Support us on Patreon
PayPal
This is awesome to see. XCOM 2 has beaten the all time peak player counter of some pretty high profiles games in only a few days. I took a look at a few noteworthy entries on SteamDB to compare them.
XCOM 2's all time peak is: 133,022
Let's compare that to Civilization V: 80,658
Or ARK Survival Evolved: 84,961
It even beats out Valve's own free to play title Team Fortress 2: 104,323
That's pretty impressive, but why I am talking about it? It's on Linux, let that sink in a moment. We have what could be one of the most popular games for the entire year if the player count doesn't drop too far, and it came on Day 1 thanks to Feral Interactive. Nice.
I've already put eight hours into it, and apart from the bugs and performance issues I am loving it. I will have a full review done in about a week once I've put enough time into it. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
0 Likes
Some you may have missed, popular articles from the last month:
The comments on this article are closed.
Yeah, I bet you whiffed that shot.
Hell, I missed three 97% shots in a row today. That's enough to make you want to punch things in the face with your fists.
Hell, I missed three 97% shots in a row today. That's enough to make you want to punch things in the face with your fists.
0 Likes
For a few people like me, the game is not working at all. 3D does not draw, main menu and maps are black with artifacts, see: http://steamcommunity.com/app/268500/discussions/0/412446292761093493/
Still in contact with Feral, but so far they have not been able to reproduce. However, 4 users are reporting the issue.
Still in contact with Feral, but so far they have not been able to reproduce. However, 4 users are reporting the issue.
0 Likes
edddeduck_feral Feb 9, 2016
Quoting: zebFor a few people like me, the game is not working at all. 3D does not draw, main menu and maps are black with artifacts, see: http://steamcommunity.com/app/268500/discussions/0/412446292761093493/
Still in contact with Feral, but so far they have not been able to reproduce. However, 4 users are reporting the issue.
It's definitely something custom/badly setup a that number of people have installed on their distro, the GL errors point to something with the hardware/software on the graphics or window manager side as they are failures you should never see on a correctly working system. The game is drawing badly because the distro is not initialising OpenGL correctly for XCOM 2.
Given the extreme rareness of the issue and that it cannot be reproduced on a clean installation of Linux means this might take a little longer to resolve as we can only guess remotely what is going wrong.
0 Likes
Quoting: edddeduckferalIt's definitely something custom/badly setup a that number of people have installed on their distro, the GL errors point to something with the hardware/software on the graphics or window manager side as they are failures you should never see on a correctly working system. The game is drawing badly because the distro is not initialising OpenGL correctly for XCOM 2.
But how do you explain heavy weight games such as Shadow of Mordor or Alien Isolation are working well on the same setup?
Last edited by zeb on 9 February 2016 at 9:23 am UTC
0 Likes
For those who have no issue, could you please run the game using:
and see if you get the same GL error messages than in http://steamcommunity.com/app/268500/discussions/0/412446292761093493/#c412446292772881060
Thanks in advance.
LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose .local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/XCOM\ 2/XCOM2.shand see if you get the same GL error messages than in http://steamcommunity.com/app/268500/discussions/0/412446292761093493/#c412446292772881060
Thanks in advance.
0 Likes
edddeduck_feral Feb 9, 2016
Quoting: zebQuoting: edddeduckferalIt's definitely something custom/badly setup a that number of people have installed on their distro, the GL errors point to something with the hardware/software on the graphics or window manager side as they are failures you should never see on a correctly working system. The game is drawing badly because the distro is not initialising OpenGL correctly for XCOM 2.
But how do you explain heavy weight games such as Shadow of Mordor or Alien Isolation are working well on the same setup?
It only takes one issue to cause software to fail. It is a notable data point that you might have other games working but that is one of many data points you need to take into consideration when investigating a problem. Given the issue is super rare and cannot be reproduced on the same hardware by other most other users or at Feral QA hints that something else (likely some custom setup) is causing the issue with GL not initialising.
We're investigating but rare issues that cannot be reproduced on clean distro installations are the hardest to track down as they are being triggered by unknown factors and you can't fix an issue without working out the triggering factor.
0 Likes
Quoting: edddeduckferalWe're investigating but rare issues that cannot be reproduced on clean distro installations are the hardest to track down as they are being triggered by unknown factors and you can't fix an issue without working out the triggering factor.
Yes, I understand the problem not being able to reproduce. I am puzzled because I am using my distro standard packages, not any custom kernel/drivers, and they are known to work for other users with the same graphics card model.
Where should I look then? Should I start to remove some packages? Alternatively, what I can try is to create a new partition and do a Linux installation from scratch, and see how it goes.
However, we are 6 people reporting the same issue on Steam forums so far. I know this is not a big number, but could be enough to try recoup common denominators.
0 Likes
Firstly, are the GL context error we see specific to those who have the menu and map rendering issue? Or is it unrelated (and thus would show to everyone)?
0 Likes
edddeduck_feral Feb 9, 2016
Quoting: zebQuoting: edddeduckferalWe're investigating but rare issues that cannot be reproduced on clean distro installations are the hardest to track down as they are being triggered by unknown factors and you can't fix an issue without working out the triggering factor.
Yes, I understand the problem not being able to reproduce. I am puzzled because I am using my distro standard packages, not any custom kernel/drivers, and they are known to work for other users with the same graphics card model.
Where should I look then? Should I start to remove some packages? Alternatively, what I can try is to create a new partition and do a Linux installation from scratch, and see how it goes.
However, we are 6 people reporting the same issue on Steam forums so far. I know this is not a big number, but could be enough to try recoup common denominators.
We've had 5 people including you mention this in the steam thread (4) or via support email (1) and there are few if any common denominators.
Out of those users we have 3 different distros, 3 different versions of drivers and 3 different series of Nvidia graphics card in use. However none of those cards, distros or drivers reproduce the issue and we also have a huge number of Linux players playing on exactly the same setups without issue. It's puzzling but if you have a spare partition and are willing installing a new distro it would be worth seeing what a fresh distro does as it should just work fine.
We'll keep tracking the data we get here an update you via support if we notice anything suspicious that could be the cause of this rare issue.
0 Likes
Quoting: Xpanderperformance is pretty good with the beta branch, which sadly isnt made to public yet.
Thanks for sharing, that's great to hear!
I'm still pondering about buying the Steam Controller bundle, and I still wonder...
... does anybody know how long the XCOM 2 & Steam Controller bundle will be sold?
0 Likes
See more from me