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Feral Interactive ported Alien: Isolation to Linux, and it was released on 27th October 2015 for us.

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ziabice Nov 18, 2015
It's a very interesting video.
I haven't checked very well, but judging by the FPS the game is slower under Linux: NVidia is 30% slower and AMD 50%.
Overall visual quality seems very close to me on every platform/card.
nattydread Nov 18, 2015
is it a native build or a port?
leillo1975 Nov 18, 2015
The game is perfectly playable with this FPS, but the difference is very big. VULKAN!!!!! WHERE ARE YOU!!!!!
aristorias Nov 18, 2015
What GPUs, what driver, why Ubuntu for AMD and why SteamOS for nVidia.
Whoever did this should be ashamed that these questions rise and stay unanswered.
What a pointless waste of time and effort.
lvlark Nov 18, 2015
I have 3 thoughts:
1. Performance is about where I'd expect it, NVidia SteamOS is quite decent, while not running the latest drivers.
2. I should get this game.
3. I should first get better hardware.
Liam Dawe Nov 18, 2015
Quoting: nattydreadis it a native build or a port?

It was ported by Feral Interactive, and it is native. A port doesn't make something not native.
Liam Dawe Nov 18, 2015
Quoting: aristoriasWhat GPUs, what driver, why Ubuntu for AMD and why SteamOS for nVidia.
Whoever did this should be ashamed that these questions rise and stay unanswered.
What a pointless waste of time and effort.

They are at the very start of the video, try watching it.
Apopas Nov 18, 2015
It happens with this specific game.
Linux and windows come head to head when it has to do with NVidia.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia-win10-ubuntu15&num=1
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=steamos-ubuntu-faster&num=1
nattydread Nov 18, 2015
Quoting: TheBoss
Quoting: nattydreadis it a native build or a port?

It was ported by Feral Interactive, and it is native. A port doesn't make something not native.

well what I mean perhaps is: does it use a wrapper to DirectX or does it directly use OpenGL? There must be some reason it doesn't perform as well on SteamOS.


Last edited by nattydread on 18 November 2015 at 12:09 pm UTC
dubigrasu Nov 18, 2015
Quoting: aristoriasWhat GPUs, what driver, why Ubuntu for AMD and why SteamOS for nVidia.
Whoever did this should be ashamed that these questions rise and stay unanswered.
What a pointless waste of time and effort.
Apart from the video where the specs are listed, a bunch of additional details are given in the description.
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