[dundee] Valve Linux Beta Survey

[Robert Ladyman]

My sons got me into playing Left4Dead2 which is liable to be the first native 
port - nothing better than shooting a few zombies after having a day dealing 
with contracts or troublesome clients. No great thought nor strategy, reminds 
me of Doom and Quake. I've never managed to get anything running, other than 
Total Annihilation (which is ancient) under Wine, with any real success, so I 
will be interested to see what happens with a native Linux port - I note that 
their (Valve's) blog points out that Left4Dead2 ran faster under Linux than 
Windows and they took some of the improvements back to the Windows game (and 
drivers).


> On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:43:50 +0000
> 
> Robert Ladyman <it at file-away.co.uk> wrote:
> > http://www.valvesoftware.com/linuxsurvey.php
> 
> Already got in there early! I don't have much time for games now but
> I'm keen to try this. Someone bought me Half-Life 2 and the expansions
> years ago but I've never been able to get them running well enough to
> seriously consider playing them. When I still ran the Catalyst drivers,
> they were far too buggy. One particularly memorable defect was that
> everything in Portal was rendered upside-down! I now use the open
> Radeon drivers but the performance is still lacking. I gather Catalyst
> is a bit more reliable now but there's no way I'm going back to that
> crap. I'm not sure how well the native port will run on the open Radeon
> drivers. Better than under Wine at least, one would hope. It reportedly
> runs well under Intel's drivers thanks to some on-site collaboration
> with Valve. Sadly the Radeon developers didn't do the same. I'm not
> sure why.
> 
> James
> 

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