DirectX 12

Martini1991 · 13 Jul 2014 at 11:09

pgi947 said:
How the **** was windows 8 slow to be adopted by end users? They sold 40,000,000 licenses in the first month and according to press releases had sold over 100m by may 2013...8 months after release. If that's a low adoption rate I'd love to see a high one.

Marketshare was less than Windows 7 at the same period in its life cycle.

Slow's probably the wrong word to use though.

humbug · 13 Jul 2014 at 11:09

Martini1991 said:
Need an origin client.

Yeah, and?

LtMatt said:
I agree wholeheartedly. I think this is something that could happen. It makes sense for AMD/Mantle to move to Linux.

I get the feeling it will.

LtMatt · 13 Jul 2014 at 11:09

pgi947 said:
How the **** was windows 8 slow to be adopted by end users? They sold 40,000,000 licenses in the first month and according to press releases had sold over 100m by may 2013...8 months after release. If that's a low adoption rate I'd love to see a high one.

Don't you remember?

http://www.techradar.com/news/softw...8-adoption-rate-can-t-match-windows-7-1148382

Martini1991 · 13 Jul 2014 at 11:09

LtMatt said:
It makes sense for AMD/Mantle to move to Linux.

While it does, it won't fix the incompatibility of gaming on Linux over night (Even for current mantle titles)

Martini1991 · 13 Jul 2014 at 11:10

humbug said:
Yeah, and?

You won't be playing BF5 legit without it :confused:

But nice attitude, thumbs up.

Silent_Scone · 13 Jul 2014 at 11:12

LtMatt said:
Don't you remember?

http://www.techradar.com/news/softw...8-adoption-rate-can-t-match-windows-7-1148382

You must be new, didn't you ever use Windows Vista

Silent_Scone · 13 Jul 2014 at 11:16

Martini1991 said:
You won't be playing BF5 legit without it

But nice attitude, thumbs up.

Humbug doesn't buy games

humbug · 13 Jul 2014 at 11:18

Martini1991 said:
You won't be playing BF5 legit without it

But nice attitude, thumbs up.

I don't see your point, you seem to be saying Origin will never be on Linux without actually saying it, so what are you saying?

Martini1991 · 13 Jul 2014 at 11:21

humbug said:
I don't see your point, you seem to be saying Origin will never be on Linux without actually saying it, so what are you saying?

I'm not saying EA won't create a Linux Origin client (That why "I'm not actually saying it".........................), but as of now, there's not one there now, which means as it stands, you won't be playing BF5 on Linux, even with Mantle. And even just having Mantle won't mean it just works, it'll make it infinitely easier to port to Linux though.

Of course then we're missing the irony of Origin for SteamOS.

LtMatt · 13 Jul 2014 at 11:23

I think if it takes off it would make sense for them to support it from a financial point of view. A long way off at the moment though.

humbug · 13 Jul 2014 at 11:23

Martini1991 said:
I'm not saying EA won't create a Linux Origin, but as of now, there's not one there now.

Of course then we're missing the irony of Origin for SteamOS.

Ah, so a completely pointless thing to say.

Moving on then...

Martini1991 · 13 Jul 2014 at 11:24

humbug said:
Ah, so a completely pointless thing to say.

Moving on then...

Current situations are pointless? Okay Humbug.

Silent_Scone · 13 Jul 2014 at 11:24

I think that's enough about Mantle and Origin for 12 threads and 40 nights thank you

humbug · 13 Jul 2014 at 11:25

Martini1991 said:
Current situations are pointless? Okay Humbug.

Mantle on Linux / BF5 does not exist yet, cart before the horse, naturally. no wait?

Martini1991 · 13 Jul 2014 at 11:27

humbug said:
BF5 does not exist yet, cart before the horse, naturally. no wait?

My point was origin, not BF5.

Again, that's ignoring the SteamOS situation. Would EA (Who now don't release their newest games on Steam) port Origin to Linux (Which for gamers would mean SteamOS), which in effect supports their competitor?

Again, I'm not saying I EA won't do it, I couldn't begin to fathom that awful companies decisions.

humbug · 13 Jul 2014 at 11:31

Martini1991 said:
My point was origin, not BF5.

Again, that's ignoring the SteamOS situation. Would EA (Who now don't release their newest games on Steam) port Origin to Linux (Which for gamers would mean SteamOS), which in effect supports their competitor?

Again, I'm not saying I EA won't do it, I couldn't begin to fathom that awful companies decisions.

SteamOS? i'm talking about Linux.

Money talks, if there is money to be made in a new market they will be among the first there. that is the only certainty you have.

Martini1991 · 13 Jul 2014 at 11:34

humbug said:
SteamOS? i'm talking about Linux.

Money talks, if there is money to be made in a new market they will be among the first there. that is the only certainty you have.

Are you forgetting where they don't release games on Steam anymore? Surely they're lose money there.

LtMatt · 13 Jul 2014 at 11:36

Martini1991 said:
Are you forgetting where they don't release games on Steam anymore? Surely they're lose money there.

Isn't that because Origin and Steam are direct competitors and both run on the same OS? Origin on Linux (which could happen if it takes off) would be able to try and compete then on steam os.

humbug · 13 Jul 2014 at 11:38

Martini1991 said:
Are you forgetting where they don't release games on Steam anymore? Surely they're lose money there.

Your talking about Origin on SteamOS, i'm talking about Linux. how did you come to use an unrelated subject to counter my argument? what?

Linux and SteamOS, two different things, round peg -

Martini1991 · 13 Jul 2014 at 11:40

LtMatt said:
Isn't that because Origin and Steam are direct competitors and both run on the same OS? Origin on Linux (which could happen if it takes off) would be able to try and compete then on steam os.

The argument is "money talks" and evidentially EA's spite talks more.