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Portal Released For Steam On Linux

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Re: Portal Released For Steam On Linux

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Post by loser777 »

tomrod wrote: post #16
loser777 wrote: post #11

Yet another reason to lament the lack of decent mouse driver support in GNU/Linux. As long as I have to relearn how to move my mouse in order to play a game, I'm going to keep a Windows box handy for games.

I don't follow?

I play games at 1600cpi with a specific mouse with no acceleration. Even with the supposed fixes that disable acceleration in GNU/Linux, I don't get the same cursor response with my mouse that I would in Windows. In addition, my mouse's cpi can only be set to 1600 in software. This is especially problematic as I tend to play games where mouse accuracy is very important.

Re: Portal Released For Steam On Linux

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Post by 14113 »

chc wrote: post #6
gizbot wrote: post #5

It's the slow move from the Operating System to the GPU code; most games find Windows as much a hinderance as a help. I wonder if MS will try to do something useful to woo game developers more towards the Windows platform?

PC game developers could hardly be wooed any further in that direction. A game being released for Linux two years after Windows is hardly an imminent threat.

It my understanding that they were being somewhat turned off by windows 8, but I could be mistaken.

Re: Portal Released For Steam On Linux

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Post by thejosh »

rinon wrote: post #10

Now if we can only get semi-stable, long-term graphics driver support for Linux to be able to play these games. I think there may be light at the end of that tunnel, since hardware vendors seem to be providing more support for Linux now.

It's gotten so much better since Valve started to port over their games and they launched Steam for Linux which helped bring other Linux games to light.

This forced a good update to nVidia cards that helped boost all cards performance under Linux to be actually playable.

Once they port over DOTA2 (currently one of their most popular games that makes $$ after Team Fortress 2) this should also cause a large kickstart in driver performance as more users play their games on Linux.

Re: Portal Released For Steam On Linux

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Post by hdra »

rinon wrote: post #10

Now if we can only get semi-stable, long-term graphics driver support for Linux to be able to play these games. I think there may be light at the end of that tunnel, since hardware vendors seem to be providing more support for Linux now.

when that day comes, I am sure many would switch to Linux, especially among the developers. In the past few years using Windows, I have stopped thinking about device drivers at all, I just expected them to work. I am looking forward to the day where this comes to desktop Linux.

Re: Portal Released For Steam On Linux

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Post by Andrex »

chc wrote: post #6
gizbot wrote: post #5

It's the slow move from the Operating System to the GPU code; most games find Windows as much a hinderance as a help. I wonder if MS will try to do something useful to woo game developers more towards the Windows platform?

PC game developers could hardly be wooed any further in that direction. A game being released for Linux two years after Windows is hardly an imminent threat.

Portal was released in 2007, so... six years for that game. :(

Re: Portal Released For Steam On Linux

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Post by RunningDroid »

stevejb wrote: post #27
RunningDroid wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is available, they just haven't changed the store page to say it is yet.

I get "Portal 2 is not available on your current platform" which is Ubuntu.

Sorry, I had assumed you meant Portal 1. According to SteamDB Portal 2 is still only available for Windows and Mac.

Portal 2 page on SteamDB: http://steamdb.info/app/620/

Re: Portal Released For Steam On Linux

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Post by quiesce »

chc wrote: post #6
gizbot wrote: post #5

It's the slow move from the Operating System to the GPU code; most games find Windows as much a hinderance as a help. I wonder if MS will try to do something useful to woo game developers more towards the Windows platform?

PC game developers could hardly be wooed any further in that direction. A game being released for Linux two years after Windows is hardly an imminent threat.

It wasn't a big deal when Portal was added to OS X Steam years after the Windows release, it was a big deal when Portal 2 was available on day one.
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