There's simply too little information to reach any conclusion so I think we should stop discussing it ad nauseam.
Nothing good will come out of it.

Personally, I'm really happy both Wine and DXVK exist because it has really improved gaming on my favourite OS and I'm thankful to developers on both of these projects.

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Honestly the performance seems disappointing.
Just look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux998aNR9-Y [External Link]
Same GPU as yours and ultra settings (vs very high for you) and the framerate never dips below ~140fps vs ~70fps for you.

So what appears to be less than half the performance of Windows is not exactly great.
I've been used to a lot better performance of DXVK in other games.

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Do controllers work for anyone in this game?
I was really looking forward to playing this game in local multi but I unfortunately had to ask for a refund because it wouldn't recognize my XBox 360 controller nor my Wii u pro controller.
I tried adding LC_ALL=C to the launch command to no avail.
And all other games work fine with my controllers.
If anyone has an advice, I'm interested.

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Hey Liam, sorry to hear you can't run the game.

I've been pretty busy myself diving into this really good game lately (already 50 hours in and counting) and I don't have that many problems. It's actually very decent for an early access game.

I think your problem could come from the "ground texture quality" or the "ground display distance" (or whatever these settings are named: my UI is in French, so I'm not sure).
On my computer, anything higher than "low" for these settings rapidly freezes the game (though it does load).

I'm currently running everything on low/off except :

• grass density (very high)


• anisotropic filtering (on)


• shadow quality (medium)


• texture quality (very high)


• camera effects (shining on & sunshaft on)

With these settings, the game runs great most of the time.
I only have two big complaints so far:

• performance slows to a crawl (60fps -> 17fps) sometimes seemingly randomly (tough it happens mostly when traveling in vehicle). It's very strange because reloading the game fixes it... for a while. It seems Windows users are also experiencing this issue.


• In 3rd person view, when loading a game, the camera starts zoomed out even more than the max zoom out. This oftens leads to seeing nothing because the camera is actually inside the groung. Zooming out once and then painfully slowly zooming in fixes it though.

Edit: I recall now having the game freeze during the loading of the map! But it happened just once in so many times. And I'm not sure it was frozen: it may have taken what looked like forever to generate the world.

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Quoting: finaldestSteam supposedly had,

7 million users in January 2014
15 million users as of September 2017

Linux share has roughly halved during this time frame.

That's only the peak concurrent users, though one could make the case that it's representative of the global trend.
IIRC Steam has a total of around 150 millions users.

Monthly active users was at 67 millions this summer (https://www.geekwire.com/2017/valve-reveals-steams-monthly-active-user-count-game-sales-region/)
So that would make ~400k monthly active penguins ;)

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After seeing all the pessimistic comments, I just wanted to point out a few things:

- Mac marketshare declined too (by 0,3 points which is ~10% of their marketshare compared to a 5% drop for Linux)

- windows 10 marketshare dropped by almost 5 points (that's almost 10 times Linux marketshare!) while windows 7 gained nearly 6 points: clearly people are not that happy about windows 10, which is good news

- /r/linux_gaming on Reddit just broke past 50k subscribers which would indicate that the absolute number of Linux gamers is actually growing. It's just that the gaming market as a whole is getting *much* bigger (probably due to China): we're no longer small fries in the sea, but small fries in the ocean ;)

- Valve does not seem to push Linux recently but to be fair they kinda have to wait for their previous efforts (Vulkan, help with AMD drivers, SDL, etc.) to bear fruits before making another push. Just think that Unity only offered Vulkan as a stable backend very recently. And no game has yet activated it and no other game engine has stable support. These things unfortunately take time.

- currently, moving to Linux for gaming is not an easy endeavour. So most people moving are doing it for a good reason (I know I do). So they are unlikely to go back to Windows on a whim which would suggest again that our numbers are growing, just not as fast as the overall gaming market.

As far as I'm concerned, there's no going back to windows. I'm done with that crappy software that is also now an unstable rolling release with spyware included.
There are enough games on Linux *now* for me to play for a very long time (just with Civ 5 I'm clocking in at nearly 800 hours :whistle: ).

Feral doesn't seem to want to stop porting to our platform nor does any of the usual suspects among the developers (Klei, Paradox, Frozenbytes, Kalypso, etc.), Wine's DX11 support is seeing serious progress and should be in very good shape next year, engines are making it ever easier to port to Linux, AMD driver are finally getting there (just think how crazy that one alone would have seemed 2-3 years ago) and, yes, Valve will even release a new game (artefact)!

So chill out and happy Tux gaming everyone ^_^
And thanks to all the people that make it possible (@ Feral, Aspyr, Paradox, Unity, Valve, AMD, VP, NVidia, Klei,...) <3

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There you have it, the reason why I buy everything on Steam.
Valve is not perfect, far from it, but they do care about Linux.
CDProjekt simply doesn't.
They're just like EA (Origin), Blizzard (Battle.net) and Ubisoft (UPlay): ready to be eaten alive by the microsoft store. And seeing as they do nothing about it: they fully deserve it.

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That would be an odd reason to cancel a port.
Having to deal with awful customers is quite unfortunately part of most businesses.

I think it's way more likely that CDPR isn't interested in Linux anymore, now that the prospect of steam machines taking a big chunk of the market is gone.
Typical short-sightedness of a shareholder owned company: don't want to invest now into Linux and will have to pay the MS Store tax down the road.

That's why I only buy on Steam. It's not the perfect store, but it's our best bet for Linux gaming to really take off.
No other company really invest/support Linux gaming (aside from porters, especially Feral).

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Quoting: STiATHey, great you care! And no, passing moderation to the community is no real option. The solution you found is .. well, annoying for new users probably, but well thought. I hope it does not disencourage new users, but thats pretty much all of my concern.

But that's how reddit works and it works great IMO.
That said for a small community like ours it's probably not needed.
I'm a bit surprised though to hear about toxicity and problems like that as I've never really experienced it on the comments. Or it was so minor that I don't even remember about it.
But maybe it IS because it's been tackled early on that I didn't see it ;)

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Great, another Total War game :O
Linux is really becoming strategyOS :S:

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