The Quality Of The Witcher 2 Linux Port Is Upsetting Many Gamers

[Guest]

Then don't play it on linux. It's not like the kidnapped Nigerian girls will be returned to their families if you play the game on linux.

Why this ponitless flame attempt?
There is a lot of people who use Linux as their exclusive system and when their PCs fit minimal or even outmatch recommended configuration and they still can't play without tearing/freezing/lagging/crashing, there is something wrong with the game, not with the user (player) nor platform (linux).

[Guest]

Look, I've been playing the linux port for a day or two, and I've found that with almost everything enabled or on high (aside from motion blur since I don't like it, SSAO and Ubersampling) that the performance is at least adequate, and more importantly consistent. Under wine there are always performance spikes where the framerate goes down the toilet in certain parts. There are also graphical bits that don't work properly under wine, like shadows.

All this works just fine with the linux version, and my performance is nothing to sneeze at, even if I do hope it gets optimised in the future. It's better than under wine, and wine takes a long time to get things like The Witcher 2 right, if ever.

Care to share your specs and fps? My performance is pretty consistently bad (15fps on highest settings, 20-25fps on lowest settings).

[dungeon]

Why this ponitless flame attempt?
There is a lot of people who use Linux as their exclusive system and when their PCs fit minimal or even outmatch recommended configuration and they still can't play without tearing/freezing/lagging/crashing, there is something wrong with the game, not with the user (player) nor platform (linux).

I guess there is so much flamework outhere

http://steamcommunity.com/app/20920/discussions/

It is simply bad "port" or at the best we can say... it is good as non-native port .

[prodigy_]

This isn't a port at all. Remember, if it's not Linux native code that use OpenGL it's not a port. Period.

They just embedded an emulator. Talk about being lazy. And of course the emulator isn't even Wine but some .... nobody has ever heard about. Good job, CD Projekt. /facepalm

[tomtomme]

I opened a "LETS FIX IT instead of complaining!" thread here to support the devs!:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/20920/...8180993106963/

VD answered my request to support / answer in the above thread via email:
"Rest assured we are paying attention and working with Valve, the video driver team and CDP to address as many issues a possible. CDP have asked us to allow them to respond officially, so we will not be responding to threads directly. But do please continue, we are totally committed to addressing the current issues. We will continue to monitor the thread!"

[leech]

I haven't checked myself if this is true or not but there is no doubt in my mind you're right. With catalyst 14.4, I doubt the game is that bad. I personally haven't been able to play the game at all, because Steam for whatever reason thinks I don't have GLX extensions or direct rendering, when glxinfo says I do (and because of this, I'm unable to play any of my steam games). I have low expectations for this game to play well on my hardware, but I'm honestly ok with waiting until it gets patched up a little.

I bought the game to help the cause, but I'm likely only going to play it on Windows.

Not sure if anyone has already replied to this, but make sure you have 32bit portion of the catalist drivers installed. I've ran into the same issue, and it's always because Steam (and probably 90% of all the games under it) are still 32bit, and your OS only needs 64bit libraries to say you have direct rendering.

So install those, and you should be golden (well as much as Catalyst will do for anyone).

[totex71]

Actually, I am very hopeful about this technology, I am a strategy games player, 90% of them have no graphics requirement, running great on anything, but do not have Linux versions. If using this proves less time consuming and cheaper than a full port, then I do hope for more games running under Linux... and in this genre, I really do not care about how they are running.

So while windows are getting fully native games you wanna stick with emulated crap?. it takes much for resources than needed when emulated. And emulation can never be perfect.

[gamerk2]

So while windows are getting fully native games you wanna stick with emulated crap?. it takes much for resources than needed when emulated. And emulation can never be perfect.

Sure it can; the BSNES emulator's "accuracy" mode perfectly emulates the SNES's various timings, and there's an emulator for PONG machines that perfectly accounts for transistor rise/fall times. Granted, they both run like crap as a result, but both are considered perfect emulators.

[ihatemichael]

This is already available in the TPB.

http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/10233112/The_Witcher_2_Assassins_Of_Kings_Enhanced_Edition_Linux-Razor191

Enjoy.

[yogi_berra]

Why this ponitless flame attempt?

If you thought that was flaming, you haven't read any linux related mailing list or news group.

There is a lot of people who use Linux as their exclusive system and when their PCs fit minimal or even outmatch recommended configuration and they still can't play without tearing/freezing/lagging/crashing, there is something wrong with the game, not with the user (player) nor platform (linux).

That user wasn't linux exclusive and if you are having those problems on linux when they don't exist on Windows or Mac then it stands to reason the problem exists in the platform.