Alien Hunters DLC for XCOM 2 now available along with a big patch on SteamOS & Linux

Good information have to say. First for over 5 days. Previous one was the fact that F1 2015 was released. Both good news come from Feral. I have to ask - what happens with other porters? What happens with Virtual Programming? What happens with Aspyr? Do those companies still work on porting games to Linux? It is super silent about them...

Good information have to say. First for over 5 days. Previous one was the fact that F1 2015 was released. Both good news come from Feral. I have to ask - what happens with other porters? What happens with Virtual Programming? What happens with Aspyr? Do those companies still work on porting games to Linux? It is super silent about them...

Virtual programming is working on overlord. You can find info on their website, its clearly exposed.

Virtual Programming did mentioned on Facebook Overlord was due to come soon.

Aspyr are generally very quite until they announce something.

And it still doesn't officially support 36x.xx driver branch. Which is a shame since it's a stable one. I don't believe that GLVND hits the performance because even other Feral ports show the same performance on 35x.xx and 36x.xx, except XCOM 2.

And it still doesn't officially support 36x.xx driver branch. Which is a shame since it's a stable one. I don't believe that GLVND hits the performance because even other Feral ports show the same performance on 35x.xx and 36x.xx, except XCOM 2.

If you are you seeing a major performance drop on specific Nvidia drivers then make sure you contact both Feral support and Nvidia. This sounds like a major regression that Nvidia will need to fix of you are seeing performance problems on your setup.

If you are you seeing a major performance drop on specific Nvidia drivers then make sure you contact both Feral support and Nvidia. This sounds like a major regression that Nvidia will need to fix of you are seeing performance problems on your setup.

Thanks, I haven't checked it myself but in this video (time mark is on the driver version comparison) the difference is really big, 1.5x almost. Unfortunately, I can't downgrade the driver because the other game, Natural Selection 2, which I play every day randomly crashes on anything older than 36x.xx.

Looks like that info is outdated. I've just compared 364.19 and 358.16 and performance seems to be better on the former, 30 FPS on medium settings on the base screen vs. 20-22 on the latter. Still, don't understand that warning popup about unsupported card or driver, maybe the requirements can be relaxed now?..

Good information have to say. First for over 5 days. Previous one was the fact that F1 2015 was released. Both good news come from Feral. I have to ask - what happens with other porters? What happens with Virtual Programming? What happens with Aspyr? Do those companies still work on porting games to Linux? It is super silent about them...

Based on the number of releases, I get the sense that Feral is a much larger company, and with more releases comes more revenue... which means money for more releases. Aspyr and VP definitely need to step up their game if they want to stay competitive.

Looks like that info is outdated. I've just compared 364.19 and 358.16 and performance seems to be better on the former, 30 FPS on medium settings on the base screen vs. 20-22 on the latter. Still, don't understand that warning popup about unsupported card or driver, maybe the requirements can be relaxed now?..

We're still getting some feedback that the performance hasn't returned on some newer drivers so we're keeping the warning in place for now which we investigate further.

does it fix the crashing of the game on ubuntu 16.04?

does it fix the crashing of the game on ubuntu 16.04?

We don't have any open issues with 16.04 and XCOM 2. As long as your hardware and drivers match the min specs on Steam then you'll be fine.

Crashes are usually caused by incorrect drivers so that's the first thing to check.


Last edited by edddeduck_feral on 31 May 2016 at 5:33 pm UTC

It took me over a week trying to find drivers that would work with XCOM2 until I found 364.19 drivers and figured out how to install them.

If you mean the "official" Ubuntu Proprietary GPU Drivers PPA, you could just say so. Spread the info, man. Not like it's a secret or anything. And the PPA is clearly the best way to install Nvidia's drivers on Ubuntu, unless you simply cannot wait for the day or two they take to add newly released drives.

I'm getting a missing DLC / Mod error when I try to load my save game. Its looking for the Resistance Warrior Pack which was pre-order DLC, and the only DLC that I own. Steam shows the DLC is installed. Verifying the game cache integrity in Steam didn't help.

CANNOT LOAD SAVE GAME
The selected Save is missing required Downloadable Content or Mods:
"Resistance Warrior Pack"
Choosing to load it may result in a negative experience such as poor performance or
instability. Proceed at your own risk.

Running on Fedora 23, AMD FX-8320, AMD R9 270, Mesa 11.1.0


Last edited by DePingus on 31 May 2016 at 11:20 pm UTC

I'm getting a missing DLC / Mod error when I try to load my save game. Its looking for the Resistance Warrior Pack which was pre-order DLC, and the only DLC that I own. Steam shows the DLC is installed. Verifying the game cache integrity in Steam didn't help.

CANNOT LOAD SAVE GAME
The selected Save is missing required Downloadable Content or Mods:
"Resistance Warrior Pack"
Choosing to load it may result in a negative experience such as poor performance or
instability. Proceed at your own risk.

Running on Fedora 23, AMD FX-8320, AMD R9 270, Mesa 11.1.0

Make sure you restart Steam client then verify your installation that should force the Steam client to pickup the patch correctly. There were a few issues shortly after launch where some pre order content didn't update correctly but a restart of the Stema client (as that forces the client to get new ownership info) should clear the problem. You will likely get a download at this stage as the missing files update/reinstall.

Edwin

The DLC work ok for me except I have VERY HEAVY FPS loss on the World map -- on tactical missions I have 50-60 FPS and the same on the ship, however on the World map I have like 6-7 ... I tried to disable all the mods, but there is smth wrong with the Launcher, and whenever I launch it and look at the mods, all the mods are still enabled. Is there any bugzilla or github for reporting the problems ?
Specs:
CPU: i5-6300HQ
GPU: nVidia 960M, with blob 364.19
Kernel: 4.4

The DLC work ok for me except I have VERY HEAVY FPS loss on the World map -- on tactical missions I have 50-60 FPS and the same on the ship, however on the World map I have like 6-7 ... I tried to disable all the mods, but there is smth wrong with the Launcher, and whenever I launch it and look at the mods, all the mods are still enabled. Is there any bugzilla or github for reporting the problems ?
Specs:
CPU: i5-6300HQ
GPU: nVidia 960M, with blob 364.19
Kernel: 4.4

The performance drop is due to some mods having issues and causing the game to run badly. These mods effect Windows/Mac & Linux in the same way. Some mods don't uninstall correctly (again on all platforms) which can compound the issues if you use these buggy mods.

There is a thread here started by Windows users that helps explain the issues and has some steps you can take to fix it by uninstalling the mods.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/268500/discussions/0/364041517011441625/#c364041517011827653

If you have issues disabling mods in the Launcher for some reason then you can quit the game and use the Steam client to go to the Workshop items you have installed and unsubscribe. The url to this page will look something like this.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/[your username]/myworkshopfiles/?appid=268500&browsefilter=mysubscriptions

If after all this you think you have a Linux specific issue then use the pre game launcher to contact our support and we can investigate.


Last edited by edddeduck_feral on 1 June 2016 at 8:48 am UTC

@edddeduck_feral: Why don't you guys set up an bugtracker on Github like Valve did for their linux products? It would cost less time to support those in comparison to single reports about the same issue over, and over again!?

Waiting for XCOM2 to go on special. Definitely something I want to try under Linux (with these PRO drivers.)

Fore someone installing Ubuntu for the first time there is nothing "Official" looking about the Launchpad PPA. Official, to me at least, means repositories that are included in the install or can be selected from a repository list in the repo manager. There are a lot of things about Linux that are not transparent for new users, especially when graphics drivers are concerned.

You are absolutely right, and I didn't mean to sound condencending. Sorry about that. I did put the word official in double quotes to indicate that the PPA is still a work-in-progress and the only thing making it sort of official is that it's managed by Ubuntu staff. AFAIK it's hoped that when they get it all figured out, this PPA will be better integrated into Ubuntu's driver manager or something. It's already the best way to install these drivers though.

In any case, with Ubuntu (and most derivatives) a PPA is almost always the best source for software not in the official repositories, especially when said PPA is managed by Canonical employees (as is the case here) or developers of whatever software you're installing. Other distros do things in other ways of course.

The DLC work ok for me except I have VERY HEAVY FPS loss on the World map -- on tactical missions I have 50-60 FPS and the same on the ship, however on the World map I have like 6-7 ... I tried to disable all the mods, but there is smth wrong with the Launcher, and whenever I launch it and look at the mods, all the mods are still enabled. Is there any bugzilla or github for reporting the problems ?
Specs:
CPU: i5-6300HQ
GPU: nVidia 960M, with blob 364.19
Kernel: 4.4

The performance drop is due to some mods having issues and causing the game to run badly. These mods effect Windows/Mac & Linux in the same way. Some mods don't uninstall correctly (again on all platforms) which can compound the issues if you use these buggy mods.

There is a thread here started by Windows users that helps explain the issues and has some steps you can take to fix it by uninstalling the mods.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/268500/discussions/0/364041517011441625/#c364041517011827653

If you have issues disabling mods in the Launcher for some reason then you can quit the game and use the Steam client to go to the Workshop items you have installed and unsubscribe. The url to this page will look something like this.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/[your username]/myworkshopfiles/?appid=268500&browsefilter=mysubscriptions

If after all this you think you have a Linux specific issue then use the pre game launcher to contact our support and we can investigate.

Thanks for the super fast reply. However I needed to purge the "~/.local/share/feral-interactive/XCOM2/VFS/Local/my games/XCOM2/XComGame/Config" directory and reinstall all the mods. Now it works OK.