Valve Begins Its Steam Summer Sale

[GreatEmerald]

I like gog, but I like Humble store / bundle better. You get a lot of DRM free and they have been doing a tad more for linux and charity for a long time.

I don't know, last I checked they really didn't have that many DRM-free titles compared to GOG. Like the Might and Magic bundle, it was all keys for UPlay or Steam, with a single exception...

[ParticleBoard]

http://gabegaming.com/

[Krejzi]

Got myself the Valve Complete Pack for 18€ and Euro Truck Simulator 2 Deluxe Bundle for 20? with Going East! and Scandinavia DLC's, and to my surpise, the latter is available for Linux also. Installing it now to see how well it preforms on my Linux install as I'm unable to use the discrete card on Linux (thanks HP).

[haagch]

Euro Truck Simulator 2 Deluxe Bundle for 20€ with Going East! and Scandinavia DLC's, and to my surpise, the latter is available for Linux also. Installing it now to see how well it preforms on my Linux install as I'm unable to use the discrete card on Linux (thanks HP).

Significantly slower than on windows: https://steamcommunity.com/app/22730...13633858485299
Meaning, you'd probably get better fps with the windows version with nine.

[mike4]

Since Oculus paused Linux/OSX support, SteamVR should be much better. And you mean wine not nine i guess. With X-Plane I get ~20% better FPS on Linux/Nvidia so even that comment seems freaky to me.

[haagch]

I mean https://wiki.ixit.cz/d3d9

Just for example on my HD 7970M the native version of Counter Strike GO is hardly playable on lowest settings (often drops below 60 fps, often it's around 40fps), but the windows version with nine runs much better on high settings with AA, never drops below 60 fps (only for a moment, when people join).

It's not visible well in the videos I made here, because it seems the screen recording has a higher impact on the wine+nine version than on the native one: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Cou...ment-107507697

Oh and SteamVR?
SteamVR unity plugin is windows only: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/32647
SteamVR unreal plugin is windows only: https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealE...teamVR.uplugin
SteamVR Compositor is not available for linux: https://steamcommunity.com/app/25082...85406672704681

Maybe in the future, but right now it's just as bad.

[Krejzi]

Significantly slower than on windows: https://steamcommunity.com/app/22730...13633858485299
Meaning, you'd probably get better fps with the windows version with nine.

Preforms quite good here. Not like on Windows, as expected, mainly because I can only use Intel card, while on Windows I can utilize the Radeon card. Nonetheless, I'm satisfied.

[Kano]

Metro series is cool, but i never managed to get the good end - you need to kill only a few humans and save the rest, not my playing style ;-)

[nanonyme]

Shadow of Mordor

Since it's likely that Shadow of Mordor will also be featured in the sale - a word of caution to AMD GPU users.
This Readme, that popped up recently, hints that AMD might not be supported.

http://support.feralinteractive.com/.../linux/readme/

So, if you have a Radeon card and want to play SoM on Linux better wait for the first reviews.

I hope it's a false alarm, but we know how games tyically perform with Catalyst on Linux if they are "not officially supported".


Edit: Actually the game-specific FAQ tells us that intel & AMD GPUs are "not currently supported by Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor."

http://support.feralinteractive.com/...st/linux/faqs/

I assume you're talking about Linux support. On Win it works just fine on a Radeon HD5770 so if they don't promise support on Linux it's mostly about treading lightly wrt driver situation