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I see so not only do you have to play exclusively AAA titles now you have to play at 4K in order for you to be called a "gamer" according to dogma1138 Talk abo

by syshum 10y ago

I see so not only do you have to play exclusively AAA titles now you have to play at 4K in order for you to be called a "gamer" according to dogma1138 Talk about moving the goal posts For the Record, Most windows systems struggle to play games at 4K unless you have 2 980TI's in SLI or the new 1080, my system could not play Shadow of Mordor @4K if I installed windows, linux has nothing to do with it Further I am not selling out the money for a 4K display, I have 4 1080p monitors, and 1 1920x1600 hooked to my system, I play games on the 1920x1600 It runs just fine at that resolution on a couple generation old card.

dogma1138 10y ago
I'm running Titan x's in SLI :) But even at 1440p I can't run shadow of mordor on high settings on Linux. Seriously let's stop pretending I said out of the bat that some companies like 2k release games on Linux but it's really a drop in the ocean. Older games and some indies work just fine, some of the newer games require much stronger hardware on Linux. But we aren't any closer to being able to download day 1 titles and run them on Linux today than we were 5 years ago. Steam and SteamOS are nice but it's still not enough to dent the Windows domination of the gaming PC market. And considering that Valve and Ocullus seem to ignore Linux at this point is kinda sad since VR couldn't captured Linux gaming easily.
- syshum 10y ago
  Linux support for oculus started to Decline when John Carmack joined the company and the final nail in the coffin was the Sale to Facebook, anyone that thought linux would be supported after those 2 events are ignorant to the history of computing As for Valve and their Lack luster support of SteamOS, again you have to look at history, and why Valve started the SteamOS project, they do not have some Philosophical need to support an OpenSource Operating system, When Widnows 8 was announced it clearly looked like Ballmer was going to turn MS into Apple, and close the ecosystem. This was a direct threat to Valve's business model, so they responded as any company would with an attempt to diversify and at the same time control the platform for themselves. With Ballmer Leaving, Windows 8 almost universally being rejected by consumers and business, and the release of the More Open and Traditional Windows 10 the "need" for SteamOS (in Valves eyes)has lessened considerably, which is why Valve has not pushed it as strong as they did a couple years ago. They still recognize the Risk being primary on Windows as such they will not kill the project but the "New Microsoft" seems to be embracing being more open than at any point in MS history so.... Including having their own Linux "distro" for Software Defined Networking, and working directly with RedHat and Canonical

by syshum 10y ago

dogma1138 10y ago

I'm running Titan x's in SLI :) But even at 1440p I can't run shadow of mordor on high settings on Linux. Seriously let's stop pretending I said out of the bat that some companies like 2k release games on Linux but it's really a drop in the ocean. Older games and some indies work just fine, some of the newer games require much stronger hardware on Linux. But we aren't any closer to being able to download day 1 titles and run them on Linux today than we were 5 years ago. Steam and SteamOS are nice but it's still not enough to dent the Windows domination of the gaming PC market. And considering that Valve and Ocullus seem to ignore Linux at this point is kinda sad since VR couldn't captured Linux gaming easily.

syshum 10y ago
Linux support for oculus started to Decline when John Carmack joined the company and the final nail in the coffin was the Sale to Facebook, anyone that thought linux would be supported after those 2 events are ignorant to the history of computing As for Valve and their Lack luster support of SteamOS, again you have to look at history, and why Valve started the SteamOS project, they do not have some Philosophical need to support an OpenSource Operating system, When Widnows 8 was announced it clearly looked like Ballmer was going to turn MS into Apple, and close the ecosystem. This was a direct threat to Valve's business model, so they responded as any company would with an attempt to diversify and at the same time control the platform for themselves. With Ballmer Leaving, Windows 8 almost universally being rejected by consumers and business, and the release of the More Open and Traditional Windows 10 the "need" for SteamOS (in Valves eyes)has lessened considerably, which is why Valve has not pushed it as strong as they did a couple years ago. They still recognize the Risk being primary on Windows as such they will not kill the project but the "New Microsoft" seems to be embracing being more open than at any point in MS history so.... Including having their own Linux "distro" for Software Defined Networking, and working directly with RedHat and Canonical