Helmets at the ready, as GRID Autosport will be screeching onto our favourite SteamOS & Linux platform this December.
After emailing Feral Interactive as their mini-site and newsletter stated different requirements, they have edited their mini-site to only list Nvidia once again.
It will also support cross-platform multiplayer, so that's very good news. I can't wait to thrash some Mac gamers!
GRID Autosport is on track for Dec 10 on Mac & Linux, with x-platform multiplayer! Minisite: https://t.co/dfJfOwbsGf pic.twitter.com/BxyNY45hmB
— Feral Interactive (@feralgames) December 3, 2015
It's only a week away, and it's much sooner than I expected it to be released which has me rather happy!
I will more than likely do a special livestream on the release day Thursday the 10th of December to celebrate. Be sure to follow my personal livestreaming page in Twitch.
As usual, I urge you not to buy it until the official release to be sure our porting friends get the money they deserve for bringing another wonderful game to our small platform.
About the game
It’s all about the teams, the rivals and the race in an intense new world of professional motorsport. Racing alongside a teammate, you must overcome key rivals and satisfy team sponsors in ferocious races where every pass and position counts.
In a huge career, specialise in your favourite racing discipline or conquer them all feel the aggression of the pack in Touring Cars, manage tyre wear and race into the night in Endurance events, race Open-Wheel cars with precision, show car control in Tuner events and react on the fly in Street races.
Players will get behind the wheel of 80 highly desirable rides including front-wheel drive hot hatches, souped-up Muscle cars, lightweight open-wheelers and 1,000 horsepower hypercars, by manufacturers including Jaguar, McLaren, Pagani and Aston Martin. They’ll put these wonderful vehicles through their paces on 22 speed-friendly locations around the world, including purpose-built circuits such as Spa-Francorchamps, Brands Hatch and Yas Marina, and the exhilarating city street circuits of Barcelona and San Francisco.
I have updated our Release Calendar to reflect the release date too! Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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dgorst some of those are DLC -- extra cars and tracks , there should be no porting (or not much) in those (I think)
keep those
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keep those
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Quoting: JQuoting: TheBossQuoting: raverrebelAt the moment it is available to buy in the Humble Codemasters Bundle!
Won't count as linux sale though?
Like I said in the article, don't buy before a port is out. Always follow that simple rule.
so daft question: if I buy the game but do not activate (ie hardcopy) until its out does that count as a linux version ?
If you mean a "hardcopy" that you purchased in a shop, that will not count for Linux at all. Feral confirmed this before.
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Quoting: TheBossQuoting: JQuoting: TheBossQuoting: raverrebelAt the moment it is available to buy in the Humble Codemasters Bundle!
Won't count as linux sale though?
Like I said in the article, don't buy before a port is out. Always follow that simple rule.
so daft question: if I buy the game but do not activate (ie hardcopy) until its out does that count as a linux version ?
If you mean a "hardcopy" that you purchased in a shop, that will not count for Linux at all. Feral confirmed this before.
Even if it did, that method already happened on Linux and IMO failed. See ID / Loki games. It's annoying to patch the "windows" version just to setup a Linux version.
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Quoting: Jdgorst some of those are DLC -- extra cars and tracks , there should be no porting (or not much) in those (I think)
keep those
Fair enough - I already have them though
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Quoting: dgorstQuoting: Jdgorst some of those are DLC -- extra cars and tracks , there should be no porting (or not much) in those (I think)
keep those
Fair enough - I already have them though
Thanks .Season pass taken not by me ,it can be that all keys are already gone..
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Quoting: KeyrockWhat awful timing for me. I wait all this time for a legit racing game on Linux and when it does finally come out I'll already be playing Xenoblade Chronicles X and Fast Racing Neo on my Wii U. Had this come out a month ago, even a week ago, I'd have bought it instantly, but by Dec 10th I'll have way too much on my plate. Oh well, I'll get this sometime next year when it's 75% off.
#FirstWorldProblems
I was waiting for you to pop up on the comments page, since you complained multiple times about this one ;)
Anyway, This looks like a great game, and I might consider upgrading my HumbleBundle participation.
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ElectricPrism Dec 4, 2015
Quoting: GuestJust to note that the requirements will list what Feral support. It may well work on the "original" specs, but probably not to a degree that they'recomfortable with officiallycontractually supporting.
FTFY
I hated GRID 1 because of the realistic controls, maybe if it looks fun in the Live Stream I'd like it. I want something like Twisted Metal or Burnout Paradise - Dirt Showdown quenches most of that style but I wish it was open world ;(
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Quoting: MGOidSome people (or almost everybody) believe that the bad performance of Catalyst drivers are entirely AMD's fault, but I have seen some people that are studying OpenGL and they say that AMD does have good OpenGL drivers, IF your code actually meets the OpenGL specification to the letter. The code generated this way works good in the proprietary Nvidia driver too, but if your implementations is faulty, you have a better chance they can work (bad, but work) with the Nvidia driver, since it is more tolerant with bad code. So there you have your Linux port with half the Windows one performance.that's verry much possible, might also explain why the unigine benchmark shows much better performance on amd compared to the tested games, since it's a benchmark it has to follow the specifications to the letter to form unbiased performance statistics.
So Feral cannot "fix" the AMD driver, but they can make their ports perform better outside the Nvidia drivers. Remember that the biggest vendor of GPUs are not Nvidia or AMD, is Intel, because today people buy more laptops than desktops. If you make your driver work with the opensource Intel driver, you will expand your market. If you only limit yourself to Nvidia, you are cutting sales by half in Linux, and it's already a small market.
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