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Mad Max meets Vulkan in a new fully public beta for Linux, benchmarks and OpenGL vs Vulkan comparisons
By johndoe86x, 30 March 2017 at 4:26 pm UTC Likes: 3
Ah, Feral, you Vulkan kings, you!!

Man, it would be great to be able to play the latest Deus Ex: Mankind Divided DLC on Vulkan
Mad Max meets Vulkan in a new fully public beta for Linux, benchmarks and OpenGL vs Vulkan comparisons
By Whitewolfe80, 30 March 2017 at 4:23 pm UTC
Quoting: CorbenAm I right and this is a Linux exclusive? Like, there is no Vulkan version of Mad Max on Windows?

correct as it is feral providing the beta
Rise to Ruins (formerly Retro-Pixel Castles) has another massive content update
By hardpenguin, 30 March 2017 at 4:13 pm UTC
It's a pretty cool game, although I got bored after a few hours. The game is so sandboxy by nature, while I really like having objectives.
Mad Max meets Vulkan in a new fully public beta for Linux, benchmarks and OpenGL vs Vulkan comparisons
By edddeduck_feral, 30 March 2017 at 4:10 pm UTC Likes: 9
Quoting: sigzdoesn't perform very well at all on a 770gtx with latest drivers (378.13), worst experience than opengl, framerate is really unstable and low.

That is very strange sounds like you have a specific issue. Do make sure you leave feedback vulkanfeedback [at] feralinteractive.com so we can make fixes and/or report driver issues back to the driver teams.
Mad Max meets Vulkan in a new fully public beta for Linux, benchmarks and OpenGL vs Vulkan comparisons
By edddeduck_feral, 30 March 2017 at 4:06 pm UTC Likes: 7
Quoting: SkiskiI just tried the game last week and my CPU (i5-2400 3.1GHz) can't handle the game. It was between 10 and 30 FPS. Could vulkan help the CPU and use more the GPU? Because my GTX 960 is more than enough for this game.

The game was mainly CPU bound so it should help but your issue sounds like you had something wrong with the drivers causing that performance drop as you're easily within spec for the GL version and should have much much higher performance.

We've seen performance drops reported by a few unlucky people on GL using 375.39 or newer but not with 367.57 so perhaps that's your old problem. That said I'd certainly give the Vulkan version a try as it might avoid the driver bug as you'll be on Vulkan not OpenGL. Please do send feedback to the Feral feedback email.
Mad Max meets Vulkan in a new fully public beta for Linux, benchmarks and OpenGL vs Vulkan comparisons
By elbuglione, 30 March 2017 at 4:00 pm UTC Likes: 10
Quoting: edddeduck_feral
Quoting: elmapulwait, this is a linux only feature or windows is supported?
Linux only.
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Unreal Tournament updated, weapon animations overhauled and AI improvements
By Orkultus, 30 March 2017 at 3:51 pm UTC
Anyone know how to handle these segfaults? It has worked before on this system, but this time it wants to be stubborn.

./UE4-Linux-Shipping UnrealTournament -opengl4
Using binned.
4.15.0-3361702+++UT+Release-Next 511 0
Disabling core dumps.
Project file not found: /home/chuck/Documents/LinuxNoEditor/UnrealTournament/UnrealTournament.uprojectSignal 11 caught.
Malloc Size=131076 LargeMemoryPoolOffset=131092
CommonLinuxCrashHandler: Signal=11
Malloc Size=65535 LargeMemoryPoolOffset=196655
Malloc Size=43496 LargeMemoryPoolOffset=240168
Segmentation fault
Mad Max meets Vulkan in a new fully public beta for Linux, benchmarks and OpenGL vs Vulkan comparisons
By chimpy, 30 March 2017 at 3:50 pm UTC
Would love to hear more details from Feral about the porting process. I mean this is a DX11 title, was it easier going from DX11 to Vulkan than DX11 to OpenGL? And if so how much easier?
Mad Max meets Vulkan in a new fully public beta for Linux, benchmarks and OpenGL vs Vulkan comparisons
By Xpander, 30 March 2017 at 3:46 pm UTC Likes: 16
Ryzen 7 1700X, GTX 1070

1080p, Very High. Vulkan

Camp - Hollow Point: 135.778702
Stronghold - Tyrant's Lash: 55.097603
Cutscene - Hope, Glory, and Dog is Dead: 136.597046
Cutscene - Landmover: 153.110626


1080p, Very High. OpenGL

Camp - Hollow Point: 59.099377
Stronghold - Tyrant's Lash: 33.963261
Cutscene - Hope, Glory, and Dog is Dead: 77.512215
Cutscene - Landmover: 86.016212
HEVN, a first-person sci-fi adventure game should have Linux support
By scaine, 30 March 2017 at 3:41 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: Nanobang
QuoteWe are aiming to release the game for Linux after the PC and Mac versions.

Uh oh.

QuoteTo be more accurate we're very confident we can build the game for Linux, but we don't have a proper environment yet to see what type of work is required to get it running properly (plus testing).

They sound so gosh darn plucky here. "Linux? Oh pshaw! Speaking purely as a person crassly ignorant of Linux, I'm sure that'll be no problem for us." Yes, of course. The good ol' "We'll-cross-that-bridge-when-we come-to-it approach to project management." Oh the many video-games created thereby, softly landing in Linux like a sky full of butterflies alighting upon an alpine meadow full of edelweiss.

My breath remains un-bated.

Sure, but it's not like they promised something and area only now stumbling about failing to deliver. So nothing wrong with some plucky optimism in my opinion. Fingers crossed.
Mad Max meets Vulkan in a new fully public beta for Linux, benchmarks and OpenGL vs Vulkan comparisons
By Ehvis, 30 March 2017 at 3:40 pm UTC Likes: 7
Well, this is ..... surprising. I was expecting a Vulkan title with DX12 support, but I can't remember Mad Max having that. So is this DX11 -> Vulkan then?

@Feral: Looks like you choose the perfect hype game for this with these improvements. Of course, you now set the bar for expectations extremely high. :P I hope people will get that these kinds of improvements are not possible for all games since the newer release will be much heavier on the GPU.

As is customary for me, above and beyond support makes me want to spend some money. What to get. Hmmm.......
Mad Max meets Vulkan in a new fully public beta for Linux, benchmarks and OpenGL vs Vulkan comparisons
By Jan, 30 March 2017 at 3:39 pm UTC
Wow, that's very impressive! I've only played Mad Max a few hours so far.

It's already running quite good in 4K at very high settings under SteamOS, but's it's dropping under 60 fps at a few places -- especially if you try to run the game with vsync enabled.

Hardware: Skylake Core i7 3,4 GHz, GTX 1080, 32GB RAM, SteamOS 2.0

I'll try to install it on my elementary OS partition with proprietary Nvidia drivers. :-)
Mad Max meets Vulkan in a new fully public beta for Linux, benchmarks and OpenGL vs Vulkan comparisons
By sigz, 30 March 2017 at 3:39 pm UTC
doesn't perform very well at all on a 770gtx with latest drivers (378.13), worst experience than opengl, framerate is really unstable and low.
Mad Max meets Vulkan in a new fully public beta for Linux, benchmarks and OpenGL vs Vulkan comparisons
By Leopard, 30 March 2017 at 3:32 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: g000hWell, I still have Mad Max installed and go back to it for little sessions here and there. Really looking forward to giving the Vulkan Beta a try. As mentioned earlier in other comments, my CPU is holding back my OpenGL performance (AMD FX, not Intel) so Vulkan's multi-threaded boost should be very welcome.

For me, the next game that Feral could improve with Vulkan support is "Hitman". That game wasn't performing sufficiently well for me to play at 4K, but with a Vulkan boost I think it probably will be. Also, I've only played a few hours of Hitman so far (Lots left to do.)

I think at 4k resulotion your gain will be less than 1080p,because as the resolution goes up games become more gpu loaded and gpu bound.
Mad Max meets Vulkan in a new fully public beta for Linux, benchmarks and OpenGL vs Vulkan comparisons
By g000h, 30 March 2017 at 3:24 pm UTC Likes: 3
Well, I still have Mad Max installed and go back to it for little sessions here and there. Really looking forward to giving the Vulkan Beta a try. As mentioned earlier in other comments, my CPU is holding back my OpenGL performance (AMD FX, not Intel) so Vulkan's multi-threaded boost should be very welcome.

For me, the next game that Feral could improve with Vulkan support is "Hitman". That game wasn't performing sufficiently well for me to play at 4K, but with a Vulkan boost I think it probably will be. Also, I've only played a few hours of Hitman so far (Lots left to do.)
Strategy game 'Cossacks 3' will have a Linux beta on Friday and I have a key for one lucky person
By Liam Dawe, 30 March 2017 at 3:22 pm UTC
Quoting: Aryvandaar
Quoting: liamdaweWell it is obvious if they put out a Linux beta, they want to support Linux to get more sales isn't it? They go hand in hand.

Yes, of course, I just find the wording to be too misleading. Now that I read the article and announcement again I see that they wrote "open beta", which is even worse than to use that "public beta" and only having it available for people who own the game. I don't think I need to explain what "open beta" means. The entire industry use it, as a limited kind of free demo.
You can use certain terms to mean something different, it's all about context. I see nothing wrong here, it is a public beta, for owners of the game. Sorry dude, but you're being way too pedantic about a small thing. Last I will say on it as it's going nowhere :)
Mad Max meets Vulkan in a new fully public beta for Linux, benchmarks and OpenGL vs Vulkan comparisons
By fabertawe, 30 March 2017 at 3:19 pm UTC Likes: 2
Wow, those numbers are incredible. Just my luck that I recently uninstalled Mad Max after finishing it... oh, what's that? "Downloading" :)

Oops, forgot to say "Thank you Feral"!
Mad Max meets Vulkan in a new fully public beta for Linux, benchmarks and OpenGL vs Vulkan comparisons
By Kohrias, 30 March 2017 at 3:17 pm UTC
Thank you so very much, Feral. With the latest mesa git it runs like a charm on my RX 480. The fps increase is insane ... so smooth. I am really happy!
Mad Max meets Vulkan in a new fully public beta for Linux, benchmarks and OpenGL vs Vulkan comparisons
By manero666, 30 March 2017 at 3:14 pm UTC Likes: 1
fantastic news!
Now I just need to buy the game :)
Mad Max meets Vulkan in a new fully public beta for Linux, benchmarks and OpenGL vs Vulkan comparisons
By Eike, 30 March 2017 at 3:13 pm UTC
Quoting: aejsmithYep, you'll need Mesa git. Both us and the radv developers have done quite a few fixes over the last few weeks to get the game running well.

Did the game wait for Ubuntu to offer easy access to new Mesa versions?
Unreal Tournament updated, weapon animations overhauled and AI improvements
By ProfessorKaos64, 30 March 2017 at 3:13 pm UTC
Quoting: minidouI wonder if they're cool with us making an unofficial launcher
Just follow the example in the AUR, see PKGBUILD. You are advised not to share the download link,which is part of the issue in making a more universal approach available.
Mad Max meets Vulkan in a new fully public beta for Linux, benchmarks and OpenGL vs Vulkan comparisons
By aejsmith, 30 March 2017 at 3:12 pm UTC Likes: 10
Quoting: KohriasUnfortunately it freezes my system. I run a Radeon RX 480 with Mesa 17.0.2, llvm 4.0 and Linux 4.9.

Is radv not supported yet or do I need to compile the latest mesa git?

Update: Just read that I need the very latest mesa git. Will compile that soon and check again ;-)

Yep, you'll need Mesa git. Both us and the radv developers have done quite a few fixes over the last few weeks to get the game running well.
Mad Max meets Vulkan in a new fully public beta for Linux, benchmarks and OpenGL vs Vulkan comparisons
By edo, 30 March 2017 at 3:11 pm UTC Likes: 7
Now I know who will be called for the next GDC to talk about Vulkan
Mad Max meets Vulkan in a new fully public beta for Linux, benchmarks and OpenGL vs Vulkan comparisons
By fagnerln, 30 March 2017 at 3:08 pm UTC Likes: 6
Can anyone compare vulkan and dx11?

I love to see some "Windows x Linux" wars
HEVN, a first-person sci-fi adventure game should have Linux support
By Nanobang, 30 March 2017 at 3:07 pm UTC Likes: 1
QuoteWe are aiming to release the game for Linux after the PC and Mac versions.

Uh oh.

QuoteTo be more accurate we're very confident we can build the game for Linux, but we don't have a proper environment yet to see what type of work is required to get it running properly (plus testing).

They sound so gosh darn plucky here. "Linux? Oh pshaw! Speaking purely as a person crassly ignorant of Linux, I'm sure that'll be no problem for us." Yes, of course. The good ol' "We'll-cross-that-bridge-when-we come-to-it approach to project management." Oh the many video-games created thereby, softly landing in Linux like a sky full of butterflies alighting upon an alpine meadow full of edelweiss.

My breath remains un-bated.
Mad Max meets Vulkan in a new fully public beta for Linux, benchmarks and OpenGL vs Vulkan comparisons
By sr_ls_boy, 30 March 2017 at 3:06 pm UTC Likes: 7
Can you imagine how mad windows users are right now ?!
Mantis Burn Racing, an awesome looking top-down racer could come to Linux with enough support
By ProfessorKaos64, 30 March 2017 at 3:05 pm UTC
Yes. I needs Micromachines-like racer. I used to play the shit out of that.
Mad Max meets Vulkan in a new fully public beta for Linux, benchmarks and OpenGL vs Vulkan comparisons
By sr_ls_boy, 30 March 2017 at 3:05 pm UTC
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: elmapulwait, this is a linux only feature or windows is supported?
Quoting: CorbenAm I right and this is a Linux exclusive? Like, there is no Vulkan version of Mad Max on Windows?

This is only available on the Linux version of the game :)
DAYUMN!!!

"It's on like Donkey Kong!"

:D
Game engine 'Construct 3' is now in open beta, check out my example game
By Ardje, 30 March 2017 at 3:01 pm UTC
Quoting: ArdjeConstruct 3 is said to work on chromebooks. I just need to keep my chromebook updated. Well, I have, but it still refuses to work, because the chromebook release is 56 and not 57.
Heh, v57 has been build last night... It took an hour for the forced update...
Let's retry.
Mad Max meets Vulkan in a new fully public beta for Linux, benchmarks and OpenGL vs Vulkan comparisons
By opera, 30 March 2017 at 3:00 pm UTC
Very impressive!
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