The Wither 2 runs fine, Quake 4 doesn't. It's absurd. I remember a few months ago these games couldn't even start. Now they do, but textures are completely missing. What's so hard in making the driver compatible with these games while it runs modern games fine?
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Originally posted by eydee View PostThe Wither 2 runs fine, Quake 4 doesn't. It's absurd. I remember a few months ago these games couldn't even start. Now they do, but textures are completely missing. What's so hard in making the driver compatible with these games while it runs modern games fine?
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The problem must just be with Quake 4 because Doom 3 Linux native runs just fine. I don't have Quake 4 to test it. Anyone have Quake 4 and wants to test this?
Tested with an up-to-date Archlinux w/ latest Catalyst 14.12 driver on a Radeon HD 5850.
BTW, I found out that you can use Steam IHS to stream Windows 8.x Metro/Modern apps and games onto a Linux desktop. The Metro start screen FPS performance is good as well when the client options are set to "Fast" mode, which is great because Wine doesn't yet support Windows 8 Metro/Modern apps and unlikely will anytime soon.
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Originally posted by marek View PostIf a game cannot even start, it's usually not a driver problem.
I think old gcc libraries in the game directory are the culprit.
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Originally posted by eydee View PostCannot start here means it exits complaining about missing opengl extensions. It was the case a few months/years ago. I didn't literally mean it couldn't start, it just exited "peacefully" with the error message.
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