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Good news for fans of strategy games, as Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation is currently being ported to Linux.

We've known for a while it was in their plans, especially with Stardock Entertainment's CEO himself putting up a pinned forum thread on Steam asking for Linux requests.

Now, user Swiftpaw posted on Steam asking about Linux support, to which Stardock CEO replied with:

Vulcan support works.

We are working to port the engine to Linux but there’s no ETA.

That's good news, hopefully we will see it within the next 6 months. It's also still amusing the amount of people that spell Vulkan wrong. Can't be helped though, with a name like that.

I'm especially excited, because large scale strategy games like this are my one true love in the gaming world. To have this on Linux, would be a bit of a dream come true for me.

About the game:

Play as the Post Human Coalition or their eternal foes the Substrate and battle for control of the galaxy. Experience maps of unprecedented size and detail with the unparalleled power of the world’s first native 64-bit RTS engine, Nitrous.

Enjoy the game online with friends in ranked or unranked multiplayer mode or play it by yourself against a powerful non-cheating AI in skirmish or campaign mode. No matter what mode you play, strategy is the key: deciding what technologies to research, where to send your armies, how to manage your economy, and what units to construct are crucial to victory.

Experience a massive-scale real time strategy game where you wage war across worlds with thousands of units. The conflict has escalated, and it’s time to choose a side.

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lvlark Oct 23, 2017
Quoting: BrisseIt ran okay for me back when I had Windows and an FX-8350 paired with 16GiB DDR3-1333 and a R9 290X.

Looks like you don't have a dedicated GPU though, so that's going to be an issue.

Hmm, I do have a dedicated GPU, don't know why it wasn't listed. Fixed that now though. However I still expect my system to struggle, as it does with other strategy games whenever there's alot going on.
Brisse Oct 23, 2017
Quoting: lvlarkHmm, I do have a dedicated GPU, don't know why it wasn't listed. Fixed that now though. However I still expect my system to struggle, as it does with other strategy games whenever there's alot going on.

A 7850 uh? Should be enough the get the game running and playable I guess, but don't expect to max out the graphics settings. To be honest though, the graphics aren't that great anyway in my opinion, so you might not be missing out on too much by lowering the settings to suit your system.
Doc Angelo Oct 23, 2017
Sadly, this game performs really awful, looks rather weird and outdated on lower settings. I love Supreme Commander 2, which is from 2010. In Ashes of the Singularity, I saw a factory explode in the first campaign mission. It had less particles, was visually smaller and looked worse than the explosions in Supreme Commander 2, and it brought down the frame rate to 20 fps. I know I have not the freshest hardware, but it's sad to see so many new games utilizing modern capabilities and still look and perform worse then games from the last generation. I pretty much don't think that the Linux port will run better.

I think I could live with this if the game has something new to add to the genre. But I haven't seen it in this game.

Game: Meh. Performance: Holy shit.


Last edited by Doc Angelo on 23 October 2017 at 10:14 pm UTC
lvlark Oct 24, 2017
Quoting: BrisseA 7850 uh? Should be enough the get the game running and playable I guess, but don't expect to max out the graphics settings. To be honest though, the graphics aren't that great anyway in my opinion, so you might not be missing out on too much by lowering the settings to suit your system.
May well give it a try then. And still try to save up for an all new system, although I also have my eyes set on a Raven Ridge laptop. (when/if one that suits my preferences comes around)
Whitewolfe80 Oct 24, 2017
Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTI'm not really a big fan of Total War - so I did not count them in. The paradox titles are more round based strategy, aren't they? Also yes, Warhammer ... the issues I got with it is there's no Linux <-> Windows cross-platform support. Therefor it's kind of dead for me unfortunately. :'(

Not being a fan of Total war does not mean they are not triple A RTS games it just means you don't like them. Sudden Strike 4 very good rts, Company of Heroes 2 now it has had all its patches is a good Triple A RTS and oh and course Total Annihilation which is a triple A rts.
STiAT Jan 22, 2018
22nd of December:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/507490/discussions/0/2549465882917276192/
QuoteWe definitely haven't given up on it at all. In fact, it's a requirement for us because we need to port the engine to other platforms and Linux is a good "clean room" platform.

However, it is a very very time consuming process, especially with so many of us on Star Control right now.


Last edited by STiAT on 22 January 2018 at 2:25 pm UTC
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