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I'm buying this unless a competitor beats ROCCAT to the punch, and I hope they consider adding a version for left-handers.

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Quoting: someoneImants
You skip Civ5 because of Eador . How you even managed to play that thing is beyond my belief with it's graphical glitches.
I am able to play it in wine since several month with very few graphical glitches. Only need to change the graphic settings every time I load a game. Kind of annoying, but ok for me.

What kind of setup do you have, that you can run it? If I may ask

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Quoting: ImantsYou skip Civ5 because of Eador :O. How you even managed to play that thing is beyond my belief with it's graphical glitches.

I am able to play it in wine since several month with very few graphical glitches. Only need to change the graphic settings every time I load a game. Kind of annoying, but ok for me.

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Well, I hope for them that they do the "real" thing and not a wrapper. Otherwise this would kill the game for good. At least for me. I'm still upset about the price difference on GOG.

That it can be done has been proven by Aspyr once more.

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Quoting: KokunaHmm, never played age of wonders 1 or 2, but from gameplay trailer it looks a lot like might and magic series. If so, when hell yes I will buy it.

Well, then you missed two great games, but they are still available at GOG :D

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My rig:
Pentium 2020, AMD 7770, 8GB RAM. At this time no luck in gaming in Witcher 2. Black screen after I push play :(

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Quoting: someoneBeamboom
I think it's far, far too many strategy games on PC. I think that is an effect of many years without decent turnbased (fantasy) strategy games. Customers have been demanding for strategy games, so every developer started working on one.

For me, that offers the possibility to choose, which of those I'd play. If AoW3 releases for linux soon and Eador keeps me busy until then, I'll probably skip Civ5, due to lack of time.

You skip Civ5 because of Eador :O. How you even managed to play that thing is beyond my belief with it's graphical glitches.

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Quoting: edoCivilization 4 is in my Linux library too. What does that means?

Either someone made a mistake or they've been working really hard with the Civilization series. Aspyr was also behind the Mac port of Civ IV so it's not completely impossible that they would port it to Linux too, especially now that they've already gotten familiar with Linux porting. So far we haven't heard anything so don't be too hopeful.

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Man you just convinced me to install SteamOS and join in on the testing.

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Quoting: BeamboomI think it's far, far too many strategy games on PC.

I think that is an effect of many years without decent turnbased (fantasy) strategy games. Customers have been demanding for strategy games, so every developer started working on one.

For me, that offers the possibility to choose, which of those I'd play. If AoW3 releases for linux soon and Eador keeps me busy until then, I'll probably skip Civ5, due to lack of time.

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Ok I'm gonna be a real spoiled brat now but please bear with me guys:
I think it's far, far too many strategy games on PC. Sometimes it feels like pretty much every title of a certain size are at least partially strategy based.

I mean, sure, there are other genres too. But if one look at the rooster for upcoming games then hot damn how many of them who are strategy based. Strategy RPG, strategy shooter, strategy platformer, strategy strategy strategy. And the indies? Turn-based strategy all the way, baby!

Thanks. I just had to let that rant off my chest.
I am no big strategy fan. :)

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great to hear. Definitly will buy it, when ported.

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@Kokuna: The older parts where the "better" HoMM. AoW3 departs a bit from the previous parts by mixing it's formular even more heavily with a CIVILISATION kind of gameplay. Also note that AoW has a much more strategic battle part, which is almost a TBS game worthy by it's own.
My only nitpick is that the performance is quite bad under windows, I hope the Linux version will run a bit better on my system. Overall really great game though!

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Civilization 4 is in my Linux library too. What does that means?

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Hmm, never played age of wonders 1 or 2, but from gameplay trailer it looks a lot like might and magic series. If so, when hell yes I will buy it.

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Quoting: GNUzelTurns out the problem was that I had UberSampling, unbeknownst to me, enabled, causing my frame drops.

That's a common mistake. Actually if you'd play it in Wine, you'd see that the "ubersampling" setting is highlighted in red (to indicate that it's extremely demanding). It's recommended never to use it because it always kills performance (on Windows the same way) since it's a very wasteful brute force antialiasing. Some even argued that such misleading setting should never had been included in the first place.

May be in the Linux version that option wasn't highlighted, and many simply don't pay attention.

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Quoting: GuestSorry but AMD drivers on Linux are just not ready for this right now. (Have AMD even been working to improve their Linux drivers like... at all?)

Just last week they released a beta driver that fixed issues with The Witcher 2, so yes.

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The r9 290x is at the top of the high end (On windows), especially for the price. And I know AMD's history/bad rap, but rather than telling me it's not worth it, I'm going to find out myself. Hence the purpose of this article.

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Sorry but AMD drivers on Linux are just not ready for this right now. (Have AMD even been working to improve their Linux drivers like... at all?)

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Quoting: jdubNice. This will make up for the failure that was the fake Eador port

You can say that again. Shouldn't even be listed as Linux released, if I were to have my way at the moment. I wonder if AOW3 devs opened up after seeing Aspyr's success?

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Gotta say I can't wait - and registered just to say that!
The earlier installments in this series were great, and work great in wine too!
Linux gaming is getting better every day.

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Quoting: GoCorinthiansATI ...uhhhh!

My first reaction too, and an R9 290X no less. Not hating on you n30p1r4t3, but AMD's SteamOS support is not great. Highly not recommended for anyone trying SteamOS for the first time. They'll get the wrong impressions when games give blackscreens or low fps, and will assume it's SteamOS's fault.

Good luck trying to get the Witcher 2 to work in SteamOS with AMD. Let me know if you can actually get it running. Just a black screen with my old HD5750 on SteamOS, no matter what settings I put it at. That said though, Civ 5 and Painkiller work ok (albeit graphical glitches) at 1600x900 with medium to mostly low settings.

EDIT: Just wanted to say that this:

QuoteAll I had to do was select "Automated install" and let the installer do it's thing

Was very true, and a sincerely nice experience for me using SteamOS. They really are trying to make it as easy as possible for anyone.

2nd EDIT: Just my ramblings, but SteamOS's biggest amazement is it's controller support. I have tried the following (all attached simultaneously, and individually), and they have all been correctly recognized and worked off the bat. Menu navigation and gameplay.

• PS3 Controller


• 360 Controller


• PS2 and PS1 Controller


• Logitech Rumblepad 2 Controller


• Logitech Extreme 3D Pro


• Saitek X52

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YES!

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Nothing personal, but your username makes me want to end you ^_^

OT: I'm hoping other distros learn from valve in regards to optimizing a system for games, as well as for work. I may end up using it on my old laptop that's missing it's monitor, it might make a very nice stream box for my living room once Valve enables streaming from Linux :)

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Nice. This will make up for the failure that was the fake Eador port

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ATI ...uhhhh!

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Quoting: CFWhitmanHamishI knew which driver he was referring to specifically, I was asking for his definition of what constitutes "proper drivers" as that was the point I was debating. I am not that aloof.
I think that loggfreak's point was that the anonymous poster actually said "prop drivers," and, while it is understandable that you would read that as 'proper drivers,' he thinks the poster meant 'proprietary drivers.' Personally, my initial tendency was to read it as 'proper,' but then I thought twice, and it's quite possible that loggfreak's impression is accurate.

I think you mean that totally cool character known as FutureSuture as loggfreak didn't tackle this issue as far as I am aware.

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Quoting: HadBabitsKelsIf anything, I find the performance is actually better under Linux than it was under Windows 7. I'm pretty impressed with how it came out, other than a minor difficulty in setting my resolution (which mysteriously fixed itself somehow).
Keep in mind that the devs mentioned the OS X and Linux port can't max out graphics as they do in Windows.

Yep. say that to Metro last light lacking only some filter, that Redux will correct as 4A said.

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The Witcher 2 seems to run okay for me. The community has a lot of rude people though, insulting my hardware just because I said I couldn't run it well. Turns out the problem was that I had UberSampling, unbeknownst to me, enabled, causing my frame drops. Putting it on the "High" spec preset crashes the game, so I have a custom one enabled with all options save for UberSampling. Runs decently enough but the voices seem off and they don't seem to move their mouths much. I'm gonna record a video of it later and post it here and see what you guys think of it.

Specs:
Linux Mint 16/17
GTX 690
i7 3930K
16GB RAM

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So I bought it and forgot about the black lines and was surprised to see them. Anyway, I am glad to see it's not my card but the game. Damn. The demo worked fine too.

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