The company known for porting Witcher 2 among other titles, is preparing Saints Row 2 & 3 and Overlord I & II for their Mac and Linux release, as seen on Virtual Programming's website.

Great news! Thanks!
Though, i hope game developers will learn that it is better to use OpenGL/Vulkan and develop for all platforms at once, than use some forms of code translators, which introduce performance overhead.

Let's hope that the Linux versions will be actually released here...

Not sure I follow this, do the games not run in wine? Isn't this just another type of emulation, or are they rebuilding the engines. If they are rebuilding why virtual. Doesn't make sense.

That's just their company's name, or am I missing something?

Yes, that's their name.

As for virtual engines, don't give them any ideas nightcraw1er.488 :-)

Ah, ok. So they are rebuilding the engine to work on linux/mac. Interesting. I wonder if they will fix the issues in SR?

They have their own wrapper called eOn, which I'm assuming is where the 'virtual' part comes from.
I don't know if 'wrapper' is entirely the correct term, but it's close enough.

Sweet :o)
Pun intended.

You're welcome! If all else fail, Valve will teach them.


Even with wrapper and uneven driver - device driver :) - support. Nice!

That's just graphics porn. It is nice to see that Linux is able to run with the big boys graphics wise, its always been something which was.a.concern, drivers coming late and such, bit am hardly going to complain if its 40 or more.fps.

From their website blurb it sounds like it is indeed a wrapper, more along the lines of TransGaming's Cider/Cedega.

While it's nice to see VP bring over more titles for Mac and Linux (I still have the physical release of their original Mac OS X port of EUII, published under MacPlay), IIRC their digital releases come with a pretty restrictive form of DRM. Either that or they use Steam or Apple's Mac App Store DRM.

The Witcher 2 port was done by VP, and it is available DRM free here at GOG.

You are missing the point: The point is that a game ported with a wrapper can have significantly poorer performance than a native game. It doesn't matter if you are able to run it because for someone out there it'll make the difference of being able to run it or not.

In this case, a game ported by the company we are talking about achieves significantly higher performance than windows on low settings and just under the performance of Windows on the same high settings, even though it uses just a wrapper.
The Flatout 2 Linux version here may also be theirs. However, if the publisher doesn't care enough to give us a Linux version here, we're out of luck.