Steam Coming to Linux Soon
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Sorry to spoil your fun, but Direct3D will never leave Windows or the Xbox for other systems. Direct3D is Microsoft's proprietary specification/implementation. Now, Linux does have a Direct3D 10 STATE TRACKER, but there's no compiler to turn Direct3D commands into GPU instructions.mrF00bar said:
The issue is actually kinda weird and unless you're a programmer or tech it's hard to explain.Treblaine said:
The PC version has the issue but because people have 2 gigs or more of RAM the issue usually is crash to desktop when the limit is reached. On the 360 its watered down textures because the System RAM starts stealing Video RAM resources.
On the PS3 the 256MB of System memory is very fast, and makes most PC and 360 RAM look Hellishly slow. However, as the game starts to demand more and more RAM the PS3 starts utilizing Virtual Memory which is just the Hard Drive. Depending on your model of Hard Drive that came with your PS3 your experience will vary greatly. Cheaper slower hard drives will make the game unplayable fairly quickly. Non Stock Solid State Drives make the game playable for longer up until it hits the 2 Gig Virtual Memory Limit. Which results in the Crashing issue. The reason for the High Memory usage varies but If you read up on it when it was in the news at the time they had weird things like 7 dragons all active on the world map that the player wasn't anywhere near. Those dragons take up a lot of memory and the more fights they get in with the NPCs the more memory it uses. Then their were a number of other issues dealing with corpse clean up and other Memory eating things. Basically it came down to poor programming and weak memory management, but because of different hardware setups the problem expressed itself differently.
Hmm, I'm so used to games where if you drop an item, walk round a corner then back again then the item has disappeared. The game seems to have "forgotten" about how it changed from default.medv4380 said:
I got pretty good at exploiting this in GTA4. I found an SMG spawn point in an alley behind a building and if I had a different SMG type then running over will not pick up the weapon, just add 30+ round to my SMG ammo (which was very expensive to buy). I could stand on top of the smg for ages and it wouldn't give me any more ammo. But I found that if I ran around the large building by the time I got around again I could pick up another 30 rounds, it seems wherever in the memory that records if a weapon drop has had ammo taken from it was purged from memory after travelling a certain distance from it.
So, without cheats, I was able to max my valuable SMG ammo after running around the building for a few minutes. And same with other weapons.
I don't know why everyone's getting excited, yes steam will now support Linux along with probably all valve games but your more than likely just going to get what the mac people have (a few old titles converted to mac along with a load of cheap indie games).
Until someone like NVIDA or ATi come up with something better than DirectX all the triple A games will be for Windows because lets face it Microsoft will never give DirectX to the rivals.
Theres also the fact that until third party software becomes compatible with Linux it will never be taken seriously as an operating system for home users, it's fine for web browsing and yes it does have software out there that does the same as the big names like office but most people don't want to have to relearn how to use the equivalent software just cause it's free (I for one remember trying openoffice...never again).
Until someone like NVIDA or ATi come up with something better than DirectX all the triple A games will be for Windows because lets face it Microsoft will never give DirectX to the rivals.
Theres also the fact that until third party software becomes compatible with Linux it will never be taken seriously as an operating system for home users, it's fine for web browsing and yes it does have software out there that does the same as the big names like office but most people don't want to have to relearn how to use the equivalent software just cause it's free (I for one remember trying openoffice...never again).
Exactly what I said, but explained. Unless w8 does something truly great and is actually an improvement over w7, but as i made clear, doubtful.octafish said:
Could you quantify and qualify the speed of PS3's memory.SpAc3man said:
I mean, exactly how fast is it in comparison to RAM you can buy today for PC and the qualification is what does this mean, what can you do with this memory.
PS3 has such varying HDD speeds and I hear blu-ray actually has inferior data transfer-rate and scan time than DVD, so what difference does such high-speed memory mean for PS3?
Happily? I'm stuck with it and I hate it. The only reason i still have it is that it uses less RAM.Nimzar said:
Hopefully people aren't getting the impression that having a linux client for steam will allow them to play steam games that they couldn't before. The client's all you're getting here boys
*Though I expect anyone using this operating system for more than web browsing and word will know this anyway, it's the possible converters I'm worried about*
*Though I expect anyone using this operating system for more than web browsing and word will know this anyway, it's the possible converters I'm worried about*