> Hopefully once the last OpenGL 4.4 part is finished, the developers can then focus on performance edge cases.

Not exactly. If you look down the bottom of https://mesamatrix.net/ [External Link] there's still a bunch of extensions that need implementing. There's also OpenGL ES 3.2 support which is missing three extensions. And of course improving Vulkan conformance is probably the biggest priority.

Still, it's both amazing and awesome that we are at a point where we are even having this discussion. :)

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I don't mind that they don't support Mesa when there is no stable release that meets the OpenGL requirements, and certainly no distribution with official Steam support which will be including it any time soon... but I do hope Feral updates the game requirements when Mesa is ready for a mainstream audience - probably when Ubuntu 17.04 arrives. It would suck to eventually see all these games only list Nvidia system requirements even when they work perfectly fine with Mesa on SteamOS and modern Ubuntu releases.

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Quoting: neowiz73This has to be oddest situation I've ever seen on Steam.
because I purchased the THQ Complete Pack - Winter sale 2012. Which had most if not all THQ games at the time, which included Saint's Row 2 as well as the WH40k games. When the port of Saint's Row 2, 3 and 4 was done, I was able to install and play SR2 perfectly fine.
But it would seem the WH40k games are unable to install at all. Considering THQ no longer exists, this has to be handled between Feral and Sega.
Which Feral Interactive is graciously assisting with.

This has to be the most awkward situation for Feral. hope all goes well for anyone else dealing with this situation.

I just went through my purchase history. Apparently I purchased DoW II retail back in Feb 2010, but then I later purchased "THQ Complete Pack - Winter sale 2012" which is how I got Retribution. Hence, same issue. I just e-mailed Feral support.

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> All done using the preset drop-down, with no additional tweaks to the settings.

Just ran a quick test of my own against Wine with Gallium on Nine (as I don't have DoW II installed under Windows). I did notice the Feral version cheats a bit. When I select the Ultra prefix under Wine, Antialiasing defaults to On. However when I try Feral's port, Antialiasing defaults to Off. So I thought I'd test both games at 2560x1440 on my Fury X with latest git mesa and Antialiasing manually disabled for all tests.

Wine:
Avg: 102.95
Max: 197
Min: 20.91

Port:
Avg: 97.2
Max: 193.61
Min: 52.78

The port comes very close to matching the performance of Wine, which is pretty good. However where Feral's port really shines is the minimum frame rate, which gets a significant performance bump. I've got a 144Hz monitor so I will notice a higher average frame rate, but what I'll notice much more is the frame rate dips of running under Wine.

Having said that, the Windows benchmark seems to have more action going on towards the end. There looks to be much more dust, textures on the ground from attacks, etc. Although that could just be my imagination since I didn't compare the two running side by side. Doubt there was anything there worth 30+ FPS.

So in short, from my quick tests, Feral's done a good job with this port.

Oh, and compared to the benchmarks from the article, it's great to see the free software drivers smash the proprietary Nvidia drivers at Ultra settings, especially considering that I tested at 2560x1440 on a cheaper card (Fury X is cheaper these days than a 980Ti) and the benchmarks in the article were only ran at 1920x1080. ^_^

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Quoting: neowiz73if you purchased the game when THQ still owned these games then your game key is not authorized for a Linux install. this was explained on the previous page by edddeduck_feral. you'll need to call or send an email support request through Feral Interactive in order to get it fixed, if this is the case with you as well.

I didn't think that would be the case, since my retail copy of the base game is definitely THQ and that downloaded fine. Only Retribution has the issue. Oh well, I'll contact Feral. Thanks.

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Quoting: lucifertdarkAm I the only one who has the missing executable error for Retribution?

No. The game doesn't download for me either. I just end up with an empty folder, even after verifying the game cache. "Missing executable" error each time I try to launch it. Hope it's fixed soon.

I'm on Debian Stretch, and the base game and Chasos Rising kept crashing on me too until I did the libasound.so* hack. So it's not just Arch affected by that problem.

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No Steam Controllers, Steam Machines or Steam Link hardware available to buy via Steam in Australia yet. The hardware has been out elsewhere for so long, that I doubt it'll ever be available outside of a select few countries.

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Quoting: liamdaweThe problem is the same as always, people will claim Wine is great, but in reality it fails miserably at too much. Even games rated "Platinum" often still require tweaks and end up having lots of issues. Native all the way.

Let's see...
https://systemsaviour.com/finished-games/ [External Link]
78 games "finished" (as in completed the single player campaign) under Wine. 56 games finished using native builds. Speaks for itself really.

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Quoting: liamdaweWine gaming is not Linux gaming and does not support Linux in any shape or form.

Some of us don't buy Windows games and I am sure plenty of us never even looked at this game before.

So what? Maybe some of us don't buy games to play under Wine that work perfectly under Wine, but look at the people posting comments here. Most people already own this game. You know what game most people won't have? Space Marine. Nobody buys games to play under Wine that don't work under Wine. Hence Space Marine should make more money for Feral Interactive, should satisfy more people running GNU/Linux, and should be better for GNU/Linux gaming in general.

Quoting: liamdaweIt's all about building up our library without having to resort to hacks like Wine, which never truly work properly.

Except a lot of the time they do work properly. Most of the time actually, if we're talking about D3D9 games.

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Why??!?!? These games all work perfectly under Wine. Have for a very long time.

If they wanted to truly release Warhammer games for a new audience, they should have ported Space Marine! That's a game that does not work under Wine, probably only because of copy protection.

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