I've had a look at the various reviews. I think most of the disappointed for Windows comes from the expectation that these two cards would be better than the GTX1070 and 1080, while in practice they average just below. The difference is small, so not really that important. I haven't seen an actual retail price though, so that will be interesting.

Linux performance was looking really good. Vulkan was lagging behind a bit, but RADV is still improving quickly.

De power drain is somewhat worrying though. The RX 64 appears to average around 100 W higher during gaming than a 1080. For me that would be about 20 Euro per year on electricity. Also, I'm not so sure I could get the heat out of my case in the current setup.

I don't expect to be in the market for this generation. But things are looking good for the next one. Especially if power usage can be reduced.

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Quoting: ShmerlOn a side note, is there any point in it? Do Feral actually try asking owners about porting most requested games? I.e. for example, what was the result of requesting The Witcher 3? Feral were asked to port it for a long time already.

My take on it is that this is just an effort to make sure that they're in the loop about the current interests of the Linux crowd. With the size of the Linux market as it is, they can't really afford doing something that few people want.

Of course that doesn't mean that they will actually do the ports. I'm sure they would have loved to port something as popular as TW3, but that they couldn't make a deal with CDPR. Especially interesting would be DOOM 2016 and No Man's Sky. As OpenGL games they would be the easiest ports they could possibly have (for Linux anyway), but getting publishing right from Bethesda or Sony is probably undoable.

So practically I imagine that they simply add up the interest and look at similar style games from publishers that they have a chance of doing business with. With a healthy dose of intuition of course. There is still a large part of the potential customer base that never replies to (or even sees) these things.

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Quoting: m2mg2I understand that. That wasn't what I was referring to. I am familiar with the process. I asked whether they had said more than that, like "we will not be releasing a Linux version".

They did not. Just the aforementioned standard reply.

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Quoting: m2mg2That provided absolutely zero additional information. Thanks.

That would be the trademark of Feral. They never answer anything that they haven't announced before. It's *always* "we haven't announced anything about that yet. if that changes ...".

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoBut the Linux info is not listed.

Other than the direct info to Liam, Aspyr hasn't said a word about the Linux (and mac) delay.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandle"West Norwood" now seems to have vanished.

Maybe it was simply the Norsca DLC.

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Looks pretty good. May have to keep an occasional eye on as I'm currently doing with "Edge of Eternity".

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Normally I would have thought something like: but why????

However, after putting about 20 hours into The Long Dark over the past two weeks, taking up the part of the wolf seems like an oddly satisfying idea.

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Quoting: GuestBethesda is going for vulkan and they may change their mind.

Says who? Id Software did Vulkan, But that's because Id has always used OpenGL instead of DX.

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Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo

Quoting: rkfgI'd like them to port other parts of the already ported games:
Life is Strange ⇒ Life is Strange: Before the Storm
Tomb Raider ⇒ Rise of the Tomb Raider
Bioshock Infinite ⇒ Bioshock 1/2

All of those games are or hopefully will be great. If not those then DOOM 2016 would do, especially because it looks like a potential low effort / high quality port without performance hits. Vulkan rules!

If I remember well, Feral didn't port Bioshock Infinite to Linux, I think it was VP... So VP must be asked port the remastered Bioshock's to Linux.

That doesn't really mean anything. Aspyr did the Mac port of Bioshock Infinite and it's still Feral that did the remaster.

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