[ut3] Linux Client

majic.one at gmail.com majic.one at gmail.com
Mon Jun 8 23:15:07 EDT 2009


You still lose a significant amount of performance when running things on WINE.  Not every game they put out in the future will be cell-shaded like TF2. :\

On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 15:22:56 +0400
Валерий <jazzvoid at gmail.com> wrote:

> That's why Valve is not interested in porting source on Linux. Their games
> work mostly good over wine and everyone who wanted to play Half-life 2 on
> Linux just bought it and installed via wine already. Yes, there are some
> major flaws (like not working community tab on steam), but I think it's much
> easier to fix that bug in wine than port whole steam client ;)
> And with such development speed, Postal III on Linux can become the first
> and the last Source-based linux game.
> 
> 2009/6/5 Zato-2 <zato.two at gmail.com>
> 
> > Hey! I saw a portal screenshot on linux too!
> > Wait.. It was wine. ;)
> >
> > 2009/6/6 <majic.one at gmail.com>
> >
> >> Well, another thing is that a previous friend of mine reportedly was on
> >> the dev team for the Steam port...  I don't want to name names, however much
> >> I do not care about his privacy.... :\
> >>
> >> I remember seeing a screenshot of Portal on Linux, he was showing me a bug
> >> with the gun model not rendering correctly. :>  Anyway, I just drop that
> >> little note...
> >>
> >> Regards.
> >>
> >> On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:48:31 +0200
> >> Max Zettlmeissl <max at zettlmeissl.de> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >
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> 
> -- 
> Валерий
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