Life is Strange Linux patch released, should now work properly on Nvidia Pascal cards

Quoting: cxphergmailcomI still get the black screen on launch issue but now it allows me to alt tab in and out and it works.

Previously I had to use a button to bind shortcut to desktop in GNOME and fullscreen it again after that. Alt tab didn't work.

Please do report this to Feral with details of your distro and window manager etc and we can have a look. Sounds like you're (yet another) window manager edge case we'll have to have a look at :)

Quoting: GuestI hope it still works with my bépo keyboard :D.

Oh BTW thanks for the news; I got the update but couldn’t find the changelog on Steam.

Well it's there in the support section of the community forums were it always is. :-)

I think this article has a link to it as well.

Quoting: GuestMakes me think it's the different display managers that are the culprit but then again the Linux gamer said he had this issue on Ubuntu.....so who knows.

We haven't had any reports of people having this on Ubuntu, all instances we found were due to window managers doing strange things in certain situations. If anyone reading still has this issue with black screens please do let us know mentioning your disto and window manager. Ideally just send us the support report from the pre game launcher as this file will generate information about your setup so we can look at mimicking it at Feral HQ to we can reproduce the issue (and fix it).

First thanks for patch

In my case appears huge performance improvement

View video on youtube.com

System Specs used in Test

Nvidia Drivers 367.36.02 (run package from nvidia homepage)

Xubuntu 16.04 64Bit - Kernel 4.4.0-34 generic (ubuntu mainline) - CPUFreq: Performance

CPU: INTEL Pentium G3258 (Haswell 22nm) 4.1Ghz + Artic Cooling Alpine 11 Plus

MEMory: 8GB DDR3 1333 (2x4) Patriot value (dual channel: 21.3 gb/s)

GPU: Zotac Nvidia Geforce GT630 (GK208 28nm: 384 Shaders / 8 ROPS) Zone Edition Passive Cooling 2GB DDR3 1800Mhz 64Bit (14.4Gb/s)

MAINBOARD: MSI H81M E33

Before patch game dont pass 20fps (in heavy scenes at begins 15fps like begin scene: tornado scene) without forget constant freezes (unplayable)*

But now game runs above 40 to 45fps on heavy scenes and upper 50 / 60fps on light scenes and stable

Without recording performance up 6fps more

*Still modified settings in LifeIsStrangeEngine.ini located on:

/home/yourusername/.local/share/feral-interactive/Life Is Strange/VFS/Local/My Games/Life Is Strange/LifeIsStrangeGame/Config/

Some settings used in this file are:

*[TextureStreaming]
PoolSize=512 changed to PoolSize=1024

[SystemSettings]
DynamicShadows=True to False
MotionBlur=True to False
MotionBlurPause=True to False
MotionBlurSkinning=1 to 0
DepthOfField=True to False
AmbientOcclusion=True to False
Bloom=True to False
bAllowLightShafts=True to False
Distortion=True to False
FilteredDistortion=True to False
DropParticleDistortion=False to True
LensFlares=True to False
FogVolumes=True to False
AllowRadialBlur=True to False
AllowSubsurfaceScattering=False to True
AllowImageReflections=False to True

This changes can be used with patch without problem as see in video

^_^


Last edited by mrdeathjr on 13 August 2016 at 12:06 am UTC

Quoting: mrdeathjrFirst thanks for patch

In my case appears huge performance improvement

^_^

Glad our performance fixes have helped improve your experience :)

Game was running perfectly for me before on AMD Radeon 7770M using mesa 12. I could run it on all settings max easily. Hope it doesn't now give you a warning like so many other feral ports (even though they often work just fine)

QuoteFIXED - High CPU Usage on single thread due to issue in curl library

And with that, the issues I had are gone; the game looks to be quite playable on my 10 years old CPU.

I hate to do it, but I told you so.

I also wrote them a support mail with a few more details I found out about the issue. Would have been nice if I had gotten a reply to that mail, instead of having to ping edddeduck on IRC two weeks later and then only getting a "yes, we have an internal fix for this" out of them.

Yes, sure, I know, that's Jammern auf hohem Niveau, sue me. :P

Stuttering solved for me with this update (Pentium G3258 @ 4GHz, 16GB RAM, GTX560). Grand job.

After the update when I start the game I get a popup that says "Unsupported graphic Card or driver" but if I put Continue I can play normally.

My graphic Card is: NVIDIA GM204 GeForce GTX 970/PCIe/SSE2 Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 364.19

Quoting: aldyAfter the update when I start the game I get a popup that says "Unsupported graphic Card or driver" but if I put Continue I can play normally.

My graphic Card is: NVIDIA GM204 GeForce GTX 970/PCIe/SSE2 Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 364.19

I have the same card and I don't have a problem... Your drivers are a bit outdated...
Which distro are You using?