Quoting: eridanired123I want to see a photo of how playing on those 9 monitors looks like.

That actually is a very interesting question! It led me to an idea. What if we could search for profiles here on GOL and filter by hardware i.e search for let's say, people with the same hardware as you.

This would allow you to find other people with the same or similar hardware as you. Let's say then, that you have a problem on Linux and you know it is probably hardware-related. You would then be able to find other people and ask whether they have/had the same problem as you and whether they fixed it and in that case how.

Of course, you could also ask people how a certain build or piece of hardware works for them on Linux before you decide to buy it yourself.

And at last, you could find the user on GOL who has 9 monitors and politely ask for a picture of that setup :D

EDIT:

As for the WINE question, it could also be a list of ranges of how many games one use WINE for. 0, 1 - 3, 4 - 5, 6 - 8, 9 - ...

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Quoting: BrisseJust don't expect too see any improvement in Arma 3 from a video card upgrade. If you have a Fury X, then you are guaranteed CPU starved 9 out of 10 times in this game already. Arma 3 is quite different from other games when it comes to how it uses hardware. The most important thing to get this game running smooth is massive single threaded IPC * frequency. It doesn't care how many cores you have, and it barely cares about what video card you have either.

Well I am able to play the game at 40 - 50 fps at 4K, with everything almost maxed out (high is the lowest setting in use) and the default draw distance.

I have a Fury X (open source drivers) and a Ryzen 1800X. I know it's not a bargain build, but I am very surprised at how well this game runs considering it is a port and that it is still "experimental".

ArmA 3 is actually one of the few games I can enjoy at 4K, without having to put other graphics settings at their lowest.

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Quoting: GuestHonestly, we don't need Vulkan, we just need a proper implementation of OpenGL to make it work well. Vulkan is a neat concept and hopefully will be great in time but it's not the magic bullet everyone thinks it is. Why is everyone putting so much weight into the Vulkan API as opposed to just wanting games that work well for us?

While I generally agree that games should just work regardless of API, we must understand that OpenGL is not as big in gaming as DirectX. Since both DX12 and Vulkan are somewhat new, there is still a chance that Vulkan could take the throne of the low-level APIs. I know DX12 has already gained some traction, but seeing Vulkan being implemented here and there, is a good sign for cross-platform APIs.

If Vulkan would become the graphics API of choice for most developers, it certainly would make it easier for them to create Linux variants of their games. More importantly, these games would probably be on par with their Windows versions, since they would be able to use the same shaders and not shaders generated by some shader-translation layer.

This brings me back to ARK. If ARK were to use Vulkan and also implement it on Windows, it would probably make it more likely that we will get the same optimizations as they get on Windows, which would make the game work well.

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Quoting: MasterSleortI value open world games since they have often have offer great replayability. I would therefore like to see

-GTA:V
-The Witcher 3
-Assassin's Creed/Ghost Recon/The Division (would also open up for other Ubisoft games, since many of them use the same engine and ofc would also mean Ubisoft are open for Linux)
- Rise of the Tomb Raider

And then a racing game
- Assetto Corsa

As you can see, I already made a wish list, but I wanted to add some more games (many I think have not been mentioned at all...)

-South Park: The Fractured But Whole (South Park: The Stick of Truth is also welcome)
-Sim City 4: Rush Hour
-The Movies by Lionhead Studios
-Warcraft 3 & Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne
-GTA: San Andreas
-Thief (2014)
-Anno 1404 & Anno 1404 Venice
-Metro: Exodus
-Mini Ninjas

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80

Quoting: PixelPi

So far it seems Doom, Bioshock and The Witcher 3 are popular choices.

I would appreciate if we would not talk all the time about games that are out of the question or simply do not make sense. Doom, for example, runs under Wine better than any Feral port. Anyone who wants it has already bought it. Feral would not make money and Linux as a gaming platform would not be more attractive either.

The game that is most lacking is GTA V. Countless people do not switch to Linux because of GTA.

Personally I would like Elite: Dangerous for Linux. But actually not as a Port but directly from Frontier. So I bought a PlayStation 4 for the time being.

I don't think GTA is the reason people are not on Linux it's a big game but it's not the biggest reason given more people play COD/BF/Madden/Fifa than GTA

Well for a long time, GTA:V was the only game on Steam's top 10 that hadn't been released on Linux. Right now though there are a few more, but these games look like new releases, so it's hard to tell whether they will stay there.

I agree that there are many factors when people consider switching to Linux, but I think a game like GTA:V could be an important factor. A game like this on Linux also symbolizes that it is a strong platform.

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I value open world games, since they have often have offer great replayability. I would therefore like to see

-GTA:V
-The Witcher 3
-Assassin's Creed/Ghost Recon/The Division (would also open up for other Ubisoft games, since many of them use the same engine and ofc would also mean Ubisoft are open for Linux)
- Rise of the Tomb Raider

And then a racing game
- Assetto Corsa

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Quoting: Linas

Quoting: PublicNuisanceAlthough even with AMDGPU Pro drivers my RX480 had about 20 FPS on low so not like Mesa could have been much worse.

Wow, that's quite bad. I was planning to get myself an RX580, but with this performance level, even a modest NVIDIA card would beat it.

Is it as bad with all the games? Would it be possible to run something like Mankind Divided on AMD graphics?

I think it is. I am able to play DE: Mankind Divided on 4K, almost everything maxed out on my Fury X (with latest stable mesa) with around 30fps. It sometimes drops below, but I am also taxing it quite much :D Right now I don't have it installed, so I can't test performance on 1080p resolution. Also I don't really like the game, but that's another story...
Also Hitman I can play at 4K resolution on everything maxed out with framerates between 30 and 60 fps. Same goes for Mad Max, where it very rarely drops below 45 fps and generally stays around 60 fps at 4k and everything maxed out.

My experience with mesa has certainly been good as of late, and while there still is some hickups here and there, it still is a very nice experience.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80

Quoting: kellerkindt

Quoting: MohandevirJust adding to the confusion... :)

http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/Téa [External Link]

http://www.adagio.com/signature_blend/blend.html?blend=90002 [External Link]

Could be a reference to Geralt infusing in his bath too... Just saying.

Edit: The link is not working but it refers to "Borch's Weapons" (Téa and Véa)

I would love to see that being the case <3

If it was Witcher 3 cd project red would of leaked it already have a feeling its either Shadow Warrior 2 or Shogun 2

They did already leak it two years ago https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-confirmed-for-linux-steamos.3861 :D

Joking aside (for some other joking...) Now we have to come up with excuses as to why they haven't leaked it yet. It could be that they want to be sure that Feral can actually deliver. Imagine they went out and announced The Witcher 3 for Linux again and then failed to deliver once again. Better to keep it a UFO at Feral and let it disappear in the hopefully very unlikable event that it (whatever it is) could not be ported to Linux.

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Quoting: micha

Quoting: m0nt3Nier: Automata
Nier: Automata (Japanese: ニーア オートマタ Hepburn: Nīa Ōtomata?, stylized as NieR:Automata)
And is a squenix game.

Would love it to be N:A but unlikely:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/61xp9x/feral_please_bring_us_nier_automata/dfidgl2/ [External Link]

Still it's Square Enix who developed and published the game. They have a quite good history with Linux and seems to also have a good relationship with Feral Interactive.

edit: Also the repsonse "If we bring NieR: Automata to Linux one day, we'll probably let someone know." is rather ambiguous. It could simply be Feral's way of saying "When it's released you'll know" or the usual teasing on their radar could be their way of letting someone know and lastly "someone" could be someone like Liam and not the rest of us :D

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I am very certain that this is Total Was: Shogun 2 even though it is already available for Mac. In my opinion the steamdb and the latest history for Total War: Shogun 2 speaks for itself. Most of the changes appears to be Linux related not to mention that Linux was added to the os list two months ago.

https://steamdb.info/app/34330/history/ [External Link]

edit: besides that, if it turns out to be TW:Shogun 2 I will be very pleased. I really like the japanese setting.

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