Will "Realm of The Wood Elves" and all other DLCs be ported to Linux in the future?

Should the game be purchased via the feral store to support Feral Interactive directly? Are Linux purchases on Steam really counted? I usually play in Big Picture. I've heard that Valve does not count that.

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Are you sure? I can get 60 fps with ATTILA (which uses the same engine I think) only with low settings. A German game magazine had reported that even with a GTX 980 the framerate drops to 20 fps at some situations (under Windows!).

ATTILA stutters a lot on my system: i7 6700K, GTX 970, 16GB RAM, Xubuntu 16.4 with nvidia 375.20. (I have the Xfce composite turned off.)

60 fps would be a dream. I often not have this in the campaign card, if I use max. settings. And it stutters all the time even with 60 fps.

I thought this would be normal. But maybe I've set something wrong?

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: 0aTTThe elderly will never switch to Linux/SteamOS. No matter whether such a shooter appears for it or not.

My elderly relatives were the easiest to convert. Of course they wouldn't install Linux themselves, but they don't care about the computer beyond beyond the basics. As long as they can write emails, play a simple solitaire game or two, maybe write something with a word processor, they're happy. Their lack of interest in gaming makes things easier.

It's the kids who are generally the most resistant. They want to use whatever their friends use and a single game can keep them on Windows. They're too young to worry about security and privacy.

I know this doesn't apply to all elderly people everywhere, just my experience. Sorry if I offended any nerdy gamer grannies or grandpas.

Yes, you are right. This is another aspect. But using Linux every day gives a kid so much possibilities which it will never have with Windows. So, it's important to start early if possible.

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Quoting: lucifertdark

Quoting: 0aTTThe elderly will never switch to Linux/SteamOS. No matter whether such a shooter appears for it or not.

When you say elderly how old do you mean?

I think it depends on the person. There are some people who keep their childlike curiosity up to their old age. But most people will not change their operating system beyond their 20th birthday. That is my experience.

IMHO its important to familiarize children before puberty with Linux and the PC. Games help greatly, because these are the main applications of children. Children are also not fixed on certain games, as long as there are just enough games on a platform. Steam and Linux are perfect. Minecraft is, of course, the most important Game for all children I know.

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Quoting: sarmadWell, we have to admit. Valve tried to make Linux a viable gaming platform but they failed miserably at execution and it seems none of the major players in the industry is taking SteamOS seriously. Very sad. Though they did give Linux gaming a great push.

Valve know its customers. It's very rare that the kids do not find something on Steam for Linux. One week after Rocket League had appeared for Linux my nephew ask for it. Coincidence? The kids stick to their YouTubers and Twitch stars. And I think Valve is looking very closely what's going on there.

The elderly will never switch to Linux/SteamOS. No matter whether such a shooter appears for it or not.

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I've still with the latest 375 nvidia driver performance issues with ATTILA on my GTX 970 / i7 6700K system when I set everything to maximum. In some situations the frame rate drops to 10 fps or lower. At the same time the GPU utilization drops. Also there are constantly micro stuttering when I watch single units for example. I've read that there are the same problems exits under Windows.

The game uses the memory of the graphic card just below the 3.5 GB limit but only barely. Could maybe have something to do with it or not?

Even with lower settings I can make constant only 30 fps. I wonder if Warhammer has similar problems. So I have my doubts that you can play it with a GTX 970 with the best settings. Because I love the Total War series I'm already thinking about buying a new graphic card. But I'm unsure if this really helps. I'm wondering how well AMD cards perform with Linux. As before, most games do not run well with AMD cards or not?

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Wow, the first Brexit Game.

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Thank you for this article (mini series).

In the major journals you can often read Linux would have a worse game performance. But the games would run as well under Linux, if they were developed directly for it. This is not the case for economic reasons. We always need a port.

I think that with a game like Doom 2016 the differences would be hardly measurable, because it was developed for modern OpenGL/Vulkan. Bethesda could make an in-house port relative easily. That this does not happen, however, shows how complicated the gaming world is. There are many things that play a role. Technical and economic.

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Quoting: bubexeldoom! please! bethesda please give use some love...

The crazy thing is they just would have to omit Denuvo and Doom would run perfectly in Wine again. I would even buy it in this case and would certainly not be the only one. See Skyrim. However, cracks are probably a problem. I know some people who play cracked Games to a great extent. Nevertheless, I wonder whether copy protection such as Denuvo is an economic advantage in the long term.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: skinnyrafBTW., Valve does not need to do this to have any "clear proof". Just put some data identifying Steam Machines and/or SteamOS in telemetry they collect anyway - or modify the hardware survey to display on SteamOS.

I guarantee you that Valve knows to the person precisely how many people are using Linux/SteamOS to play games, but for whatever reason, they have chosen not to disclose that information, which is frustrating when I hear developers say they're not supporting Linux based on the Steam hardware survey.

It's a risk. But I think Square Enix, Warner, SEGA, 2K and other big publishers know what they are doing when they bring Games to Linux. I think they do not will bring all games to Linux, but definitely where it is worth it for them.

Others publishers do not publish for whatever reason. I'm most wondering about Bethesda and Doom 2016. They already have an OpenGL/Vulkan game. Even if they just would removed the additionally copy protection at some point, many penguins would buy the Game, just like Skyrim. SEGAs Total War: Warhammer has Denuvo too but will come to Linux. (And SEGA has to pay for the port of this DirectX Game.)

I guess Bethesda will pay for Denuvo forever (as long as they exist) even it just holding back people buying the game. In particular Bethesda was in the 90s already almost broke. They had good games but a bad management. Today they are financed (among others) by the Trump Clan. ;)

Thus, one must also assume that not all publishers decide rationally.

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