steam has got a steam for linux celebration sale, quite some games and saving. <div><span style="color:rgb(135,59,107);font-family:'motiva sans bold',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:-webkit-auto;background-color:rgb(34,6,30)"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(135,59,107);font-family:'motiva sans bold',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:-webkit-auto;background-color:rgb(34,6,30)">SAVE ON ALL LINUX GAMES UNTIL FEB 21, 10AM PST</span><div>
<br><div><br></div><div>Just a fyi </div><div><br></div><div>tim<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 October 2012 10:02, Robert Ladyman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:it@file-away.co.uk" target="_blank">it@file-away.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">My sons got me into playing Left4Dead2 which is liable to be the first native<br>
port - nothing better than shooting a few zombies after having a day dealing<br>
with contracts or troublesome clients. No great thought nor strategy, reminds<br>
me of Doom and Quake. I've never managed to get anything running, other than<br>
Total Annihilation (which is ancient) under Wine, with any real success, so I<br>
will be interested to see what happens with a native Linux port - I note that<br>
their (Valve's) blog points out that Left4Dead2 ran faster under Linux than<br>
Windows and they took some of the improvements back to the Windows game (and<br>
drivers).<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:43:50 +0000<br>
><br>
> Robert Ladyman <<a href="mailto:it@file-away.co.uk">it@file-away.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
> > <a href="http://www.valvesoftware.com/linuxsurvey.php" target="_blank">http://www.valvesoftware.com/linuxsurvey.php</a><br>
><br>
> Already got in there early! I don't have much time for games now but<br>
> I'm keen to try this. Someone bought me Half-Life 2 and the expansions<br>
> years ago but I've never been able to get them running well enough to<br>
> seriously consider playing them. When I still ran the Catalyst drivers,<br>
> they were far too buggy. One particularly memorable defect was that<br>
> everything in Portal was rendered upside-down! I now use the open<br>
> Radeon drivers but the performance is still lacking. I gather Catalyst<br>
> is a bit more reliable now but there's no way I'm going back to that<br>
> crap. I'm not sure how well the native port will run on the open Radeon<br>
> drivers. Better than under Wine at least, one would hope. It reportedly<br>
> runs well under Intel's drivers thanks to some on-site collaboration<br>
> with Valve. Sadly the Radeon developers didn't do the same. I'm not<br>
> sure why.<br>
><br>
> James<br>
><br>
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