Quoting: MagamoJust purchased this, and tried running it as I love these games. However, I can't seem to get it to go into fullscreen mode, despite every game having that option checked.

alt+f11 (should work in most WM's)

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and bought :) i have played the first one under wine and my friends own the 2nd and 3rd version so i bought 4 :) not sure when i can test this though as christmas is inbetween, need to organize some drink party to test it out :D

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Quoting: TcheyAlright, i tried it, and refunded for now, but i might rebuy very soon now i rethink about it, haha !

I thought it was too boring to drive around, as you can't set real road or fast travel stuff, and to reach some places you need to find unblocked ways, which are not many.

Too many rocks, cliff, holes, i needed to use "Unstuck" way too often, and at the end i even changed the options to set the timer to 20 seconds instead of few minutes.

Also the water is totally broken on my computer. At first i thought i was driving to a desert, then my car started to "fly" and react oddly, until i figured out i was actually floating on water. I can't see lake, only if i move the camera very close to the ground.

I love the design however, and the general setting, but i'm not sure i like being a car instead of a human-sized something. It means no interior, and no real feeling of scales.

Still, just to think about it now, i feel i want to play more, so i may rebuy it sooner than i thought...

As starting location you should go with desert, tempered forest or plains, less rocky hills, better to travel. later when you get your flying machines its no matter anymore though.

Water bug is known and developer is aware of this as well as the no stars issue on the nightsky (that part works with -force-vulkan but then it crashes a lot when you travel around)

This game is super slow at start of the game, before you find the perfect location for your outpost to get important beginner ores nearby. But once you get somewhere and build other outposts that trade the stuff into your main it gets going faster. Its a huge timesink game ofc still, specially when you play solo, without faction. But somehow in this game the "grind" is not that boring because you can explore and find artifacts, mark everything you might need for later game.

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over 80 hours played :D and still haven't seen the endgame :), ok we started fresh on GOL server also. but that 25% of content thats in the game beats most of the early access games and some finished games by miles already when it comes to stuff in the game.

really enjoying it.

thanks for the article. And thanks for including my simple gameplay video :)

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Quoting: ArdjeI see a game called The Isle but it doesn't advertise linux.
Looking in steamdb it actually has a build size equaling the windows build size.
I might buy a copy of that, and I might use the steamdb info to point out at wildcard that it's time to revisit vulkan again. They did a year ago, and it wasn't in a good shape then. If it is in a good shape now, it might be worth their while to upgrade the engine. That would be a big hell I guess as they now have a "very good" working network.
If they just postponed the release for another 2 years, nobody would be able to second guess an engine upgrade 8-D.

yeah they don't advertise linux version on the store page as its experimental. Well the whole game is.

Quoting: EhvisA few months ago I was reading on the UE4 forums a bit about the state of Vulkan. My interpretation of what was mentioned by those trying it, is that it is terribly slow (which is still the case with DX12 as well as far as I know). It was suggested that the whole engine is simply not suitable to take advantage of these new APIs and needs a lot of rebuilding. This is of course the case for pretty much all engines (I don't think Croteam beat its DX11 scores with Vulkan yet), but I got the impression that UE4 did much worse. If this is correct, it may take years before UE4 is in a state to work well with Vulkan.

While the avg framerates are same with OpenGL rendering, Vulkan one didn't have graphical glitches and it was ovrall smoother with frametimes.

like i said, i tested it around 2 months ago, don't know if it has changed by now

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Quoting: Ardjehe engine does not really support vulkan yet. Only vulkan on mobile, as they were contracted by Samsung to make this amazing vulkan demo to showcase the new API.
I think that was about it.
The support for DX12 probably is better than vulkan, while with vulkan they can achieve the same and have an enormous amount of targets... Especially if you realise that vulkan works starting from windows 7 and DX12 requires windows 10, and according to steam, windows 7 is the main platform
(Thanks China!).
Snail-Games is also Chinese, so they should push wildcard to support vulkan on windows 7.

How come they don't support Vulkan yet? There is a early access game called The Isle which has working Vulkan version on Linux. No issues last time i tested it (~2 months ago). Using UE4 ofc

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Quoting: PsychojauHi everyone. May I share another point of view with you ?

I'm working on an UE4 project. Since I've updated to 4.18.1 (I will try with last patch 18.2 but don't have big hopes), I can't even load the Editor with Vulkan (crash) or calculate the Lightmass (swarm agent crashed). okay, that's not perfect either on Windows where you can have nice BSODs when making the lightmass....
The real problem is the bad Linux support from Epic.
Do you know that we can't even use the launcher to download / compile some plugins for the editor under Gnu/Linux ? Oh, and if, as an example, you want to buy some trees or dungeon walls to an artist on the marketplace : too bad ! You can browser with your regular browser but not download ! You need the launcher !
I don't care about compiling (even if it's time consuming) but f**k ! They say they support Linux but it's not entirely true !

I understand your frustration but maybe Ark devs are not the culprit here... (or maybe they are, I don't know of course)

Thanks GamingOnLinux ;-)

they are, they still have old UE4.5 version, we are limited to opengl3.3, not even talking about vulkan but we dont have GL4.5 or anything. Visuals are broken and less pretty because of the older opengl version.
they give zero fucks... There are UE4 games that are out and working with Vulkan or Opengl4.5 just fine. So its no excuse. Also i think you are running non-stable release of UE4, so problems are expected.

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That is nice! Can't wait. Firewatch was amazing. The pacing was perfect, no story stretching or anything. I have high hopes for thisone as well. Hope they deliver same or even better experience with this.

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nice intervew :D never new about this podcast thing.

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i still havent noticed any difference in performance with drivers 375.x to 387.34. Havent tested Deus Ex though, but Total War Warhammer wasnt affected for me. I specially installed the old drivers to test out if drivers are issue why Rust is performing poorly compared to the performance in late Summer. Its pretty painfull to go back to those old drivers on Arch Linux though, have to downgrade kernel and whatnot :)
Somehow i have a feeling that Pascal GPUs are not affected by this.. or maybe because i have 8GB of Vram so i wont notice the drop.

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