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DiRT Showdown is a good looking racer that is now officially confirmed for Linux, and it is available to pre-order.
We didn't know who was doing the port before today, but a tweet just sent out by Virtual Programming confirms it's true, and that you can pre-order it from their store.
The game will officially release on the 7th of August according to their store, no reason to doubt it as VP own that store.
Note: We advise never to pre-order anything, ever. The main news here is the game is confirmed.
System Requirements:
How do you feel about this? Their porting has improved a lot that's for sure. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
DiRT Showdown is a good looking racer that is now officially confirmed for Linux, and it is available to pre-order.
We didn't know who was doing the port before today, but a tweet just sent out by Virtual Programming confirms it's true, and that you can pre-order it from their store.
The game will officially release on the 7th of August according to their store, no reason to doubt it as VP own that store.
Note: We advise never to pre-order anything, ever. The main news here is the game is confirmed.
DiRT Showdown for Mac & Linux, 20% discount on preorders only.
— Virtual Programming (@virtualprog) July 31, 2015
http://t.co/sBnR5hj67m
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System Requirements:
QuoteMINIMUM:
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Mint 17.1 or similar Linux distribution
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 x2 or Intel Core2Duo @3.2Ghz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: nVidia/AMD OpenGL 4.1 level compatible
Graphics Memory: 1GB
Hard Disk Space: 12GB
Sound: PulseAudio/ALSA Compatible
Steamworks (Requires a third-party download and account)
RECOMMENDED:
Processor: AMD Bulldozer or Intel Core i7
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: nVidia/AMD OpenGL 4.2 level compatible
Graphics Drivers: nVidia: nVidia 346.72 or better; AMD Catalyst (fglrx) 15.7 or better (MESA drivers and Intel Graphics are not currently supported)
How do you feel about this? Their porting has improved a lot that's for sure. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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I'm not disappointed this is an EON wrapped game. The EON wrapper has come a long way and if it is what it takes to bring some of the older games to us then so be it.. I'm disappointed the first non "arcade racer" to come to linux is an EON wrapped game :(
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Last edited by EKRboi on 31 July 2015 at 9:02 pm UTC
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It's an older game so a wrapper is better than nothing. If only this was Dirt 3 I might actually buy it, but Showdown... probably not. I don't mind a fun arcade racer in the vein of Flatout or even good old Destruction Derby, but somehow I'm not hyped for this one. Might be because I really preferred the straight out racing and rally-type events in D3 when I played it on a friend's PS3.
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You complain about wrappers, but what do you know about the code running on top of this wrapper? An optimized game running on an optimized wrapper might in the end run faster than a poorly optimized native game, will you still prefer the native one in this case? As a user I care about two things only: performance and stability. The technologies used by the team is their own business. When it comes to older games that will run well on today's machines even with the overhead of a wrapper, I am ok with droping my frame rate from 100 to 60 if it means lower prices or more ported games.
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Avehicle7887 Jul 31, 2015
I find wrappers fine for old games as I understand devs may not want to spend a lot of money, and If I'm not mistaken Showdown wasn't the most well received DiRT game in the series.
Personally I won't buy this since it's DRM'ed but I'm still thankful to Codemasters for doing it. VP has indeed came a long way since Witcher 2.
I hope CDPR will not resort to VP for Witcher 3 on Linux though, Feral and Aspyr do a very good job and it's them who should be doing it if CDPR lacks the manpower / experience for it.
Personally I won't buy this since it's DRM'ed but I'm still thankful to Codemasters for doing it. VP has indeed came a long way since Witcher 2.
I hope CDPR will not resort to VP for Witcher 3 on Linux though, Feral and Aspyr do a very good job and it's them who should be doing it if CDPR lacks the manpower / experience for it.
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I don't get all that wrapper hate.
Did you guys played SpecOps The Line?
It is flawless.
And FINALLY a racing game! CAN'T WAIT!
Did you guys played SpecOps The Line?
It is flawless.
And FINALLY a racing game! CAN'T WAIT!
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ProfessorKaos64 Aug 1, 2015
What is with the recommended specs? An i7 for a 2012 game?
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Quoting: Beta VersionQuoting: mr-eggwould you turn down a near perfect port of Skyrim using Eon with full workshop compatibility ?Yes, because a near perfect port of Skyrim using Eon means Skyrim will never get a perfect native port and I dont want to give a reason to developers to think, that I'm ok with wrappers. If i want to use wrapper, which i will never do, i will use Wine.
if eON keeps improving as it is and if they adopt Vulkan, results might actually be surprisingly good.
when AMD made their DX11 skyrocket in speed it was simply because that version of DX11 was based on Mantle.
just food for thought
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metro2033fanboy Aug 1, 2015
Pre order FTW.
Either way it eventually will get a good performance!
Either way it eventually will get a good performance!
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