Quoting: omer666On my rig, the game doesn't steal focus on startup, and it still doesn't connect to Relic servers no matter what. I think the second issue is Relic/Sega-related, but the first one is new.

The first issue is likely caused by a Window manager we don't support that is doing something we don't expect. The second issues most likely caused by your usage of a unsupported distro that deals with security certs in a different way.

I'd contact Feral support via email with some details of both issues and we can have a look however given the issues appear to be caused by unsupported distro usage we can't promise anything. That said we have worked around bugs in unsupported distro issues before so it's likely we will fix them as long as we get a a 100% test case.

In fact the windowing bug mentioned in the latest update was only reported on unsupported distros and we fixed it :)

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Quoting: ZeloxAaww and I thout I was special for once in my life :(.
Now everyone is in the beta :(.

I seem to get a little worse performence

Please do contact support with information like this. Although we do read forums sending us feedback directly allows us to offer support and log information so we can investigate.

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Quoting: KimmoKMI'm not impressed with the performance of some of the Feral ports I've played (like Empire and Medieval 2 Total War)

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Attila (not at the same FPS, but the difference was 2/3rds or something along those lines and better than OpenGL rendered on Windows, not 1/4ths or less of Windows performance).

I suspect your machine or distro has some severe issues, we'd never even think about shipping a game with 25% of Windows performance on supported hardware! If your machine is performing so poorly I'd recommend you contact Feral support so we can investigate.

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Quoting: CaldazarIt doesn't look like it, meaning Feral ports are simply no option for me, no matter whose fault it really is.

A large amount of Feral games support Linux AMD, the ones that don't have official support render using the latest Mesa git although official support will depend on these features entering a stable release so end users can easily install them.

For some reason people think all Feral games don't support AMD when nothing could be further from the truth. I posted more details about what works on AMD and what drivers are needed a few comments ago if you want more details.

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Quoting: segulehThankfully i’m not fan of Total War nor WH series, cause i don’t believe Feral make this port good. Even as NVIDIA card user, I can accept (barely) 20% - 30% performance drop but not 50% as it is with Tomb Raider. And I prefer 5 good ports than 20 poor. No offence Feral, but thanx, not this time ;)

If you have an issue with a massive drop in performance I recommend you contact Feral support. It's most likely something on your setup or game settings that we can investigate.

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Here is a list of our games and their status on AMD graphics cards.

Officially Supported
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XCOM 1 - Supported on launch with Catalyst. Known driver issue on some AMD cards (r600?) using Mesa.
Empire Total War - Supported on launch with Catalyst. (Works using Mesa 11.2)
Medieval Total War - Officially supported with Mesa
Tomb Raider - Officially supported with Mesa 11.2
Life Is Strange - Officially supported with Mesa 11.2

Runs (unsupported) on latest stable Mesa
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GRID Autosport - Works using 11.2 but not officially supported as Mesa was missing features/had issues on launch.
XCOM 2 - Works using 11.2 but not officially supported as Mesa was missing features/had issues on launch.
Company Of Heroes 2 - Works using 11.2 but not officially supported as Mesa was missing features/had issues on launch.

For these games we plan on announcing official support using Mesa once we can confirm all the issues have been resolved and we are happy with the quality of the games on AMD hardware.

Runs (unsupported) on latest git Mesa
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Shadow Of Mordor - Works using 12.1git but not officially supported as Mesa isn't stable yet.
Alien Isolation - Works using 12.1git but not officially supported as Mesa isn't stable yet.
F1 2015 - Works using 12.1git but not officially supported as Mesa isn't stable yet.

We provide builds and log issues with drivers for all our close source vendor partners, we also log public viewable bugs against the open source Mesa drivers this includes making sure they have steam keys etc. Every game we port to Mac/Linux we'll log a handful of graphics driver bugs across all the vendors.

For example here is an issue we found with CoH2 and Mesa that we logged and provided Steam keys to help get implemented. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94835 [External Link]

Here is a patch one of our developers submitted to Mesa to fix a bug we uncovered during development of our first ever Linux game (XCOM 1) - https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79115 [External Link]

Those are a couple of examples that are on the public Mesa drivers however similar bugs are logged and fixed across all the different closed source drivers in a similar manner. Supporting different cards and drivers is not always easy but we always aim to support as many drivers and cards as feasible as it makes sense as the more hardware we support the more users can play our games.

We understand if someone happens to have hardware that missed the supported list for some reason they'll be upset but I hope the above illustrates we do put a lot of effort into supporting as much as we can and that this is a constant ongoing progress.

Right now we're focusing on Mesa as the primary driver on AMD but we are also following the AMDGPUPRO drivers as they mature. One of the reasons for this is based on our usage information more people use Mesa on AMD than proprietary drivers. Here is the latest Gaming on Linux survey, you can view the details in the link at the top of this page.

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Your card and distro are both unsupported. However it does sound like a bug you might see if you have incorrect drivers installed which are missing features.

Make sure you have Mesa 11.2 installed and that your drivers have support for OpenGL 4.x If you are using an older distro you might be using drivers compiled with an older LLVM meaning you won't have 4.x GL support.

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Quoting: echazarencI just test my new GTX1060 with this game, horrible results in max setting (1080p) around 15fps !!!!

There is a Nvidia driver issue with the Pascal chipset (from the internet this effects a number of games in different ways). We are working on the issue both at Feral and with Nvidia to investigate a workaround or driver fix.

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Double Post !

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Quoting: Comandante oardoThere is no benefit at all in using Steam, because Steam is not only an Store, is also a DRM...
DRM is bad, specially on the Linux plattform.. DRM IS against the Linux philosophy.

Steam is not DRM and never has been, it provides a number of features but it's not a DRM system. If you wanted you could make a Steam game with no Steam features and sell it on Steam. In fact there are a number of games that have done this.

The world is not black or white but shades of gray, as I explained in the previous post support for Steam is more about user experience, DRM is actually not really a major Steam feature. Although you might not like or use features like friends, multiplayer, achievements, leaderboards, cloud save, family sharing, streaming we've found most people do.

Anyway I'm glad I've managed to illustrate a little about Steam and GOG and hopefully added some useful points for people to think about and cover when discussing DRM, Steam and GOG. I'm not putting forward any solutions just filling in some blanks people might not have considered.

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