Yakoob on 1/5/2012 at 20:48

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Seriously, dethtoll, everyone bitches about something and then goes and does it anyway. I bitch at the boba tea being too sweet but I still drank it cause hey im already here and I paid for it. And lost_soul isn't really worth getting yourself antsy-pantsy in half the threads he posts about the same thing over and over...





Which actually is not unreasonable; after all, half of GoG games work via DosBox or SCUMVV. I remember when I was working on Star Trek DAC and got another company to port it for the MAC; I think they used some sort of emulation solution as well rather than hacking our code away.

Perhaps this wont happen for newest triple-A titles, but 2-3 year older games should fare just fine in an emulated environment (and, as GoG again shows, there is definitely market for it, especially in the Linux community which is usually behind the curve on the gaming front).



See, the problem here is that the pro-open-source developers assume a fantasy world that simply doesn't exist. In their vision, driver goes open source:

* NVidia makes drivers open source
* bored linux devs make awesome drivers
* users download, hooray everybody wins!

In reality, it would go something like this:

* NVidia makes drivers open source
* bored linux devs make five different drivers
* the user is confused which one to choose
* enter age of constantly swapping drivers because each one is optimized differently and gives varying performance with various games (as if that already isnt an issue wtih official ones)
* eventually a maliscious dev injects spyware into the driver or a newbie commits a bug that fries half of the GPUs
* users, who dont know and dont care, blame NVidia and their "crappy cards" for the problems
* NVidia gets tons of flak and suffers major losses

woop-de-doo. I dont blame them for not going down this route.

However, it could work IF the drivers were closely monitored and there was a formal process of submitting/downloading them (NVidia DriverStore like iPhone AppStore).

But again, if I was NVidia, WHY would I want to go through all that if I can just have my internal team develop drivers that are ensured to be well-optimized AND safe and wont hurt my brand image?

lost_soul on 1/5/2012 at 21:03

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"In reality, it goes something like this........"

Now that, I agree with! You forgot to mention that all the distros would adopt the ones which "work fine" (and by work fine I mean produce a constant lag while playing games, They did it for the audio subsystem... lol


Also, I do have respect for game developers who work hard on projects. The other day I read this: (http://www.dallasobserver.com/1999-01-14/news/stormy-weather/)

The idea that a few people kept working on a product after most of the team quit and all that bad stuff was going on and in the end managed to release it deserves some respect.

lost_soul on 1/5/2012 at 23:18

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I'm actually hoping AMD gets their Linux drivers up to scratch before later this year because I want a netbook that can play TDM and trinity might be able to do it. I currently have an Atom based one and it has no chance in hell of playing that.

lost_soul on 2/5/2012 at 00:00

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Yep, I doubt the Atom could handle it very well. TDM used to bog down pretty bad when I played it on a P4 in areas with lots of AIs.

june gloom on 6/6/2012 at 19:57

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That kind of terse response is absolutely Gabe's style, though.