Hi Valcan, thanks for your reply. What is the hardware target you have in mind? Is a beef desktop or something like a laptop with integrated graphics?

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The YouTube compression turn the graphics messy, here is a .png



But yes, is still confusing. I think this is a tech demo of what they engine cold do, not the final game.

Let's hope that all that little details don't ask for a high end machine to play a 2D game.

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I wonder if this joypad will have good support from the current Linux games. A good bunch of the ones I have only work with the Xbox 360 controller.

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Quoting: KeizgonSystem specs you are referring to? It runs great on my old laptop (i3 with Intel HD3000 series graphics... probably one of the weakest chipsets ever made compared to today's standards). I think the lowest frame rate I encountered is 40 fps but still peaks on average around 55-60 fps).

Your CPU is much better than mine. Is a A4 Trinity APU, 17w in a ultrathin Samsung laptop. I believe the game is CPU dependent. I can play Outland at 30>60 FPS, witch have much better graphics than this game. Also, Bleed, another indie game with the similar characteristics of They Bleed Pixels, runs silk smooth at 60fps.

I think the developers of this game make a big mistake. The speed of the character moves is proportional to the FPS the game is running. In my desktop in a 120Hz monitor, the game is too fast. In my laptop at 25>30 FPS, the character moves at slow motion. That is a bug the developer recognized in the Steam forums.

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@tuubi

Well, actually, Wine performance is better than the VP ports. And Wine works with all kind of software. VP is only working with 3 or 4 games.

@linux_gamer

So I need to be a programmer to have the right to criticize them? I don't think so. Besides, they are selling me a program, I pay for it. They are not a hobbyist working in spare time in a opensource program. I'm playing The Witcher 2 and the game don't crash and the joypad support works as they should. So by now their ports should be better, but looks like they are not making much progress. Why we still have to make modifications in configuration files?

@Beamboom, mao_dze_dun

The opensource driver works very well, if the port is well made an limited to Opengl 3.3. Not only the Valve games run at full speed, Metro LL and the Borderlands games too. Actually, if you use Gallium9 with the respective patched version of Wine, you can beat the performance of the game in Windows, but that's kind of cheating...

The Nvidia drivers are not perfect, and at every launch of ports made by VP, you can see people using them complaining.

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The performance for me isn't good. I'm using the radeonsi driver in a R9 290 and there are stuttering all over the place, not matter the size of the PoolSize. And the game crashes a lot, in a way that I have to reboot the system. The FPS is always below 60. The joypad support is ridiculous. You have to do full 360 circles in the analogs to work properly.

This is a DirectX 9 game, way inferior in graphics compared to Valve games like Portal 2 or Left 4 Dead 2, that my system handles well at 120 FPS. I'm praying to God that all of the others big names that will launch in the near future, like Grid, Batman or Witcher 3 will be out of the hands of these incompetent programmers at VT.

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The released a patch that made the Xbox One Controller work. Now if they can only made the game work well in low powered systems in Linux...

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QuoteNew engine rewritten in C for 60fps gameplay on netbooks and older computers.

It must be in Windows, because my A4 Trinity APU (witch can get more FPS than some Core i3) can't manage to keep 60fps. And considering the graphics of the game, that screams bad optimization. And again, it seems hard-coded to the Xbox 360 joypad. Mine Xbox One joypad doesn't work at all.

A lot of indie games are in this situation, very heavy for a simple game, and advertise full gamepad support, but only for the 360 joypad.

That a shame, because the game is really fun. The playability is innovative. But the performance and gamepad compatibility need urgent improvements.

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It have some bugs. The map don't follow you correctly so you really can't use it for directions. The joypad support is hardwired for the 360. Mine Xbox One joypad didn't get recognized at all.

I not a fan of the button layout. Too bad it can't be changed, but I can live with it, is the same used in Bleed.

The engine is Unity, but it work in my Trinity (laptop) A4 APU at 60fps, so the performance is ok in this one. The broken joypad support have a reason...

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A friend of mine have the Logitech F710. He bought it because it appeared in the launch of Steam Big Picture. It was kind of the official Steam joypad at the time. We didn't like it because the distance between the analog sticks and the triggers was bigger than the PS3 and 360 joypads. You have to really open your thumbs and indicators to reach the triggers. It become really tiresome aft a wile. You have to have really big hands to use it comfortably. Keep in mind he is a big fan of the Playstation joypads, but profoundly regretted the purchase.

I have both the 360 and One joypads. The 360 one is the de facto joypad of the Steam games, always recognized and it is his buttons that you see inside the games. The One joypad rumble started working with the 4.1 Linux kernel. In the 4.1RC4 is working fine.

To me, the Xbox One joypad is the best purchase right now, the best ergonomics by far. But is wired. If you didn't live without a wireless joypad, I can't recommend the purchase. The promised wireless receiver wasn't launched yet, and the Steam Controller will be out when Microsoft finally launch it.

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