Latest Comments by Brisse
The Linux beta of Arma 3 has been updated to 1.82
25 July 2018 at 10:53 am UTC Likes: 1

It's a bit of a shame that 1.84 is just around the corner for Windows users. I'm willing to bet they release it next thursday, so if you want to play in a crowded multiplayer-environment, you better do it now while you can. Nice to see they keep updating the ports though. I hope it releases without the experimental tag one day.

Company of Heroes 2 is now officially supported on AMD GPUs on Linux
24 July 2018 at 3:58 pm UTC Likes: 1

And while they are updating older games, what about Wayland support? GNOME on x.org hasn't even been working for me after x.org 1.20 update earlier this year. I've had lots of problems with games running through xwayland. RotTR for example freezes at the splash screen before I even get to the main menu. Lots of games have huge frame-rate issues when using xwayland. I think the only game that runs well for me right now is Borderlands 2.

Edit; Okay, I just tried CoH2 for the first time in a while and it runs very well through xwayland.

Company of Heroes 2 is now officially supported on AMD GPUs on Linux
24 July 2018 at 3:51 pm UTC

Never had any problems, but it's nice to not have to see that popup about unsupported graphics every time I launch it :)

Life is Strange: Before the Storm is officially coming to Linux, port from Feral Interactive
28 May 2018 at 4:03 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: lucifertdarkWhich order should I play them in once this one arrives? I have the original & haven't played past deciding whether to save the bully from a paint shower or just let it happen.

Yea, go back and finish the original first. And if you haven't gotten past Victoria on the stairs yet then you haven't seen anything really, so you are in for a good rollercoaster once things starts unfolding :)

Rise of the Tomb Raider is now officially available on Linux, here’s a look at it with benchmarks
25 April 2018 at 5:50 pm UTC

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoAbout the kernel, according to Ubuntu Sysinfo, this is what I have 4.4.0-121-generic (#145~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 16 18:40:43 UTC 2018)

Feature wise, that's a kernel from fall 2015 but with current security fixes. That's probably fine for a Haswell system but wouldn't work well on more modern hardware. I don't think the kernel is to blame for your segfaults though. That's probably the fault of some userspace components, but that means upgrading your distro is the solution either way.

Bionic Beaver is running on Linux 4.15 which has already had 18 point releases and should be pretty stable by now. I actually upgraded a Haswell based laptop from 17.10 to 18.04 a few days ago and it's running fine. Yesterday I did the same upgrade on an even older laptop and it's running fine as well. 17.10 had some issues, but there was so much that was new in 17.10 and it was basically an experiment to get things right for 18.04, and it seems they did manage to get it right this time. They reverted Wayland back to x.org which fixes a lot of issues, so they are actually being quite conservative with Bionic and treating it like an LTS should be treated.

Rise of the Tomb Raider is now officially available on Linux, here’s a look at it with benchmarks
25 April 2018 at 4:49 pm UTC

Quoting: donbastianoJust upgrade to 18.04 (Unity desktop) but the game still doesn't start, it crashes with signal 6 ("System does not support 3D API required by this Game!" ) after the Feral launcher said the graphic card or the driver is not supported. I think I have problem with vulkan, does anyone know what can I check?

Mesa: 18.0.0-rc5
Radeon RX 570 Series (POLARIS10 / DRM 3.23.0 / 4.15.0-20-generic, LLVM 6.0.0)


Running vulkaninfo

Vulkan Instance Version: 1.1.70
Cannot create Vulkan instance.
/build/vulkan-Kbdbga/vulkan-1.1.70+dfsg1/demos/vulkaninfo.c:768: failed with VK_ERROR_INCOMPATIBLE_DRIVER

Are you sure you have the mesa vulkan drivers installed?
sudo apt install mesa-vulkan-drivers

Rise of the Tomb Raider is now officially available on Linux, here’s a look at it with benchmarks
25 April 2018 at 9:58 am UTC

Quoting: Eike
Quoting: g000hOff Topic:

One thing I have been doing and intending to do more of, in the future - When installing the Linux distro, I use LVM to chop the file-system up into separate volumes, and I set up the home directory on its own volume, and I also leave free space in the Volume Group, for adding more Logical Volumes later.

By doing this, I can add multiple distros onto the same machine, with each one potentially using the same Swap volume and Home directory volume.

I'm not sure this is a good plan. Lots of appliction configurations lie in the home directory somewhere. While applications should be able to cope when you're changing to a newer version, accessing them from a distro with an older version may lead to trouble.

Yep. I've run into trouble before when copying my home folder between different computers running different distros. Solved it by removing all configuration files in the home folder, but that might not always be desirable.

Rise of the Tomb Raider is now officially available on Linux, here’s a look at it with benchmarks
25 April 2018 at 9:01 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo
Quoting: BrissePlease take my advice and upgrade to the Bionic Beaver as soon as possible, and no later than 18.04.1. By using outdated software you are actually causing yourself more headaches than any potential upgrade issue would cause you. The issues you describe in your recent posts are evidence enough of that.

Quoting: DanglingPointerThe game isn't broken, I haven't had a single crash or error and I'm using a GCNv1.1 card on Mesa using 16.04.4!

If they aren't production servers and you're playing "games" on them, improve your life and upgrade to the next Ubuntu LTS.
Then install Ukuu and install the latest Canonical compiled stable mainline kernel. See the word "stable" in there? Its stable for desktop use for 90% of everyone.
Get the latest Padoka Stable PPA to get the latest Mesa.
Then your life is improved and say good-bye to all your segmentation cr@p.

You should be afraid of your setup now with errors and crashes, not upgrading which gets rid of all of them.

Ok, You convinced me.. Im gonna upgrade.. But if after the reboot one of my programs (like Crossover) refuses to work or If I have to reinstall anything, Im gonna be veeery mad with the Linux world...
I'm gonna be very upset if I have to login to all my social stuff again or if I lost all my Firefox tabs..

By the way. There are THREE user accounts on this machine and I don't want to lost anything.

Keeping a backup of everything is also a good idea. Ideally, always have a recent backup, but if you don't then it's especially important before diving into a full system upgrade.

Rise of the Tomb Raider is now officially available on Linux, here’s a look at it with benchmarks
24 April 2018 at 8:39 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo
Quoting: jens
Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoSomething is wrong here..
They can not recommend a non LTS distro... A non LTS version is no more than a BETA.

The game must be the broken one, because I am not the only one with this SISSEGV (11) Segmentation Fault thing.

Well, I haven't had a single crash here, Fedora 27 fully updated with Nvidia drivers and Steam from Negativo17. Sorry to hear that you got such problems.

The only time I had crashes (on startup) with Feral games was with DX-MD. I tried to reproduce the crashes on a system they support on a spare disk. I could reproduce the issue and opened a support ticket. Turns out my CPU was to old. I rightfully got indeed the message in the launcher that my CPU was unsupported ;). I would advise to take the same approach.

While I recognize that it is time for me for to upgrade from my trusty Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS to Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS.. But I will Never upgrade to a non LTS... I will try 18.04 months later, when it became mature; Every new LTS Ubuntu has some problems.

I have afraid to brake something in the upgrade process...

While I do understand why someone would do things this way, especially on some sort of production system, server or whatever, I do think you are grossly exaggerating. You should have upgraded to 16.04 a looong time ago unless there are known problems that you knew would affect you. The first point release would have been a good place if you are really conservative about upgrading.

Personally, I'm gonna stick to my rolling release distros. Debian Sid on my desktop, Arch on my laptop. They do require a little bit more attention and management but it's totally worth it in the end, and they are actually surprisingly stable considering they aren't exactly advertised as such.

Please take my advice and upgrade to the Bionic Beaver as soon as possible, and no later than 18.04.1. By using outdated software you are actually causing yourself more headaches than any potential upgrade issue would cause you. The issues you describe in your recent posts are evidence enough of that.

Rise of the Tomb Raider for Linux to release tomorrow, April 19th
19 April 2018 at 4:55 pm UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: rkfgHave you tried with only one GPU? I heard this SLI/CrossFire thing doesn't work good on Linux if at all.

Pretty sure it doesn't support multi-GPU on Linux and is only using one of them. There's actually a setting in the launcher which lets me select which one to use but there's no way to select both.

Edit: Whoa! I noticed it was running on my secondary GPU. Seen this happen in Vulkan apps before. I switched it over to my primary and got a nice performance boost. 1080p@high is now 73.64fps which still isn't as much as Windows, but certainly better than 60fps.