If you are one of the lucky few who got their hands on an Oculus Riftand/or you run your PC on Linux rather than Windows, there’s two lots of good news today.
First of all, Half-Life 2 is now available to play on Linux through Steam. That’s according to SteamDB, which compiles information from Steam’s large and growing database of game data. The update happened late last night, but is by no means final.
Last week the first Portal game also became playable, but gamers have been reporting varying degrees of success playing it. A lot depends on the hardware inside your PC (Intel GPUs cause problems), with screen tearing being one of the more common issues talked about.
If Linux isn’t your thing, but virtual reality headsets are, then you’ll be glad to hear Valve has decided to officially support the Oculus Rift forHalf-Life 2. It comes in the form of a new beta build of the game available through Steam and requires you set a -vr property. Everyone running the beta build should be able to get access to this option within a couple of weeks.
Just like the Linux build of the game, Oculus Rift support is going to be a bit buggy, but that’s why it’s being released so Valve can get feedback and fix the isasues. If you intend on trying this with your Rift, bugs already identified include a very dim HUD that’s hard to read and the UI showing up in the wrong place on screen.
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