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That's it folks, it's all official now. Alien: Isolation is coming to Linux next week, and it's going to scare you senseless.
You can see the Feral Interactive mini-site for it here.
Minimum system requirements for Linux
2.6Ghz Dual-Core CPU
At least 4GB RAM
1GB or better graphics card
Ubuntu 14.04 (64bit) or SteamOS.
The game requires an NVIDIA 600 series graphics card or better running Driver version 355.11 or better. Intel and AMD GPUs are not supported. A Steam account is required.
Alien: Isolation – The Collection will retail on Steam for US $59.99, £39.99 (inc. VAT) and €54.99 (inc. VAT).
Press release info below:
It's easily one of my favourite horror games, and I'm not kidding you just how much this game scares me. We will have a full post on it when it's released. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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You can see the Feral Interactive mini-site for it here.
Minimum system requirements for Linux
2.6Ghz Dual-Core CPU
At least 4GB RAM
1GB or better graphics card
Ubuntu 14.04 (64bit) or SteamOS.
The game requires an NVIDIA 600 series graphics card or better running Driver version 355.11 or better. Intel and AMD GPUs are not supported. A Steam account is required.
Alien: Isolation – The Collection will retail on Steam for US $59.99, £39.99 (inc. VAT) and €54.99 (inc. VAT).
Press release info below:
QuoteIn an original story set fifteen years after the film, players take on the role of Ellen Ripley’s daughter Amanda, who seeks to discover the truth behind her mother’s disappearance. Marooned aboard the stricken space station Sevastopol along with a few desperate survivors, players must stay out of sight, scavenge for resources and use their wits to survive as they are stalked by an ever-present, deadly Alien.
The labyrinthine Sevastopol is an incredibly detailed world that conceals hundreds of logs and hidden items which provide clues to the mystery behind the station’s catastrophic decline. As they explore, players will crawl through air vents, scope out hiding places, hack computer systems and deploy gadgets in a constant bid to outsmart the terrifying Alien, whose unpredictable, dynamic behavior evolves after each encounter.
Alien: Isolation – The Collection will include all DLC previously released for the game including two stand-alone missions set aboard Ellen Ripley’s ship the Nostromo, in which players become a member of the original crew and attempt to evade, contain, and ultimately escape the Alien. The Collection also includes five mission packs that add new maps, playable characters and challenges to Survivor and Salvage modes, outside the main story.
"The technology aboard the Sevastopol harks back brilliantly to the original film," said David Stephen, Managing Director of Feral Interactive. "As players glance at the glowing interface of the motion tracker while desperately hoping the alien doesn't hear its bleeps, they'll experience the same creeping terror felt by the original crew of the Nostromo..."
It's easily one of my favourite horror games, and I'm not kidding you just how much this game scares me. We will have a full post on it when it's released. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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aristorias 22 Sep 2015
You might say I'm to blame for buying an AMD card, but still:
Isn't it embarrassing that almost all AAA-titles
come with the note "AMD not supported"? :S:
Linux users should boycott nVIDIA since AMD shows great Open Source engagement.
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linux_gamer 22 Sep 2015
Btw 355.11 or better is like bloating edge Nvidia binary driver.I just upgraded from 346 to 355.06 as 352 was needed to run CoH and SoM (did work with 346 indeed). I want a stable reliable system and no "risk" by driver update for every single game.
BTW: 355.11 seems just to fix some bugs from *.06, so i wonder if it is really needed.
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Btw 355.11 or better is like bloating edge Nvidia binary driver.I just upgraded from 346 to 355.06 as 352 was needed to run CoH and SoM (did work with 346 indeed). I want a stable reliable system and no "risk" by driver update for every single game.
BTW: 355.11 seems just to fix some bugs from *.06, so i wonder if it is really needed.
355.06 was beta AFAIK, so they wouldn't want to recomment that.
I see it as a positive sign: Drivers are improving with every professionally ported game.
(I wonder if the same is true for VP ports...?)
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Linux users should boycott nVIDIA since AMD shows great Open Source engagement.
I wouldn't say great, but the AMD open source drivers are alot better. And ofcourse there's the Mantle->Vulkan thing.
Edit: Although talk in that other news item today would make me reconsider.
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aristorias 22 Sep 2015
Linux users should boycott nVIDIA since AMD shows great Open Source engagement.
I wouldn't say great, but the AMD open source drivers are alot better. And ofcourse there's the Mantle->Vulkan thing.
The'll swhich to opensource amdgpu kernel module for fiji and future cards (currently fglrx).
They support mesa development by hiring developers for it.
They pushed Mantle which initiated the development of Vulkan and DX12.
Their user space implementation of Mantle will be open source in future.
What does nvidia do? Marketing and Marketing. Good but closed source drivers and they removed a multihead feature of the Linux driver because Windows isn't capable of doing the same thing. There is no real reason for nvidia holding a monopoly but they know how to make braindead gamers buy their stuff exclusively. And whats currently happening? Everybody buys nvidia. Great, this helps.
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What does nvidia do?
They deliver the hardware and drivers that enabled me to play on Linux and dump my Windows.
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Poor timing, I'll still likely be playing SOMA at that point. Still, I'll pick this up sometime in the future for sure.
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What does nvidia do?
They deliver the hardware and drivers that enabled me to play on Linux and dump my Windows.
I was an ATI HardCore fan, all my computers had ATI cards on ex-windows + Linux.
I also had a brand new ATI for my Linux Machine and sold it for half price in order to get a new GTX 980 for obvious reasons.
All these catalyst drivers and the graphics performance were a total mess.
I just want my OS/Hardware to work to its maximum performance.
if ATI can give me what I want then I will support them otherwise they have to get their asses together and fix their drivers.
I was trying yesterday to install ATI Drivers to one of my clients, an ATI Driver on a Hybrid Intel/AMD Windows 7 Machine. Even with AUTO utility that diagnoses the driver and install them automatically,It took me around 1h to install the driver and at the end I had to do a system restore back to original driver because nothing was working properly.
Also ATI/Intel Hybrid is simply impossible to install it on a Linux Machine , I have tried and failed many times but with an NVIDA Hybrid is working fine.
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For anyone using *buntu, the Nvidia 355.11 driver is in the new "official" graphics PPA they added not too long ago. As long as you have that PPA added then "sudo apt-get install nvidia-355" will do the trick.
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OMG this port from Feral doesn't support AMD and Intel... said no one ever. Remind me why everybody hates VP again?
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For anyone using *buntu, the Nvidia 355.11 driver is in the new "official" graphics PPA they added not too long ago. As long as you have that PPA added then "sudo apt-get install nvidia-355" will do the trick.
I actually tried using the new PPA for the first time for that driver. It installed and worked, but then I noticed that I had lost the ability to overclock. The 'coolbits' option was still set in my xorg.conf, but it didn't show up in nvidia-settings. The manual fan speed option was sometimes there, but the clock settings weren't. I didn't try command line, so I don't know if it was just missing in the GUI. Should have checked that, but at that point I just decided to go back to manual install, after which all the settings reappeared. I usually don't overclock, but it's nice to have the option for some more demanding games.
Has anyone else encountered this?
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I use that PPA and I can overclock just fine still with the 355.11 driver. You had Coolbits 8 or 12 set and it didn't work? Weird. Well, at least the manual method works for you. I have no idea why it didn't work with the PPA for you, it works fine for me.For anyone using *buntu, the Nvidia 355.11 driver is in the new "official" graphics PPA they added not too long ago. As long as you have that PPA added then "sudo apt-get install nvidia-355" will do the trick.
I actually tried using the new PPA for the first time for that driver. It installed and worked, but then I noticed that I had lost the ability to overclock. The 'coolbits' option was still set in my xorg.conf, but it didn't show up in nvidia-settings. The manual fan speed option was sometimes there, but the clock settings weren't. I didn't try command line, so I don't know if it was just missing in the GUI. Should have checked that, but at that point I just decided to go back to manual install, after which all the settings reappeared. I usually don't overclock, but it's nice to have the option for some more demanding games.
Has anyone else encountered this?
Edit: Come to think of it, maybe it was nvidia-settings. When I switched to the new PPA and updated my driver I think I remember it telling me there was an update to nvidia-settings, but apt-get held it back like it does with kernel updates (I always do stuff like this from command line, just used to it), so I told it manually to update nvidia-settings. Maybe it needed a nvidia-settings update to go with the nvidia driver update? That's all I can think of.
Last edited by Keyrock on 22 Sep 2015 at 3:56 pm UTC
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metro2033fanboy 22 Sep 2015
AehoooooooooooO!
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Feral has the production line in full swing now - awesome news once again. I'm still busy being entertained by their last 2 releases. Long live Feral Interactive and Linux gaming!!
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There is no real reason for nvidia holding a monopoly but they know how to make braindead gamers buy their stuff exclusively. And whats currently happening? Everybody buys nvidia. Great, this helps.
There is a very good reason for Nvidia holding a monopoly, it's called delivering performance.
How can AMD break this monopoly ? easy, deliver performance.
I'm not paying 400+ euros to a company that has all the right principles and ideals but constantly fails at delivering performance, I don't pay for ideals, I pay for performance.
But hey, call me braindead.. at least I'll be able to play games at 60 fps or heck... at all even.
As for the game itself: instant buy
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Stupendous Man 22 Sep 2015
I'm looking forward to trying this game, though I have to be honest and say I won't get it unless it's at least 50% off; 55€ is just too expensive for a video game in my opinion. Maybe Steam sales have spoilt me, but living and working in Spain doesn't really allow me to buy games at 50€+.
Some devs like Croteam know this and have tier-2 Euro prices which are more than fair, I wish more devs and publishers would learn this.
Some devs like Croteam know this and have tier-2 Euro prices which are more than fair, I wish more devs and publishers would learn this.
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