BioShock Infinite Linux Gaming Benchmarks

[Veske]

Yes, Valve should support every little distro with their weird systems out there. Be it Arch, Gentoo or Parabola OS. Hell I think they should even go out and support stuff like Temple OS. Then noone can say that, "hey! it's not running on my distro". Plus it would be a very good move financially. The 0.00001% of the user base will bring in some serious cash to justify the development time.

[emrehl]

I bought it and am very pleased with it

Thanks, I shall reconsider buying game. But I won't buy it full price as Steam doesn't support my distro, and in case it doesn't work for me - it means I lost money for nothing.

I also waited for a special promotion and bought it with a discount. I own an optimus notebook, not particularly powerful, but the game runs fine with medium settings. Finished it without any problems (except having to start steam with optirun/primusrun instead of just changing the launch options within steam). I do not care if it is a native port or if it uses a wrapper. Having played many games through wine I only care it works with linux. Based on this experience I will definitely purchase other eON based games.

[dad_ph]

Test Profile has to be fixed

The benchmark worked out for me after the following fixes:

1. Fix path to steam library(I use non-default one, so $DEBUG_REAL_HOME/.steam/steam/steamapps has no 'common' dir)
2. Change game language to English, otherwise the resulting csv file is not parsed correctly and the resulting FPS is not shown, just 'no result' is reported.

As for the port itself I'm disappointed - it really sucks, that's what I see in MachineInfo in benchmark result csv:

OS: Windows XP Service Pack 3

and

Version Info: 32Bit Exe - 1.0.1642943 3/14/2014 12:00:00 AM

No SLI support(nvidia) on linux - FPS is even lower that in single GPU mode So this has to be played on windows actually(the executable is windows/32 bit), at least in case of SLI config...

[dimko]

there you go

Might have been helpful to link the thread to here

http://steamcommunity.com/app/8870/discussions/0/618456760264579826/

Forum thread in steam where i report issue with game crashing on me.

[nanonyme]

Thanks!
As per your notice, I got it an played a bit.

It random crashes on me. I created forum thread and decided to see what devs will tell.777

Might have been helpful to link the thread to here

[dimko]

It's 75% off right now in the Steam Store. (Offer ends 23 March)

Thanks!
As per your notice, I got it an played a bit.

It random crashes on me. I created forum thread and decided to see what devs will tell.777

[eydee]

Thanks for the heads up I just went and bought it. Wrapper port or not a game with 94/100 metacritic rating at $7.50 with full controller and linux support is too tempting to not add to my steam library for when I build that steam box in November.

I did too and it runs very well. Even though I have unsupported hardware. There are some missing textures though, once the github tracker is up, I'll report them.

[kenjitamura]

It's 75% off right now in the Steam Store. (Offer ends 23 March)

Thanks for the heads up I just went and bought it. Wrapper port or not a game with 94/100 metacritic rating at $7.50 with full controller and linux support is too tempting to not add to my steam library for when I build that steam box in November.

[Dukenukemx]

It gave my mind a peace.
Also, knowing that windows 10 will be free for all, makes me worried...

I'm not worried. The only reason Microsoft is doing this is because Linux is a growing presence for them. Windows is geared for the goals of Microsoft and their products. Linux is geared by everyone who becomes involved. With Windows you can have your OS in any color you want, so long as it's Black. With Linux you can make up the colors, so long as you do it.

[smitty3268]

Also, knowing that windows 10 will be free for all, makes me worried...

It's not going to change things. You still have to buy a license when you buy a new computer, which is how 99.9% of people get windows. Only the upgrades on existing machines are now free, and hardly anyone spent money on that anyway, except the sorts of people who are going to remain on windows whether the upgrade is free or not.