Quoting: trawzThat's really nice, I hope that sometime AMD will support G-Sync Displays aswell. I'm very happy with my Dell S2417DG, but it would suck to lose functionality if I want to switch to an AMD card.

G-Sync is proprietary and the chances of AMD being able to support it is basically NULL even if they wanted to.

Good to see the open standard is prevailing.

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Quoting: NeverthelessWhy there is a lot industry interest in Linux gaming is a mystery to me, but I would guess it's not our current 0,8% on Steam! ;-)

Streaming? Game consoles could one day be just thin clients with games being streamed from datacenters running Linux.

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This one surprised me a bit...

1. Performance. Vulkan on linux (driver wise) is...not very mature.

...but perhaps this explains it...

No idea. I’ll try to find to find out. I’m a total Linux novice myself.

...no offence intended.

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Quoting: Thetargos

Quoting: mylka

Quoting: CFWhitman

Quoting: mylkathis game doesnt even have 200 players and is almost 3yrs old

https://steamdb.info/app/507490/graphs/ [External Link]

why are they making a linux port?

i am not complaining, but i dont get it. RUST has over 40.000 players and they drop linux support
https://steamdb.info/app/252490/graphs/ [External Link]

ARMA 3
https://steamdb.info/app/107410/graphs/ [External Link]
over 12000.... dropped linux

i just dont get it

In my experience, publishers with smaller audiences are more likely to seek additional buyers on other systems. If a game has 40,000 players, the publisher says, "Who needs Linux? We've got 40,000 players. Cancelling support will alienate Linux users? Meh, who cares? It's not worth the support headache." On the other hand if a game has 1,500 players, the publisher says, "Where else can we look for buyers? Will Linux and/or Mac support really cost us that much more?"

what you are saying is big companies dont want more money.
that makes no sense to me.

Still ActiVision/Vivendi(Blizzard), EA, Ubisoft, et al seem to not want more money... even though Square Enix has shown good faith examples.

They're too busy implementing gambling mechanics and micro-transactions into their games to care about Linux. That's sadly where the big money is. Yes, it's dystopia.

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Quoting: mylkalets take tomb raider. this game is already 50% off and it runs with proton and they still make a linux version

I tried the demo on Proton and while it works, it's not exactly great. I wouldn't play the entire game like that. I had a few crashes and pretty bad performance. Feral will deliver a much better experience with their port and I fully intend to buy it whenever they release it.

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Quoting: CFWhitmanOn Windows, this is just another RTS, but on Linux it might be the RTS.

Maybe for some people it could be, but I can think of a whole bunch of RTS games that we already have and are much more interesting.

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Games I've enjoyed this year, in no particular order, regardless of release year, and including things I used Proton for:

• The Long Dark


• NieR: Automata


• Dark Souls


• Dark Souls II: SotFS


• Dark Souls III


• Doki Doki Literature Club


• Tacoma


• Borderlands 2


• The Red Strings Club


• Rise of the Tomb Raider


• Life is Strange: Before the Storm


• Hollow Knight

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Quoting: pete910To be honest I hope they optimise the **** out of their Vulkan render to show DX12 up :D

No qualms in waiting for the Linux port if that's what they do!

Their Vulkan renderer has been available for a while on Windows as an alternative to d3d12, and IIRC performance is similar. Great for Windows 7 users who don't have access to d3d12.

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Am I mad for not taking a look yet?

We are in the same boat, but I'm very tempted to try this one. It's just that I have so many other games which I am in the middle of right now.

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Played several hours of survival mode yesterday. No new issues for me as an AMD user. The game is 100% playable and enjoyable but there are some minor issues which existed previous to the patch as well. More specifically, every now and then (once per minute or so?) the screen flashes with a colourful corrupt frame. Just one frame though, so it disappears quickly and doesn't really affect gameplay beyond being slightly annoying. The other issue is that I've had a couple of crash to desktop. I had one yesterday. All in all I would guess I've had three or four throughout my 85 hours of total gameplay.

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