Quoting: dawidd6I'm little dissapointed with performance of this game. When i've played it on windows right after release, i could run the game smooth on high/medium with pretty stable fps. On linux i'm running it on low with unstable fps. I hope there will be an update fixing the performance.

Are you playing on Nvidia? In most cases we are in a similar range to Windows level performance so if you think you have a very large delta please let us know so we have investigate.

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FYI Linux: AMD Phenom II / Athlon II Support (Missing SSE4 features)

If you own a AMD Phenom II doesn't support SSE4 and this will prevent you from playing the title at this time.

Please contact Feral support at [email protected] and mention your CPU to our support team. We can then keep you updated on an updated version of the game that doesn't use SSE4 features.

We have a solution from another platform that will allow us to look into disabling the usage of SSE4 on Linux. We're testing this and we'll update everyone next week via email if you have contacted support.

Thank You

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Quoting: FredOHas the game been tested with AMD Phenom II CPUs? I'm not too concerned about AMD GPU limitations, but the CPU could be an issue.

Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: doctorxI just got this back from support:
Thank you for your purchase of Shadow of Mordor. We are sorry to hear that you have experienced an issue.

Is your CPU an AMD Phenom II? If so, we are looking into an issue where this older CPU is unable to launch. We are working on a fix and hopefully will have good news for you soon. I will be in touch when I have more information.

It isnt a distro problem... but cpu issue. I have never had any issues tied to running an amd. I can still play most of my games in 4k even without much issue. Looks like they are aware of it and working on a fix though.

I wonder what they mean by "soon"? Hours? Days?

The AMD Phenom II is a pretty old CPU design now and it is missing some maths library features that modern games and compilers often use. With things like physics being able to use some SSE instructions can be very useful.

The Phenom II CPU does support SSE3 and older so we are looking into disabling the SSE4 optimisations to allow these older design CPUs to run the title. If you are own a Phenom II CPU and own (or are thinking of owning) the game please feel free to contact our support and we can keep you informed.

We don't want to give estimates before we investigated which is why we said "soon", if you make an estimate before you have fully investigated the problem you can find the internet usually turns it from an "estimate" to a guaranteed date within a few hours ;)

I can say the solution won't be before the weekend given it's 7pm on a Friday night in the UK right now but we plan to email people via support with a status update next week once we have some concrete news to report. We'll also likely distribute a beta update via the same method to those effected to verify the fix works once we have it before it's released on the main branch.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: edddeduckferal

Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: doctorxi wanted to play this...but crashes starting up.

Yeah, I'm not having much luck either. I figured out that there are two missing libraries -- "libSDL2-2.0.so.0" and "libSDL2_image-2.0.so.0" -- even though they're supposed to be included in the Steam runtime. When I installed the Ubuntu versions, it got me past the missing library error but then immediately crashed without even getting to the splash screen.

Contact Feral support with your setup information, however could you check a supported distro first just to confirm it's not that which is the factor?

I'm running Kubuntu which for all intents and purposes is a supported distro.

I really don't want to have to install Ubuntu proper just to check, and this is the first problem of this kind that I've encountered on this platform. It should just work.

Sure, given the title runs find on similar hardware with supported distro installed the issue is likely down to the distro itself, it was only a suggestion if you had the supported distro to hand as it might help you track down what's wrong on your setup. Most distros should just work but sometimes people have issues and these issues are usually something minor that is distro specific.

Given these libraries were missing on your setup and you had to manually install them even though they should be automatically installed points to something strange. I have also seen a number of reports of people playing on your distro so I know it can work. Based on our previous titles the odd strange distro issue happens when some libraries or similar are not in the expected locations and some easy instructions are worked out over the first few weeks to resolve issues on almost all of the unsupported distros.

If you email support giving some details we can track the various workarounds when people let us know about them so we can pass them on to others. Thanks,

Edwin

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Quoting: Avehicle7887Can anyone please try to run this game without opening Steam?

You need Steam to play the game.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: edddeduckferal

Quoting: borartrHey, just bought the key from a Linux distribution on Steam, but not through client but through Firefox. Can someone explain whether that counts a Linux sale?? (Steam did register my OS and displayed corresponding games on the store page).

Yes it does

Do you know if buying on BundleStar and then using the Steam key under Linux counts?
We appreciate each and every crumb of information what is counted as Linux sale and what not.
Help us to help you. :)

If you buy from a third party and they don't explicitly say they are selling Linux or Mac keys then you've bought a Windows key. Bundle-star for example sell Windows keys.

Doesn't matter where you play the game on third party stores the sale is based on the steam keys they have purchased. Humble Bundle for example have a set of keys tagged as Windows, Mac and Linux and hand out the correct ones based on your platform so that the correct platform sale is recorded.

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Quoting: borartrHey, just bought the key from a Linux distribution on Steam, but not through client but through Firefox. Can someone explain whether that counts a Linux sale?? (Steam did register my OS and displayed corresponding games on the store page).

Yes it does

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: doctorxi wanted to play this...but crashes starting up.

Yeah, I'm not having much luck either. I figured out that there are two missing libraries -- "libSDL2-2.0.so.0" and "libSDL2_image-2.0.so.0" -- even though they're supposed to be included in the Steam runtime. When I installed the Ubuntu versions, it got me past the missing library error but then immediately crashed without even getting to the splash screen.

Contact Feral support with your setup information, however could you check a supported distro first just to confirm it's not that which is the factor?

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Quoting: wolfyrionSo I quieted the game to eat some breakfast and when I launched the game again was back to 20-30 Fps :(

Some settings require a full reboot to enable as the engine needs to restart, when you enabled Ultra from High without restart this is why the FPS didn't drop. Playing on full Ultra you really need a high end 6GB VRAM Nvidia card. Ultra really means Ultra for this game!

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Quoting: gehneoBought it in an instant from the Feral store, primarily to say "Thank you, Feral!". I'm also slightly interested in playing the game ;)

Thank you so much, I really hope you enjoy the game seems that you bought it to support us!

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Quoting: vulturethat bundle includes quite a few DLCs not covered by GOTY

GOTY contains all the DLC AFAIK so I don't know what you mean by that...

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