Oddly this all started when I tried to test Bayonetta via Steam Play, here are the results of that and some others: Bayonetta: Played perfectly fine until I quit and tried to restart, the window became unresponsive. NieR Automata: Despite being whitelisted by Steam this title will only load itself …
Now that I’ve had more time to play with the new Steam Play feature I’ve decided to make a list for what I tested last night and this afternoon: DOOM 2016: Default OpenGL version failed to load; had to rename DOOM64VK.exe to DOOM64.exe in order for it to launch. Everything …
Good news everyone! Steam just rolled out an updated version of Steam Play for Linux users! Windows games with no Linux version currently available can now be installed and run directly from the Linux Steam client, complete with native Steamworks and OpenVR support. DirectX 11 and 12 implementations are …
I took the liberty of installing Tomb Raider and Rise Of The Tomb Raider under Mint to see how well they perform (if at all) on my hardware. The good news is that the programs actually run AND offer a nice framerate even with eyecandy turned up. This is my …
Found a cool open source driver and UI for the Steam Controller. They don’t have an rpm package for CentOS 7, but compiling it should be easy enough. This will be really nice for games that don’t cooperate with the Steam UI properly, IOW DOSBox which yes, I have installed …
I traipsed across this little tutorial for how to get Morrowind running natively under Linux. One of these days I’ll have to try that, one of these days I’ll have to play Morrowind…
Gaming On Linux did a benchmark comparison between Linux and Windows 10 showing off framerate differences. It’s kind of depressing. Great that people on Linux have access to these titles, but sad that the OpenGL optimization can be flat out sucky. I have noticed this with most games on Linux. …
Today is a good day to be a Linux user, well, everyday is… but it’s nice to see this game transition over to the open source side. Targeting a release date for Tomb Raider on Linux? You’ve hit the bull’s-eye: Lara will arrive on Linux… today! pic.twitter.com/GiHjR42uEt — Feral Interactive …
Minimum and Recommended specs were released for the Linux port of Tomb Raider, they are as follows: Minimum OS Ubuntu 14.04 or SteamOS 2.0 (64-bit) Processor Intel i3 or AMD FX-6300 RAM 4GB Graphics card 1GB NVIDIA GeForce 640 (driver version 364.12) or 2GB AMD 5770 (driver version MESA 11.2) …
Over at Gaming On Linux they have determined that there are over 2,000 games that run natively on Linux! Things have come so far since the Steam beta, really great to see. People (who use Windows exclusively) say that Linux isn’t great as a gaming platform, or it isn’t ready. …