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Latest Comments by Xpander
DiRT Rally also looks like it's coming to SteamOS & Linux
7 Mar 2016 at 5:43 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: ProfessorKaos64The Dirt games are easily one of my favorite racing series!
not mine, but this Dirt is not the same arcade stuff that you get in your regular Dirt Series

Dirt Rally is more into the area of Richard Burns Rally.

DiRT Rally also looks like it's coming to SteamOS & Linux
7 Mar 2016 at 5:34 pm UTC Likes: 1

OMFG

YES!!!!

I want it now!

What game would you most like to see on Linux this year?
29 Feb 2016 at 11:16 am UTC

Dirt Rally, The Culling, Far Cry Primal (though its ubicrap game)

Tomb Raider really does look like it's coming to Linux & SteamOS
11 Feb 2016 at 6:55 pm UTC Likes: 5

Looks like Feral again :D or at least they are helping
i see under branches:

feral_external_test_team External Test Access Group

BattlEye anti-cheat now supports Linux, already live in ARK: Survival Evolved
11 Feb 2016 at 4:27 pm UTC Likes: 1

afaik apple supports 4.1, so i dont really see problem there.

4.3+ would be the best though. compute shaders and stuff.

afaik devs want to switch to Vulkan as fast as possible when the UE4 builds with it will be made public. thats what i gathered from the AMA they did

BattlEye anti-cheat now supports Linux, already live in ARK: Survival Evolved
11 Feb 2016 at 1:29 pm UTC

Quoting: dubigrasu
Quoting: Xpandermissing true sky, tesselation and ground clutter - those features are missing from linux version

and yeah its the reason it runs better, you can achieve same graphical detail on windows when you add
-sm4 to the launch options
Gotcha Xpander, good info.
I guess is a good test case for a benchmark. Not sure if ARK has a running demorec feature.
If UE4 has then it might have.. console is available in ARK.. unless they specially disabled that feature ofc

edit: also if you look closely at that video you linked, you see that windows version has lots of clouds compared to linux version as well as ground is cluttered with more stuff, specially noticable near rocks or on the beach.

Tempest, a good looking pirate ship combat game looks like it's coming to Linux
11 Feb 2016 at 1:16 pm UTC Likes: 3

looks good. i was so tempted to buy windward but that topdown view really puts me off sometimes :)
Tempest looks great.

BattlEye anti-cheat now supports Linux, already live in ARK: Survival Evolved
11 Feb 2016 at 1:13 pm UTC Likes: 1

missing true sky, tesselation and ground clutter - those features are missing from linux version

and yeah its the reason it runs better, you can achieve same graphical detail on windows when you add
-sm4 to the launch options

BattlEye anti-cheat now supports Linux, already live in ARK: Survival Evolved
11 Feb 2016 at 11:33 am UTC

Quoting: BeamboomHow is the performance of ARK these days? I recall it was pretty bad around launch?
its still not great, but its a lot better, when you live(ingame, not real life :) ) in snowy areas its really good actually, 50-80 fps and thats pretty much everything maxed except shadows, but other areas are around 30-50 fps and super huge bases make fps drop down to 20.

the strange thing is that i dunno what they use for the ingame HUD but when you turn that off with backspace key, you pretty much just gain +10 fps - reminds me a bit of those flash UIs .. what was it called scaleform?

edit: ok seems that battleye have killed the performance even more.. ~-5 fps