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Too excited about this, how about you? I will hopefully livestream it on the day of release. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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toni 20 Apr 2016
Man, looks awesome but is't me or it's a bit laggy?
legluondunet 20 Apr 2016
I can't wait any longer!!!!
linux_gamer 20 Apr 2016
WTF, why are they teasing so much!
chris200x9 20 Apr 2016
@1:24 why does it say x to reload if they are on linux?
poke86 20 Apr 2016
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@1:24 why does it say x to reload if they are on linux?

Because they did a good job supporting controllers on Linux?
leillo1975 20 Apr 2016
There are a lot of changes in SteamDB in the last day:

https://steamdb.info/app/203160/history/
Liam Dawe 20 Apr 2016
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@1:24 why does it say x to reload if they are on linux?

Because they did a good job supporting controllers on Linux?
Just like Shadow of Mordor gives gamepad prompts when one is in use, I imagine this game will too. It's quite common for PC users to use a gamepad :)
Segata Sanshiro 20 Apr 2016
@1:24 why does it say x to reload if they are on linux?

Because they did a good job supporting controllers on Linux?

Yeah, it's incredibly annoying when you're playing with a controller and the game prompts you with "press backspace to do [thing]" and then having to press every button until you find the right one. It's these kinds of things that make their ports so good.

I hope they're releasing this month!


Last edited by Segata Sanshiro on 20 Apr 2016 at 2:41 pm UTC
frostwork 20 Apr 2016
s/month/week
lucifertdark 20 Apr 2016
Man, looks awesome but is't me or it's a bit laggy?
No it's not just you, it looks laggy to me too.
natewardawg 20 Apr 2016
Man, looks awesome but is't me or it's a bit laggy?
No it's not just you, it looks laggy to me too.

It could be the recording too. I played this on a fairly low spec laptop about two years ago and it ran great. I can't imagine it'll need too beefy of a setup to run smoothly under Linux.
BlackBloodRum 20 Apr 2016
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Bear in mind this is a in-house test version of the game, so chances are it's in "debug" mode where it is outputting more logs than usual and probably performing extra checks in background of what the game is doing. So it's most likely not at its "peak" performance in that video.
leillo1975 20 Apr 2016
I'm hyped with a 3 years old game!!!!!
lucifertdark 20 Apr 2016
Man, looks awesome but is't me or it's a bit laggy?
No it's not just you, it looks laggy to me too.

It could be the recording too. I played this on a fairly low spec laptop about two years ago and it ran great. I can't imagine it'll need too beefy of a setup to run smoothly under Linux.
Hopefully that's what caused it, it would make sense if that's it though.
t3g 20 Apr 2016
@1:24 why does it say x to reload if they are on linux?

Because they did a good job supporting controllers on Linux?

I really respect developers that support both the Xbox 360 and all versions of the Xbox One controller if xinput is used. Too may ports are lazy and only support the 360 or earlier versions of the Xbox One controller due to an old SDL2 or they are unaware.
slaapliedje 20 Apr 2016
Awesome thing about Tomb Raider (at least the Windows version) was when you turned on Tesselation (I think that was the option). It makes her hair look all stringy, but then it also made the framerate drop into a beautiful slide show. I wonder if they'll implement it correctly here? I actually have a system that can handle it now :D
tuubi 21 Apr 2016
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Awesome thing about Tomb Raider (at least the Windows version) was when you turned on Tesselation (I think that was the option). It makes her hair look all stringy, but then it also made the framerate drop into a beautiful slide show. I wonder if they'll implement it correctly here? I actually have a system that can handle it now :D
They've promised a working implementation of the TressFX thingy. The funny thing is, they're saying that on Linux this AMD technology only works on Nvidia.

It probably makes use of compute shaders, as the original effect used DirectCompute. Maybe there's something missing still from the brand new Mesa CS support.
slaapliedje 21 Apr 2016
Awesome thing about Tomb Raider (at least the Windows version) was when you turned on Tesselation (I think that was the option). It makes her hair look all stringy, but then it also made the framerate drop into a beautiful slide show. I wonder if they'll implement it correctly here? I actually have a system that can handle it now :D
They've promised a working implementation of the TressFX thingy. The funny thing is, they're saying that on Linux this AMD technology only works on Nvidia.

It probably makes use of compute shaders, as the original effect used DirectCompute. Maybe there's something missing still from the brand new Mesa CS support.

That's what it was called! And yes, that's hilarious that they'd make an AMD tech work only on nvidia drivers. I think it's one of the techs that make the PS4 actually look awesome and not what the specs would be compared to if it were a PC running Windows.
Liam Dawe 21 Apr 2016
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Is it TR rising? I may have to buy that... Although I'd really like to see all the old TR games ported. Even if just in a wrapper.

No, it is Tomb Raider, if it was the new one it would have the newer games title ;)
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