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You're a power user, who updates. A significant portion of users are "not very good with computers" and do not update. Older drivers are very common.

The developer you are questioning the completence of works for Unity engine itself, not some random small game. Unity has direct contact with Nvidia, ATI, Intel and MESA and they probably 'share' some developers with Nvidia etc (the graphics card manufacturers send you experts to join your company, to help you to optimise your code on their hardware). They also get bug reports from studios using Unity.

If he says a significant number of people do not update, why should I not believe him?

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Quoting: Nikolaj HansenAfaik, steam can also upgrade, or suggest updates, to your systems gpu.

Not under Linux.

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This actually looks really interesting to me. The game modes, the game mechanics, cool stuff. I would still like to know if there is any weapon variety, however.

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Afaik, steam can also upgrade, or suggest updates, to your systems gpu.

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Quoting: AnonymousNo, I've never updated my drivers on the windows. There is actually statistics about it that show that not many people update GPU drivers on Windows.
I'm updating them whole the time on the Linux since I have AMDs GPU and I'm desperate for performance improvements.

Are you using the open source driver or the proprietary driver?

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Without AAA games on Linux I don`t see reasons for growing of number Linux gamers. Not huge number of bad indie, but 20-30 powerful AAA games and some strong indie, like ARMA 3 and Red Orcherstra 2.
I think, autumn 2014 and 2015 will change position of linux in the whole gaming.
Civ V and Civ Beyond Earth, Gauntlet, Killing Floor 2, XCOM EU, project CARS, Rome 2 Total war, CS GO, Metro Redux and some more games can give huge acceleration for Linux gaming. Without them - Linux is OS for geeks.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: Xpander

Quoting: XilLiam, 26% of the windows systems are still windows XP, so no, people don't update their drivers, for the masses out there windows auto-update and a virus scanner is as far as they get, so I think he is right.

As for the rest of his comments, his lack of insight says enough I guess

but we are talking about gamers.. probably 10 gamers in world use windows xp now a days.

facebook gamers dont count

Pretty much what I came here to say. I stand by my words, gamers generally know how to update drivers and most likely do.

As for Windows XP, you can update drivers on that, so just being on Windows XP means nothing other than not forking out for a new Windows license.

its not about you can't update drivers on XP, its about the fact people still use it and those same people really don't upgrade their drivers.

we not talking unreal engine here, we talking unity engine and big big share of that is casual gamers and casual games do not upgrade their drivers. We talking people who why a Dell or HP, turn it on and thats it, the Dell/HP software might patch a bit as will windows update, but they won't go to any Nvidia/ADM site and download the latest drivers.

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No, I've never updated my drivers on the windows. There is actually statistics about it that show that not many people update GPU drivers on Windows.
I'm updating them whole the time on the Linux since I have AMDs GPU and I'm desperate for performance improvements.

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Quoting: Xpanderfacebook gamers dont count

Facebook gamers it's big portion of Unity3D end-users.

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Quoting: Xpander

Quoting: XilLiam, 26% of the windows systems are still windows XP, so no, people don't update their drivers, for the masses out there windows auto-update and a virus scanner is as far as they get, so I think he is right.

As for the rest of his comments, his lack of insight says enough I guess

but we are talking about gamers.. probably 10 gamers in world use windows xp now a days.

facebook gamers dont count

Pretty much what I came here to say. I stand by my words, gamers generally know how to update drivers and most likely do.

As for Windows XP, you can update drivers on that, so just being on Windows XP means nothing other than not forking out for a new Windows license.

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Quoting: XilLiam, 26% of the windows systems are still windows XP, so no, people don't update their drivers, for the masses out there windows auto-update and a virus scanner is as far as they get, so I think he is right.

As for the rest of his comments, his lack of insight says enough I guess

but we are talking about gamers.. probably 10 gamers in world use windows xp now a days.

facebook gamers dont count

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It's pretty fun and might keep me occupied until the new Dwarf Fortress release comes out. I don't like the graphics though, and the music is buggy, so I'm glad you can play in ASCII.

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Liam, 26% of the windows systems are still windows XP, so no, people don't update their drivers, for the masses out there windows auto-update and a virus scanner is as far as they get, so I think he is right.

As for the rest of his comments, his lack of insight says enough I guess

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QuoteI've never met a Windows gamer who doesn't update their graphics drivers, have you?

Yes, a lot. You know I support players of Planetary Annihilation for about a year and here is my personal sub-forum on Steam:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/233250/discussions/2/
I suppose there was few thousands of topics related to old drivers and possible more. Even if game will print large text with "UPDATE YOUR DRIVERS" many people wouldn't do that anyway or will do that wrong.

QuoteSeems strange that someone who games on Windows wouldn't update the one thing that could really change their experience. Especially since on Windows things like the Nvidia control panel actually tells you each time there's a new update.

There is multiple problems with way you thinking. Unity3D it's middleware, the engine which target for extremely large audience so they have to be sure their engine working on any crappy laptop.

Unfortunately there is large list of problems with driver updates you don't know about:

• Some users just unable to update their drivers because they don't have admin account on Windows. It's can be work laptop within company workgroup for example.
  
  


• AMD mobility drivers fail to install 80% of times.
  I even wrote multi-page how-to about updating this peace of crap:
  http://steamcommunity.com/app/233250/discussions/2/558749190925676183/
  Some laptops just not supported by official drivers!
  
  


• Intel allow vendors to deny usage of automatic EXE installer with "not validated for this computer" crap. Installing drivers from ZIP isn't f*ckig easy:
  http://steamcommunity.com/app/233250/discussions/2/558749190911446231/
  Even with detailed instruction many players might spend hour on update it and I doubt if someone's grandpa will able to do anything like that if he need to install some casual game.
  
  


• Windows 8 ship built-in drivers for AMD legacy GPUs and some Intel iGPUs that DO NOT HAVE OPENGL SUPPORT. For AMD you can't even replace them with one from official website, manual installation, again:
  http://steamcommunity.com/app/233250/discussions/2/648817378357910399/
  
  


• On some rare laptops (many of them with Nvidia 3XXM) you just can't update drivers due to changed IDs. You have to patch BIOS to make update possible.




• This is just portion of issues...

And outdated drivers just don't work. They expose GL, but will crash all the time because there isn't really tested support around.

QuoteNot many people would be buying an actual graphics card not use Windows in-built drivers now would they?

Unfortunately there is a lot of people who aren't as tech savvy as you. It's not OpenGL fault, but GPU vendor fault (especially AMD), but developers can't just reject this.

When it's come to games like PA where people paid their money for they'll going to complain and ask for help. If this was F2P title player who met such problem will just go and play another game.

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Quoting: NotToGoingUJustToPostI personsonally don't. It takes ages and it often breaks (NVidia installer just hangs). I do it only when a specific game does not work.

I use manjaro linux and my drivers are updated with system update.It's always work flawlessly.
http://manjaro.org/

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QuoteIt is all well and good making blog posts on it, but if all people do is blog about it and not try and help OpenGL move forward in some way then we will just see a pattern of developers constantly speaking ill of it.

Immediate discussion!

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This guy a f*cking idiot. "And no, actual people out there do not update their drivers. Ever." Oh yes we bloody do. Frequently. I agree Liam, for someone who is supposed to be programming games for Linux this guy is sadly lacking in even the most rudimentary knowledge of PCs and users.

If you've programmed Java I imagine (not being a programmer) that you've developed some basic knowledge of programming concepts, universals that would make learning another language, say C, easier, but it would still be learning a new language. Porting your coding knowledge from Windows to Linux is equally going to be a shock to the system. This blog post (by Pranckevičius) equates to nothing more than a Java programmer's confusion trying to code in C for the first time. When you get over you shock you might find C is infinitely better...

If the guy has nothing to offer in making OpenGL better and contributing to the code then he can stick his opinion where the sun doesn't doesn't shine.

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Judging by the number of support posts in PC Game forums that contain the words "update your drivers" it's clear to me that not everyone does. I personsonally don't. It takes ages and it often breaks (NVidia installer just hangs). I do it only when a specific game does not work.

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Quoting: wolfyrionJudging from my experience as an everyday IT , Is very hard for a Windows,Mac User to migrate to any Linux OS.

And next month I believe the Linux statistics will be less on Steam...

For Gamers
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Watch Dogs, Stomping Land and The Forest - three of the most anticipated games released for Windows.
So any new user on Linux or dual boot or whatever they would just say fuck it.
I am switching to windows just to be able to play these games.

For Casual Mac/Windows Business/Users
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There are some applications that are especially deigned for Mac and you cannot find them in a windows version or Linux and some people cant live without these applications.So a switch for them is impossible. Same goes with Windows especially for the Business.
Some people are stuck with Office/outlook and business applications like Caseware etc any alternative is out of question.

Before I switch my personal desktop to Only Linux OS I had to try out a lot of Distros and struggle a lot to learn Linux.
Imagine I am a computer geek, I know how things are working etc. But how about the casual dumb user? Is impossible for them to try new things.
I have one folder with over 100 modifications/optimizations for Manjaro just to be able to use it as I want. After a year now using Linux , I cant go back to windows even for a Game....

Then they will have to learn fun stuff like no updated flash in FF, having to use PPA's and type in terminal commands to install anything not included with the distro, the fact that there is no one-click way to add shortcuts to the menu's, figuring out how to install drivers (why this is made to be so obtuse to the end use is beyond me...they should be installed from the get-go like manjaro does), finding out they're complex office documents won't display correctly, how much software center sucks, chrome has no plugins, wine is a PITA, Linux software is often left out in the cold and outdated from third parties (skype, anyone?), dropping ia32-libs for no apparent reason....shall I go on?

Anyway, if someone goes into linux with a mindset they are leaving the world of windows behind and wants to learn a new way of computing...then ok...me for instance, I had to reinstall a crapload if times because I kept tinkering around and messing up my install, and that's fine because I like doing that...I wouldn't expect everyone to...not to say linux is not usable out of the box, but I also wouldn't call it a complete user friendly experience. My mom uses Ubuntu that I installed for her just fine because all she does is online banking and shopping, but I would imagine the average professional or business user would get fed up pretty quickly with all the hoops one must jump through to get things working the way you want...good luck if you need photoshop or proprietary business software.

Disclaimer: Not bashing linux...just telling my perspective as a fairly new recruit. BTW, the forest will most likely be on Linux, but not until after release. Just going on what the forums say.

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I get a survey every month on windows but not in Linux. This way I dont give anything about this surveys.:><:

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Isn't the ps4 using openGL to? I asume amd is working hard at improving opengl support for their drivers.

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Judging from my experience as an everyday IT , Is very hard for a Windows,Mac User to migrate to any Linux OS.

And next month I believe the Linux statistics will be less on Steam...

For Gamers
-------------
Watch Dogs, Stomping Land and The Forest - three of the most anticipated games released for Windows.
So any new user on Linux or dual boot or whatever they would just say fuck it.
I am switching to windows just to be able to play these games.

For Casual Mac/Windows Business/Users
----------------------------------------
There are some applications that are especially deigned for Mac and you cannot find them in a windows version or Linux and some people cant live without these applications.So a switch for them is impossible. Same goes with Windows especially for the Business.
Some people are stuck with Office/outlook and business applications like Caseware etc any alternative is out of question.

Before I switch my personal desktop to Only Linux OS I had to try out a lot of Distros and struggle a lot to learn Linux.
Imagine I am a computer geek, I know how things are working etc. But how about the casual dumb user? Is impossible for them to try new things.
I have one folder with over 100 modifications/optimizations for Manjaro just to be able to use it as I want. After a year now using Linux , I cant go back to windows even for a Game....

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No survey ever yet, but I would count towards Windows 8.0 anyway ;) That said, I really hope Linux will catch on more. Gaming (and resulting notebook hardware choices) are what keep me on Windows. Well, and PowerPoint.

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I installed Linux Mint 17 (beta) and I'm honestly starting to regret it. Whenever I try installing something from Nooblabs (for example) it doesn't work, while there is no problem on my laptop with Ubuntu 14.04.

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I was surveyed just one hour ago ;)

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No survey for me for a year or so..

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Isn't OpenGL FOSS? Isn't it possible to improve it?

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AMD have suck for a long time.
The biggest issue I have is that they are extremely power hungry, and have, in my experience always run extremely hot (on windows and linux).

The last amd hardware i bought was a hybrid card in a Lenovo thinkpad edge. Absolutely terrible battery and performance! They always run hot!
Today I would never consider purchasing anything with AMD inside it.
Unfortunately the only credible choice I have are Intells offerings.

After all the years they've been in business, their chips are incredibly bad - why is that?

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: KurremkarmerrukName one game remotely similar to this. Also, I am really confused as to how you got the wrong impression from the trailer.

Ok, I watched the trailer again and there is indeed a guy who hits 3 times on a tree at the very beginning… But the (long) rest looks more like Sim City mixed with Starcraft. Or whatever. But not a crafting game.

It is also an crafting game. You have to collect a lot of different resources to CRAFT things.
Have you noticed the pickaxe which you are using to collect your first ressources? xD

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Quoting: SamsaiLinus Torvalds is in a special position. The kernel team is very exclusive and they have to have a clear authority to make sure the kernel doesn't suddenly break completely.

Is he though? IMO he behaves inappropriately. He's totally capable of not being abusive with his feedback. That wouldn't undermine the stability of the kernel.

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