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sp332 on June 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Valve Says "Yes" To Steam Linux This Year

Most Source engine games run perfectly well under Wine already. I think a Linux port should be pretty simple at this point. As for "Windows + mac port + linux port", Portal 2 was launched on PS3, so the code is pretty portable.

rjh29 on June 5, 2012 [–]

Running well on Wine has no correlation to running well natively. DirectX -> OpenGL, for one.

sp332 on June 5, 2012 | [–]

Source actually uses Direct3D rendering on Microsoft Windows PCs, Xbox and Xbox 360, and OpenGL rendering on Mac OS X and the PlayStation 3. It's very portable.

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