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Pandora: First Contact Now On Steam For Linux With Big Content Update
By Maquis196, 31 May 2014 at 12:40 pm UTC
Pandora: First Contact Now On Steam For Linux With Big Content Update
By Maquis196, 31 May 2014 at 12:37 pm UTC
If you already own it, you can get a steam key for it as well. Not 100% how.

http://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=49704

Its mentioned in the first post.
Why The Porting Method Doesn't Matter For Linux Games
By oldrocker99, 31 May 2014 at 12:28 pm UTC
I (a happy Witcher 2 player) also play the original Witcher using wine, and it runs beautifully, and is 100% playable for me. Having played it under That Other OS, I saw and experienced no difference in graphics, game speed, or graphics.

As long as I can play a game, I personally don't care how the game is made to run. Just sayin'.
AMD's OpenGL Performance Is Nothing Close To Nvidia On This Benchmark
By , 31 May 2014 at 11:28 am UTC
Quoting: neffo
Quoting: Gentleman SquidI just wish they supported their cards in Linux a lot more. Been like this for too long. Performance with NVidia and Linux has been smoother for a while now.
It's not just Linux they are doing a terrible job on, it's also terrible on Windows (in OpenGL). idTech5 engines for example.
That's not true. AMD is superior on Windows.
AMD's OpenGL Performance Is Nothing Close To Nvidia On This Benchmark
By , 31 May 2014 at 11:24 am UTC
Ok, so the difference is obvious. Still, I'm kind of sick of people saying that 100 minus 647% equals anything but -547.
Spacebase DF-9, A Space Station Building Sim Alpha 5 Released For Linux
By Cheeseness, 31 May 2014 at 11:24 am UTC
Who's that in the crew roster at 7:48?

As usual, if anybody spots me in their game, I'd love to see a screenshot of my death!
AMD's OpenGL Performance Is Nothing Close To Nvidia On This Benchmark
By , 31 May 2014 at 10:51 am UTC
Unfortunately, results like these aren't so cut and dry. I'll look over the details of each test in a few days, but quite often there are little things, from buffer sizes to vertex formats, which greatly sway test results in one direction or another.
Anyone posting such numbers should be aware of this.
Unity3D Releases Unity 4.5 & With It Comes Major Linux Fixes
By Liam Dawe, 31 May 2014 at 8:42 am UTC
I tested a game that uses this version of Unity and the mouse was perfectly fine, so it looks like it may have fixed it for real.
AMD's OpenGL Performance Is Nothing Close To Nvidia On This Benchmark
By Half-Shot, 31 May 2014 at 7:36 am UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: commodore256
Quoting: Anonymousamd sucks. I hope they go out of business. I really do.
So you want Nvidia to be a Monopoly?

This. Wake up people, this is why Microsoft have a bleeding control over desktops. Other operating systems went out of business due to problems of any kind and MS just took CONTROL of the general desktop market, its taken a long time for us to start competing again.

On the state of AMD. Their open drivers are what keep me sane these days. The catalyst drivers are a mess and the open ones are great for what they are. If AMD didn't support Open I would be deeply saddened but at the moment I'm just nervous for their future.

In all honesty, if they did a Intel and just fully open the lot then they would actually gain a lot of sales for likeminded people who support open over preformance.

And just a stab in the dark but Nvidia have been the most anti-competitive company in the GPU space since Microsofts numerous protocols that we have had to catchup on. The sheer number of prop extensions they have pushed developers to use has not helped AMD one bit.
AMD's OpenGL Performance Is Nothing Close To Nvidia On This Benchmark
By , 31 May 2014 at 6:53 am UTC
hello, seems NVidia cool, but in fact, on aor forum, the most problematic issues are with NVidia.
AMD's OpenGL Performance Is Nothing Close To Nvidia On This Benchmark
By Deformal, 31 May 2014 at 6:49 am UTC
Hm. Technical director for Aspyr Media has interest in Steam OS. Steam db tell as about signs of Linux support of Civilization V. Civilization V was ported on Mac OS X by Aspyr Media.
So as I understand, we have another Mac developer, that starts to make Linux ports.
AMD's OpenGL Performance Is Nothing Close To Nvidia On This Benchmark
By storma, 31 May 2014 at 6:13 am UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: Anonymousamd sucks. I hope they go out of business. I really do.

Agreed, The Nvidia open source drivers are heaps better.

Honestly, I think there is more to it than just Catalyst being crap. I would agree that they aren't as robust as the Nvidia drivers but from personal experience, they are capable and improving. Others through out the years have had similar experiences.

Currently my only long lasting niggle has been with the micro stutter in the heaven benchmark, which I don't experience elsewhere.

I don't have windows, so I can't compare gaming performance between the two. I haven't had the time recently to play to much but The witcher 2, for me, is playable with the latest beta drivers. All other games I throw at it are fine too.

Whether it's my use of Debian stable/testing or my AMD/AMD setups, I'm not sure what accounts for my mostly hassle free experience.

HTPC: 960/6670, stock Debian testing w/ OS drivers.
PC: 8350/7870, Debian testing w/ custom 3.14 kernel, latest Catalyst drivers.

Past rigs I have used a 2600 and a 4870, with similar AMD/AMD setups. I made the switch with the open sourcing news.

*Hopes he doesn't jinx himself. ;)
New Release: Among The Sleep A Horror Game From A Toddlers Perspective, Has Issues
By scaine, 31 May 2014 at 6:03 am UTC
Looks like the graphical bugs are being worked on and since there are a few "resolved" bugs already, I imagine a patch is coming soon.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XPqjj5gIEw5KZRSkikl8ZWtitHqZM7r9VYtXLRrbUjY/pubhtml
Youtube Are Being Stupid On Video Monetization Yet Again
By Samsai, 31 May 2014 at 5:57 am UTC
Quoting: pd12Actually, I think that was an example, and devs saying "anyone can monetize videos of our games" or "we have no problem with you[plural] monetizing videos of our game" should be OK.
You just need to find that blogpost they said it in .. =D
Apparently YouTube no longer likes these sorts of blanket statements on websites etc. and demand personal permissions. For example for me that would be completely unreasonable, because I have hundreds of videos of games from dozens of developers/game studios and I doubt I would be able to get permissions from all of them.

Luckily the GOL Casts at least fall under fair-use and I am sure we can talk our way through those, but let's plays are on the grey zone between what is acceptable and what is not.
AMD's OpenGL Performance Is Nothing Close To Nvidia On This Benchmark
By , 31 May 2014 at 5:11 am UTC
It's worth mentioning that this tests are for 'cool new features in OpenGL 4.x', as mentioned in the source. He even says that most of them are not available in the Mac drivers, so I doubt there is any game on Linux currently that takes advantage of them. In my experience, the problem of the catalyst driver is not the performance, but the bugs that can even crash your system. Several devs mentioned that they had to work around those issues.
AMD's OpenGL Performance Is Nothing Close To Nvidia On This Benchmark
By , 31 May 2014 at 4:02 am UTC Likes: 1
if amd focuses even more on the open source driver like intel does, I think that could be a game changer for the industry as a whole.

then nvidia would be the last left with closed drivers
Unity3D Releases Unity 4.5 & With It Comes Major Linux Fixes
By pd12, 31 May 2014 at 3:53 am UTC
I just commented on my experience with GoI (and PA) at http://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/screen-dot-lockcursor-under-linux-breaks-input-dot-getaxis
I hope this update REALLY fixes the Unity mouse looking up thing, especially seeing as it says Linux: Fixed "jump" when initially locking mouse cursor. But my problem is persistent and not a "jump". (See the issue tracker link for more details).

I'd like to play Rust but maybe when it's a bit cheaper (althought it looks like CT uniformed players in bases going out and killing cavemen) =P
New Release: Among The Sleep A Horror Game From A Toddlers Perspective, Has Issues
By , 31 May 2014 at 3:49 am UTC
cool amnesia toddler style !
AMD's OpenGL Performance Is Nothing Close To Nvidia On This Benchmark
By commodore256, 31 May 2014 at 3:32 am UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: Anonymousamd sucks. I hope they go out of business. I really do.

So you want Nvidia to be a Monopoly? Also, I had a 4870 and the open source drivers for that Card out performed the GTX 460 Linux Binary Drivers that I replaced it with a year ago. (even though that Nvidia card runs better in Windows than that 4870 ever could)
Youtube Are Being Stupid On Video Monetization Yet Again
By pd12, 31 May 2014 at 3:21 am UTC
Actually, I think that was an example, and devs saying "anyone can monetize videos of our games" or "we have no problem with you[plural] monetizing videos of our game" should be OK.
You just need to find that blogpost they said it in .. =D
AMD's OpenGL Performance Is Nothing Close To Nvidia On This Benchmark
By , 31 May 2014 at 2:56 am UTC
  • AMD should start to be consistent on linux: one open GNU GPL protected driver and drop that horrible thing which is catalyst. Their closed source driver is illegal anyway. Linus T. is just letting them being naughty... for the moment...

  • They should start to code properly in linux! Sometimes I wonder if their code is not straight from crosoft shi., because it's sooooooo broken and bad. They should use common sense too: it's far better to have more code with simple code paths than less code but with brain damaged code paths (Over code factorization). But I'm bad mouthing: it seems they are *extremely* slowly moving towards that equilibrium

  • Opengl is a joke: from nvidia software engineers (!!), very little of the opengl API should be used in order to get the best of modern GPUs (see the steam dev days).

  • benchmarks are most of the time quite bias: that benchmark was optimized for that GPUs, the driver was optimized for this benchmark... or the benchmark code paths happen to favor this driver and not the other ones, etc. Devil hides in the details.

  • hardware design is easily worse than software design... then the driver won't be nice

  • As far as I'm concern, dota2/portal2/team fortress2 do run faster with the radeon open source driver (mesa/radeon southern island).

AMD's OpenGL Performance Is Nothing Close To Nvidia On This Benchmark
By neffo, 31 May 2014 at 1:16 am UTC
Latest Beta drivers right? The ones that weren't released until after the game was out?

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/10/04/raging-about-rage-pc/
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/05/20/wolfenstein-new-order-pc-problems/

(It's not just an AMD issue though, but Nvidia seems to be a bit snappier on the fixes. And WNO runs under WHQL drivers, not just beta ones.)
AMD's OpenGL Performance Is Nothing Close To Nvidia On This Benchmark
By n30p1r4t3, 31 May 2014 at 12:53 am UTC
Quoting: neffo
Quoting: Gentleman SquidI just wish they supported their cards in Linux a lot more. Been like this for too long. Performance with NVidia and Linux has been smoother for a while now.
It's not just Linux they are doing a terrible job on, it's also terrible on Windows (in OpenGL). idTech5 engines for example.

What are you talking about? Wolfenstein: N.O. runs flawless on my rig with the latest drivers.
AMD's OpenGL Performance Is Nothing Close To Nvidia On This Benchmark
By neffo, 31 May 2014 at 12:49 am UTC
Quoting: Gentleman SquidI just wish they supported their cards in Linux a lot more. Been like this for too long. Performance with NVidia and Linux has been smoother for a while now.

It's not just Linux they are doing a terrible job on, it's also terrible on Windows (in OpenGL). idTech5 engines for example.
AMD's OpenGL Performance Is Nothing Close To Nvidia On This Benchmark
By PUN, 31 May 2014 at 12:22 am UTC
I'm huge AMD fan but looking at the drivers evolution, my next video card will be one from Nvidia. They way better drivers.
Valve Has Yet Again Greenlit 35 More Linux Games For Steam
By Gentleman Squid, 30 May 2014 at 11:47 pm UTC
I'm a biased, but also saddened. I would have preferred games that are at a playable state. Rise of the Ravager isn't even close to be Greenlit :(
AMD's OpenGL Performance Is Nothing Close To Nvidia On This Benchmark
By Gentleman Squid, 30 May 2014 at 11:34 pm UTC
Quoting: Anonymousamd sucks. I hope they go out of business. I really do.
I just wish they supported their cards in Linux a lot more. Been like this for too long. Performance with NVidia and Linux has been smoother for a while now.
Valve Has Yet Again Greenlit 35 More Linux Games For Steam
By edo, 30 May 2014 at 10:58 pm UTC
Quoting: pb
Quoting: edoI have the same doubt about why a really cool game as cue club 2 hasn't been greenlighted yet. It's just because its not popular.
Cue Club 2 looks a lot like Arcade Pool, I like it! But where's the Linux version? :P
They said (in the comments in the greenlight page):
"I'm afraid no Linux or Mac version initially, but when we get the PC version released, we will certainly look into this, along with the multiplayer."
AMD's OpenGL Performance Is Nothing Close To Nvidia On This Benchmark
By , 30 May 2014 at 10:44 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: Anonymousamd sucks. I hope they go out of business. I really do.
While they have the most horrible drivers in existence, AMD is the only thing really keeping Intel and NVIDIA in check. It'd be a lot worse for all of us if they weren't in the industry.
AMD's OpenGL Performance Is Nothing Close To Nvidia On This Benchmark
By , 30 May 2014 at 10:39 pm UTC
amd sucks. I hope they go out of business. I really do.
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