BioShock Infinite on Steam

[kernelOfTruth]

Hi,


this game's port (it runs on "native" eON) is of very high quality !

No crashes after approx. 1.5 hours of initial gaming


it's very fluid - re-quote from my Phoronix' post:

[bammbamm808]

$12 on special with a couple of additional episodes. I've played BS2 on Windoze, and jumped at the chance to play this game in linux. Bought it and it's downloading now.
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[kernelOfTruth]

@bammbamm808:

I believe that you won't regret that investment



It's really impressive - how well that port works !


No sound stuttering issue or other glitches - at all, no crashes


and that's after going through 3 stages already



The graphics are simply gorgeous - oftentimes when looking around


I get the impression that visuals are even more beautiful than under Windows


weird



rant:

What baffles me is that e.g. Metro Last Light Redux


still suffers from that stupid sound underrun (?) bug where sound wouldn't work


and video playback is slowed down.


So that game (Metro: LL Redux) is STILL only playable with an additional/different soundcard - other than Intel HDA


I'll take a proper working eON port ANYTIME over a port which works great otherwise but has a crappy sound implementation

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[Naib]

Why did you copy out of the steam folder?

[kernelOfTruth]

@Naib:

It didn't work too well upon several attempts to get steam running,

but I could give it another try.

Right now it launched successfully


I'll take a look later how BioShock Infinite works with that approach

Thanks
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Hardcore Gentoo Linux user since 2004

[kon14]

Bioshock Infinite is indeed one of both the most impressive ports and the most visually stunning games for linux.
The fact it's an eon wrapper game should add a bit of salt to the people critisizing vp for developing a wrapper and letting lazy "native" opengl ports slip by the hatred.

The game is supposed to run butter smoothly on nvidia (performance is justifiably still worse than on windows) and is one of the first games to run nicely on catalyst as well.
It's a shame I had just removed the fglrx part of my mesa-fglrx hprofile switch and upgraded the system, I made a quick manjaro installation on a different hard drive so as not to rebuild fglrx.

I only noticed a visual bug once so far (or perhaps it might have been twice, but I'm not sure whether the other one was a bug or not) while on one of the ships. Elizabeth's skin would react a bit weirdly to the lightning effects.

There's also input lag when using a mouse (also noticeable in tw2, especially in the menu). I generally don't like controllers for shooters so I held on to my mouse. The game is not that difficult when it comes to shooting so even though there's a significant amount of input lag, the game is still playable.

I think the VP guys deserve some apologies for their work. There are new games that are worth porting natively and old ones that are generally not worth for many reasons (example: games that half linux users have already bought and used to dual-boot so as to play them. steamplay is another factor). tw2 shouldn't have been released at the time, not even as a beta. Knowing the toxicity of foss communities towards certain things vp should have known better than releasing an unoptimized wrapper game than doesn't work on half gpus. eon has come a long way since witcher2 though and they even backported some of the improvements to tw2 which is now perfectly playable on radeonsi. Bioshock Infinite is one of the best if not the best ports/games for linux so far.

Waiting for opengl 4.2 in mesa

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[kernelOfTruth]

[BobWya]

I would agree that the port is high quality... Runs fine on my laptop (Intel i7-4710HQ + Nvidia 970M) - when using Gentoo - stable for hours of play... But I don't know if it's just me but it does seem to stutter a lot I've dual Samsung 850 Pro's and 32Gb of RAM on this "beast" - so that shouldn't be a thing. I'll have to test it under Windows 8.1 to see if the issue is present there as well.

I suppose that the eON wrapper is better than the alternative - since Wine doesn't have enough of the DirectX11 code path implemented yet to support the game. But I'd much rather see ports that are quality - like Valve games / Borderlands.
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