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Steam has plenty of games for linux... but few of them are the kind of AAA titles that benefit from chunky GPUs. I use steam both on windows and linux, so see t

by vacri 9y ago

Steam has plenty of games for linux... but few of them are the kind of AAA titles that benefit from chunky GPUs. I use steam both on windows and linux, so see the store listing for each; linux 'is there' for gaming, but just doesn't have the offerings to drive desktop GPU demand.

Freak_NL 9y ago
Most of the games I play on Linux very much benefit from a beefy GPU. I'm currently playing Hitman (2016), which may not be the most graphically intense game ever, but it certainly looks great with the right hardware. I could run it on my laptop with on-board Intel GPU, but it would look like crap and lag. We do get our share of AAA titles, just not as many as on Windows. As it is, there are more appealing titles than I can ever play without cutting into work, chores, or (non-gaming) leisure time. Most indie games benefit as well though; even though these do tend to work on less well-endowed GPU's, they simply look better with a heftier graphics card. I've got a desktop computer with beefy GPU exactly because I enjoy gaming; and it runs Linux, exclusively.
- SmellyGeekBoy 9y ago
  I'm in the same boat. The last AAA titles I played on Linux were Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and Alien Isolation - high end, graphics intensive games. I've been meaning to get around to Hitman - I downloaded the demo a few weeks back and it seems to run fine but not had time to get started with it properly. I also enjoyed Thimbleweed Park and I see the (excellent, btw) Wonderboy remake was released for Linux this week. Us Linux gamers are incredibly well catered for these days! (Ubuntu // i5 2500K // GTX 970 with Intel proprietary drivers, FWIW)
  - gpderetta 9y ago
    "Over 1/3 of Thimbleweed Park sales are are on Mac and Linux. You're being silly if your ignoring that." -- Ron Gilbert
nextlevelwizard 9y ago
Yes, for sure there are plenty of games for you to play, if you are mostly into indie type games. It might even be good for mostly story driven single player games. I'm probably out lier since I exclusively play multi player games, because for me video games are just replacement for out board game nights which we can no longer maintain constantly since my friends and I live now across the country. Only "native" Linux games I've played are Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, and Insurgency. Beyond thous only game I've gotten to run smoothly enough that I could even consider playing them is Minecraft (which obviously runs even on a potato). But even with these I had some problems. CS:GO's FPS didn't quite keep above 120 all of the time and Dota 2 had few graphical glitches.
gotbeans 9y ago
I tend to think this works otherwise: I don't choose a platform because it has "many games", I want to play games X, Y and Z and I want no issue, what OS should I play them with. The answer in 99% of X, Y and Z combinations is Windows tragically
- graphitezepp 9y ago
  Yup Linux definitely would have "enough" games for even a heavy gamer like myself, but it wouldn't have the freedom of ANY game that I enjoy using Windows, tragically.

by vacri 9y ago

Freak_NL 9y ago

Most of the games I play on Linux very much benefit from a beefy GPU. I'm currently playing Hitman (2016), which may not be the most graphically intense game ever, but it certainly looks great with the right hardware. I could run it on my laptop with on-board Intel GPU, but it would look like crap and lag. We do get our share of AAA titles, just not as many as on Windows. As it is, there are more appealing titles than I can ever play without cutting into work, chores, or (non-gaming) leisure time. Most indie games benefit as well though; even though these do tend to work on less well-endowed GPU's, they simply look better with a heftier graphics card. I've got a desktop computer with beefy GPU exactly because I enjoy gaming; and it runs Linux, exclusively.

SmellyGeekBoy 9y ago
I'm in the same boat. The last AAA titles I played on Linux were Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and Alien Isolation - high end, graphics intensive games. I've been meaning to get around to Hitman - I downloaded the demo a few weeks back and it seems to run fine but not had time to get started with it properly. I also enjoyed Thimbleweed Park and I see the (excellent, btw) Wonderboy remake was released for Linux this week. Us Linux gamers are incredibly well catered for these days! (Ubuntu // i5 2500K // GTX 970 with Intel proprietary drivers, FWIW)
- gpderetta 9y ago
  "Over 1/3 of Thimbleweed Park sales are are on Mac and Linux. You're being silly if your ignoring that." -- Ron Gilbert

nextlevelwizard 9y ago

Yes, for sure there are plenty of games for you to play, if you are mostly into indie type games. It might even be good for mostly story driven single player games. I'm probably out lier since I exclusively play multi player games, because for me video games are just replacement for out board game nights which we can no longer maintain constantly since my friends and I live now across the country. Only "native" Linux games I've played are Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, and Insurgency. Beyond thous only game I've gotten to run smoothly enough that I could even consider playing them is Minecraft (which obviously runs even on a potato). But even with these I had some problems. CS:GO's FPS didn't quite keep above 120 all of the time and Dota 2 had few graphical glitches.

gotbeans 9y ago

I tend to think this works otherwise: I don't choose a platform because it has "many games", I want to play games X, Y and Z and I want no issue, what OS should I play them with. The answer in 99% of X, Y and Z combinations is Windows tragically

graphitezepp 9y ago
Yup Linux definitely would have "enough" games for even a heavy gamer like myself, but it wouldn't have the freedom of ANY game that I enjoy using Windows, tragically.