Steam on Linux is Rather Good

[UltraPic]

As in the first notable push.

The last time i installed ut 2004 on linux it asked me if i wanted to install the 64 bit version. If epic and id (most of there games have linux installers) are not notable then i don't know what is.

Some people are really demonizing windows :S i owned that card (gtx260)and you probably should have updated your drivers, it's a close to top range card from the times that tf2 came out

They have updated the graphics for TF2 over time. I'm not calling it Crytek by any means but they have made some texture and model updates. But it is true TF2 isn't the greatest benchmark but if you could get some FPS than it would be a valid way of looking it things.

You are correct sir, they did buff up the engine, but i stand by my statement about the performance of the card.

http://www.thg.ru/graphic/radeon_hd_4870/images/crysis3.png pretty good, no?

All i'm saying is that i'm finding it strange that the platform that get's better driver support whould have poorer performance too the degree that was said. i did a neat little test (because i have time to burn) i took an gtx 295 (about two gtx 260) turned off sli and got stable performance all the way @ 1920 x 1080 with every bell and wistle. minimal was 59.45 fps with hot pyro on pyro action. with 4gb ram and an amd x3 720 @ 3.6ghz

edit: benchmarked tf2 offcourse on 2fort

but every system is different, and if linux gives him a cleaner experience, good i whould like to see linux become really competitive, give microsoft more reasons to think about gamers beyond showing angry birds in windows 8 commercials

(i did read about a new driver update for linux that doubled the performance in november)

I find it strange that quake wars runs the same on both os's for me, until the mouse pointer pops through the screen on linux and i have to power off the computer because i cant do anything.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

If I recall correctly, Gearbox and Valve are looking to do Linux ports of some of their games. Given how restrictive the Windows games store appears to be, Linux as the new gaming system could become a very real reality inside of a year.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Windows is still going to be the platform of choice for the foreseeable future as that's where the games are. I don't see that changing anytime soon either.

Give it time, if Microsoft pushes ahead with it's closed platform vision, you will see Linux taking off as a gaming platform, independents and modders particularly will end up on it if Microsoft continues to be as stingy with it's access rights as it seems to be being now.

Doubly so if the Steam Box is a Linux device.

 

[Woodsey]

As in the first notable push.

The last time i installed ut 2004 on linux it asked me if i wanted to install the 64 bit version. If epic and id (most of there games have linux installers) are not notable then i don't know what is.

Compared to Valve they're not. Especially these days.

 

[UltraPic]

As in the first notable push.

The last time i installed ut 2004 on linux it asked me if i wanted to install the 64 bit version. If epic and id (most of there games have linux installers) are not notable then i don't know what is.

Compared to Valve they're not. Especially these days.

I think you'll find they are, especially in the linux community.

 

[bananafishtoday]

Do you use free software drivers or manufacturer-provided ones for your graphics card?

(I dual boot, and my Debian is so much faster than my Windows it's like a different computer. But I've never gotten 3D games to work right on Linux, though I never really had a reason to try and fix it. Curious whether free drivers just aren't sophisticated enough or if my problem might be something else.)

 

[DoPo]

EDIT - Is there also somewhere on game pages of steam to tell you if a game is Linux compatible?

Here [http://store.steampowered.com/browse/linux/] but there are not a lot. Only 38 games (although it states 41).

 

[Woodsey]

As in the first notable push.

The last time i installed ut 2004 on linux it asked me if i wanted to install the 64 bit version. If epic and id (most of there games have linux installers) are not notable then i don't know what is.

Compared to Valve they're not. Especially these days.

I think you'll find they are, especially in the linux community.

Being noteworthy to the Linux community is irrelevant: if people are going to start shifting towards the OS, then the ones to do it need to be noteworthy to everyone outside of the Linux community. And considering neither id nor Epic have released anything of particular noteworthiness or importance on the PC since around 2004, they're not the ones to do it.

Hell, Epic spend half their time moaning about the PC.

Valve, on the other hand, lay claim to around 70% of the digital distribution market and however many billions of users there are on Steam. They have the weight and the want to make the shift.

 

[DoPo]

I can't make up my mind now. Get an Ouya or try make my own little PC with Linux to run Steam Big Picture.

Dunno if it helps you decide one way or another, but there is a package for Linux that starts the OS and launches Steam in big picture mode automatically [http://www.webupd8.org/2012/12/better-steam-for-linux-performance-with.html] (credit for the link goes to Lucem712).

 

[UltraPic]

Being noteworthy to the Linux community is irrelevant: if people are going to start shifting towards the OS, then the ones to do it need to be noteworthy to everyone outside of the Linux community. And considering neither id nor Epic have released anything of particular noteworthiness or importance on the PC since around 2004, they're not the ones to do it.

Hell, Epic spend half their time moaning about the PC.

Valve, on the other hand, lay claim to around 70% of the digital distribution market and however many billions of users there are on Steam. They have the weight and the want to make the shift.

So why bother if the target audience is irrelevant. I just made the point that valve where hardly the first there with big commercial releases that ran natively, and nothing about a linux revolution.