Very good news for a very good game. Was waiting desillusionally for that game on linux. :)

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Zenimax are the one responsible for degrading quake live over the years. The game was originally a plugin for firefox, and was compatible with mac and linux. When zenimax took over ID software, it end up with a bad launcher instead of a plugin, no more playable in a browser, then then they add noob physics for beginner, new unbalance and useless weapon, then they removed the classic voice from the game "humiliation" "you are tied for the lead" "impressive" "two frags in two seconds, excellent", and after that they dropped linux and mac, and to screw the game to the end, they removed the quake launcher and made quake live steam only, and removed all the benefits you had from premium membership, to finally make the free to play a 10€ game with 0 support and the community has to do all the work.

Next goal seems to be definitly ruining quake fair and balanced gameplay with quake champions (mix of overwatch and quake). They are the one responsible for no more linux support and no more linux/mac games from ID software. If zenimax did not exist we would definitly have a linux version for the last DOOM on day 1.

Zenimax has turned ID software into a ennemy of creativity. While in the past they were trully pionneer of open source and cross platform games.

I hate them. Just because they are not creative and can't make money of an indie game they have to put pressure on them, instead of helping the guy working on a original reboot of their very aging license.

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Witcher 3, dirt rally, rainbow six siege

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Thanks a lot Feral for another great game ported to Linux, and thanks Liam for the report.

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?

Have you tried vsync on or off?

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Is there a possibility to limit the game to constant 30 fps?

Yes there is double and triple buffering old school options in the vsync tab. It's hard to describe but the fps tends to be stable wherever you go. It's just that in some place you will get stable 30fps with whatever settings, and other place like elevator it will climb to 80/100fps. In Praha it's a tiny 30fps average, and most of other place it's around 40 or more.

Similar to Tomb raider port, when the fps drops below 30fps it still looks somehow smoother than the windows version. I'd even say the game at 30fps will look as smooth as on ps4 (with slightly better graphics).

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I recently got into the feral spiral and I dit not know about other titles! It's even better :) I was also commenting as Feral has asked canonical if they could get MESA official ppa which would be awesome if they can support it.

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I'm on nvidia, but I applaud Feral for their first release supporting MESA open source driver! It is another great step for linux gaming opened by our beloved cheetah :)

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I plan to buy DEUS: EX the next days. I've a GTX 970. How is the performance, what settings should I choose?

I have a GTX970 as well. The min fps is around 30, and won't climb very high appart in some certain location. But between normal settings and my custom settings, fps don't drop more than normal.
It will drop down in some places, a bit less but getting a constant 60fps is utopic on ultra settings even on windows with a GTX1070.

The game is completly playable on GTX970 with these settings:

-Texture Quality = Very High
-Texture Filtering (Anisotropic)= 8
-Shadow Quality = Medium
-Contact Hardening Shadows = Off
-Temporal Anti Aliasing = On
-Motion Blur = Off
-Depth of Field = Off
-Bloom = On
-Lens Flare = Off
-Volumetric Lighting = On
-Surface Scatering = On
-Cloth Physics = On
-Ambient Occlusion = On
-Tessalation = Off
-Parallax Occlusion Mapping = High
-Screenspace Reflections = On
-Sharpen = On
-Chromatic Aberration = Off
-Level of Detail = Very High

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Hopefully it may reduce frame drop that was occuring on some of feral ports (tomb raider and mad max). On deus ex I haven't really encountered it yet compared to the other two ports, appart in some cutscenes.

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I'm on Mint to try it, I'm a bit noob with linux, but I have used debian and Xubuntu before, and never was totally satisfied with the 5.1. I picked mint because on the live image, in the audio panel there was a 5.1 sound test for every speakers. How does it work I have not clue, I thought the 5.1 would just be like most of the time on windows a 2.1 spread to other speakers way of 5.1, which is kindof the case on like youtube and other stuff, but not in Deus EX.

On Deus Ex I hear background noises in rear speaker and (apologize if this is not clear, i'm not english :p): the way the sound distance travels between my ears and the level of each ones for me seems almost 100% 5.1 surround working. I came a couple of time to thanks and congratulate feral for that (if I'm not mistaken it would still the best audio balance I've heard on linux), because it works as it should, and as it would on windows pretty much. I'm on integrated chipset.

MSI P67A-C45 for the motherboard.

If you still read, I will try to come later to show you on screenshot, or check the libs. (I'm not on my gaming pc right now.)

edit: I'm not on HMDI, but could HDMI audio link be depending of official graphic drivers or specific library?

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