I'm guessing that even with the Vulkan renderer, there is still a lot of Direct X draw calls being used in the game for shader effects, which explains the worse performance. But at the same time, I still have to give Feral a lot of props for porting another racing game to Linux.

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While we're on the subject, GOG now has about 719 games that support Linux, so their library is growing for us too. It pales in comparison to Steam though. GOG are much more selective about what they allow on their store overall, so it's to be expected.

GOG:
Windows compatible games: 2100
Mac OSx compatible games: 1063 (just over 50%)
Linux compatible games: 719 (just over 34%)

Linux support on GOG hasn't been around as long as Mac Support. But still not bad considering. GOG has been giving solid support for Linux, but they still need to get around to releasing GOG Galaxy for the platform.

I also think Humble Bundle does a good job with Linux releases too.

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Check out this video that is showing the game run in Wine with Vulkan enabled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWZvwhwT1Sk [External Link]

More Wine/ Vulkan performance videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9gsu_YWUzE [External Link] (openSUSE 42.2 vs Windows 8.1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIfhz6V2Z-w [External Link]

Incredible!

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Quoting: MisterKI hope this isn't the same BS that Microsoft pulls with Steam on Linux. Leave the linux userbase with an older, less features, and barely functioning version of skype to deter people from switching platforms from windows.

Huh? What are they doing with Skype?

http://blogs.skype.com/2016/07/13/skype-for-linux-alpha-and-calling-on-chrome-and-chromebooks/ [External Link]

Well that is a recent development that I am unaware of. Their last release of Skype went without any updates for over two years now. The previous client lacked almost every current feature of Skype and was absolutely painful to use.

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I hope this isn't the same BS that Microsoft pulls with Steam on Linux. Leave the linux userbase with an older, less features, and barely functioning version of skype to deter people from switching platforms from windows.

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I'm totally OK with this. It's a great game and Linux could use another third person adventure game.

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As the old saying goes for Linux: "Better late than never".

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I am still not a fan of using virtual programming for Linux ports, it still feels a little skeezy to me. But I really can't deny the great work that eON has been doing with these ports. I am impressed that the performance is actually better in some instances on SteamOS. This is a massive leap ahead of the performance that you would get while running the game in wine or some other virtual machine.

Bravo eON!

I'd like to see how this would stack up to Windows 8.1 or 10 though.

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Quoting: frostworkyay! better late than never!

That's the Linux motto in a nutshell.

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YES!

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