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| Thread ID: 125934 | 2012-07-28 03:59:00 | Steam being ported to Linux | Myth (110) | PC World Chat |
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| 1291172 | 2012-07-28 23:53:00 | So vote with your wallet and buy hardware from someone that supports their products. There is no point moaning about the linux devs if the hardware manufacturer is not interested and the code is unavailable. Anyway, a bit of insight into the reasoning of Valve www.theregister.co.uk |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1291173 | 2012-07-29 00:06:00 | I think its a great idea, Though I doubt many Linux systems have capable hardware as its currently wasted in such systems. Last time I installed Linux on my desktop it couldn't run the bundled games, The one with the Penguin that goes down a slide springs to mind, Not only were the graphics worse then a PS1 but the framerate made it unplayable. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1291174 | 2012-07-29 00:08:00 | I don't particularly like linux due to the at times unfriendly nature of it, and I'm a bloody BCIS student. I'm sure though, if I spent time getting to know it better, I'd come to like it a bit more, particularly if it was easier to game on it. I'd love to see steam make it to linux, especially if it encouraged GPU manufacturers to then push out new drivers for linux, even if it means losing the capabilities of using HDMI and playing HDCP content. Hell, I couldn't care less about blu ray, I don't have any, nor a player for them. As I understand it that's part of why there's no completely functional open source drivers on linux. I don't think there'd NEED to be any if the manufacturers would just bloody release better ones themselves. |
8ftmetalhaed (14526) | ||
| 1291175 | 2012-08-05 08:35:00 | Valve's Source Engine, which powers games such as Left 4 Dead 2 and Portal 2, runs up to 20 percent faster under Linux and OpenGL than under Windows and DirectX/Direct 3D, says the famed Half-Life developer. According to a post on the official blog, Left 4 Dead 2 ran at 315 frames per second on the developer's Ubuntu Linux machine, versus 270 frames per second on a Windows PC with comparable power. The results are surprising, given Valve has put substantial effort into developing for Windows platforms over the past 10 years. It attributes the speed-up to the "underlying efficiency of the [Linux] kernel and OpenGL". au.gamespot.com |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1291176 | 2012-08-05 10:12:00 | Yeah I saw that too, found it quite interesting indeed! 'comparable power' though is semi vague. I wanna see *identical* boxes go head to head! | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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