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@GoCorinthians : I'm interested. My Steam nickname is "berillions"

Thanks,

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The game runs with Mesa 10.1.4 here. I have an AMD Radeon HD 6850. Sometime it is crashing, when I try to start the arena game mode. The menu is not very performant, but ingame it is playable.

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Who want a steam gift of witcher 2? I promised to buy 3 copies!

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damn... i bought it just a sec before it got on sale... i mean, when i refreshed the page after purchase it said 80% off

i paid 19.99 for the game :(

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: Anonymoushope that releasing it just when steam discount is on won't seem bad for linux.

I really do wonder why people think like this.

Discount != bad. Discounts are awesome.

might be i said it badly,

discounts are awesome for me and for you. but, for 1st game on linux for developer who is testing viability... discount might prove as double edged sword for linux

they might come short on earnings and thus skew as linux being even lower margin market. this could affect their future decisions on how viable linux is

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fyi:
witcher1+2 is on sale on steam atm - 80% off:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/20920/

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from steam Forum:

Quotejaycee1980 [developer] 4 minutes ago
The current AMD Catalyst driver contains a problem which stops the game from running. AMD have already fixed the problem, and the fix will be in the next driver release.

Intel is not supported simply because the driver performance is currently insufficient to run the game well enough. It will run, but the framerate is not good.

The open source Nouveau and Radeon drivers are simply not feature complete enough to run the game. Witcher 2's RED Engine is making full use of OpenGL 3.2 features.

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w00t :}

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Warning: the technical specs say that Radeon (ATI/AMD) and Intel GPU are not supported! So don't buy it if you don't own a nVidia graphic card.

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Quoting: EikeGreat!

... but does anybody know if there's a possibility to get a Steam key although I bought the retail version (back then in my Windows days)?

Probably not via Steam, but you can via GOG. GOG is introducing Linux support later this year.

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Bought!!

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Quoting: Anonymoushope that releasing it just when steam discount is on won't seem bad for linux.

I really do wonder why people think like this.

Discount != bad. Discounts are awesome.

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its an amazing game, but if you not played Witcher 1 and your interested in the story then give Witcher 1 a go first (under wine), its takes a time to gets used to the weird controls/combat but will give you a great story for Witcher 2 (and you can import save game)

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hope that releasing it just when steam discount is on won't seem bad for linux.

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Great!

... but does anybody know if there's a possibility to get a Steam key although I bought the retail version (back then in my Windows days)?

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Amazing! I download this now! :D

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So we found out about The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings coming to Linux after XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Total War: Rome II, and possibly a few other big names, but The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings made it out first? Curious!

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Found it minutes ago, wrote on it on the forum but I guess I was too late ;)

Either way, this is awesome and there is a chance they will also release Witcher 3 on Linux :)

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my eyes starting to hurt when i play this longer than 30 min.. too pixely... but the game mechanics and overall feel is superb.. specialy the kick that guns and bombs deliver... nicely done..

i ofc had to buy it because its one of the few Estonian Developers whos game is for linux, on steam and quite popular.

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Tried it out already and I like new gamemode :) Nice when you're not into exploring and managing your equipment, but just wanna shoot few clips to let the bad energy be released from you :P

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Quoting: c00kie55low latency network and gpu horsepower on the streaming server will be the most importent factors

so other than network the specs of the host machine is practically the only thing that matter?

but offcourse client needs to be able to stream the picture and send back input from controller whitout lagging

iam so slow Half-Shot somehow beat me ...

I have a low latency connection :P

It's important to also stress the client needs to be fairly ok too though. I have a AMD A4 APU in my laptop, 4GB ram and Arch Linux but it still has a slow hardware decode.

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low latency network and gpu horsepower on the streaming server will be the most importent factors

so other than network the specs of the host machine is practically the only thing that matter?

but offcourse client needs to be able to stream the picture and send back input from controller whitout lagging

iam so slow Half-Shot somehow beat me ...

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I'm looking forward to trying this. We only have Linux machines in our house and I'd like to get the wife into a bit of light gaming on her laptop.

I'll also be getting a low profile Steam machine for the TV.

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Quoting: FTW"This will absolutely be the least profitable system we ever sell."

Because Alienware can't sell it for 2x the price as they would with the rest of their computers.

This!

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Quoting: wleoncioHave they even given anyone a hint on how soon is "soon"? I can't wait to be able to use my Macbook as a host so I can play a few non-Linux games on my "Steam Machine".

It used to work on all 3 platforms but due to stability only Windows was kept on. I don't think its going to be a long wait.

Quoting: wleoncioAnother thing I couldn't figure out is how the processing power is distributed. I mean, the performance cap will be set by the slower machine or are the specs of the host machine practically the only thing that matter?

None of the power is distrobuted in the way that a data center distrobutes if that's what you mean. The host will be using and have avaliable the same amount of power as if you were in front of it. The client only needs enough to be able to hardware decode a stream at the desired resolutuion and framerate while transmitting controls.

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It is hard, but I never felt it was particularly unfair. You tend to die when you run out of ammo, but if you've run out of ammo, it's because you haven't glitched enough baddies in the first place.

Very smooth game, very, very replayable. One of the most slightly-infuriating "just one more go" type of games, that I love - up there with Rogue Legacy in my opinion.

And they keep adding new content for free! It's like FTL all over again.

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Have they even given anyone a hint on how soon is "soon"? I can't wait to be able to use my Macbook as a host so I can play a few non-Linux games on my "Steam Machine".

Another thing I couldn't figure out is how the processing power is distributed. I mean, the performance cap will be set by the slower machine or are the specs of the host machine practically the only thing that matter?

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Definitely will be buying both of these. VERY excited. I need more native games on my Steam Machine!!

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Any news about linux support, now it's only windows.

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Quoting: scaineI'm happy to wait for an epic result. I'm not going to ruin it by beta-testing! :D

I'm with you.

Beta testing a story-driven game in development can seriously spoil the potential fun of the final product. Hard to understand why "early-access" actually works for these type of games - in particular, as they are typically even higher priced when bought as early access...

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