So I installed DL again to see if the enhanced edition still proved to be unplayable and I was surprised to see that with everything set to high I was avg 40 fps, much better then the 2-5fps I started getting after last year's miracle patch. This could be related to the texture bug, the new Nvidia drivers or some changes to the game code. I have no idea but at the same time I don't care because for the first time since the May patch I can play Dying Light again!

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I'm willing to try Dying Light again when the Enhanced Edition releases. Dying Light was my favorite game pre 1.0.6, and I honestly thought it would be in my top five favorite Linux games. I was enjoying excellent graphics and frantic gameplay all at a good framerate on a 980M, this all happened when I was trying to move to Linux 100%, and I can honestly say I didn't miss Windows one bit then. Then 1.0.6 hit and my framerate tanked to around 5fps on a good day assuming the game launched at all.

I admit every patch or distro swap (there was a point in time when I was trying other distros) had me revisiting Dying Light and every time the game would either fail to launch or run slower than Grandpa's boyhood slideshows.

So you bet I'll try it again when the Enhanced Edition comes out because you never know. ^_^

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I've been having issues since 1.6.0; where other Linux users saw an improvement in performance I saw my avg fps drop from around 60 fps to under 5. So maybe when they fix this current issue I'll try it out again and see the game is playable again.

It's issues like that that makes me wish steam would introduce a roll back option on updates. Something I miss from purchasing a physical copy was the ability to control what updates are installed.

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Albion is on my short list of MMO's releasing on Linux to watch/test along with Land of Britain (uses URE 4 and I received a dev reply that it will release for Linux) and Shroud of the Avatar (uses Unity 5 though so far it's been one of the better Unity games I've played with though the performance is still low when compared to windows) and of course Star Citizen (thought it seems the ball is in Crytek's court as to when full Linux compatibility will happen.)

It's nice to see so many in development MMO's including Linux support.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: UnshraBefore the patch I was avg around 60fps (mostly because I had v-sync, with v-sync disabled I got higher.) After the patch I now get an avg of 5fps and the font is all messed up, so yeah I'm not happy and I'm just about done messing with Dying Light.

I think you need to do a file verify or reinstall.

It was a fresh install and the ldd was good; I try to do that with every test as you never know with Linux.

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Before the patch I was avg around 60fps (mostly because I had v-sync, with v-sync disabled I got higher.) After the patch I now get an avg of 5fps and the font is all messed up, so yeah I'm not happy and I'm just about done messing with Dying Light.

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I still find myself returning to Dying Light, admittedly it is to see how it's running more than because of the game-play. I am sure everyone is sick of my updates regarding FPS on Dying Light from a notebook perspective, but I'm going to go ahead and post it. :P Though this time, I am going to post my experience with the 980M and provide a bit of a rant.

My previous system was running on a 750M, and the best I got out of that system is 35fps, and that was after a lot of tweaks and lowering the resolution to 720p. So while I could get it to run at 30fps, the game was painful to look at it still felt slow.

Then came my new notebook, I went against my better judgement and got an Alienware 17 R2. I mean what's the worse that could happen by purchasing a notebook that just released from a brand that is not known for Linux compatibility (yeah a bit of passive aggressive there.) I will admit that I now wish I had gotten a Sager or MSI notebook, but that's in the past.

So my first experience was a bit of a shocker with no tweaks I was getting the same performance as the 750M and with sun shadows disabled I was averaging 45fps. However being a new notebook, I decided to try Dying Light on Window and with everything maxed but view distance I was getting 60fps. This was short-lived though as the notebook started to have stability issues and was soon RMA'd.

Enter the replacement of the replacement. This time around the notebook was stable, and I was ready for round two. Sadly I was getting 5fps, and I had no idea what happened, I tried different drivers, and triple checked the dependencies even tweaking the game data files only bumped it up to 12fps. It was performing worse than my old 750m. Eventually, it got so bad that Dying Light was crashing at startup, so I decided to give it a rest.

Then last week Linux 3.19.3 was released on Arch, and so I did my normal update routine with bbswitch and ran Dying Light, and I have never been more excited to see a splash screen. But what came next made me even happier:

Arch Linux (Antergos) 980M

Max Setting no tweaks: 35 FPS Avg, 62 FPS Max, 28 FPS Low
View Distance set to zero: 45 FPS Avg, 62 FPS Max, 35 FPS Low

Simply put it's now playable for me on Linux, and it's on a notebook to boot. Currently, I am experiencing one rather annoying issue, if I quit the game I cannot start it again as it will lockup. So far, nothing I have done has been able to resolve this issue, and I'm forced to reboot Linux if I want to play Dying Light again. Also like Liam I have crashed to the desktop while taking screenshots.

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Morhaime has a good point, I think it is time I started moving away from wine and just focus purely on Linux. At the moment World of Warcraft, Star Trek Online, Neverwinter Online and The Witcher occupy my list of wine games. If I'm going to support Linux gaming then I suppose I'll start with the MMO that's subscription based and work my way down from there. It's not like I've played WoW much anyways.

Star Trek Online and Neverwinter Online will be a bit harder for me to break away from though as I rather enjoy the STO guild/community I'm in.

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I am looking forward to Batman: Arkham Knight and because it's Feral I find myself tempted to pre-order. Though I wonder if it's better to order through the Feral store and not the Steam store, does Feral have a means of tracking if the games purchased from their store are from a Linux or Mac user? If so than I'll purchase it from their store if that than I'll stick with Steam and I know Valve is tracking who's purchasing/playing the games they sell.

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I am unable to get past the main menu, I'll have to take a look into what's going on and see if I can resolve the issue.

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