Quoting: scaine

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Really sorry folks, I hope you'll have the chance to experience Narita Boy on another platform somewhere down the line.

Yeah... that's really not going to happen though is it? Who'd trust a dev team this incompetent, even on another platform? If it ever hits Humble Choice, I might play it, since I get all 12 games anyway. Give them actual money though? Nope.

Sad to see things like that. I thought that Team 17 would be a great company delivering native linuxgames. But after a few supported titles they turned their back on linuxgaming as it seems.

As far as i am concerned i don't want to enjoy a game on another plattform. Linux is my daily driver like Windows is for a windowsuser. Gaming is just one usecase and i will not install another OS or turn to consolegaming because of one certain game or application.

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Quoting: torhamLooks good, but doesn't appear to support LAN multiplayer? I feel like you really need LAN support these days, who can invite friends over for couch coop?

As long as they are staying two metres away from you and wearing masks ;-)

Sadly there are a lot of games released lately that do not offer online multiplayer and instead went for Steam Remoteplay support. The experience has been mostly pretty bad at least on my end.

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Looks promising. It is great to have this on linux natively. However since there is no online multiplayer planned for this title it is not that attractive given the actual pandemic situation.

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The game is now in good shape on linux. The Vulkan renderer works very well with my AMD Radeon RX 5700 and MESA despite the fact that the game officially still requires the proprietary AMD drivers. However it still crashes for me when i quit to the desktop.

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Quoting: ripper81358

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Quoting: ripper81358Good news, at least for those hosting their games on Windows or on linux with an Nvidia GPU. Linuxusers owning an AMD GPU are still out of luck with steam remoteplay because it is still lacking GPU based hardwareencoding for videostreams via VAAPI.

Streaming fine from an Ubuntu KVM guest using an AMD graphics card (soft encoding works fine) :smile:

Softwareencoding might work on a system with a more highend CPU and a wired networkconnection. In my case it stopped working in a decent way after switching from Nvidia to AMD. Since remoteplay was never an ideal solution for me because of several games not working correctly i stopped using it. I am connecting my rig directly to my A/V Receiver for now.

You do need more CPU horsepower, yes, but it does work - your post stated it didn't :smile:

Yes it can work but the chance to get it running across different hardwareconfigurations are way more limited with an AMD GPU because of the lack of gpubased videoencoding. So since VAAPI is able to do h264 encoding it should be enabled for steam remoteplay.

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Quoting: libgradev

Quoting: ripper81358Good news, at least for those hosting their games on Windows or on linux with an Nvidia GPU. Linuxusers owning an AMD GPU are still out of luck with steam remoteplay because it is still lacking GPU based hardwareencoding for videostreams via VAAPI.

Streaming fine from an Ubuntu KVM guest using an AMD graphics card (soft encoding works fine) :smile:

Softwareencoding might work on a system with a more highend CPU and a wired networkconnection. In my case it stopped working in a decent way after switching from Nvidia to AMD. Since remoteplay was never an ideal solution for me because of several games not working correctly i stopped using it. I am connecting my rig directly to my A/V Receiver for now.

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Good news, at least for those hosting their games on Windows or on linux with an Nvidia GPU. Linuxusers owning an AMD GPU are still out of luck with steam remoteplay because it is still lacking GPU based hardwareencoding for videostreams via VAAPI.

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Quoting: uglyAs I mentioned in the bug report, I tested the mesa branch that has a potential fix and it resolves the ambient occlusion flickering.

I am only using stable MESA Releases. I don't want to deal with the regressions and bugs of development drivers. It will take sometime until this patch is merged into a stable MESA Release so for now i will go with the workaround for Unity 3D games that are affected by the flickering issue.

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Using this startcommand in steam should fix the flickering in wasteland 3 and other Unity 3D based games with textureflickering on AMD GPU's.
AMD_DEBUG=nodcc %command%

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Unity 3D is a great engine as it allows for relatively easy cross-platform development. However running it natively on linux comes with some problems. I was involved in troubleshooting some Unity 3D games on linux. While i am not a developer i learned some things about Unity 3D on linux.

1.) There seems to be no support for running Unity 3D in exclusive-fullscreen mode which is problematic if you want to use VRR in form of AMD-Freesync or Nvidia G-Sync. Both technologies will only work if the OpenGL or Vulkangame runs in exclusive-fullscreen. The engine will always use borderless-window for fullscreen display regardless of the settings offered by each individual game.

2.) Unity 3D has performamce problems on linux. You'll get very low and unstable performance compared to windows especially with graphical more demanding games. With Vulkan the performance is higher compared to OpenGL. However fps are very unstable on both API's. I have one Uintygame that gives me between 120 and 55 fps running on Vulkan.

3.) Problems with the MESA Drivers.

Unity is bugged with the MESA RadeonSi OpenGL driver. This bug causes textureflickering if ambient occlusion is used by the game. The only way to prevent this is to turn ambient occlusion completely off. You can see this in Wasteland 3 but also in other games like Last Epoch.

Older Versions of Unity 3D will crash if you try to run them with Vulkan in combination with the MESA RADV Vulkandriver. This bug is not present in newer Versions. However many games are based on older Unity 3D Versions. So the problem will be there until the developers upgrade to a newer release of the engine.

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