Well those open ati driver are a joke for gaming, even when you compare a game which you can set to use no GLSL like nexuiz, the speed diff is really extreme. Up to 3x faster is fglrx there - with the same low settings. You can archive higher quality with same speed too.
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Originally posted by pirastWhat I also find amusing is that when I play a windows game using wine, I can switch to my desktop by using ALT and TAB, but when I play a native game in fullscreen mode, say XMoto, I neither can switch to the desktop nor switch workplaces.
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This article is total bunk. I definitely appreciate the effort, but when the headline reads "Steam Client For Linux Confirmed," I expect to read some quotes from somebody at Valve actually confirming a Steam Client for Linux. Nothing has been confirmed at all. The headline should read "Steam Client For Linux - Vague Theories With Zero Confirmation."
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Originally posted by oblivious_maximus View PostRun games on a second Xserver. Then you can VT-switch to your desktop if you like, and if your game locks up, you can hit CTRL+ALT+Backspace.
As far as the second X server, yeah, try explaining that to a "normal" Ubuntu GUI user. That can't be the solution for them, the solution can't involve the command line at all.Last edited by Yfrwlf; 30 November 2008, 02:40 PM.
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Originally posted by Extreme Coder View PostWell, technically it can't end like UT3 since they haven't announced anything yet.
UT3 is over regardless of what gets announced.
/ut3-rant
I hope steam comes to Linux, but until I can run the binaries it doesn't exist as far as I'm concerned. I'll be rooting for Wine in the mean time. I can at least see Wine's progress and know that its not being held back by some unseen political or corporate bullshit.
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Originally posted by Yfrwlf View PostBut that's backwards. That is definitely a Windows-like failure that Linux should not implement. You should design things to be safe by default, not rely on code being "done correctly" in order to make your OS functional. You can't bank on every app a user wants to run as functioning 100% correctly all the time and never crashing, that's just dumb. X is great because for the most part, when an app crashes it doesn't lock up all of X, and you can simply end the program's process.
So in this case, X really needs to implement some kind of bailout safety keys that will always let you out of a program that has itself full-screened. The user and X should always be in control, not at the mercy of whether or not some game wants to implement easy full-screen switcharoosie features or not.
The ability to Alt-Tab out of a game was one of the top user requested features for Cedega. They made a script that allowed for this (Even though one could just set up keys for different desktops already ).Last edited by KohlyKohl; 30 November 2008, 04:01 PM.
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I called a Linux steam client at the beginning of this year. I won't believe it until I see it though. If it happens, I'm buying left4dead that's for damn sure. I'm getting a Radeon HD4850 for christmas. The new year sounds promising to me
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