Platforms for Alpha and Beta? To the devs!

So I may have missed this I just don't see it anywhere.

What platforms will the Alpha and Beta's be on? Since I am a Linux user I should have probably checked this first before I upgraded to get the Beta but that's my fault.

Check the kickstarter page, its got all that info on it.

Info about alpha/beta platforms are not really on there. The engine already works on all intended platforms, so I'd imagine it'll be tested on all platforms.

I believe it was mentioned that the alpha/beta builds for different platforms was going to be roughly simultaneous but depends on any issues had.

Yeah, I imagine it'll start off with Windows as it is the biggest userbase and then Mac and Linux will pop up once any obvious and major issues are taking care of for windows.

Mike

We are simultaneously developing on 3 platforms.

I will admit that windows probably gets the most love just because it's what most people use the most.

I split my dev time between MacOS and windows. Linux is sadly the most difficult platform to get to work correctly mostly due to driver issues.

Luckily I chose wisely and went with Nvidia so I never see any driver issue ^_^

Can't wait to play on Linux

Uhm, sorry to ask, but Nvidia and Linux a good choice?
I just assume you made a big big joke here... lol

Actually, sadly, yes, a very good one. Proprietary, but effective.

No it's not a joke, AMD proprietary drivers are the joke they have poor OpenGL compliance and are just bad.

Nvidia proprietary drivers are great.

Ok, I am not an intensive Linux user, but what I have heard and read about Linux and Nvidias driver support... What did Mr. Torvald say a few months ago... "F**k Nvidia" ...lol

Anyway, if OpenGlide works great, good for you then.

If you contact Valve that Uber is busy with a Linux version of PA, they will give all the help they can to give their Steam Linux more games..

I honestly don't care what company Linus gives the finger, he's a bit of an arse in all fairness.

Nvidia have always worked great for me .

Anyway I have my answer thank you developers, looking forward to it

As a fulltime Linux user, I don't touch NVidia. AMD's hardware has more of a future, especially with their support of open drivers. It's been coming along slowly, but as of late they've been picking up the pace to accommodate the recent Steam transition to Linux.
And even when using proprietary drivers to run graphically intensive games, AMD videocards have never given me performance issues.
Intel is a good second choice because of how smooth their open drivers are, though their gaming performance is understandably lacking.

And Neutrino, I assume the driver issues you refer to are graphical only? Or are other, non-graphical drivers also posing problems?

In case of drivers open or proprietary doesn't really matter (for me at least), as long as they have stable ones with good performance. Getting performance out of system has always been a bit of manual work, adding an installation of a specific driver doesn't mount up to a too heavy burden.

In the case of graphics cards, you already have to consider too many variables when choosing a new one (features, performance, software/hardware compatibility,..). Adding software philosophy as decision category will probably tie you up in the decision process until the current hardware is out of date and you have to start over.

Can we not turn this into a who's driver is better pissing contest?

I have the answer I wanted, thread solved

And your AMD card will last you over a decade, while your Nvidia will burn out in a week. Actually had 2 Nvidias that burned out in a week. In a row. On the same machine. My ATI Radeon 7000 is still in my old PC, works beautifully even at 1680 by 1050.

Really? I have an 8800 I gave to a friend who uses it solidly and it's still going, no problems with my newest chip either which has been going for a few months solidly.

Where as i've had AMD chips die on me.

And I bet that if you looked hard enough, there would be AMD cards with some nasty reliability issues as well. Companies have their highs and lows with products sometimes, and you possibly got Nvidia on a low, when they were having manufacturing or design troubles. There's also the possibility that you had absolutely crap luck and had defective units (low possibility, but I've seen it several times in the past). Fact is, everyone's got a preference, and constantly beating around the bush about which is better will get absolutely nowhere.

Besides, why is this even continuing? As I recall, the topic was asking a question concerning supported platforms for the Alpha and Beta, and not on video hardware.

I don't know I already asked once for it to not be a contest and now its carrying on *sigh*