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Svartalf, if what I read between the lines of your post is correct, man! Maybe it's time for that new rig of mine soonish than what I thought
On the other hand, I won't allow me to get too high on daydreamin' so if nothing comes to fruition the hit on the ground wouldn't be so hard. Still, as they say, hope is last to die.
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Originally posted by Thetargos View PostSvartalf, if what I read between the lines of your post is correct, man! Maybe it's time for that new rig of mine soonish than what I thought
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Originally posted by Svartalf View PostYou'd be reading some right things into it. There's a little to appeal to the FPS crowd and a little to appeal to the RPG crowd with what might be coming up. I wouldn't get my hopes up TOO much on things yet- licensing deals are such funny beasts. NWN ALMOST became an official Linux title you could buy off the shelf- but in the end it got Nixed by one of the BoD's for the parties involved (Couldn't tell you if it was Hasbro, or Atari...). There've been other deals nuked from orbit for varying resons- this is the main reason why I state that you can't ever know what's going to happen until it's Officially Announced by a studio or publisher, LGP included in that list...
First, ATI on Linux has made one of the biggest steps into the right direction (bump speed of their drivers, broaden their support for newer cards and opened their specs (wow!))
Second, there seems to be all sorts of good news regarding Linux "all of a sudden", in many areas... and the possibility of a "shift"... It all looks really good... Hopefully not too good.
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Originally posted by Thetargos View PostDarn! That's enough to get me drooling! My mind suddenly can't stop thinking about all the possibilities (and implications!), and the fact that there are clues scattered all over the place in the gaming corporate world to hint about some radical actions, but nothing concrete, nothing quite tangible, and hope that is as of yet and at some point will be an actual action... I hope I'll be able to sleep!
First, ATI on Linux has made one of the biggest steps into the right direction (bump speed of their drivers, broaden their support for newer cards and opened their specs (wow!))
Second, there seems to be all sorts of good news regarding Linux "all of a sudden", in many areas... and the possibility of a "shift"... It all looks really good... Hopefully not too good.
I think what's needed is a few games from well known developers(Blizzard, Valve,etc..) so that other publishers will get enough 'courage' to port games to Linux.
And also, the endless differences between distros which make targeting Linux as a single platform should be taken care of.
For example, we could have a game specific file format, with all distros supporting it, or for example use autopackage or something like that.
I sure hope the gaming world in Linux will get better
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The main problem with games, is glibc, actually, rather a "a file format", that problem has been "soved" with the use of either, Loki installer or another installer. Autopackage would be nice, though.
There seems to be a great misunderstanding about the whole idTech 5 and Linux support. Until id say something about it, I think there are chances for us getting a native client of idTech 5 games.
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Originally posted by Thetargos View PostThe main problem with games, is glibc, actually, rather a "a file format", that problem has been "soved" with the use of either, Loki installer or another installer. Autopackage would be nice, though.
There seems to be a great misunderstanding about the whole idTech 5 and Linux support. Until id say something about it, I think there are chances for us getting a native client of idTech 5 games.
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Yes, C++ library support seems to be the most problematic part of doing native applications in Linux, that's why the companies that do have ports either statically link to whatever C++ runtime they use (Epic, BioWare) or ship a version tailored for their application (id) installed into the application's lib PATH.
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I think, this step from valve should be credited to Ubuntu users . They have been great fanatics and don't shy out for asking support to linux. any group with money and not waiting to shout for support cannot be ignore .
BTW i am redhat user cause that was the stuff around in my days (10 years ago) and i have to work on it. still Ubuntu isnt bad for stuff like this. Go ubuntu fanatics!!!
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Originally posted by Thetargos View PostYes, C++ library support seems to be the most problematic part of doing native applications in Linux, that's why the companies that do have ports either statically link to whatever C++ runtime they use (Epic, BioWare) or ship a version tailored for their application (id) installed into the application's lib PATH.
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