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QuoteSince its inception, the XCOM Project has scoured the globe in search of the best and brightest military and scientific personnel to defend Earth from the alien invasion.
Today marks the availability of a new technology that will enable even more world-class recruits to join the fight, as XCOM: Enemy Unknown is released for Linux.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a SteamPlay title that runs on Ubuntu 14.04 and Valve’s SteamOS. The base game and all the add-on content, including the explosive expansion pack XCOM: Enemy Within, are available now from Steam.
Rookies should report to the XCOM: Enemy Unknown Steam information page for a briefing.
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Let us know what you think to it, as for me it will be my first time playing it. Check it out on Steam now.
With the Steam sales happening very soon it may be an idea to hold off on buying it just yet. That is unless you want to support Feral with as much cash as you can throw at the screen for porting to Linux then go ahead right now.
We should have an interview with the guys at Feral soon, so keep an eye out for that too folks.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: edoIts a shame than gaming in Linux still sucks. The r600 driver is still not good enough. Luckily I have windows too.Actually it runs quite well on r600g with a HD5850 on Mesa 10.2. If you're having problems launching the game and you have an up to date Mesa stack it's most likely you're having issues with the Steam runtime libraries(Particularly if you're on a rolling release distro like Arch). You will have to rename/remove ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc__s.so.1 . Possibly some other libs as well. To find out launch steam from a terminal and then launch the game.
Quoting: tigeredo, you should move to nvidia as soon as possibleMaybe if you want the best performance, but Mesa 10.2 can run every game i've thrown at it including The Witcher 2, which runs at about 20 FPS for me.
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Quoting: GuestEdit: BTW, anyone got it to work under Arch?
Seems to be working fine here. Only played the tutorial so far though.
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rustybroomhandle Jun 20, 2014
Quoting: GuestIt’s weird they didn’t bother making a 32 bit build. (Not that I care, I switched my Arch install to 64 bit three years ago, and my 32 bit Atom netbook is quite limited for gaming!)
Edit: BTW, anyone got it to work under Arch?
I'm on a 64 bit Manjaro system, which is Arch-based, but I don't know how far-removed from Arch it is. Anyhoo, the game works for me.
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Quoting: GuestIt’s weird they didn’t bother making a 32 bit build. (Not that I care, I switched my Arch install to 64 bit three years ago, and my 32 bit Atom netbook is quite limited for gaming!)
Edit: BTW, anyone got it to work under Arch?
Maybe you should consider dual booting to Ubuntu. :P
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leillo1975 Jun 20, 2014
I can't play Enemy Within. If I push the button in the initial selector, it shows me the Xcom EW popup, but nothing happens
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Quoting: leillo1975I can't play Enemy Within. If I push the button in the initial selector, it shows me the Xcom EW popup, but nothing happens
Run it from a terminal; depending on where steam is installed ( you might have a second "steam" directory and "Steamapps" may be "SteamApps" ):
~/.steam/steamapps/common/XCom-Enemy-Unknown/xcom.sh
I don't actually see the initial boot screen for EW at all, but you could also be experiencing segfaults.
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Works great on my desktop, but gave me some weird texture errors on HD4000.
Will be looking to play it a fair bit more tonight!
Will be looking to play it a fair bit more tonight!
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abelthorne Jun 20, 2014
Tried it quickly with an ATI RadeonHD 7770 and the free driver (Ubuntu 14.04). Works fine but perfs are pretty sluggish. It's not a huge deal as it's a turned-base strategy game but that's odd that the perfs are worse in the main interface (in your base) and in the cutscenes than in the actual missions.
Using Mesa 10.1.3, though; It might work better with 10.2 or 10.3 but I don't know how to upgrade (I tried the Oibaf PPA a few days ago but I couldn't start OpenGL games anymore, as if direct rendering was disabled).
It might work far better with the latest Catalyst beta but I'd rather stick with the free driver unless I really need to go back to that pile of crap that is Catalyst.
Using Mesa 10.1.3, though; It might work better with 10.2 or 10.3 but I don't know how to upgrade (I tried the Oibaf PPA a few days ago but I couldn't start OpenGL games anymore, as if direct rendering was disabled).
It might work far better with the latest Catalyst beta but I'd rather stick with the free driver unless I really need to go back to that pile of crap that is Catalyst.
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Quoting: abelthorneUsing Mesa 10.1.3, though; It might work better with 10.2 or 10.3 but I don't know how to upgrade (I tried the Oibaf PPA a few days ago but I couldn't start OpenGL games anymore, as if direct rendering was disabled).Common issue for me on Arch, after display drivers updates : those are compiled against a newer version of glibc than the one that comes with the games, and steam.
Just delete every .so in the steam directories and games directories related to glibc and libstd.
Just put those into the trash if you are unsure, then restart steam : it should work as expected, provided steam doesn't download these libs again.
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