And also Mr. Developer, Vulkan, as in the Vulkan graphics API is spelled with 'k', not 'c'.

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Quoting: LinasRunning a risk of looking like a total noob, but how do you install RADV? Does it come with Mesa?

On Ubuntu you have to install the package 'mesa-vulkan-drivers'

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Quote, for those of you who've updated to Mesa 17.2, how's it going?

Had some serious problems (<1fps, even at menus, unplayable) with the 17.2 release candidates and Deus Ex Mankind Divided on Ubuntu 17.04, but now I'm at Ubuntu 17.10 which comes with mesa 17.2.2 and it's working really well. Haven't retried DE:MD though, because I beat the game and uninstalled it before moving to Ubuntu 17.10.

Using mesa with an R9 Fury.

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Quoting: TheRiddickI did have performance issues at the time in certain areas because I insist on running 4k on my FuryX which is really pushing it (some areas run 20fps despite what the benchmark might claim).

It's not your PC, it's the port. I'm running a Fury at 1440p and played this game on Windows back when it came out. Actually I think I had just a R9 290X back then, but the game was butter smooth no matter what. On Linux, there are performance issues in big open areas and whenever there is a big smoke pillar visible on the screen. Those issues are not present on the Windows version.

Also played RotTR before ditching Windows. Fury at 1440p with very high graphics using DX12 and Freesync. No performance issues and the game looked absolutely gorgeous. One of the best looking games to date in my opinion.

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STOP PRE-ORDERING

There's absolutely no point in pre-ordering, especially when using digital distribution such as Steam. It doesn't benefit you as a consumer one bit and it's always risky.

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RotTR was published by Micro$oft and was even XBox exclusive at launch. Due to this I didn't think it would ever be ported to Linux, but if it is, then AWESOME. It's a good game. A worthy follow up to 2013 TR which was also a good game. Its just sad that a lot of good games has to be haunted by bad practises from big publishers with crap such as platform exclusivity, micro-transactions, in-game gambling, pre-order bonuses etc...

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Quoting: AnjuneI found a workaround that works here: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/70k7t9/mad_max_wont_run_on_slackwarecurrent_steam/

Basically, cd to the game's lib directory and run ln -s x86_64 . -- worked with Life is Strange and Shadow of Mordor, haven't tried any others yet.

Edit: Tried on Ubuntu 17.10

Thanks! Worked for all my currently installed Feral games, including Dirt Rally which I recently bought and haven't played yet so that makes me really excited :)

Oh, and the last line should be
$ ln -s x86_64/* .
Didn't work without the asterix for me.

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Quoting: AnjuneYep, me.

I was in contact with someone at Feral and they were kind enough to report the bug to Canonical, and apparently it's been fixed upstream, but that fix has yet to make it's way into Ubuntu. Should only be a matter of time though.

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Feral games stopped working for me on Ubuntu 17.10 a few days ago. Remembered this article and suspected the issue might be related, however, the workaround provided does not work for me. Anyone else with Ubuntu 17.10 who have run into issues lately?

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Quoting: TheRiddickThe only HUGE issue I found was the texture size problem, which is partly opengl 32 bit issue, and in early days MESA only partially worked (moving too close to landmass would crash game). But both those issues are fixed now I believe.

ATM I'm waiting for video card prices to stabilize, either I get a Vega NANO if the price is right or a 1080Ti MINI. But atm its looking like a XMAS sort of thing due to price hikes on allot of memory prices and stock shortages. BAD time to upgrade, so my Fury X will need to keep chugging on....

Just don't expect too see any improvement in Arma 3 from a video card upgrade. If you have a Fury X, then you are guaranteed CPU starved 9 out of 10 times in this game already. Arma 3 is quite different from other games when it comes to how it uses hardware. The most important thing to get this game running smooth is massive single threaded IPC * frequency. It doesn't care how many cores you have, and it barely cares about what video card you have either.

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