Its a shame than they couldnt use UE4 for this game, so a linux version could come faster

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Quoting: FredOWell this is interesting; it looks like the MAC version was canned due to complications with the OS. Such things are making Linux look like a nicely maturing gaming OS indeed!

https://www.facebook.com/feralinteractive/photos/a.752000158157823.1073741829.118120444879134/1186449301379571/?type=3 [External Link]

Seems to be than mac game devs will have to start using metal before than expected. I have also heard than they arent fixing opengl bugs than has been appearing on newer releases of os x. Since metal is easier to use than vulkan I wouldnt be surprised if it starts being used soon, but they probably have to create an "indirect" (togl-like) alternative first

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unless you use haswell, in which case nothing changes, not until the release after this one

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Looks fun, even if I never finished the demo, no idea what to do at the end of the first map lol

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seems to be it wont support haswell until the next release after this one, thats a shame

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Promising, but probably not better than what nvidia has to offer

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geometry wars 3 and polycromatic probably

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They first leaked a development build of the linux version, and now they did the same with a news post announcing it for linux. Somehow that game really wants to be released very soon, but feral keeps grabbing his heel to stop the release lol

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It doesnt look exactly the same, the color is a bit more bright on the windows side. Its still sad to see than linux only get around 40 - 50% the windows performance, this definitely sucks, there is no other way to say that. Its probably the linux game where I have seen the biggest difference, maybe on windows it was just too optimized.

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Quoting: neowiz73it's to be expected though, since the game was originally developed for directx and not opengl.

I tried explaining that to someone, and it descended into hell [External Link].

I can't blame him, because he has a hardware than its over the recommended settings, and he still get very bad performance. Being rude is never justifiable (as he was), but he has a fair point.

Still, I think we should blame the drivers on this game, (and afaik feral is working with them to improve the performance and bugs) I guess than coming releases will make it run better. I will still play it on linux, since I should get good fps on my machine, but trolls will use cases like this to show why linux gaming must die, that sucks

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Quoting: linuxgamerAs people complain about Linux overall performance and frame drops, is the Mac port so much better, or do people don't complain when its a Mac thing?

I have read than mac people had a good time with the port (even if it doesnt support TressFX on os x), and they get decent performance on intel gpus. This only shows than more than a port issue, we should also take a look at the drivers, is known than feral already contacted the driver devs about the issues they have with their games, so I wouldnt be surprised if in a future update performance can improve.
Another thing is than mac people somehow doesnt like to make benchmarks, as long as it works properly they are happy.

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