Quoting: GuestIf Feral mentioned AMD R9 270 in the minimal requirements, that possibly means that OpenGL is at least an option. They usually don't test Vulkan-only games on these old cards.

We do test Vulkan games on them, we just don't officially support them because it requires you to manually switch over to the amdgpu kernel module and support for the older cards there is still considered experimental.

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Quoting: afettouhiDoes the game still freeze if an application in the background steals focus like Telegram etc.? Or has that been fixed?

NVIDIA driver 396.24.02 (https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver [External Link] should fix that.

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Quoting: MagicMythWell I've just been playing the game for the last few hours on a GCN 1.0 card: R7 370 2GB and its been working out great. The only bug I came across was with the fancy hair option making Lara's hair go punk most of the time. Turning that setting off avoids the issue and gives a good speed boost as well. I've not noticed any slow downs on Medium plus some extra bits turned on (Tessellation, Sun lighting). The resolution technically is "low" at 1360x768 as that is the TV's native resolution.

So yes GCN 1.0 hardware does work fine so long as you have the amdgpu kernel driver enabled (FYI I'm using Linux 4.16 on a Intel [email protected]).

The hair issue should be fixed on Mesa git or 18.0.1.

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Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTCould someone who has the chance to please post Windows vs Linux benchmarks after it has been released?

I recently made some benchmarks on Windows, including multi-GPU but I can't find the results right now :S:

If you do, it would be nice to have a comparison with the same system and Linux. (:

These are all @ 1080p high. Normally I would run the game @ 1440p very high though.

DX11 Single-GPU 91.97fps

DX12 Single-GPU 102.99fps

DX11 Multi-GPU 124.50fps

DX12 Multi-GPU 107.44fps

Linux Vulkan Single-GPU 60.84fps

Quite a bit of performance loss for the port compared to liamdawe's Nvidia-machine.

I'm running a Ryzen 1700X, 32GiB DDR4-2400 cl14 and two Sapphire Nitro R9 Fury's on Debian Sid with kernel 4.15, Mesa 17.3.8 and CPU governor set to performance.

As a sanity check, was Linux run with vsync disabled (just asking seeing as it's 60)? Also, same AA setting between both Linux and Windows as well?

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Quoting: linux_gamerI will call it a success if I will be able to see the loading screen with my setup.
Probably I will need to upgrade my driver first.

Shame that it looks like we'll be requiring a beta driver to play it :-\

Last time I ran a game (probably SoM) from Feral it worked well with an older driver than "needed", maybe they just want to be sure.

I'd strongly recommend that you do use 396.18.

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Quoting: KuJoHmm. Won't be playable for me. I have an R9 280, which is the second generation of GCN. According to the specifications, however, at least a 3rd generation card is required.

*I´m sad!*

That's the reason why I can't play F1.

I must be thinking about a new graphics card. If only they weren't so expensive at the moment because of the whole mining mania...

It's likely that it'll work on that card, it's just not officially supported. Part of the reason for not supporting 1st and 2nd gen cards is that they require switching from radeon to amdgpu to get Vulkan support, and amdgpu is still not fully stable for them.

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Quoting: Avehicle7887Excuse my confusion, is this new shader compiler for Vulkan only or also for OpenGL?

It's a new SPIR-V compiler, so I believe it'll be used for GL apps using the GL_ARB_gl_spirv extension to use SPIR-V shaders, but I don't think there's many (any?) using that right now since it's a recent extension.

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Quoting: FredOThis last update unfortunately broke the Vulkan renderer for me - just flashing colors all over the screen with Nvidia 384.90. OpenGL still works fine though.

Could you see if the 387 driver series works? It looks like it may only affect 384 and below.

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I said to use the NVIDIA installer "if necessary" :) Definitely if there's a PPA or whatever available then it'd be better to use that. I just meant to install it manually if you have no better option to get that version.

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Quoting: scaineYou've got to be joking, right? Installing drivers... from a website? Not having to deal with that, ever, is one of Linux's greatest joys.

But when there are issues with the older drivers that can cause game crashes/system hangs? In some cases it's just not feasible for us to try to deal with that, and we have to require a newer driver.

384 is NVIDIA's current long-term support series, 375 is no longer even supported as far as I know. If Debian is shipping that, then they're shipping unsupported software.

Quoting: scaineMore seriously, the last time I tried to install Nvidia's driver from their website, I gave up. It's a weird process involving downloading a tarball, extracting, setting executable, running, specifying a bunch of parameters, and the end result is... a DEB file! Which you have to install?! Which breaks your graphics driver PPA probably. And then you get a black screen and now what? Low graphics mode, purge nvidia-*, reboot, install stock driver. Or try again. So seriously, no thanks.

I installed the NVIDIA driver using their installer earlier today on Ubuntu and it worked fine? Disable the PPA driver first, blacklist nouveau, and then run the NVIDIA installer.

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