...Besides...

Slice of life:

I'm working for a CAD company and we just upgraded our workstations to Win10... Not new workstations. Just a full and clean Win10 reinstall...

Conclusion:
if the situation apllies to gaming too, I can live with lower fps if it permits to avoid loads of BSODs... Crap! I've never seen that much BSODs in my entire life! Not one workstation... On all worksations with diffrent hardware configurations ranging from i7-2600 to i7-4790 with quadro gpus. Yuk! Yuk! Yuk!

End of slice of life, but still funny. :)

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Quoting: dubigrasuI'm doing one now for my own curiosity, but not so extensive (with 4K and so on), just 1080. I might add a graph for it if you're curious, but video no.
Don't have much time and I think I'll wait a while for things to settle down (with Dota itself & drivers) before doing a video.

Great! I'd be happy if you could share us your graph. Thanks!

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Quoting: dubigrasuWell, the options in Dota are Exclusive Fullscreen, Windowed and Borderless Window.

Not trying to impose anything, but is it possible for you to do a benchmark for Dota2 Vulkan? You are my favorite source when it comes to Linux/Windows benchmarks. You are doing an awesome job. :)

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse/discussions/1/541907867770822642/

It might not be the problem, but I feel, too, that using a brand new GTX 1070-1080 may not give a fair portrait of Linux performances. Usually it requires a couple of driver's iterations to get it's full capacity.

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Basically, Steam Machines are mini-itx PCs with SteamOS. Nobody loses when buying à Steam Machine. I hope it doesn't happen, but you can still install Windows on it, if SteamOS is not to your taste.

SteamOS is Valve's developper's target platform that opens the door to other Linux distributions. They are putting much efforts to smoothen the ports to this platform so that the costs involved in developping a Linux version becomes a no-brainer: "Bah, it's not that hard, let's do it."

If Valve achieve this goal, developpers that don't publish on Linux will do So for "political" reasons... Shame on them!

In that aspect, Valve has still lots of work to do. The adoption of Vulkan and support for VR devices are key aspects.

We only have to keep in mind that the whole Steam for Linux initiative is still in a beta stage in Valve times, unless M$ does something foolish with the Windoze store that raises Gaben's ire... It's only a matter of time. :)

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My kids are playing this game and said they liked it. Tought it was for casual gamers but I never tried it. Was it this bad?! Lol!

Still we paid for it and we'll be left with nothing. Not even an offline boring trunkated version... Might Just be me but...

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Thanks for the reminder Liam. In the last few weeks, I was beggining to doubt but with this wrapup it raises my spirit.

Still, even in a dark mood, I always apply the "No tux, no bucks". :)

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Quoting: melkemind

Quoting: CorbenBut it feels a bit like the drive of games on Linux has worn a bit off. The "news" about Linux games being delayed, canceled or don't get updates seem to increase. Even where we expected to get a Linux version, because either it would be very easy to port (Engine supports natively Linux or is OpenGL) or the previous games of that series got Linux versions, don't get any port. Or is that just my impression?

A lot of last year's promises for Linux games were based on the hype surrounding Steam Machines and SteamOS. It's pretty clear now that Valve botched their Steam Machines debut, so I wouldn't be surprised if some publishers are just cautiously taking a few steps back (or perhaps even abandoning the idea altogether).

In fact the whole SteamOS initiative seems to have become a side project for Valve. Since the official Steam Machine launch, it's all about maintaining it with driver updates and security fixes. No new features. The updates are coming at a slower pace too. Feels like the whole thing is maintained by few guys (maybe only one) at Valve. I don't know if it's because they think it achieved it's goal...

I may just be paranoiac but I'm worried because I really like this platform but the flow of underperforming games might be killing the momentum it could have gotten.

On the same subject, what's going on with Arma III that was showing so much potential via VP?

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Quoting: NyamiouThe number of Linux users doesn't matter, what matters is how much money they have in their pockets and how much money they are willing to spend. There is a lot of Steam users that only play one game, and often it's a free to play game, those guys don't matter much. The reasons we get so many games right now is that in terms of money spend on new games (especially outside of the blockbusters) we are more close to 5% than 1% and porting to Linux have become less expensive and easier.

Makes me think of something... It could be nice to have a question, in the GoL survey, like: "How many games in your Steam Library?".

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Just found which game is going to test my brand new GTX960 4gb... :)

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Quoting: GuestAnd that's one reason I'm more interested in the Vive.

HTC Vive is my way to go too, but I was told to check for the Razer OSVR. Since it's an open source project, anyone got impressions on it? It seems quite impressive too.

http://www.razerzone.com/osvr

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