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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why do i think that all the people that got it working now just got over threshold of cpu bottlenecking to the next level?
especially the... no change on resolution or settings is suspicious and the fact that people with same cpus say same things while gpu seems to not play any special role or at least nowhere near as it should. these are most obvious signs when cpu is bottlenecked.
can anyone with problems check core utilization? usually in this case one core should be 100% non stop
i plan on buying it if i was correct, my cpu is more than good enough it seems. still, they better fix this
especially the... no change on resolution or settings is suspicious and the fact that people with same cpus say same things while gpu seems to not play any special role or at least nowhere near as it should. these are most obvious signs when cpu is bottlenecked.
can anyone with problems check core utilization? usually in this case one core should be 100% non stop
i plan on buying it if i was correct, my cpu is more than good enough it seems. still, they better fix this
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Seeing how much the patch improved Dying Light on my Linux notebook running a 750M I decided to see how Dying Light ran on the Windows notebook with the 980M (still having issues trying to get Linux working on it.) As I mentioned before the Windows with 980M was a solid 60 FPS with everything maxed but view distance. This time around it was avg 37 FPS and even dipped down to 27 FPS however it was still smoother than the Linux client at the same frame rate.
So I guess you can say that on the Window side of things it got much worse for me while on the Linux side it was better but still not playable without modding. Wonder what the next patch will bring.
So I guess you can say that on the Window side of things it got much worse for me while on the Linux side it was better but still not playable without modding. Wonder what the next patch will bring.
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Meh for me the game crashes at launch.
Everything from
*** Error in 'DyingLightGame': malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0000000006dc9520 *** to
*** Error in `DyingLightGame': free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x0000000007cf04a0 ***
Was 70% chance of launch when they first patched the game, however now this happens each and every time. Also when i was able to launch I still had 14-20FPS on AMD 9590 and nVidia GTX 970.
Tired of this crap, already asked for a refund for this game lets see what Steam will say.
Everything from
*** Error in 'DyingLightGame': malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0000000006dc9520 *** to
*** Error in `DyingLightGame': free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x0000000007cf04a0 ***
Was 70% chance of launch when they first patched the game, however now this happens each and every time. Also when i was able to launch I still had 14-20FPS on AMD 9590 and nVidia GTX 970.
Tired of this crap, already asked for a refund for this game lets see what Steam will say.
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Meh for me the game crashes at launch.
Everything from
*** Error in 'DyingLightGame': malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0000000006dc9520 *** to
*** Error in `DyingLightGame': free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x0000000007cf04a0 ***
Was 70% chance of launch when they first patched the game, however now this happens each and every time. Also when i was able to launch I still had 14-20FPS on AMD 9590 and nVidia GTX 970.
Tired of this crap, already asked for a refund for this game lets see what Steam will say.
Did you make any modifications to the varlist_performance.src file in the data folder to disable sun shadows, cloud shadows etc?
If you did, maybe delete, or move the folder and see if that works. I had a few issues with this update which were all solved by deleting the data folder.
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Meh for me the game crashes at launch.
Everything from
*** Error in 'DyingLightGame': malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0000000006dc9520 *** to
*** Error in `DyingLightGame': free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x0000000007cf04a0 ***
Was 70% chance of launch when they first patched the game, however now this happens each and every time. Also when i was able to launch I still had 14-20FPS on AMD 9590 and nVidia GTX 970.
Tired of this crap, already asked for a refund for this game lets see what Steam will say.
Did you make any modifications to the varlist_performance.src file in the data folder to disable sun shadows, cloud shadows etc?
If you did, maybe delete, or move the folder and see if that works. I had a few issues with this update which were all solved by deleting the data folder.
I tried to verify the data, deleted it and reinstalled the game on a ext4 ssd partition nothing.... (since it was on a luks partiton).
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What's worse, is that some of the object rendering setup is done the "GL2.x way". This introduces some overhead and internal driver checks on a per-frame basis that could otherwise be optimised using the "GL3.2 way" (basically, vertex attributes should be packed in a special object, a Vertex Array Object, or VAO, which reduces validation checks to the creation time instead of every time things are rendered). This kind of thing I'm hopeful they'll be able to easily fix - it should improve certain parts a lot.
While VAOs will remove some internal checks they have another problem. Being a separate object means that the app will have to access (most of the time) one before every drawcall. Accessing a different part of the memory will result in cache misses. On the other hand, by touching a single VAO (or the default VAO in GL ES) you ensure that everything will be in the cache.
Cache misses are a huge performance problem that people often forget. One of the great things about OpenGL is that it's very cache friendly. Many operations touch only the context and for the most part the context is in the cache.
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why do i think that all the people that got it working now just got over threshold of cpu bottlenecking to the next level?
especially the... no change on resolution or settings is suspicious and the fact that people with same cpus say same things while gpu seems to not play any special role or at least nowhere near as it should. these are most obvious signs when cpu is bottlenecked.
can anyone with problems check core utilization? usually in this case one core should be 100% non stop
i plan on buying it if i was correct, my cpu is more than good enough it seems. still, they better fix this
FX 8320 @ 4,3GHZ, overall CPU usage 50% from 100%.. if i check the cores, then none of the cores goes to 100% its all spread around... few cores top 70% at times.
GPU usage(970) is 40% max.. so clearly some issues with my CPU bottlnecking? ..
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I will wait for one more performance update before I buy. I am still a little sceptical , but happy they are fixing it !
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While I'm not sure of the spatial coherence of indexed vertex buffers, they are at least using instanced rendering where possible it would seem. Though I agree - there might be cases where they could batch meshes together for more cache-friendly rendering. I haven't looked in depth enough to know that for certain.
Not using VAOs is also inflating their API call count by quite a lot. Basic guesstimates in my head mean that 100k API call count could be reduced to between 15k and 20k. Fix up the texture generation at the start of each frame, and it should do wonders for performance - and that's just the low hanging fruit.
To be honest I am not sure about nVidia's or AMD's drivers but traditionally the most expensive calls are the drawcalls. For some drivers the drawcalls are expensive since this is the point where they check which part of the state have changed or do shader re-compilations or set dependencies or refcount objects and many more.
I have a question though since you looked at the game's behaviour. Do you know if it's CPU or GPU limited? It will be CPU limited if at least one CPU core is maxed out.
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why do i think that all the people that got it working now just got over threshold of cpu bottlenecking to the next level?
especially the... no change on resolution or settings is suspicious and the fact that people with same cpus say same things while gpu seems to not play any special role or at least nowhere near as it should. these are most obvious signs when cpu is bottlenecked.
can anyone with problems check core utilization? usually in this case one core should be 100% non stop
i plan on buying it if i was correct, my cpu is more than good enough it seems. still, they better fix this
It seems to spread out the CPU load pretty well. I just grabbed the following shot. Frame rate is certainly more stable when you use the performance governor. I didn't have it turned on just now, but I was just grabbing this shot. I was curious to how it was utilizing the CPU after you said something and I had not checked before so I figured I would share. I also normally game in Openbox but wasn't going to switch just to grab the screenshot. It is certainly using a TON of RAM too. (nearly 6gb)
I recommend waiting for more fixes before buying it.
Right now I'm stuck with not being able to start a campaign (single player story mode) and also not having online play working - it's essentially just the menu I can look at. The issue seems to be a b0rked Steam cloud save since even wiping my local files doesn't let me play.
It might not happen to you, but you could end up essentially throwing your money out the window :(
Right now I'm stuck with not being able to start a campaign (single player story mode) and also not having online play working - it's essentially just the menu I can look at. The issue seems to be a b0rked Steam cloud save since even wiping my local files doesn't let me play.
It might not happen to you, but you could end up essentially throwing your money out the window :(
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I recommend waiting for more fixes before buying it.
Right now I'm stuck with not being able to start a campaign (single player story mode) and also not having online play working - it's essentially just the menu I can look at. The issue seems to be a b0rked Steam cloud save since even wiping my local files doesn't let me play.
It might not happen to you, but you could end up essentially throwing your money out the window :(
You can test out the cloud save theory by going to steam->settings->cloud and disabling "Enable Steam Cloud sync. for apps. that support it". Then wipe your local game save @ ~/.local/share/Steam/userdata/<somenumberhere>/239140/
Then the next time you launch the game it won't pull your save from the cloud and If it works then you know a borked save was the problem. Then once you have a new save made you can re-enable the steam cloud and when you launch the game again it will tell you your local and cloud save are different and ask you which you would like to use/keep. I've done it as switching from Linux to windows (or vice versa) with this game causes save problems.
EDIT* you should probably wipe <path-to-game>/DW/out/Settings/ as well for good measure.
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Thanks EKRboi. I ended up just wiping both "Steam/userdata/<user_id>/239140/" and "Steam/SteamApps/common/Dying Light" and reinstalling, which fixed it :)
I think the issue might in fact have been the custom configuration (the "i_shadows_sun_on" one) which didn't mix with the 1.5 patch.
If I make it past the first mission (change clothes), which broke the game for me before, I'll give it a recommendation - my FPS are much better in 1.5 (on a GTX 660 Ti).
I think the issue might in fact have been the custom configuration (the "i_shadows_sun_on" one) which didn't mix with the 1.5 patch.
If I make it past the first mission (change clothes), which broke the game for me before, I'll give it a recommendation - my FPS are much better in 1.5 (on a GTX 660 Ti).
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coryrj19951 Mar 12, 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.
Sorry for the delay, having troubles getting Antegros to install, need an internet connection for the installer
and ndis wouldn't build right. I installed Manjaro, going to test the open source drivers out tonight or tomorrow.
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GenericUser Mar 15, 2015
Sorry for the delay, having troubles getting Antegros to install, need an internet connection for the installer
Well,Does it Work?.
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coryrj19951 Mar 15, 2015
Well,Does it Work?.
It does not, I am cannot get it to launch with the open source drivers. :(
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GenericUser Mar 15, 2015
Well then,Sorry for wasting your time.But keep using the open source drivers as they are better for your card than Catalyst and they also give you the benifit of using gallium nine with playonlinux.Well,Does it Work?.
It does not, I am cannot get it to launch with the open source drivers. :(
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GenericUser Mar 16, 2015
Wait a minute,I suddenly remembered that the last time I used Manjaro it did not detect my AMD card properly.First thing you should do is check if you are using the AMD driver by installing mesa-demos "sudo pacman -S mesa-demos" and put "glxinfo | grep OpenGL" without the quotation marks in your Terminal and report back the output.Well,Does it Work?.
It does not, I am cannot get it to launch with the open source drivers. :(
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coryrj19951 Mar 16, 2015
Wait a minute,I suddenly remembered that the last time I used Manjaro it did not detect my AMD card properly.First thing you should do is check if you are using the AMD driver by installing mesa-demos "sudo pacman -S mesa-demos" and put "glxinfo | grep OpenGL" without the quotation marks in your Terminal and report back the output.
Yeah, I dont think it is...
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig
Fixed that part, re-installed the system (though I lost my Mint GRUB entry, had to manually re add it)
Now to test a few games!
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD PITCAIRN
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 10.4.2
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 3.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 10.4.2
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.0 Mesa 10.4.2
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.0
OpenGL ES profile extensions:
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EDIT: Well, I change to the catalyst driver to check performance as I still couldn't launch Dying Light (sorry ;) ) I can play! It runs fairly playable out side with out crashes every 2 minutes :D !
I find it amazing how two differant distros can run a game very differantly on the same hardware.
(I did however find that the open source drivers can play a variety of games very well (BL2 at max settings) )
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