Well this is confusing, but still awesome. Dead Island Definitive Edition and Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition supporting Linux/SteamOS is now 100% official.
From their update here:
QuoteWe are happy to announce that Dead Island Definitive Edition and Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition now supports Linux & SteamOS!
And don't forget: As a Steam owner of either the original Dead Island, Dead Island Riptide, or both titles, you’ll also automatically receive a loyalty discount of up to 85% off the respective Definitive Edition of the game(s) you own, as well as a discount on the Definitive Collection bundle based on whether you own one or both.
Happy hunting!
Confusing, because Deep Silver told me directly this wasn't happening. I shot them an email early this morning (with no reply as usual) pointing out their tweet and how the Linux/SteamOS versions were actually on Steam. Now hours later it's all official.
Great news. As usual though, proper communication to us would be nice.
Thanks for letting me know zerodogg. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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I'm not buying it, I have the original and Dying Light and they both run like shit and now that I don't use catalyst I'm not even trying
Dying light has improved no end since they patched it a few times, Run it fine now on the prop drivers with a 290x
Just downloading dead island to see what its like :S: Hope they've learnt from their dying light release
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Well to update regards AMD gpu, DI definitive ed works, 55 in hotel 70's outside then it started to do this part way round
Riptide works fine, mid 60's
Both are on 1440p on high. Film grain is off though, draw distance left in middle
Riptide works fine, mid 60's
Both are on 1440p on high. Film grain is off though, draw distance left in middle
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Confusing, because Deep Silver told me directly this wasn't happening.
To be fair, they told you, "We currently don't have plans for Linux versions for these editions."
So, perhaps the moment after they finished that tweet, they made plans for it and spent the next few sleepless nights making it happen because Linux gamers are that important to them. :D
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And again, it doesn't work with mesa drivers.....
With??????
With radeonsi drivers (mesa-git/llvm-svn) so i'm up-to-date. The game ask for an openGL 3.3 compat context, mesa can only provide a 3.0 compat context. Forcing the context result in a segfault; i asked a refund.
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Krootox1986 Jun 4, 2016
Thanks for the info. I had the first one and to be honest for £1.80 I happily upgraded. I don't think I finished the article before loading up steam :D
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lucifertdark Jun 4, 2016
This is weird, it won't launch on my rig, with latest nVidia drivers...They're both working here with the latest Beta drivers 367.18
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I'm not buying it, I have the original and Dying Light and they both run like shit and now that I don't use catalyst I'm not even trying
Dying light has improved no end since they patched it a few times, Run it fine now on the prop drivers with a 290x
Just downloading dead island to see what its like :S: Hope they've learnt from their dying light release
With mesa? Well, then I'm installing it right now. I thougt it was a lost cause. Thanks for the info.
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I'm not buying it, I have the original and Dying Light and they both run like shit and now that I don't use catalyst I'm not even trying
Dying light has improved no end since they patched it a few times, Run it fine now on the prop drivers with a 290x
Just downloading dead island to see what its like :S: Hope they've learnt from their dying light release
With mesa? Well, then I'm installing it right now. I thougt it was a lost cause. Thanks for the info.
That's with the prop drivers, 15.12's
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I'm not buying it, I have the original and Dying Light and they both run like shit and now that I don't use catalyst I'm not even trying
Dying light has improved no end since they patched it a few times, Run it fine now on the prop drivers with a 290x
Just downloading dead island to see what its like :S: Hope they've learnt from their dying light release
With mesa? Well, then I'm installing it right now. I thougt it was a lost cause. Thanks for the info.
That's with the prop drivers, 15.12's
Shit, I didn't catch that you said prop drivers. 15.12? Is that AMDGPU Pro? Anyway, I'm keeping mesa, it works much better for non gaming use.
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PublicNuisance Jun 4, 2016
Awesome news. $3.30 each CAD for me since I already owned the normal versions. Can't pass that up.
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On Arch we had to install
Has anyone had the chance to try COOP yet?
I simply cannot get it to work and it's making me sad :c
libcurl-gnutlsHas anyone had the chance to try COOP yet?
I simply cannot get it to work and it's making me sad :c
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Ah, hmm. Maybe they require some open ports... I guess I'll have to set up a quick vpn solution and try that way.On Arch we had to installlibcurl-gnutls
Has anyone had the chance to try COOP yet?
I simply cannot get it to work and it's making me sad :c
Co-op working fine between one Linux and one Windows client here over LAN.
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Trying over wan through steam, indeed. Both of us just get disconnected instantly (we can actually see it successfully connecting before dying...)
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My guess is some software engineer in the company saw the Twitter convo and spent a couple weeks grumbling at management about how it was already almost working anyway. :P
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Comandante Ñoñardo Jun 9, 2016
Average 30fps with a GTX 750ti at 1080p (medium preset) with a core i5 4690K, (no overclock)
By the way, I found a texture glitch
By the way, I found a texture glitch
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Comandante Ñoñardo Jun 12, 2016
Average 55fps with a GTX 960 at 1080p (medium preset) with a core i5 4690K, (no overclock), 2x4GB DDR3 1866 at 1600 cl8
They need to improve this...
I don't note much difference between this "Definitive" edition running on Linux and the original Dead Island running on the old windows XP SP3
They need to improve this...
I don't note much difference between this "Definitive" edition running on Linux and the original Dead Island running on the old windows XP SP3
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