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Quoting: Mountain ManYeah, but saying that it's "promising" sounds good without actually telling us anything. For all we know, it could mean that it didn't instantly crash when they ran the executable, and a coder muttered, "Well, that's promising."

And it could also mean that it runs so well that they might actually releasing it soon.

Unlikely. Saying that something is "promising" means it has some degree of unrealized potential.

Like I said, it was PR fluff that doesn't actually tell us anything.

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Yeah, but saying that it's "promising" sounds good without actually telling us anything. For all we know, it could mean that it didn't instantly crash when they ran the executable, and a coder muttered, "Well, that's promising."

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What do you expect them to say? "We're testing the port, and it sucks"? Not likely.

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The developer also confirmed Day-1 Linux support:

Of course, people should hold off preordering, just in case.

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The problem isn't OpenGL, the problem is trying to port a DirectX game to OpenGL. Games coded for OpenGL in the first place tend to have identical performance across platforms.

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While I think it's a nice idea to bring older games to SteamOS (especially when some of those games are already in my library), I would like to see more effort put into the future so that it's just a given that every new release is available for the "Big Three" (Linux, OSX, and Windows).

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Quoting: MagbedHopefully Vulkan will change everything and we will finally forget about wrappers.

I doubt Vulkan will change anything because Microsoft has a lot of money behind DirectX to keep it front and center with game developers. Unless the Vulkan group has an enormous pile of cash for promotion and training, they're going to find it as hard as ever to compete with DirectX.

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Quoting: edddeduckferalI 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.

So that puts it at "days". That's what I wanted to know. Thanks.

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Quoting: doctorxyea... that is exactly what mine is doing... all of my libs are there though... no idea what is wrong... every other game works. sent a support ticket in ...hopefully some help comes soon.

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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?

xubuntu should be supported...

I 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.

Best Regards,

Gerard
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Gerard McAuley
Feral Interactive Support
Worldwide +44 (0)20 8875 9787
USA 1-888-592-9925 (Toll Free)
http://support.feralinteractive.com [External Link]

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?

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Just a heads up, the game currently doesn't work on older CPUs that don't support the SSE4.x instruction set, which includes the popular AMD Phenom II line. Feral is currently working on a fix, but there's no word on when it will be implemented or if it's even possible.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/241930/discussions/0/535152276590257628 [External Link]

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