Quoting: ProfessorKaos64I'll have to add a package to my SteamOS repo. Forgot about this. I'd rather play this than Ballistic Overkill. Wonder what the play base is like.

A bit dead unfortunately, the quality of this game is right on par with a commercial one in my book.

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Guild Wars 2 still has a horrible 15-20fps loss compared to 2.0 staging. Everything else remains unaffected and I haven't noticed any performance differences, good or bad.

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Pixel-ized Action-RPG? count me effing in. Looks amazing.

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So glad to see more people are adopting Vulkan. Croteam (Serious Sam) have made great performance leaps on Linux and the new Doom has shown us that Vulkan is amazing even with Wine.

If a game such as Star Citizen were to pull off a 1:1 Windows-Linux performance release with Vulkan, I expect it will send a few nudges to other developers.

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The Obligatory question: Has anyone checked how does Witcher 3 run with 2.4?

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Judging this thread here [External Link], there will be no DRM-Free versions of any kind either.

The publisher is a straight up close-minded one that thinks Denuvo and DRM is the key to ensure a studio remains in business. I can only say one thing to that, I hope karma gets them.

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Darkest Dungeon for me. It mixes Roguelike, RPG and turn based combat in a single package. The skill and character positioning system is very well implemented and lets you play around with many combinations.

On the technical side, the game is very-veryyyy stable and will run well on almost any potato PC (tested on my Intel N2840 Laptop).

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This was one of those games for me that I started way too many times but never finished when I was a kid. A couple of months ago I finished it for the first time, quite the experience for an FPS/RPG from 1996 I may say.

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Quoting: ShmerlInteresting, it seems it works with Mesa better out of the box, than with Nvidia blob. I didn't need to install DX, and on RX480 it runs at 60fps on minimum settings. Did you monitor RAM usage? May be the game was swapping? Can you see your GPU load, was it maxing out? I suppose Nvidia GTX 960 is somewhat behind RX480, so it would be interesting if anyone with higher end Nvidia could post some benchmarks too.

By the way, did you enable CSMT?

It seems to be working better with Mesa indeed. I checked the memory and there's no swapping going on, CSMT is enabled but the GPU utilization never went beyond 64%, the screenshot below is the average of GPU usage.

I'm curious to see what would the performance look like with the RX480's Nvidia counterpart.

Here's resource usage:

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Here's How Witcher 3 runs on Wine Staging 2.3 for me. With everything on lowest details, frame rates didn't go any higher than 24fps. No Winetricks needed but the DirectX redistributable package must be installed otherwise performance will be worse and some graphics (especially character heads) will not be shown or completely black.

Like Shmerl, I didn't notice any non-graphical problems with the game. If they ever make a Vulkan renderer, it might actually work just fine under Wine.

System Specs:
Mint 17.3 (MATE Desktop)
Core i5-4590
8GB RAM
Nvidia GTX 960 (375.26)

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