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Quoting: dubigrasuI wonder why they took this job anyway, surely there are other games out there better suited for their technology.

You're assuming they have the luxury of being able to pick and choose. I'm sure they wouldn't just turn down the opportunity to port a relatively high-profile game like this.

Yeah, you may be right.

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Wish they had a demo or something to test...not very tempted to buy it as it looks now.
I like VP, but this one seems to be a bit too much for their eON and I fear about another terrible backslash at them.

I wonder why they took this job anyway, surely there are other games out there better suited for their technology.

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Quoting: PangachatIt seems that AMD isn't supported again...
Nice one, refund, refund, not buy (Dying Light, SoM, CoH2)
Linux gaming is really cheap :D

If you keep refunding and not buying AMD unsupported games you might collect enough money to buy an Nvidia card.

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Quoting: dubigrasuI've no idea what is wrong with his system/setup but his Linux results seem always suspiciously low, like was the case with the recent Xonotic benchmark.

He uses powersave cpu governor (at least on SoM and DiRT benchmarks)...

You're right, and even according to his own earlier tests that's not a good option for games.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_pstate_linux315&num=3 [External Link]
At the same time the intel_pstate powersave governor is (if I'm not mistaken) the default governor and Michael always is using defaults in its benchmarks.

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Quoting: ChrispWhere can I commit a bug report?

Watch https://github.com/virtual-programming [External Link]
Sooner or later a Dirt Showdown section will appear (or you can initiate one);

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Quoting: GuestJust to clarify: the issues with AMD cards are not the fault of the drivers. For whatever reason (time, experience of people involved, etc), Shadow of Mordor is just a shitty port. Like it or not, it is the fault of Feral.

I would have to agree with mirv, just look at Windows vs Linux benchmarks.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=mordor-win10-linux&num=2 [External Link]

Those result are representative only for Michael's system, not for Linux in general.
I've no idea what is wrong with his system/setup but his Linux results seem always suspiciously low, like was the case with the recent Xonotic benchmark.

I have older and inferior hardware than his and yet I get much better results:
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Quoting: mmstickI tried Witcher 2 on Linux one month ago and it still runs significantly worse than running the Windows copy through Wine with Gallium Nine. Indeed, I would very much prefer that non-native ports are abolished henceforth and never allowed onto Steam. Non-native ports are not the way, nor will they ever be. Fixing a bug in a native port is easy, but resolving a bug in a non-native port? I don't think so. Either do a port correctly the first time or don't do a port at all. No port is better than a bad port.

Can you define what "significantly worse" means in numbers?
Because I want to compare them with my numbers:
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Quoting: mmstickIf we wanted to play non-native ports then we'd just use Wine with Gallium Nine, without all these silly bugs. Even that dreaded Witcher 2 port runs better in Wine that it does the 'non-native Linux port' from this developer.

That used to be true when Witcher2 was released, but is no longer the case.
As it is now the Linux port is very close to the native Windows release in terms of performance.
But the main difference is that the VP port is instantly available to Linux gamers in general being distributed and supported by Steam/GOG, while there are less people gaming through Wine and even less with Gallium nine.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismI think this comment relates to a recent benchmark on Phoronix about OpenGL Benchmarks [External Link].

I specifically wanted to hilight Xonotic performance on Ubuntu as doing terrible.

Well, I don't know what is it with Michael's setup/hardware or whatever he is doing, but he is consistently getting low Linux results in his tests.
The Shadow of Mordor benchmark is a good example where I get much better results with my older hardware than his, but this Xonotic benchmark really takes the cake.
His Xonotic results are simply ridiculous, no way Xonotic should work so bad with his hardware.
With my hardware I get these results on SteamOS:

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