Deep Silver may be Linux friendly, but Techland is not so much. Their ports are really bad, like Virtual Programming bad. To this day I cannot launch the original Dead Island in my gaming rig (bought it before Steam allowed refunds), while all other Deep Silver games I have work just fine.

People will point out that I use a non supported setup (AMD+OSS drivers) but I can play every other Deep Silver game I have, and the performance is good. Even Liam, with a monster rig (GTX 980ti) have performance problems with Dying Light, and after several updates things are still not good enough.

I'm not touching another Techland game.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismThe reason games aren't 64 bit is because it doesn't really provide any advantage whatsoever

Well, Phoronix have done several performance tests between 32 and 64bits software and games that disagree with you. And I have seen a lot of AAA games that are now 64bits only. Even indie games in Linux, like American Truck Simulator, have only 64bits executables.

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Quoting: MGOidIn the Steam store, the Windows version is DirectX 11, and the recommended GPU is a GTX 970, same as Linux. The minimal requirement is a GTX 640, also the same as Linux, but Codemasters lists older GPUs too.

So, a DX11 game means OpenGL4.3 Linux right? OSS AMD drivers will not work with this for a few months. Grid Autostport plays very nice today with the OSS driver, but not at launch. so I must buy this in a couple of months or so.

Mesa has had more or less full 4.3 support for radeonsi for a bit over a month now. But the DX11/OpenGL equivalence depends on what extensions the particular game uses. Some games like Bioshock infinite needed 4.1 but things like Alien Isolation need 4.3 while mordor needs 4.4 or 4.5 iirc. Feral is pretty good about Mesa support and TR, which was also based of DX11, worked just fine for me with mesa git at launch.

Shadow of Mordor needs 4.3. I managed to run its benchmark some time ago using radeonsi without any graphical artifacts (besides low performance).

I expect to run all those games with good performance by the end of the year, if the OSS drivers continue to develop at the actual pace.

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In the Steam store, the Windows version is DirectX 11, and the recommended GPU is a GTX 970, same as Linux. The minimal requirement is a GTX 640, also the same as Linux, but Codemasters lists older GPUs too.

So, a DX11 game means OpenGL4.3 Linux right? OSS AMD drivers will not work with this for a few months. Grid Autostport plays very nice today with the OSS driver, but not at launch. so I must buy this in a couple of months or so.

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OFF TOPiC:

Arma 3 is free this weekend. I'm downloading it now to check the progress of VP port with the radeonsi driver.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: MGOidNope, I can't get 30fps. And they let you run the games above 30fps now.

Trine 3 will not even start with the OSS driver. Of the 115 games I have in Linux, only Trine 3 and Dead Island are this bad. I am not touching Techland and Frozenbyte stuff after that.

Guess they've removed that target by now, but I'm still dubious about how much on-screen content will actually change. Pushing more frames to the monitor when nothing is changing doesn't make gameplay smoother, but some people just like to see a high number.

Trine3 is....yes, the less said the better about that. It's the one game I've never even been able to start playing. Don't have Dead Island.

Ok, enough, I'll not continue this sub-thread and derail the main topic anymore - apologies about that!

Hehe, since I never played Trine 1 and 2 before the 3, I really didn't share the hate towards the third game :-) I actually played it a bit in Windows to compare the performance against Catalyst driver in Linux. Yes, the gameplay is different, but I didn't get why people hate it.

FPS to me is a matter of the speed of the gameplay. A card game obviously don't have much happening on the screen, but a race game at 60FPS is a must. A fast paced game like L4D2 or CS:GO, where every millisecond mater, benefits from a 120 Hz monitor, at last to me.

In general I like 60 fps, no matter what type of game I'm playing. Above that only in a very few games, like L4D2.

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Bought it, instantly regret it for not supporting my Xbox One joypad...

Why Valve, why aren't you selling your gamepad here in Brazil...

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Quoting: MGOidI think the Trine games are problematic with OpenSource drivers. I have a Core i7 and a R9 290 (radeonsi driver) and it plays like crap, even if I set everything to low.

Must be one of those bad OpenGL ports, too dependent of the forgiveness in the Nvidia proprietary drivers.

It's probably more that trine is locked in terms of framerate. I'm fairly certain it comes from game logic rather than graphical issues - even if you managed to get a fps higher, the actual on-screen content won't update more than about 30fps. At least, that's how it was when I last played.

Nope, I can't get 30fps. And they let you run the games above 30fps now.

Trine 3 will not even start with the OSS driver. Of the 115 games I have in Linux, only Trine 3 and Dead Island are this bad. I am not touching Techland and Frozenbyte stuff after that.

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The only thing stopping me to put this in my wish list, is the partial controller support.

Still surprises me in this day and age, PC developers look down to gamepad players.

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Quoting: borartrI especially hope that SDL itself will profit from it (bugfixes/performance wise). It it in my opinion still not very good. For example even Trine 1 is unplayable even on lowest settings (extremly ugly) on my intel laptop (<10 fps), which should not be the case for such a simple sidescroller imho.
Not sure if it is good for a game engine to put a additional layer between it and the system in general, but for unity I personally dont care much as long as it works better than before.

I think the Trine games are problematic with OpenSource drivers. I have a Core i7 and a R9 290 (radeonsi driver) and it plays like crap, even if I set everything to low.

Must be one of those bad OpenGL ports, too dependent of the forgiveness in the Nvidia proprietary drivers.

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