

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Quoting: GuestDid you use a Windows partition for gaming last month?
Exclusively for games, not other purposes.

Yes
No
I don't have a Windows partition

This is a really poorly framed question. (It's confusing to parse for a start.) If your primary desktop is Windows, how do you respond?

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You were limited in your use of the product though. You were limited to a single physical copy, physical media typically had to be in the drive for the game to work. If that copy was lost, destroyed you lost your access to the game. Backup copies of the physical media weren't allowed, and were typically very difficult to make regardless. Physical media wasn't exactly what I'd call freedom.

(Also, offline mode works great with Steam.)

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Quoting: neffoI can't say I'm convinced, partly because I don't care about their "value added" services. I just want the games, and maybe an easy way to get updates. Couldn't care less about multiplayer lobbies, workshops or any of the social stuff. Don't get me wrong, I do have and use Steam. It is convenient despite their business model, not because of it.

The idea of games as an explicit license rather than a physical thing has existed longer than internet distribution has existed. It's been that way since at least the early 90s, but physical ownership never gave you implicit rights over the thing you owned.

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It's not really a loophole, and it's perfectly legal. If you could play the game for 14 days in the cooling-off period (as it's known elsewhere), and then get a refund any digital distribution would come crashing down as people got 2-week rentals for zero charge.

There are cases where games should be refunded, absolutely, but taking that to the opposite end of the spectrum is just as open to abuse. Don't buy a garbage game in the first place!

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Quoting: Linux223This still seems a bad port.

No 64 bit support... 13GB of RAM wasted and this means any GPU using over 2/3GB of ram would not be fully utilized because OpenGL sometimes requires you to map the buffers into userspace memory.

I cannot understand why it would require OpenGL 4, (excluding any extensions) this is mainly the feature equivalent of DirectX 11. The Windows version has DirectX 10 support which is on par with OpenGL 3.2 without extensions, maybe the performance would not be as good but it would still be playable.

I am having major issues with when using Alt-Tab, either the game will become unscaled in the top left corner of the screen or the game just crashes.

What card capable of running Bioshock doesn't support OpenGL 4?

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Is anyone else getting that weird bug where Steam doesn't restart after an update?

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