I'd like to see more companies doing this. I'm going to stick with my windows 7 till I see how windows 9 works out but if I don't like the direction 9 takes I might very well move to linux and hold a partition just for windows running games.
Microsoft may actually start paying attention. Steve Ballmer did say that Linux is communism and later he declared that Linux is a cancer as well. He also revealed that he would rather have people pirate Windows than use Linux.
Microsoft may actually start paying attention. Steve Ballmer did say that Linux is communism and later he declared that Linux is a cancer as well. He also revealed that he would rather have people pirate Windows than use Linux.
nice. hopefully that puts more pressure on epic to get the unreal engine running on it too (if they havent already...have they?) and any other companies that still dont have a linux build of their middleware. its a nice extra selling point when competing for contracts (use our engine and itll run on everything) but hopefully it turns from a nice extra to an expected standard soon. thatll be another step forward in getting over the hill.
Microsoft may actually start paying attention. Steve Ballmer did say that Linux is communism and later he declared that Linux is a cancer as well. He also revealed that he would rather have people pirate Windows than use Linux.
Ballmer is such a nutjob. Kinda gotta love him.
Under him the open source division at MS did some cool stuff though. I'm not really a fan of their license and I don't care much for that fact that it got OSI certified, but I guess it's better than nothing. Kinda.
ToGL sounds nice, but I guess we'll have to see how useful it turns out to be for non-source engine projects. And Cryengine getting native linux support is fantastic. Just need UE and frostbyte now I guess. And whatever ubi's stuff is running on.
Microsoft may actually start paying attention. Steve Ballmer did say that Linux is communism and later he declared that Linux is a cancer as well. He also revealed that he would rather have people pirate Windows than use Linux.
Ballmer is such a nutjob. Kinda gotta love him.
Under him the open source division at MS did some cool stuff though. I'm not really a fan of their license and I don't care much for that fact that it got OSI certified, but I guess it's better than nothing. Kinda.
ToGL sounds nice, but I guess we'll have to see how useful it turns out to be for non-source engine projects. And Cryengine getting native linux support is fantastic. Just need UE and frostbyte now I guess. And whatever ubi's stuff is running on.
UE4, and I think 3, both support Linux already I believe.
Has anybody else noticed that Mac OS was simply skipped? Or am I not seeing something?
Don't see why they would bother with Mac. At least, not before Linux. Both Mac and Linux have been second thoughts to Windows, for gaming, for a long time. And now with SteamOS, and all the support that Valve/Steam is putting into Linux, it's clearly stepping out ahead of Mac. So, if companies are going to start supporting something besides Windows, it makes perfect sense that they'd go Linux first, and save Mac for later, if at all.
Has anybody else noticed that Mac OS was simply skipped? Or am I not seeing something?
Don't see why they would bother with Mac. At least, not before Linux. Both Mac and Linux have been second thoughts to Windows, for gaming, for a long time. And now with SteamOS, and all the support that Valve/Steam is putting into Linux, it's clearly stepping out ahead of Mac. So, if companies are going to start supporting something besides Windows, it makes perfect sense that they'd go Linux first, and save Mac for later, if at all.
That, plus after doing some research, Mac OS is behind on OpenGL support while Linux is not. Even if Crytek wanted to bring CryEngine to Mac OS in all its glory, it couldn't.
Gamers care about Crytek in the sense that Star Citizen and Kingdom Come: Deliverance and other such successfully crowdfunded games use CryEngine and are pretty much confirmed for Linux. Gamers voted with their wallets for these games! :-D
@Hexagon_777: Mac os x open gl drivers are atrocious. Not a surprise, obviously, since every piece of software apple writes is poor. Still a shame though.
@Hexagon_777: Mac os x open gl drivers are atrocious. Not a surprise, obviously, since every piece of software apple writes is poor. Still a shame though.
I didn't know that. Apple being so gosh darn rich, I would have expected better from them. Apple's poor drivers affected the Linux version of Metro: Last Light as well:
Such a generalization has given Linux a bad reputation. See: Metro: Last Light. While the Windows version sported a Direct3D11 feature-set, the Linux version was a derivative of the OS X version. The Linux port was quite dumbed and wasn't even close to its full potential due to the feature gap between OpenGL drivers on Linux compared to OS X. The Tegra K1 demo shows nicely what modern OpenGL 4.4 is capable of, with compute shaders and loads of other features that Apple won't be adding to OS X's OpenGL drivers anytime soon. In any case I am hoping that the Android version is an offspring from a proper Linux version (which is not unlikely considering that they stuffed OpenGL 4.4 on top of Android).
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