'Serious Sam 3: BFE' coming to Steam's Linux client - Polidicks

[IMG]http://cdn.ripten.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/sam5-e1298912016740-600x347.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]Serious Sam 3: BFE will join Valve's Left 4 Dead 2 as a game that will be available on Steam for Linux users when the service becomes available. Croteam and Devolver Digital announced today that their 2011 PC and Mac shooter Serious Sam 3: BFE will be coming to Linux with all the updates from the PC and Mac versions and will also have Steamworks integration and achievement support. The chief financial officer at Devolver Digital, Fork Parker, said in a statement: "We're in the process of integrating Steamworks and achievements and the whole shebang, but we can't get the little fucker of a penguin to stand still. [B]"The last time I had anything ‘Open Sourced' I was in Thailand, if you catch my drift." [/B] Steam's Linux client does not have an official launch date.[/QUOTE] The Linux game ports, they begin!

Good for Linux users, Serious Sam 3 is one of my favorite games ever. It's very fun.

Aslong as its fully native and does not have performance regressions.

Saw this last week, I can't remember where though.. I think it was one of the Steam for Linux threads. But yeah, it's nice to finally see some love for Linux. <3

[I]It begins. [/I] For those who missed it; I will just leave this here - you could say it's related. [quote=Gabe Newell] “[B]We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well.[/B] It’s a hedging strategy. I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we’ll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people. If that’s true, then it will be good to have alternatives to hedge against that eventuality.[/quote] [URL="http://allthingsd.com/20120725/valves-gabe-newell-on-the-future-of-games-wearable-computers-windows-8-and-more/"](there)[/URL] This could get interesting.

Good luck with that. The mac-version is mostly unplayable, with black screens, software-mode like graphics, freezes and gamma up the roof.

[QUOTE=Thaard;36941736]Good luck with that. The [B]mac-version[/B] is mostly unplayable, with black screens, software-mode like graphics, freezes and gamma up the roof.[/QUOTE] There is your issue.

[QUOTE=Matt-;36941760]There is your issue.[/QUOTE] So original! What makes you think the Linux version will be better? Croteam will probably make another lazy port which doesn't like ATI cards.

Awww yeah. [IMG_THUMB]http://i48.tinypic.com/2mgqknn.jpg[/IMG_THUMB]

[QUOTE=Thaard;36941791]So original! What makes you think the Linux version will be better? Croteam will probably make another lazy port which doesn't like ATI cards.[/QUOTE] It's a sad limitation but I simply go with Nvidia cards. AMD has history of bad -nix drivers.

[QUOTE=Thaard;36941791]So original! What makes you think the Linux version will be better? Croteam will probably make another lazy port which doesn't like ATI cards.[/QUOTE] If the version is doing bad on MAC, it's because of hardware or driver limitations; more then likely either the CPU can't handle the load or the GPU can't.

[QUOTE=darksoul69;36941945]If the version is doing bad on MAC, it's because of hardware or driver limitations; more then likely either the CPU can't handle the load or the GPU can't.[/QUOTE] IIRC, one of the Croteam guys said that most issues with the Mac version of SS3 are because Mac drivers for games are shit and they had no idea about that until they actually released it to the public. They've fixed it as best as they could, but the drivers and tech is still the biggest handicap.

The newer AMD drivers work fine under Linux.

[QUOTE=Ziron;36941994]IIRC, one of the Croteam guys said that most issues with the Mac version of SS3 are because Mac drivers for games are shit and they had no idea about that until they actually released it to the public. They've fixed it as best as they could, but the drivers and tech is still the biggest handicap.[/QUOTE] I thought that may be the case - they probably tested it with the latest (and most expensive) macs and forget about the rest. Nothing you can really do about it in the end. Even better driver support likely wouldn't fix the issue since the hardware isn't too powerful on the low-medium end macs and it's a closed system so you can't exactly upgrade them.