Feral Interactive have released an absolute whopper—Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is now actually available for Linux. This is a seriously good game! Initial port report now included.
Warning: AMD and Intel cards are NOT supported. If you wish to play the game using an AMD graphics card, you should update your graphics driver to version Catalyst 15.7 or higher. You should be able to run the game without experiencing stability issues or graphical glitches, but you may still experience poor performance.
As a big fan of the Tolkien universe this pleases me beyond words, and I can’t tell you how excited I am to have a game of this calibre on Linux.
Shadow of Mordor is an open world, action RPG with some excellent graphics. It has easy to manage combat with several fun abilities, parkour climbing (think Assassin's Creed) and a very interesting boss system.
The “Nemesis” system is the real killer in this game, as you have Uruk captains that command a bunch of soldiers, and defeating them can give you special upgrades. However, if they defeat you, they will get a lot stronger. This makes dying more interesting to the point of making you be careful about who you go after.
You can also have random events that happen between captains, as there’s a lot of in-fighting in the Uruk camps. You can chose to take part in these events, and favour one captain over another. There’s lots of fun little quests like that, and it’s part of what makes me love the game.
We will be giving it the full review, and no doubt the GOL Cast treatment on this one as it’s such a big (and extremely satisfying) title. Just give us some time to pump some hours into it to get a real feel for how it is.
We are downloading it now, please wait for the port report to be done. Feral kindly gave me a key, so we just need my internet to go into overdrive.
The early port report
Intel i5 4670k, Nvidia 970, 16GB RAM, 1080p resolution
Performance on Ultra was quite smooth, ranging from 40-70FPS, but sadly after a while it did crash to the desktop. Booting it up again gave me an error message that suggested I revert to lower settings. This is expected, as Ultra needs a lot of VRAM, and more than the Nvidia 970 has. I guess I need to invest in something even better...
Trying it on one notch below at Very High was fine performance wise, but I still encountered a crash bug. I was killed by a captain, and afterwards it refused to show me the captain screen where they move about and level up, so I had to force quit it. I have not since been able to reproduce it.
FPS wise on Very High settings it gave me a minimum of 46FPS and I saw it top off at 100FPS when not being able to see much going on, but the average is around 50-60FPS. It’s very much playable for the 970 on Very High, and that has me rather happy, as it looks fantastic.
What I do find very interesting, is that the game will seamlessly switch the on-screen prompts between gamepad and keyboard depending on what you last pressed. I’ve never seen that before, and it’s really quite a nifty little feature.
The game isn’t kidding about full controller support either, as my Logitech F310 has been utterly flawless. It’s incredibly responsive, and I couldn’t imagine playing it with the mouse.
For a brand new AAA game on Linux, to have only one real crash bug in two hours of testing is pretty incredible. The wait was worth it for sure!
Intel i5 4670k, Nvidia 560ti, 16GB RAM, 1080p resolution - For lower end users.
On very high settings the game was giving me an average of 20FPS, so it wasn’t playable at all.
On High settings it was between 27-36FPS, even with it dropping below 30FPS it was still surprisingly playable, not perfect, but still reasonable for such a demanding game. I know people will argue with me on it, but if the FPS counter was off, I wouldn’t be able to tell personally. It did crash once while alt+tabbed to the desktop, so that could be a window manager or driver issue.
On Medium settings there wasn’t much difference at all to high settings. It stayed around 30FPS a bit longer than on high settings, but it never went lower or higher than it did on High.
I would say it’s perfectly playable on Medium/High on a 560ti, so that should give the lower end guys something to go by performance wise. It’s worth noting that Mordor is only supported on Nvidia 6xx and up, so this lower card I tested is below their minimum requirements.
On Low settings the game went between 41-60FPS, with it mainly being around 50FPS. I honestly think the game still looks visually pleasing on Low settings, and it's a perfectly playable FPS for a rather old card now.
About the game (From Steam)
Fight through Mordor and uncover the truth of the spirit that compels you, discover the origins of the Rings of Power, build your legend and ultimately confront the evil of Sauron in this new chronicle of Middle-earth.
System Requirements
OS: Ubuntu 14.04.2 64-bit / SteamOS
Processor: 2.6 GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: 1GB NVIDIA 640 or better with driver version 352.21 or later
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Hard Drive: 47 GB available space
RECOMMENDED:
OS: Ubuntu 14.04.2 64-bit / SteamOS
Processor: 3.4 GHz Intel
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: 4GB NVIDIA 9xx series card or better with driver version 352.21 or later
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Hard Drive: 47 GB available space
Check out Shadow of Mordor on Steam now.
You can also get it directly from the Feral Interactive store, and support their porting directly.
If you pick it up, be sure to come back and tell us how it runs for you and include your system specifications so we can get a rough idea.
You have my sword Feral, and my axe. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Warning: AMD and Intel cards are NOT supported. If you wish to play the game using an AMD graphics card, you should update your graphics driver to version Catalyst 15.7 or higher. You should be able to run the game without experiencing stability issues or graphical glitches, but you may still experience poor performance.
As a big fan of the Tolkien universe this pleases me beyond words, and I can’t tell you how excited I am to have a game of this calibre on Linux.
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Shadow of Mordor is an open world, action RPG with some excellent graphics. It has easy to manage combat with several fun abilities, parkour climbing (think Assassin's Creed) and a very interesting boss system.
The “Nemesis” system is the real killer in this game, as you have Uruk captains that command a bunch of soldiers, and defeating them can give you special upgrades. However, if they defeat you, they will get a lot stronger. This makes dying more interesting to the point of making you be careful about who you go after.
You can also have random events that happen between captains, as there’s a lot of in-fighting in the Uruk camps. You can chose to take part in these events, and favour one captain over another. There’s lots of fun little quests like that, and it’s part of what makes me love the game.
We will be giving it the full review, and no doubt the GOL Cast treatment on this one as it’s such a big (and extremely satisfying) title. Just give us some time to pump some hours into it to get a real feel for how it is.
We are downloading it now, please wait for the port report to be done. Feral kindly gave me a key, so we just need my internet to go into overdrive.
The early port report
Intel i5 4670k, Nvidia 970, 16GB RAM, 1080p resolution
Performance on Ultra was quite smooth, ranging from 40-70FPS, but sadly after a while it did crash to the desktop. Booting it up again gave me an error message that suggested I revert to lower settings. This is expected, as Ultra needs a lot of VRAM, and more than the Nvidia 970 has. I guess I need to invest in something even better...
Trying it on one notch below at Very High was fine performance wise, but I still encountered a crash bug. I was killed by a captain, and afterwards it refused to show me the captain screen where they move about and level up, so I had to force quit it. I have not since been able to reproduce it.
FPS wise on Very High settings it gave me a minimum of 46FPS and I saw it top off at 100FPS when not being able to see much going on, but the average is around 50-60FPS. It’s very much playable for the 970 on Very High, and that has me rather happy, as it looks fantastic.
What I do find very interesting, is that the game will seamlessly switch the on-screen prompts between gamepad and keyboard depending on what you last pressed. I’ve never seen that before, and it’s really quite a nifty little feature.
The game isn’t kidding about full controller support either, as my Logitech F310 has been utterly flawless. It’s incredibly responsive, and I couldn’t imagine playing it with the mouse.
For a brand new AAA game on Linux, to have only one real crash bug in two hours of testing is pretty incredible. The wait was worth it for sure!
Intel i5 4670k, Nvidia 560ti, 16GB RAM, 1080p resolution - For lower end users.
On very high settings the game was giving me an average of 20FPS, so it wasn’t playable at all.
On High settings it was between 27-36FPS, even with it dropping below 30FPS it was still surprisingly playable, not perfect, but still reasonable for such a demanding game. I know people will argue with me on it, but if the FPS counter was off, I wouldn’t be able to tell personally. It did crash once while alt+tabbed to the desktop, so that could be a window manager or driver issue.
On Medium settings there wasn’t much difference at all to high settings. It stayed around 30FPS a bit longer than on high settings, but it never went lower or higher than it did on High.
I would say it’s perfectly playable on Medium/High on a 560ti, so that should give the lower end guys something to go by performance wise. It’s worth noting that Mordor is only supported on Nvidia 6xx and up, so this lower card I tested is below their minimum requirements.
On Low settings the game went between 41-60FPS, with it mainly being around 50FPS. I honestly think the game still looks visually pleasing on Low settings, and it's a perfectly playable FPS for a rather old card now.
About the game (From Steam)
Fight through Mordor and uncover the truth of the spirit that compels you, discover the origins of the Rings of Power, build your legend and ultimately confront the evil of Sauron in this new chronicle of Middle-earth.
System Requirements
OS: Ubuntu 14.04.2 64-bit / SteamOS
Processor: 2.6 GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: 1GB NVIDIA 640 or better with driver version 352.21 or later
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Hard Drive: 47 GB available space
RECOMMENDED:
OS: Ubuntu 14.04.2 64-bit / SteamOS
Processor: 3.4 GHz Intel
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: 4GB NVIDIA 9xx series card or better with driver version 352.21 or later
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Hard Drive: 47 GB available space
Check out Shadow of Mordor on Steam now.
You can also get it directly from the Feral Interactive store, and support their porting directly.
If you pick it up, be sure to come back and tell us how it runs for you and include your system specifications so we can get a rough idea.
You have my sword Feral, and my axe. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Just bought and downloading now. I've played it on windows some time ago and i'm going now to complete the game :D
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I found it at 20$ with DLC on this site:Just buy it directly through Steam. That way you know it's legit, and it ensures that Feral gets their fair share of the sale.
http://www.bundlestars.com/all-bundles/middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor-bundle/
To be fair, bundlestars is a very legit website. I would still advise buying it from Steam or Feral directly, to support them.
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Cannot decide whether to buy or not. I'm actually a bit dissapointed of the game itself... - it's too less Tolkien for myself. Too far from the story AND the theme :/
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edddeduck_feral Jul 30, 2015
any chance to get a more detailed insight about what has not working out fine
with Catalyst/AMD than the usual:
We did explain some details on support in the spec post.
"If you wish to play the game using an AMD graphics card, you should update your graphics driver to version Catalyst 15.7 or higher. You should be able to run the game without experiencing stability issues or graphical glitches, but you may still experience poor performance."
I don't have any more details for now but I hope that gives you some insight into the current situation.
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http://ein-eike.de/2015/01/02/fixing-download-speed-problems-under-steam-for-linux/Thanks for the tip but I dont want to risk losing my filesystem in case of powerfailure, I'd rather have it slow :)
You do not risk the whole file system, but just the last writes. I don't know about your place, but that's a safe bet here. If you want to have it even safer and still faster, you might try the tip from the comments, "commit=60".
Last edited by Eike on 30 July 2015 at 6:20 pm UTC
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Finally a AAA that I didn't already own! :)
ETA: 2.5 hours.
/me taps impatiently
ETA: 2.5 hours.
/me taps impatiently
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I need to play this on Linux!
But I only have a nvidia 550 TI!
Can someone confirm if the game runs on it? (even if on a lower resolution! Like 1280x720!)
Anyway, Thanks Feral for the support! I will definitely be buying it to play on my (future) steam machine (If I cant run it now)!
But I only have a nvidia 550 TI!
Can someone confirm if the game runs on it? (even if on a lower resolution! Like 1280x720!)
Anyway, Thanks Feral for the support! I will definitely be buying it to play on my (future) steam machine (If I cant run it now)!
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Any chance being able to play this with the amd open source drivers? (Radeonsi mesa-git or even R600?)
if not, I'll pass until sometime in the future. I actually hoped that the postponing of the release was due to making sure it would run on other vendors than nvidia as well.
But alas, again not supported. Not sure if I want to support this time. I mean, for Borderlands TPS I did and was not disappointed but I'm not sure which OpenGL version SoM needs.
if not, I'll pass until sometime in the future. I actually hoped that the postponing of the release was due to making sure it would run on other vendors than nvidia as well.
But alas, again not supported. Not sure if I want to support this time. I mean, for Borderlands TPS I did and was not disappointed but I'm not sure which OpenGL version SoM needs.
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Downloading right now!
Hopefully tomorrow is holiday where I live, so +1 extra day this weekend to play the game.
Thank you Feral!
Hopefully tomorrow is holiday where I live, so +1 extra day this weekend to play the game.
Thank you Feral!
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I found it at 20$ with DLC on this site:Just buy it directly through Steam. That way you know it's legit, and it ensures that Feral gets their fair share of the sale.
http://www.bundlestars.com/all-bundles/middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor-bundle/
To be fair, bundlestars is a very legit website. I would still advise buying it from Steam or Feral directly, to support them.
I did not see it that way but you're right and I'm all about supporting Linux gaming. I will buy it from Steam.
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Any chance being able to play this with the amd open source drivers? (Radeonsi mesa-git or even R600?)
Feral responded:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/middleearth-shadow-of-mordor-released-for-linux-we-love-you-feral-interactive.5743/page=3#41039
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Any chance being able to play this with the amd open source drivers? (Radeonsi mesa-git or even R600?)
Feral responded:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/middleearth-shadow-of-mordor-released-for-linux-we-love-you-feral-interactive.5743/page=3#41039
That is not the question I asked. AMD Cards are not supported on quite a few games and the open source drivers-support is even worse.
Maybe someone can or will try it out and I'd appreciate some feedback :)
Devs only ever mention the proprietary drivers. They never mention nouveau either and even if the open source nvidia driver's performance would be better I doubt they would recommend or test on it! Hence I ask.
Last edited by Maelrane on 30 July 2015 at 7:07 pm UTC
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Thanks for the tip but I dont want to risk losing my filesystem in case of powerfailure, I'd rather have it slow :)But I always get slow download speeds in steam, tried googling and some say dnsmasq improves it. Just tried that but no difference in speed. Anyone else had this and managed to fix it?
dnsmasq worked for me (of course, sometimes the servers are just slow), but some people suggested disabling write barriers as well (which used to be default some day, so I wouldn't consider it dangerous). Written down here:
http://ein-eike.de/2015/01/02/fixing-download-speed-problems-under-steam-for-linux/
Its not something you would like to do on root partition, every other wont do much harm -- but CMON no one has steam data on root, right ?
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Its not something you would like to do on root partition, every other wont do much harm -- but CMON no one has steam data on root, right ?
This used to be the default of the file system.
So did you set it to differ from the default back then...?
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Could someone report performance, details/resolution and graphic card ?
I am not sure whether to buy it since I have 740M and I'm worried about performance ...
I am not sure whether to buy it since I have 740M and I'm worried about performance ...
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Could someone report performance, details/resolution and graphic card ?
I am not sure whether to buy it since I have 740M and I'm worried about performance ...
Just wanted to write the same. :)
Any performance reports are welcome (my case would be a GTX660).
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Maybe it would be good idea to start a forum thread with game performance only? For example hardware spec + someple fps based on the location or screenshots with fps? I don't own a game yet so I cannot lost sample fps but maybe some of You can do it...
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You can get a sample of gameplay (and performance) by watching Liam livestream the game right now: http://www.twitch.tv/linuxwithliam
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