Hooray for Techland! Dying Light is finally playable on Linux, so you can join us in having some cake. It's not perfect, but far far better!
It took them quite a long time to get here, but they got here, so let’s be thankful!
After we (GOL) paid about £80 for myself and Samsai to have a copy, I finally feel like they are earning our money, well, sort of. The game was obviously not tested on Linux before release, but hey...anyway.
My first trial run of the new patch forced me to quit as it popped up saying Dying Light has become unresponsive, good start. I waited, and it died on its own.
Second launch was fine, and the game has a MUCH better overall FPS, and it now feels VERY smooth and responsive, finally!
Testing it on High textures, Medium shadows, and High foliage now gives between 45-80FPS, considering before that gave 15-30FPS that's a solid improvement.
It's no way near perfect, but it's better for now. When you consider I'm on an Nvidia 970 I should still be getting a fair bit more.
Update: I re-tested the Proteus laptop from Entroware that we have, and it's even playable on it. Check the updated review on page 2 for the screenshot as well.
Update 2: It will still crash to the desktop for me when scrolling through the keybind menus, I did report this to Techland before, and have done, again. It happens on the third screen of the keybinds menu, every time.
Update 3: The game will crash to the desktop a lot for me now, so I am still recommending anyone who hasn't picked it up, to wait.
Release notes:
QuoteFeatures:
* Hard Mode added
* National outfits added
* 4 outfits as a reward for finishing the story campaign added
* Over 50 new weapons added
* New weapon rarity level – extremely rare Gold weapons added
Gameplay:
* Various balance tweaks of weapons, loot chests, shops and crafting
* Various improvements to game quests
* Improvements in natural movement flow
Technical:
* Resolved various stability issues including co-op
* Improved overall game performance
Visuals:
* Various improvements in world and character art
Be the Zombie:
* New option to enable zombie invasions with co-op disabled added
Linux specific improvements:
* Added AMD Radeon support (Please note - the NPC dialogue lip-sync will be enabled in a future patch)
* Improved performance significantly
* Fixed glitch when changing resolution
* Improved mouse scroll speed in map menu
* Disabled SSAO and AA options (TBD)
* Fixed minor rendering issues
* Fixed screenshots capturing
* Fixed crashed related to audio driver
Finally I can enjoy the experience! Or so I thought, the game crashes to the desktop quite often now.
You can find Dying Light on Steam. It's still pretty flaky though! Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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GenericUser Mar 10, 2015
Quoting: coryrj19951I still can't really play it... :'( But I did happen to get the "It's all in the writing" achievement just by starting the game...
I just get a rainbow effect over everything, now even before the main menu. I can walk around for 10 seconds fairly smoothly and it just crashes without even freezing or any other warning.
AMD FX 8350 4ghz 8 core
AMD Radeon HD R9 270X
Interesting,I might be able to fix your problem with game not loading if you can you tell me what driver do you use the catalyst one or the open source one
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coryrj19951 Mar 10, 2015
Quoting: GenericUserInteresting,I might be able to fix your problem with game not loading if you can you tell me what driver do you use the catalyst one or the open source one
I use the proprietary catalyst drivers, 14.12
The game loads, just is acting worse after that patch, which is dissapoiting
Quoting: SabunDid you previously get all the collectibles to get this? Or did it just randomly unlock? I'm trying to achieve 100% achievements in this, so any info you can share is valuable to me :)
Sorry to hear about it crashing and having rainbows, that sucks.
haha, that was just random, I loaded my game took a step and got it
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GenericUser Mar 10, 2015
Quoting: coryrj19951Weird.I'd suggest you to install Antegros to check if the open source drivers are working for this game as the ones included in Mint are based on Ubuntu 14.10 which are quite outdated.Quoting: GenericUserInteresting,I might be able to fix your problem with game not loading if you can you tell me what driver do you use the catalyst one or the open source one
I use the proprietary catalyst drivers, 14.12
The game loads, just is acting worse after that patch, which is dissapoiting
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coryrj19951 Mar 10, 2015
Quoting: GenericUserWeird.I'd suggest you to install Antegros to check if the open source drivers are working for this game as the ones included in Mint are based on Ubuntu 14.10 which are quite outdated.
Thanks for the suggestion, downloading Antegros right now. Might be a while on my connection. Glad I left a blank partition on my HD in case I wanted another os. I love it when things work out :D
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GenericUser Mar 10, 2015
Remember Antegros uses the pacman packaging system so if you want steam just type "sudo pacman -S steam" in the terminal.And remember to update me if the open source driver also doesn't work out for you.
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DamonLinuxPL Mar 10, 2015
Quoting: GenericUserRemember Antegros uses the pacman packaging system so if you want steam just type "sudo pacman -S steam" in the terminal.And remember to update me if the open source driver also doesn't work out for you.
If I good remember, Dying Light not working on open source driver YET but only on closesource.
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I re-tested the Proteus laptop I reviewed earlier, and on Medium settings at 1080p, it runs very smooth!
See the screenshot on page 2: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/the-entroware-proteus-gaming-laptop-reviewed-for-linux.5067
See the screenshot on page 2: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/the-entroware-proteus-gaming-laptop-reviewed-for-linux.5067
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Quoting: GenericUserRemember Antegros uses the pacman packaging system so if you want steam just type "sudo pacman -S steam" in the terminal.And remember to update me if the open source driver also doesn't work out for you.
Also, if you want to install Steam on Arch Linux you have to uncomment multilib from /etc/pacman.conf if you have a 64 bit machine.
So it'll say something like
#multilib
[include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist] and you just need to remove the hashtag to uncomment it and then run
sudo pacman -Syu
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Quoting: ricki42I use a 1920x1080 res and the view distance set to minimum.Quoting: dubigrasuIs clearly an improvement in performance, probably with a very good PC it might be playable.
Not for me though: AMD FX8350, GTX 780, 16 GB RAM and I have something like 30 FPS from previously 20.
Hope they don't stop here.
What kind of settings were you using? I have a GTX 770, and if the 780 gets about 30 fps, I think I should wait for some more patches after all.
Changing the rest of the settings (shadows/foliage/grain/etc) makes no difference whatsoever.
I'm inclined to believe that the performance improvement that we see is caused mainly by the SSAO removal, which is not something that I would call an improvement.
Also some of the zombies (still) have missing heads.
I know they are zombies, but come on...
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