Is it going to be DRM-free? KS page doesn't mention it. I'd confirm that before backing the project.

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I wish studios would get enough expertise to develop Linux games in house. All this outsourcing business sounds like second class citizen treatment to me.

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Quoting: dudeThank you Liam and Tony, plans sound great.
@aL: Neither GOG nor Humble Bundle have similar (working) Linux clients to steam. So yea, I think it's a brilliant idea to make an intuitive, good looking and working multiplatform "game-library-manager".

GOG are going to open the API for their client. Are Desura going to make their new client open source?

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Your best bet on Bethesda is OpenMW. I don't think you should care about the rest if it ;)

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Quoting: EKRboi"Requires" and "can utilize" are 2 TOTALLY different things. I WANT to be able to use Ubersampling and any other overkill feature a game may provide, but that's just me. I'm talking about "Ultra" or "ZOMG! Ultra" settings..

I'm talking about max settings which actually make sense. Ubersampling doesn't make any sense for me. It's like requiring one to get a bulldozer to clean some dust form the floor. It's a very poor, power and resource hungry brute force antialiasing technique (it basically renders the scene multiple times, so that's where multiple GPUs come in). I'd rather prefer developers to come up with smarter methods.

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Quoting: EKRboiUm.. sorry this is not true. If you want to crank up the eye candy to MAX and beyond on many really demanding games, even at 1080p you can't get CONSISTENT 60fps with the best single cards on the market.

You don't need SLI for that. Using single high end GPU can handle even 1920x1200 on high settings. I'm not talking about crazy options like ubersampling in TW2, those are an overkill which by design assumes multiple GPUs and it's completely unnecessary for the minor gain it provides. I'm yet to see any game which requires multiple high end GPUs to run.

4K resolutions is another story. I personally don't see a need for such crazy resolutions in games. They can be useful for photo or video editing however. Current single GPUs aren't up to the task to handle them in gaming, so multiple GPUs is the only way to use them in such scenarios.

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Quoting: EKRboithey can't be bothered to do a diff patch apparently..

It wasn't GOG's fault as far as I know. inXile's "patch" literally changed most of the files. One of the reasons may be that they generate compression dictionaries randomly for each release and even if source data didn't change, the result will be different. It's really up to inXile to ensure that each patch is as minimal as possible.

Quoting: EKRboiI've recently figured out MOST of my gaming issues in Linux are in fact the Nvidia drivers and SLI/Multi Monitor.

I'm not sure what kind of games would require using multi-GPU setup. Unless of course you use some huge 4K resolution or some such. In normal cases SLI is simply an unneeded overkill which drains power and costs a lot. It makes more sense for some intense computing, not for gaming.

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Quoting: ShmerlI'd appreciate some DRM-free games from them (were there any so far?). May be The Witcher 3? It seems all their Linux releases were Steam only.

Both Borderlands 2 and TPS will run without steam on Linux.

But can you buy them outside Steam? I consider Steam DRM and don't use it.

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I'd appreciate some DRM-free games from them (were there any so far?). May be The Witcher 3? It seems all their Linux releases were Steam only.

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Quoting: GuestDisappointing :(. I want the original secret of monkey island. And then Lechuck’s revenge.

GOG will release all these games gradually, so we'll have to wait. It's their common practice - they avoid releasing many titles at once.

Quoting: GuestAlso, GoG only supporting Mint 17 and Ubuntu 14.04 is bugging me. And they need to show if the games are native, running under DOSBox, Wine, or ScummVM. I’d rather buy from Steam at this point.

Strange reaction, since it's even more than Steam officially supports (Ubuntu only). I expect GOG will add support for latest Ubuntu release soon as well.

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