While it doesn't seem Linux/SteamOS is officially supported for Dead Island Definitive Edition and Dead Island Riptide: Definitive Edition they are both playable.
I tested Dead Island Definitive Edition myself and it does seem to work, but I don't own Dead Island Riptide: Definitive Edition but I have seen reports elsewhere of it working for Linux gamers.
These new editions use the Dying Light engine, so they bring a vast amount of general improvements to all aspects of the game. As you can imagine though, the performance will probably go down quite a bit with all the enhancements.
In Dead Island Definitive Edition the mouse is the menu is incredibly slow, but in the actual game it seems to be fine. Adjusting mouse sensitivity doesn't seem to affect it at all in the menu.
Last we heard from Deep Silver was that they were not coming to Linux, so while technically true as it's not officially supported or mentioned anywhere, they are still downloadable and playable.
I do wonder what exactly is going on here. Buy at your own peril, but I do not recommend it as they could be removed at any time, but they could also be announced properly at a later date. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Recording this is pain. It turns off forcecompositionpipline, makes the screen tear and still gets huge fps hit when recording even with nvenc. same thing as with Dying Light. Without recording FPS is pretty much locked to 60 fps all the time on maxed settings, motion blur off and chromatic abberation disabled. Really Great Performing game.
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TheMagazine May 31, 2016
Oke i discovered that the issue I'm having (not launching) is because my HDD is formatted as XFS. Apparently Dying Light had the same problem. Weird as all my other steam games have no issues whatsoever.
[Edit]So if you are using XFS hold off on purchasing the game until they release a fix or when you want to change to a different filesystem.
Last edited by TheMagazine on 31 May 2016 at 6:38 pm UTC
[Edit]So if you are using XFS hold off on purchasing the game until they release a fix or when you want to change to a different filesystem.
Last edited by TheMagazine on 31 May 2016 at 6:38 pm UTC
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Judging by videos, game looks quite interesting, it also has some gorgeous graphics to show. Weird that they didn't put steamos icon to it.
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Large XFS file systems use 64-bit inodes, which don't fit in 32-bit data structures used by 32-bit software. It is a known XFS problem. If you run 32-bit applications on XFS (many games are 32-bit), you need to make sure you use 32-bit inode when you create the filesystem.
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Works like a charm, 2560x1440 - best quality - 40 - 55 fps on max (gf970 / 364.19 + i5 6500, Mint)
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slaapliedje Jun 1, 2016
Anyone know if you can load up save games from your original riptide install? Don't really feel like starting the game over, and I already beat the original Dead Island. Granted, I still need to win Dying Light.
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marcelomendes Jun 1, 2016
If I press any key while logos are loading the game screen freezes, and if I don't push any button I only got a black screen after techland logo. Very disapointing. And yes, I do have Dying Light (finished it already). =(
Edit: The problem was something with pulseaudio -> "AL lib: pulseaudio.c:838: Device is suspended". After "killing" the pulseaudio process with pulseaudio -k the sound worked properly and the game started.
Edit2: Game has some instability with steam overlay. Crashed! =/
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Edit: The problem was something with pulseaudio -> "AL lib: pulseaudio.c:838: Device is suspended". After "killing" the pulseaudio process with pulseaudio -k the sound worked properly and the game started.
Edit2: Game has some instability with steam overlay. Crashed! =/
Last edited by marcelomendes on 1 June 2016 at 4:29 am UTC
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The mouse lag in the menu in my experience (Dying Light does this for me also) is caused by vsync. Disabling vsync makes the menu issue disappear.
As far as not being supported. I think they may be waiting to work out potential bugs before declaring official support. They got hit somewhat hard on both Dead Island and Dying Light initially (performance issues). There is also the issue of multiplayer functionality. It would be nice if they dealt with that.
As far as not being supported. I think they may be waiting to work out potential bugs before declaring official support. They got hit somewhat hard on both Dead Island and Dying Light initially (performance issues). There is also the issue of multiplayer functionality. It would be nice if they dealt with that.
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Quoting: burnallJudging by videos, game looks quite interesting, it also has some gorgeous graphics to show. Weird that they didn't put steamos icon to it.
I'm using XFS (standard) on my filesystem and Dead Island DE launches just fine. Same for Riptide.
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