The invasion has begun. XCOM: Enemy Unknown is now available on Linux and you can help stop the alien invasion right now.
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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This doesn't seem like a very good port to me... It's stuttering heavily on cutscenes and crashes to desktop when I try to build a facility. Also there is a few seconds of delay between the sound and the video when playing the cutscene at the beginning of a mission. Gameplay during missions is otherwise fine. This is all on archlinux.
The requirements for this game are much higher than the requirements on windows, for some strange reason. I didn't even bother to scroll down to the linux section since the windows section asked for an 8 year old graphics card (geforce 8600), a 2 Ghz processor and 2 Gigs of RAM. A game with these requirements basically runs on everything. Turns out the linux version requires at least a GTX 6-- series card and 4 Gigs of RAM. Apparently my GTX 275 is not supported. This is very puzzling. Natural Selection 2 is a far more beautiful and graphically demanding game, yet it runs flawlessly on this computer. The Civ 5 port is also totally fine for me. This game doesn't look like it's been very well optimized for linux.
Had to make an account to make this warning: make sure you check the linux requirements section, they are much higher than on windows.
The requirements for this game are much higher than the requirements on windows, for some strange reason. I didn't even bother to scroll down to the linux section since the windows section asked for an 8 year old graphics card (geforce 8600), a 2 Ghz processor and 2 Gigs of RAM. A game with these requirements basically runs on everything. Turns out the linux version requires at least a GTX 6-- series card and 4 Gigs of RAM. Apparently my GTX 275 is not supported. This is very puzzling. Natural Selection 2 is a far more beautiful and graphically demanding game, yet it runs flawlessly on this computer. The Civ 5 port is also totally fine for me. This game doesn't look like it's been very well optimized for linux.
Had to make an account to make this warning: make sure you check the linux requirements section, they are much higher than on windows.
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rustybroomhandle Jun 22, 2014
Hey all. Just discovered something regarding performance. I'm running Manjaro (Arch-based) with KDE, and with or without compositing the performance is terrible. However, if I switch the window-manager to openbox with "openbox --replace" it improves a lot, even on High settings.
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Quoting: rustybroomhandleI'm running Manjaro (Arch-based) with KDE, and with or without compositing the performance is terrible. However, if I switch the window-manager to openbox with "openbox --replace" it improves a lot, even on High settings.
This made me think: why doesn't SteamOS run over openbox instead of GNOME? Do they have plans to use it's graphical interface or something?
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abelthorne Jun 22, 2014
Quoting: wleoncioThis made me think: why doesn't SteamOS run over openbox instead of GNOME? Do they have plans to use it's graphical interface or something?IIRC, the GNOME session is completely separate and Steam in Big Picture mode is started without it, with its own compositor (not sure it's used as a WM).
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Quoting: rustybroomhandleHey all. Just discovered something regarding performance. I'm running Manjaro (Arch-based) with KDE, and with or without compositing the performance is terrible. However, if I switch the window-manager to openbox with "openbox --replace" it improves a lot, even on High settings.This is very good info. I would like than someone else confirm it too. I thought the desktop environment (or whatever retated to it) does not affect the performance.
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abelthorne Jun 22, 2014
Gave it a try again with the Oibaf PPA. Had to remove libgcc from the Steam runtime (32 and 64 bit, as XCOM is 64 bit only − see there for details: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3280). While there is still a bit of stuttering, it works really better with Mesa 10.3.0 from the PPA.
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rustybroomhandle Jun 22, 2014
Quoting: edoI thought the desktop environment (or whatever retated to it) does not affect the performance.
I believe the culprit is the compositor. In order to play "Sir/Madam, You Are Being Hunted" I also have to run openbox, but for a different reason - mouse issues.
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abelthorne Jun 22, 2014
Back to my issues: I just got a pretty nasty problem with Mesa 10.3. When in game, the game kind of froze, my monitor displayed an error message saying "no signal", back to the game, back to "no signal", etc. while sound was kindof hacked. Could go to a tty, the machine was completely stuck, had to do a hard reset. So back to Mesa from the Ubuntu repos. Will probably try Catalyst.
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Sadly it is 64-bit only on Linux for no real obvious reason. I just found out myself when trying to locate the binary in ~/.steam/SteamApps/ and start it manually. The customer support was completely overstrained. I sent them all the necessary system information, but just got suggestions like restart your computer and reinstall Steam which of course did not help at all.
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abelthorne Jun 24, 2014
Quoting: MilaniumSadly it is 64-bit only on Linux for no real obvious reason.Well, maybe it's because 64 bit distros are well implemented, that 64 bit has been "the future" for quite some time now and that they don't want to manage/support two different binaries.
Using a 32 bit distro has no real advantages nowadays, unless you have an old computer that can't handle a 64 bit one. But in that case, I'm not sure it would be powerful enough to run XCOM if it was available as a 32 bit version.
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