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A bit OT! But I'm so upset about Humble Bundle right now.

This IDIOTS have removed Amazon Payment & Google for European Users with introducing that **** of regional pricing **** in the humble store.

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Tesla Effect, the kickstarted new Tex Murphy adventure, will also be out soon – judging by the newest update video in April:
View video on youtube.com
I don't know if the Linux version will be out simultaneously with the Windows and Mac version but I think it won't be too long afterwards.

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Quoting: DrMcCoyEh, what the hell, it's the end of the month and I got a few Euros left for a change, so I went ahead and donated £10. Not much, I know, but it's about as much as I can give in my current situation.

I don't always agree with you, but I do appreciate the work you're doing here.

You have my public thanks, we do not always agree, but that is what GOL is here for, so all Linux gamers have a voice.

I sent you an email about it.

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Eh, what the hell, it's the end of the month and I got a few Euros left for a change, so I went ahead and donated £10. Not much, I know, but it's about as much as I can give in my current situation.

I don't always agree with you, but I do appreciate the work you're doing here.

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I hope to see more than that this year, Linux needs a big push in 2014 while it's still relevant in people's mind for gaming, otherwise it will slip into neckbeard oblivion once again sadly. :*(

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Quoting: lordfraggerYo're forgetting tropico 5! It should be available in a 2-3 months.

Apparently not the best known series, but imo a great one. I've spent countless hours on tropico 4, which runs really well through wine.

*sigh*, do I really need a disclaimer on every post that covers a few things...:P

I didn't forget, there are 100s of games I have missed out to keep the post from being 100 pages long.

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Yo're forgetting tropico 5! It should be available in a 2-3 months.

Apparently not the best known series, but imo a great one. I've spent countless hours on tropico 4, which runs really well through wine.

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Oh wait that's for the Elite account my bad

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Its free on Desura but $14.99 on Steam .. lol

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Most of these look really good!

One thing to note is that Defender's Quest 2 will look quite a lot different (better!!) from the original (see the sole screenshot on the linked page). DQ1 is really worth the money, but you can get it free if you pre-order DQ2. I normally don't much care for tower-defense type games and the art style looked really, um, MS Paint-y, but they did something really right with the gameplay because trying the demo turned into an insta-buy, and just thinking about it makes me glad the weekend is about to start. Personally, I'm looking forward to the sequel more than most of the other games in the list.

(No, they didn't pay me to praise it, and I'm not affiliated with them at all.)

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Quoting: AnonymousThe open source drivers work well with valve games such as CS:source and l4d2

They cannot seem to handle dota2 well though, radeonsi latest git,kernel,xorg,mesa,atidri and it's clay animation unless turned down to the lowest settings.

however it really handles l4d2 well with the exception of some odd artifacting (coaches head has void where his hair should be) but much smoother than catalyst at roughly 1/10 to 1/4 the frames but feels faster (considering catalyst cranks out 300 fps and stutters, 1/10 to 1/4 is VERY playable as it's ~30-~80 fps. max eye candy @ full HD)

the power management is sorta there, but it still likes to get it up to high profile and bake your card but it seems semi-working.

It really pains me that usually the strong suit of the OSS driver is the weakness of the blob and vice versa.

Yeah, it's how it is now but the future looks good. AMD are actually helping out with the FOSS driver much more than Nvidia so hopefully if all goes well you will no longer to choose between them.

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The open source drivers work well with valve games such as CS:source and l4d2

They cannot seem to handle dota2 well though, radeonsi latest git,kernel,xorg,mesa,atidri and it's clay animation unless turned down to the lowest settings.

however it really handles l4d2 well with the exception of some odd artifacting (coaches head has void where his hair should be) but much smoother than catalyst at roughly 1/10 to 1/4 the frames but feels faster (considering catalyst cranks out 300 fps and stutters, 1/10 to 1/4 is VERY playable as it's ~30-~80 fps. max eye candy @ full HD)

the power management is sorta there, but it still likes to get it up to high profile and bake your card but it seems semi-working.

It really pains me that usually the strong suit of the OSS driver is the weakness of the blob and vice versa.

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I bought it last month and its pretty fun. I dont think it was beta then, it was more of a preview and now its beta.

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I've been using Steam for several months on a couple of different (64bit) machines, a wine install (for Skyrim), and very occasionally a Windows install. The only time I've been polled was the ultra-rare occasion that I used the Windows install... If there's really a bug where it doesn't properly poll the Linux clients, that seems like a serious issue concerning there chances to convince devs to port over to Linux!!

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Quoting: Half-Shot

Quoting: asdfDo you own Natural Selection 2 and get it running with the foss driver?

Working, yes.
Playable, ish. I got 13fps at the highest settings. Should be ok under a lower setting.

Thats nice. I tried to get this game running with different mesa drivers with my AMD Radeon HD 6850 graphic card. Cant figure it out, where the problem is. Other games line Portal 2 are running fine.

I get this error message at startup.

QuoteInstalling breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1393366296_client)
libGL error: MESA-LOADER: could not create udev device for fd 114
unknown chip id 0x6739, can't guess.
libGL error: failed to create dri screen
libGL error: failed to load driver: radeon
CGameStreamThread: Added instance ID 1668 for appid 4920
OnFocusWindowChanged to window type: k_EWindowTypeNonSteamDesktop, 0
GetInstanceCount currently unimplemented
Build 263
Linux
Steam initialized
Num displays: 2
Error: X windows: GLXBadFBConfig
Error: glXCreateContextAttribsARB failed
Error: X windows: GLXBadFBConfig
Error: X windows: GLXBadFBConfig
Error: X windows: GLXBadFBConfig
Error: X windows: GLXBadFBConfig
Error: X windows: GLXBadFBConfig
Error: OpenGL version 3.1 is required
Error: Couldn't initialize the render device.
Game removed: AppID 4920 "Natural Selection 2", ProcID 1637

My glxinfo32 output:

Quoteclient glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
[...]
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD BARTS
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 10.1.0-rc2 (git-bef5554)
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 3.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
[...]
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.0-rc2 (git-bef5554)
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30

I think the problem is, that the OpenGL version is still version 3.0 :-/ However.. the OpenGL Core profile version is 3.3.

Maybe you or someone else have an idea or a hint, what exactly the problem is.
I am using Arch Linux with the 3.14.0-1-mainline kernel.

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Quoting: Half-Shot

Quoting: GuestNo, minimal GL level for Heaven 4.0 and Valley 1.0 is 3.2. All Unigine benchmark works on open source drivers now.

Not under standard packages offered by Arch Linux. Both Unigine benchmarks REFUSED to run.

Unigines on radeonsi work for months (with hack when GL 3.1 had been available, without since GL3.2) http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1sbz85/amd_drivers_are_getting_better/cdw8h0e

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Quoting: RiottaGreat article, I think also you should use GALLIUM_HUD=fps %command% in steam app startup options, when testing a game, that will show more readable fps counter for people watching your videos.

Noted, I did enable the FPS overlay for source games but it didn't do a great job. Thanks for the feedback though.

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Quoting: Guest

Quote(newer benchmarks from Unigine have an unreasonable requirement of OpenGL 4).

No, minimal GL level for Heaven 4.0 and Valley 1.0 is 3.2. All Unigine benchmark works on open source drivers now.

Not under standard packages offered by Arch Linux. Both Unigine benchmarks REFUSED to run.

Quoting: GuestNext, your result are completely horrible. Especially in Valve games. I'm confused, since kernel 3.14 is necessary only for DPM in GCN2.0 cards, and 7950 should work great with 3.13 (afaik). But...

Your Mesa is too old. If I can suggest something - upgrade mesa to 10.2-devel (git) and benchmark your GPU then.


And radeonsi (>HD 7000) needs the latest packages for good results and comability. Mesa git, LLVM 3.5 etc.

Results are results, they differ. These are what I achieved with a standard system packages and Gnome 3.10 using the system outlined in the spreadsheet. My mesa is again what the system offers me. They are the stable drivers that most distros do not even support. I'm not going to benchmark using git packages, because then I would get complaints that they couldn't get such high FPS. And anyway, the results were fine considering the games were running maximum settings and were playable.

I do have the ability to use mesa 10.2 and the rest of the updates, but I don't plan to document them on this article.

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This game is awesomely designed and I would drop 5-10 bucks on it for sure.

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I would download it for the free weekend but 7 gigs is too much just for it to disappear in 3 days

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I'me updating right now. Hope the game is more stable now as I couldn't get any further because it kept on crashing to desktop at one point.

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Definitely weird about the beta stuff.. I'll be giving this a shot this weekend and if I enjoy it, I'll be buying for sure.

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Great article, I think also you should use GALLIUM_HUD=fps %command% in steam app startup options, when testing a game, that will show more readable fps counter for people watching your videos.

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Quote(newer benchmarks from Unigine have an unreasonable requirement of OpenGL 4).

No, minimal GL level for Heaven 4.0 and Valley 1.0 is 3.2. All Unigine benchmark works on open source drivers now.

Next, your result are completely horrible. Especially in Valve games. I'm confused, since kernel 3.14 is necessary only for DPM in GCN2.0 cards, and 7950 should work great with 3.13 (afaik). But...

Your Mesa is too old. If I can suggest something - upgrade mesa to 10.2-devel (git) and benchmark your GPU then.

And radeonsi (>HD 7000) needs the latest packages for good results and comability. Mesa git, LLVM 3.5 etc.

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Quoting: asdfDo you own Natural Selection 2 and get it running with the foss driver?

Working, yes.
Playable, ish. I got 13fps at the highest settings. Should be ok under a lower setting.

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Do you own Natural Selection 2 and get it running with the foss driver?

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Nice! I'd love if it would support racing wheels.

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>steam
>most restrictive forms of DRM

...What?!

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I get the survey every month as soon as I start Steam using Wine.
I never get it on the native client.

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Quoting: Ba7a7chyI thought it was meant to be a free DLC ?

It's free for backers(Kickstarter or Paypal) only. If you're backer and haven't received a key, you should send them an email.

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