The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Is Coming To SteamOS, Linux

[phoronix]

Phoronix: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Is Coming To SteamOS, Linux

For anyone firing up Steam today for some weekend gaming, you may notice there's a large advertisement on Steam's main page with a notice that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is coming to SteamOS (Linux)...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTcxMzc

[Filiprino]

Another game to the catalog. Yeah!

[zimano]

I'll wait until I know it's native before I'll buy this time, wont make same mistake I made with Witcher 2. I've got Linux and Windows on here and not wanting to switch to Windows to play my games unless it's absolutely neccessary. You could argue that I should be happy Witcher 2 is available on Linux at all, the fact it's not native means I still have to switch to Windows to get a better experience

[blackout23]

I hope they turn eON OFF this time.

[commiethebeastie]

winecher 3?

[Midnitte]

They should have bothered to port it natively if they were planning to release both 2 and 3 on Linux...

[deppman]

Are you running nv graphics?

I'll wait until I know it's native before I'll buy this time, wont make same mistake I made with Witcher 2. I've got Linux and Windows on here and not wanting to switch to Windows to play my games unless it's absolutely neccessary. You could argue that I should be happy Witcher 2 is available on Linux at all, the fact it's not native means I still have to switch to Windows to get a better experience

I was thinking of picking this game up, and am running a gtx660. If you are running an nv board, can you share with me what makes you revert to windows?

[gutigen]

I'll wait until I know it's native before I'll buy this time, wont make same mistake I made with Witcher 2.

It's suppose to be DX11 game, so unless someone has DX11 compatible Wine somewhere in their basement, W3 has to be a native port (opengl renderer or something like Valve's toGL)

[iniudan]

It's suppose to be DX11 game, so unless someone has DX11 compatible Wine somewhere in their basement, W3 has to be a native port (opengl renderer or something like Valve's toGL)

Witcher 2 is DX9.

[blackout23]

Witcher 2 is DX9.

I think he is talking about Witcher 3.

I don't care if a game uses some kind of wrapper as long as the performance is the same as on Windows on the same settings +/- 5% and your not missing out on functionality like coop multiplayer.