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Steam Dev Days 2016 videos are now up, something to watch over the weekend
4 Nov 2016 at 8:01 pm UTC

The thing with Talos is more likely that it's a DX11 focused engine with OpenGL support added. And as tuubi says, performance suffers. But the Vulkan implementation clawed this loss back instantly, which is why Linux users were pretty pleased. It's improved a little since then, but I don't think they'll ever make this game an optimised Vulkan engine. That honour may happen for Serious Sam 4 or Talos 2 though.

Hold off on buying 'White Noise 2', currently broken on Linux
4 Nov 2016 at 3:29 pm UTC

Quoting: GuestFTL has stopped working on Linux recently too. Might want to give it at try and warn everyone if you can confirm that it isn't working for you either.
You can fix FTL yourself. You just need to manually upgrade the sound library it uses. I don't recall what it's called, but that should be easy to find.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided released for Linux, port report and review
4 Nov 2016 at 1:52 pm UTC

Quoting: Jahimself@Arivandaar The denuvo wikipedia page may give you a hint on that question. (Seek platform)
Even if it's not officially supported, it's not impossible to do.

Quoting: MblackwellSo I was min/maxing 30-50fps in the benchmarks on High (and hovering around 50 in-game) and the only way to push past was to either set everything to low (and then fps was 45-70), or lower resolution.

Strangely after lowering resolution the game looked almost exactly the same except the UI was blurrier, so I lowered its scale and it's pretty difficult to tell now.
Thanks! Since you run an almost identical system, your results are very interesting to me.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided released for Linux, port report and review
3 Nov 2016 at 7:14 pm UTC

From the comparison vid above, high and ultra look great, medium is a bit hit and miss and low is pretty dreadful.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided released for Linux, port report and review
3 Nov 2016 at 3:30 pm UTC Likes: 2

So no plans to use DXMD as public beta test platform for the Vulkan tech? Much like Croteam is doing with The Talos Principle?

Unity working towards more multithreading and better Vulkan support soon
2 Nov 2016 at 9:39 pm UTC

Quoting: drmoth
Mac beta editors do
Mac editors have Vulkan support? Doesn't sound right...
They can export Vulkan, not use it.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Linux system requirements revealed, Nvidia only for now
2 Nov 2016 at 4:45 pm UTC

Quoting: baccilusCan I enjoy Dues Ex in spite of microtransactions? They are getting lots of negative feedback on steam because of microtransactions and DLCs.
Microtransactions should be ignored (just paid cheating). Supposedly the story isn't quite finished and will be finished by DLC, which would make it a money grab. Obviously I can't confirm whether that's true or whether that's bitterness by children who didn't get what the wanted. Also some say it is very short, while others say it is only short if you race through the missions as fast as you can.

My personal take: I'll be happy to give full price to Feral for the main game, but I'm not doing that for all DLC.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Linux system requirements revealed, Nvidia only for now
2 Nov 2016 at 12:53 pm UTC

Compared to the recommended spec I have a slightly faster CPU, but a little slower GPU. I wonder what will affect the performance more. Regardless, unless there are "reasons", the Feral store can expect a visit this weekend.

Ice Lakes is another fishing game that supports Linux, available on Steam
2 Nov 2016 at 9:51 am UTC

Quoting: BdMdesigN
Quoting: LinasWhat other fishing simulators do we have?
Fishing Planet and it's great.
Euro Fishing was also supposed to be released, but that's been delayed for a year now (citing performance problems).