It's no secret that Dying Light doesn't perform well on Linux, and we are currently left out in the cold as far as Steam Workshop support goes, but that should change.
When asking about the performance patch, and workshop support, my developer contact at Techland said this to me:
QuoteHello Liam,
We are still working on it - it is rather big change ;)
As for the workshop there will be an update that will allow Linux players to play custom games sooner than later ;)
This is good news, as I have high hopes for future DLC, but the game as it is right now on Linux isn't the best.
You can see my review of Dying Light here. It's a good game, but it has flaws.
Check out Dying Light on Steam. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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ThePartisan Apr 21, 2015
Oh yes. Still cannot play -> AMD FX-8320 + GTX750TI BE -> everything on max 6 - 10 fps, everything low 13 - 22 fps ( something like that, mostly around lower numbers ), so yes I'm still waiting.
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At some point I will buy this game. I'm trying to buy all tripple A games that support linux.
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As for the workshop there will be an update that will allow Linux players to play custom games sooner than later, Hopefully that isn't just play and not create.
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Would be great to see this game fixed. So far haven't been impressed with their level of support, but curious to see if they turn it around
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sgtGarcia, im on i5-4440 and 650gtx, settings at mid i have around 50 - 60 fps. You have something wrong on your computer, 20 fps?
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Really looking forward to a performance patch, I'd really like to play this on high'ish settings...
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BrotAmStiel Apr 22, 2015
sgtGarcia, im on i5-4440 and 650gtx, settings at mid i have around 50 - 60 fps. You have something wrong on your computer, 20 fps?Probably some exotic configuration; also: amd processor
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I'm getting 35-45 fps out of my Ubuntu 14.04 box (i7 4790 3.6 Ghz, GTX 750ti, 8GB RAM) at 1920 x1080 rez, all but texture setting set to high, which doesn't seem unreasonable for such a graphics heavy game; though, I wouldn't mind it being better.
Of the three glitches I regularly experience, there's only one that I really yearn to see fixed. It's not the way that most people in the game seem to be ventriloquists (speaking without moving their lips), nor that every once in a while a cabinet doesn't open and it's handles simply pull off and hang in mid-air. I can live with these. I've learned to ignore them. It's the way that the game just freezes without warning sometimes, and the only way I can fix it is with the restart button on the computer. This is truly maddening.
Of the three glitches I regularly experience, there's only one that I really yearn to see fixed. It's not the way that most people in the game seem to be ventriloquists (speaking without moving their lips), nor that every once in a while a cabinet doesn't open and it's handles simply pull off and hang in mid-air. I can live with these. I've learned to ignore them. It's the way that the game just freezes without warning sometimes, and the only way I can fix it is with the restart button on the computer. This is truly maddening.
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I see random crashes to desktop. Sometimes I see it 5 minutes into a game and sometimes I see them 30 minutes into a game. The other annoying thing is the game still cant run on a XFS partition.
Fedora 21
Latest Stable Nvidia Driver 780 Ghz
16 Gigs of Ram
4930K @ 4.5 Ghz
Fedora 21
Latest Stable Nvidia Driver 780 Ghz
16 Gigs of Ram
4930K @ 4.5 Ghz
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ThePartisan Apr 22, 2015
Exotic configuration - no, but AMD cpus are still a problem, I don't have any problems with other games I own.sgtGarcia, im on i5-4440 and 650gtx, settings at mid i have around 50 - 60 fps. You have something wrong on your computer, 20 fps?Probably some exotic configuration; also: amd processor
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Found the following videa on reddit. It is a presentation done by the 2 (yes two) people from Techland who ported Dying Light to Linux about their (ongoing?) experience in porting to Linux. It is not short, I am still watching/listening to it, but It has been pretty interesting so far.
View video on youtube.com
View video on youtube.com
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Awesome, thanks! Very interesting. No wonder the Linux version had so many problems when those two guys had to fight against the hundreds (?) of other devs who were using Windows only :]. And only 4 months to port a huge Windows/DX codebase.
And now we know why we had only brass knuckles in Dead Island :).
No, problem! Once I started watching it and they were talking about specific bugs like the ones we have encountered I knew the people here would like to at least listen to it. I really liked how they kept a sense of humor about it.
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ThePartisan Apr 23, 2015
For those who cannot understand polish language ( I really don't know why it may be :D ) at the end of talk, people asked questions & one of them was what is speed difference between Windows & Linux versions ( both with OpenGL )
& Wojtek said that DL on his Titan ( Windows ) was slower than Tomek GTX780 ( Linux ).
But whats more, Wojtek added that he has some code prepared, that should give boost performance of 50 - 100%.
If this is true, then WOW.
& Wojtek said that DL on his Titan ( Windows ) was slower than Tomek GTX780 ( Linux ).
But whats more, Wojtek added that he has some code prepared, that should give boost performance of 50 - 100%.
If this is true, then WOW.
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