I'm really excited to try Magicka 2, as I thought the first one was quite fun. The developer has been keeping everyone up to date on progress in their Steam forum. Sadly, for AMD GPU users it looks like it won't run as well as on Nvidia hardware.
A developer wrote this on their official Steam forum:
QuoteWe've had discussions on how to support non-XInput controllers and we found that just using SDLs input subsystem would probably solve that. Since there are controller emulators already we consider it a 'would be nice' feature.
I took the liberty of replacing the Nvidia 660GTX in my Linux machine for our Radeon 270X and ran some tests. On Ubuntu I tested both the open source drivers and fglrx and both worked fine. I think the open source drivers have slightly better performance. Switching drivers around kinda broke my setup though so I installed Debian 8 and did some tests there and only had issues with decals getting a slight rectangular outline.
Overall the biggest issue in my tests with AMD cards is that the performance on Linux & MacOSX feels like it's halved compared to a corresponding Nvidia card. I've added graphics settings to control how many decals/trees/foliage the game draws that helps a bit but it would've been better if this was not necessary.
It's fantastic to see them actually implement something to help with the issue though, and I'm sure many AMD GPU users will be pretty happy about that. It's not all doom and gloom, since that developer mentioned it will even work on the open source driver for AMD users, so that's great too. They must be one of a very few developers who are testing their port so thoroughly, it's quite refreshing to see.
I just want to get my hands on it already! Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: liamdaweAs for marketshare stuff, developers go for Nvidia first on Windows just as much as they do on Linux.
Interestingly this is not true. There were and are some games supported by AMD (which is - like the games sponsored by nvidia "the way they are meant to be played" - absolute bullshit), but I've yet to see *any* game that doesn't run on AMD on Windows.
One thing tho: Of course proprietary nonsense like gameworks and physx doesn't work, but I wouldn't turn that shit on even if I still had an up-to-date nvidia-card.
It's easy for me. I won't support games where I am not only a second-class but a third-class-citizen!
If in the future there is no more competition and there only is nvidia, well... I'll happily stop gaming then. nvidia doesn't offer open source drivers, they use shady tactics, they betray, the lie, they are simply one of the worst companies on this planet and all they stand for is what I deem wrong with this society.
So, if we really one day have a monopoly... well, there is still minigolf and other fun activities :)
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Quoting: MaelraneIf in the future there is no more competition and there only is nvidia, well... I'll happily stop gaming then. nvidia doesn't offer open source drivers, they use shady tactics, they betray, the lie, they are simply one of the worst companies on this planet and all they stand for is what I deem wrong with this society.
But... but... but... don't you know they have the most best fantasticomarvelous Linux graphics driver?
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