Quoting: GustyGhostIs there somewhere one can purchase motivation to play all of these cheap games that I've bought?

Can someone please tell me how I can get paid to play all of these games I've bought, so I can quit my job and dedicate my life to gaming? :P

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Quoting: slaapliedjenVidia seems to want to be friendly toward the FOSS people

Other than Tegra, it's been mostly lip service... don't forget they used to have a (heavily obfuscated) open source nv driver, which they completely abandoned.

Quoting: slaapliedjeDoes AMD even have the firegl drivers anymore?

fglrx is called Catalyst now (the driver package was never separate). I don't think they ever really figured out how to compete with the Quadro line; they were also trying out "FireHD" for a while, targeting "high-end" multi-display users - the same market Matrox was trying to sell into at the end of their run...

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Quoting: slaapliedjeReason I stopped using AMD is because they'd deprecate support in their closed source driver way quicker on older cards than nVidia does, and the open source driver was never up to the same performance.

Plus there was a time (I haven't checked lately) when their catalyst driver wouldn't work with the newer xorg or kernels for 8 months. Maybe the open source drivers are much better performance wise now, but they have been historically pretty crap.

Those were the reasons I switched a few years back; the closed source driver was never very good. The open source driver has improved by leaps and bounds the last couple years, and I was quite happy when AMD announced they were moving to the hybrid model (crappy proprietary modules for those who really want/need them, but all will [eventually] run on top of the open source bits).

As others have mentioned, the power consumption / performance ratio is a bit behind on the hardware side; we'll see how the next generation from both vendors compares. At least AMD is much more competitive than previously, for both GPUs and CPUs!

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Quoting: slaapliedjeThough to be fair, the Opteron system that I had worked great for many years.

Ironically, Nvidia made some of the best AMD motherboard chipsets (nForce).

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Quoting: GuestI've even been contacted by companies asking me to port the latest version of Stella to RetroArch so they can use it in their product!

I hope you quote them a tidy sum, with the understanding that everyone else gets to use it, too.

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Quoting: qptain NemoLands of Lore 1

I still have that one in the original shrink wrap - never did get around to trying it (I have soooo many games with nowhere near enough time). Is it really good?

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Quoting: Joeyboots80I love Adventure games

Daedalic has been providing a fairly steady stream of great adventure games, gotta love it.

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Quoting: DuncThe trouble I have with open-source games is that I never make my system partition big enough to install them with the package manager. All my usual applications and their requisite libraries are fine, but a big lump of game resources? Forget it.

symlinks to the rescue?

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Quoting: qptain NemoI don't believe there is any other Westwood game on Steam at the moment.

I guess they have been gone too long; us old farts are showing our age. :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westwood_Studios#Games

Eye of the Beholder series (early dungeon crawler), Dune II (early RTS before Warcraft), Kyrandia series (adventures in the vein of Daedalic), Command & Conquer series (I think most people know these, at least), Blade Runner (I deigned to have Windows 95 on a Jaz drive just to play this - wouldn't infect my hard drive!).

Yet another great studio murdered by EA.

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Quoting: qptain NemoVery nice of them to actually attribute Westwood studios as the developer on Steam.

They made some great classics; doesn't look like they are attributed with much on Steam, though:
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=Westwood%20Studios

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