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ARK: Survival Evolved plans to use Vulkan for Linux this year
3 Jan 2017 at 5:50 pm UTC

Quoting: Nor Mantis
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: Nor MantisLove this game. 600+ hours played, performance could be better but runs pretty good on my 960 everything on high, The only time I get serious FPS hit is when I fly into my huge base, masive walled off compound with a metal pyramid built over water, and many captured dinos in it. There are graphical glitches as mentioned already. Usually turn shadows and bloom off in caves using in game terminal command solves it. But nothing game breaking. The devs have won my trust, in my opinion have done a fantastic job. The game keeps getting better and better.
Can you please share the terminal commands you're speaking of? I would really appreciate it....
This is off the top of my head but here are some helpful ones.

console = press tab
r.shadowquality 0
r.bloomquality 0
r.lightshafts 0

every time you relog it resets back to default.
You can disable bloom and lightshafts directly in the configuration theese days.

ARK: Survival Evolved plans to use Vulkan for Linux this year
2 Jan 2017 at 8:46 pm UTC

Quoting: GuestI honestly think every single game title we have on Linux is inferior compared to the original DX versions as in frame rates and graphics quality
Framerate wise, true, but not to this extreme extend. Graphics quality, I don't think so, people have done side-by-side comparisons and haven't spotted differences for Tomb Raider, Mad Max, ... and so on. And honestly they look a lot better than ARK does on linux. I sometimes watch ARK videos on youtube and can't believe it's the same game I'm playing.

Quoting: GuestAhhh Thanks. I see no reason why a 970 with a i7 would be getting 5-20fps then unless maybe with everything jacked up all the way. Shouldn't be any issues with getting a totally solid 30+ fps on that setup with the right configuration. I mean a configuration that would look great as well....
Nope, I have everything on medium. The only time I get 30FPS+ is if there are no buildings, few dinos and not a lot of flora. So maybe you're playing on an mostly unpopulated server.

ARK: Survival Evolved plans to use Vulkan for Linux this year
2 Jan 2017 at 6:35 pm UTC Likes: 2

Don't hold your breath, DX12 was coming next month for over a year :o)

Performance is not wonderful but it's acceptable for what it is.
Ugh. I don't care much about FPS, 30+ and I'm OK. But this game ... 5-20FPS in most areas is not something I'd call acceptable. And thats in addition to all the sometimes game-breaking graphics glitches that haven't been fixed in forever for the OGL renderer, the noticably inferior graphics and the game breaking input bug if you happen to not have a US keyboard.

AMD will be showing off their Zen CPU Architecture and letting people play with it on December 13th
8 Dec 2016 at 6:55 pm UTC

Excited to see some actual benchmarks, but I highly doubt they can compete in single core performance with those clockspeeds littered around the place. I really hope they have some higher clocked CPUs up their sleeves...

What one game would blow your mind if it came to Linux & SteamOS?
2 Dec 2016 at 9:26 am UTC

Rise of the Tomb Raider and Witcher 3 are the only ones I'd be exited about. So many games right now :)

OpenTomb is an open source game engine for Tomb Raider 1-5
20 Jul 2016 at 9:04 am UTC

Last time I checked(two months ago?) it was merely a level viewer.

Buy games from G2A? You should just stop already, tinyBuild lost out on approx $450K of sales
21 Jun 2016 at 9:16 am UTC

Thanks, I didn't know about G2A. Still have plenty of duplicate keys to get rid of :)

Razer announces the HDK2 VR headset, will support OSVR and SteamVR
15 Jun 2016 at 10:36 am UTC

Right. Now we "only" need Valve to release SteamVR for linux and devs releasing linux builds for their games with SteamVR/OSVR support *sigh*

Virtual Programming have setup github issue trackers for their Saints Row Linux ports
25 Apr 2016 at 9:41 am UTC

Quoting: UlukaiI play them with the Steam Controller but because the right trackpad is mapped to behave like a mouse, I often get the keyboard and mouse bindings on screen instead of the gamepad bindings.
The config file contains an option to only show controller prompts.