Have you used Blender's renderer? Especially the new one, Cycles. It's pretty realistic (ray-tracing). Lighting computations in particular are ressource intensive, and most of the time, that's more or less regardless of the complexity of the scene (though post-processing or complex feature can also have a big impact), but more dependent on resolution, anti-aliasing, . The degree of realism here is yeeeeaaars ahead of video games (i am still longing for real time raytracing). Plus, you would also have a hard time playing a complex 3D game just on the CPU, just saying :)
Plus, this is a pretty important benchmark for any 3D artist, there are not only gamers in this world.
To put things into perspective, IIRC, for the movie Avatar, each frame took around 24h to compute on a very big GPU farm...[/quote]
the issue is, its an accurate simulation but the end result dont look good anyway, they didnt make realistic materials, they did it for the other program wich is realtime, so you have acurrate raytrace on materials that look fake and not so acurate on materials that look real.
it made blender looks like a piece of crap for those who arent behind the details Behind the scenes

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can someone explain me, why the hell their logo take so much to render?
they put countless polygons on a plane just to make it take more time to render?
why not show an impressive demo like try to render some frame of sintel at any resolution?
the other demos where more impressive, the blender demo made blender looks dumb.

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that are so many games that we desperately need..
tera (and many others mmo rpgs such as the tera sequel, project exa 3D)
fighting games (street fighter5,bazzblue serie, tekken, soul calibur, , gilty gear series, dead or alive)
hack'n slash (witcher 3 , darksiders 1 &2 , devil may cry, bayoneta 1&2 (very unlikely console exclusives))
platformers (castlevania: lord of shadow, rayman, sonic)
Rpgs: (tales of series , neptunia series,reccetear,final fantasy,disgaea 1, grandia)
Classics: (SEGA Mega Drive & Genesis Classics, atari vault, shadow man, nights into dreams.)
Blizzard games (at least wow,diablo,over watch)
sandbox/open world: (gta5, watchdogs2, sleeping dogs)
Horror games: (Silent hill, Alone in the dark)
famous anime games: (clannad , unimeko)
Brasilian games (really i want to support my own country/game industry) (a lenda do herói, momodora,toren)
league of legends
Metal gear solid 5
Scriblenauts unlimited
Resident evil
Rise of tombraider
Price of persia
Just cause
Hitman
Spore
Valkiria chronicles
Track mania
Rwby
child of light
doom 2016
Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code
akibastrip
star wars Battlefront
senran kagura
kingdom hearts
Skyrim
Assasins creed
naruto
mass effect
puyo puyo tetris[2, i'm not the only one who want this? lol)
Ori and the Blind Fores
cuphead
Star Citizen.
and some weaboo shit (illusion simulators)

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: elbuglionehttp://store.steampowered.com/app/323320/

Complete with Ubisoft’s amazing EULA:

Quote3.1 THE PRODUCT MAY BE PROTECTED BY DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE (“DRM SOFTWARE”). IN SUCH CASE, YOU HEREBY AGREE, ACKNOWLEDGE AND CONSENT TO THE FOLLOWING REGARDING THE DRM SOFTWARE: (I) THE INSTALLATION OF THE PRODUCT WILL CAUSE THE DRM SOFTWARE TO BE INSTALLED ON YOUR COMPUTER; (II) THE DRM SOFTWARE MAY LIMIT THE NUMBER OF INSTALLATIONS OF THE PRODUCT; (III) THE DRM SOFTWARE MAY INSTALL ON YOUR COMPUTER ADDITIONAL COMPONENTS REQUIRED FOR COPY PROTECTION; AND (IV) DURING THE INSTALLATION AND/OR THE FIRST LAUNCH OF THE PRODUCT, AN ONLINE CONNECTION MAY BE REQUIRED TO UNLOCK THE PRODUCT THROUGH THE DRM SOFTWARE. IN NO EVENT SHALL UBISOFT BE LIABLE IN CONNECTION WITH THE COMPONENTS THAT MAY BE INSTALLED ON YOUR COMPUTER BY ANY DRM SOFTWARE. <snip>

Which is why I didn’t buy it.

MAY BE or may not be, since Deus EX linux version dont use DRM

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Quoting: TheSyldatAny of the Ubisoft game really. I feel (stress on this word here) that if at some given point in time Linux get enough momentum that it cannot be ignored anymore , Ubisoft will be the last one to take the plunge.

All of the other big players are wether you like it or not keeping an eye on what's going on if only for the sake of knowing where the wind blows.

But Ubisoft seems to me that even that surface level of checking out every once in a while is not even there at all .

So yeah it would blow my mind to be proven wrong byy Ubisoft and seeing one of their big release poping up on Linux as well...

ubisoft ported growhome

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2 games at once '-' wow

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wtf with this system requirements?
are they making an game with WebGL runing on a browser inside an virtual machine writen in java?

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Quoting: Seegras

Quoting: elmapulwine dont fully support Dx9 yet, the support for dx11 is not a big thing yet and they will fully support dx12?

Wine is an open source project. If you decide to write code for DX12, and nobody else wants to write the missing code for DX9, this is what happens.

Here's a list of what's missing: https://wiki.winehq.org/Summer_Of_Code

ok, but it takes time if the Dx9 support is not fully implemented, imagine the Dx12...
well, at least dx12 is like vulkan and should not do many things leting the developers do instead...

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Quoting: neowiz73well on the business side of things, Microsoft won't completely go walled garden until they know they have all the major companies on board with it. So far EA has their own storefront setup that I don't think they want to relinquish everything to the MS store anytime soon.
Everything is in flux, which is why things with SteamOS have stagnated. But with more vulkan development around the corner. all throughout next year should start the next evolution of gaming, which is where we will see DX12 and Vulkan go head to head and we find out the performance is almost identical. with some edge cases of each API having better performance over the other.

plus wine will get dx12 support which I'm really curious to see what sort of performance there will be. (i'm assuming there will be little to no performance hit). which will be all the more reason for Steam to incorporate their own version of wine at that point, as part of their runtime. this will help to alleviate most compatibility issues on Steam OS.

When it comes to the mainstream gamers all they want is for things to work without much fuss. it all boils down to what games can I play and what is the performance compared to price. Where as most of us geeks it doesn't matter so much.
Wine, Vulkan and DX12 development will be a good time for Steam OS to try to shine. Which will be over the coarse of the next couple of years.

WTH?
wine dont fully support Dx9 yet, the support for dx11 is not a big thing yet and they will fully support dx12?

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"He also mentions that the limited library we have compared to Windows is an issue, which is obvious, but slowly improving with time. "
i hate to say it, but, the windows library is growing faster, we grow up to 20% of the number of games on windows but we are at 20% for a while, i dont think this will change until valve futher pushes steam machines.

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