[dundee] Valve Linux Beta Survey

[Tim Spencer]

steam has got a steam for linux celebration sale, quite some games and
saving.

SAVE ON ALL LINUX GAMES UNTIL FEB 21, 10AM PST


Just a fyi

tim

On 30 October 2012 10:02, Robert Ladyman <it at file-away.co.uk> wrote:

> 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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