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You guys can really play this game? This is all I got for months:

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More like the Fun Pimps relying on undefined OpenGL behaviour that Unity stopped allowing with their move to support better and later OpenGL.

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Yes it is the official app, would have said if it wasn't. Here's the original reddit post linking to it: https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/4bu7lm/discord_linux_very_experimental_canary_release/

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that's really sad. i'm gonna try that on my ancient AMD/AMD-hardware soon, expecting 15-30fps x'D

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Quoting: EikeEverbody interested in the topic needs to play Journey Down if he hasn't yet done so!

Everebody interested in adventure games needs to play Journey Down. :) Can't wait for Chapter 3.

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Quoting: scaineI believe it was a Unity bug

No, it was a custom terrain shader relying on undefined behavior.

Rolling back to Unity 4 fixed it though, briefly (they took the build down after a couple of days, sadly). So the undefined behaviour was probably a result of Unity 5, right? Which... well, that makes it a Unity bug, surely?

Ah, right, I think see what you mean. It's not a Unity "bug", but a Fun Pimps bug highlighted by the move to Unity 5?

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Still waiting till this game is finished or updated much more, waiting on the bandits and npcs to be in the game.

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Quoting: DePingusThis is great! There's not a lot of info out there that covers gamedev on/for linux.

Thanks! If you're looking for more that sort of stuff, you might also appreciate some of my other example projects and game dev related stuff:

* Hover Drive (an example OpenGL/SDL game)
* Robin's Rescue (an example point and click game made with SLUDGE, along with an accompanying article about the engine)
* Hidden Star (an in-development open source 2D space exploration/trading/combat game that I'm making with SDL2)
* My game development YouTube playlist (which includes dev streams for my in-development first person/text adventure hybrid Winter's Wake)

I also post a bunch of development related stuff on my Patreon page, although there's a lot to sift through. My 2015 recap post is probably a good summary.

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Performance drop in video coincides with the mist/cloud effects?

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Quoting: ShmerlIs anyone doing regular Witcher 3 tests with the new releases of Wine? I didn't buy the game and there isn't any demo, so I have no idea how far DX11 support has progressed.

Don't buy any DX11 game until there will be an overwhelming proof that it works, because right now DX11 support is early in development.

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Everbody interested in the topic needs to play Journey Down if he hasn't yet done so!

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/the-journey-down-chapter-one-released-on-steam.1616
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/the-journey-down-chapter-2-released-for-linux.4207

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Ultimate quality preset at 1920x1200 on a GTX Titan X with driver v364.19.

Benchmark Statistics:
* Min FPS: 49.2
* Max FPS: 85.1
* Average FPS: 68.0

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Quoting: dubigrasuEven dedicated benchmarks are rarely identical to the last details. Run the benchmark enough times and you'll notice a bunch of differences between runs (on the same system).

Yes you are right; and when you are talking two distinct technologies (like DX game converted to OpenGL) I suppose those discrepancies will only grow. Sure makes a strong case for Vulkan going forward...

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Quoting: XelancerOn the Linux version there is a flock of birds that fly past - YET those same birds don't seem to appear on the Windoze version?? Is there a decal limit or something on the Win10 version, could something like that explain the discrepancy in the results? I know some drivers even hard-limit to polygon counts and reduce polygons considered outside of visible range?

Even dedicated benchmarks are rarely identical to the last details. Run the benchmark enough times and you'll notice a bunch of differences between runs (on the same system).

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Quoting: GuestGuessing from the trailer it is yet another CS(GO) clone.

Since when you can run and use ironsights in CS? :)

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I say give Feral a break here - it could be something as small as the Steam overlay affecting the results :D

Linux has IMHO never been about high-end hardware so will be nice to see a comparison with lower-end GPU's -besides anything over 80fps most screens are limited by their refresh rate and wont even render those "frames" - worse they actually cause texture tearing and other irritations...

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Quoting: GuestGuessing from the trailer it is yet another CS(GO) clone.

Guessing from the trailer it's more likely to be a 1.6 clone >.<

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Fun fact: nVidia drops support for the non-recent GPUs much faster than AMD does. AMD supports cards from the same gcn version. The nVidia 780ti which should only be a bit slower then the 780ti performs very badly in modern games (up to - 50% while it is supposed to be 10-20% slower at max).


I wonder if the game runs better with recent AMDGPU Pro drivers if you compare Windows vs Linux.

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Is that the real official app? Google Chrome throws a warning about suspicious software when saving the deb package. Also, I don't see any news about this 0.0.5 version on Reddit (where the first version was announced) nor on the Discord web app.

I'm a bit surprised by the warning from Chrome, I never got one for deb packages before.

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QuoteIf this is fixed and performance is comparable to Windows, then I will be happy to give them my money for the full price.

Only you're not paying the full price, the full price on launch was far higher. I know it might seem like a petty point, I know that Windows users can buy it at the same price as we are paying now but the majority bought the game when it was launched at more than twice the current asking price. Or to put it another way, the Linux launch price is less than half the Windows launch price which makes it a bargin even given the performance issues, which as I've already said do not really impact the playability of the game - at no point does it turn into a slideshow or lag noticeably.

If it wasn't possible to monitor the FPS in the game, would people even be raising the framerate as an issue? I doubt it.

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It would also help if Feral published some details about their porting rigs & what hardware they themselves tested the game on.

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Quoting: BelarriusI can't launch this game now. "Launch => Not launch" Nvidia Driver 364.19

I have try "(.config/unity3d/The Fun Pimps)" but not effect. I have restart my Ubuntu "an old update" and it's works! :'( My umptime is 4hours now... Last 2 months muuuuh xD

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Quoting: omer666Well don't forget nVidia's part in this.

Lately I remember playing Total War Attila (not a Feral port by any mean) and getting awful performance with the drivers it was released for, then everybody was blaming Creative Assembly for not optimising their game engine. Quite recently I updated to 361 series and gave it a try, to my surprise the game was running quite smoothly.

To be fair, I think Feral always do their best, but don't forget, nVidia need to get their drivers updated on time for game releases. Also the game's been out on Windows for more than two years, and it is very often used for benchmarks in the Windows world. Drivers must have been continually optimised in two years time... Hence that big difference between the two OS.

As usual, we have to wait. Not so long ago, I've had been waiting for nVidia to correct a display glitch happening on GNOME for a year and a half.

I think this company really needs to get their things sorted out way more quickly...

I feel like I need to clarify one thing regarding my opinion - I know that Feral may not be the one to blame for performance. But Feral is the one who announces release, and Feral is the one who makes game available for us. And there was no information about known performance issues or they did not say that the game is released, but there is performance update that we should expect. Instead, we have a product, that seems to be final according to all the advertisements, but is not according to performance.
And I just expect those issues to be solved, and Feral needs to take part in fixing process. Even if nVidia is the one to blame.
If this is fixed and performance is comparable to Windows, then I will be happy to give them my money for the full price.

But sadly, currently I have an impression that we have a half product.

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With a GTX 970 and the 361.42 driver on Ultra I'm finding the FPS to be disappointing at times. Frequently sub 60 fps, down into the mid 30s for extended periods which really isn't what I'd expect for a three year old game with this GPU (nevermind the i7-4790K and 16GB Ram).

It's playable, and I've never really placed a great deal of emphasis on fps as long as it doesn't interfere with playing the game but ...

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The idea seems fresh and the graphics pretty enough... Too bad about the poor execution. Missing lipsync I can overlook (common in older adventures), but game-breaking bugs not so much. Hope they'll be fixed at some point.

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Quoting: scaineI believe it was a Unity bug

No, it was a custom terrain shader relying on undefined behavior.

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Which driver did you test on Liam? The Steam page says they tested with driver 364.12. My Steam machine currently has 355 something installed and the game looks OK, but of course runs quite slowly.

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The numbers are pretty disappointing, there's no way around it. The thing is there might quite many people 'fencesitting' so to speak - they would ditch Windows in favour of linux if the latter offered adequate gaming experience. Ports like this one, while certainly playable and enjoyable, will not convince a lot of folks to change the os, or even dual-boot.
Bashing the porters or ranting is not necessary either - it's important the issue will be seriously investigated: as I said before, people reported low/very low CPU utilization during gameplay, maybe it's something worth looking into.

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Well don't forget nVidia's part in this.

Lately I remember playing Total War Attila (not a Feral port by any mean) and getting awful performance with the drivers it was released for, then everybody was blaming Creative Assembly for not optimising their game engine. Quite recently I updated to 361 series and gave it a try, to my surprise the game was running quite smoothly.

To be fair, I think Feral always do their best, but don't forget, nVidia need to get their drivers updated on time for game releases. Also the game's been out on Windows for more than two years, and it is very often used for benchmarks in the Windows world. Drivers must have been continually optimised in two years time... Hence that big difference between the two OS.

As usual, we have to wait. Not so long ago, I've had been waiting for nVidia to correct a display glitch happening on GNOME for a year and a half.

I think this company really needs to get their things sorted out way more quickly...

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Oh so there is a linux version of this, I was just using "XNBLANK"'s Discord-Linux electron wrapper for a while waiting for a linux version, this is great news! And it works quite well.

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