Mad Max [Feral Mini Site] is officially being released on the 20th of October for Linux & SteamOS, it’s finally coming!
On October 20th, enter the outlandish post-apocalyptic world of Mad Max on Mac and Linux. pic.twitter.com/8Vx0qU9YpK
— Feral Interactive (@feralgames) October 5, 2016
After initially being confirmed for Linux way back in March 2015, we finally have confirmation that not only is the Linux port real, but it’s coming damn soon too.
From the press release:
Quote“We’re delighted to be bringing Mad Max to Mac and Linux PC,” said David Stephen, Managing Director at Feral Interactive, “With its exhilarating combat, outlandish characters and beautiful end-of-the-world visuals, Mad Max perfectly captures the atmosphere and thrill of The Wasteland.”
System requirements:
Intel i5 or AMD FX8350 3.4 GHz CPU
8GB RAM
SteamOS 2.0 or Ubuntu 16.04 or better.
The game also requires an NVIDIA 660ti series graphics card or better, running driver version 367.35 or later. AMD and Intel GPUs are not supported at release.
If you want more information on AMD support in future, you can see this comment from Edwin who works at Feral, copied below:
Edwin, Feral InteractiveDue to various issues with Mesa we will not be supporting AMD on release. We only can officially support drivers if they meet the quality needed and sadly Mesa isn't quite there yet as it has a few issues and edge cases. It was a super close call but in the end we won't say a game is officially supported unless it runs great using release versions of the drivers and kernel.
However we developed the game using AMD cards as well as Nvidia so if you install the latest Mesa beta drivers and other updates as needed it runs it's just not at a level where we can provide official support as some edge cases will exist. Hopefully once all the Mesa developments get into a stable release version and all the related kernel improvements also are in a stable release then support for Mad Max and similar complex titles will be easier/possible.
Summary: AMD is unsupported meaning we don't recommend you purchase it on AMD GPUs, however we have don a lot of work towards support which should happen once all the improvements to Mesa/Kernel are in stable branches.
Releasing another game so soon after Dawn of War II [port report here], Feral sure are busy! I will hopefully have my usual report on the game up at release. Not long to go folks! Are you excited? Let me know in the comments!
After the news about Civ VI possibly not coming to Linux, this was a very well timed announcement.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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If we have regulation laws of privacy protection and such it's even better, there were rumors about France suing MS for these privacy concerns but never heard of that anymore in the Media...It's still in progress. They had 3 months to make adjustments in Windows 10, so until end of october, this month. After that, there is a financial penalty: 150'000€ (lool... Microsoft... 150'000€...)
More seriously, our CNIL can't do much against Microsoft. They count on a new european directive (General Data Protection Regulation to put more pressure and, above all, a supposed real pressure on GAFAM (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft), but it will only enter into application in may 2018... Microsoft have plenty of time to do what they want, and in the end they have good friends among our politicians, like our past and present presidents, if, by accident, they are in a real difficult position.
Here is a french article explaining this in every details:
Windows 10 : pourquoi la CNIL met en demeure Microsoft
Google translate doesn't seem to work, but if you copy/paste the whole text, translation is not bad.
Thx for the info, we are on our own then :) charging MS for 150 000€ is like charging me for 1,5€... More like a symbolic penalty :D I just hate the way how they get away with everything.
Few days ago I went to buy a laptop for my neighbour and it was nearly impossible to find one without having win10 preinstalled. After I've found one it was way better for the price, installed Ubuntu for my neighbour and it's fast, responsive and will probably be reliable...
We are really the ones who must help people see hoe blinding can Microsoft's marketing be!
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MintedGamer Oct 11, 2016
This is a nice surprise, I'll be getting the Steam key from Ferals website as they get more money that way.
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However it's their business and I buy games for playing, not for charity.
And so do I. Entertainment is not charity. If we all bought games for Windows we would not have a lot of Linux games to play. When you buy something for a particular system you are actually sealing off a vote with money.
People are free to be careless about this fact, but then the same people should stop their silly blaming of Linux when their favorite game is only released for a four square system. It's actually their own fault.
Last edited by nakoyu on 16 October 2016 at 11:13 am UTC
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Last year, at the exact same period of the season, we had 1000 games on linux, one year after it's almost 3000 games (2800).I hope feral keeps improving performances on their ports and that other big studio who released game on linux, keep up porting their games. It would be awesome if Chris Roberts could invite them to do the port of Star Citizen. We need to match windows perf now, and why not outperform it :p
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atomsymbol Oct 17, 2016
i really hope this will have mesa support at launch :D
and
it hasn't
bye
In my opinion, Mad Max will run on mesa-git&llvm-git at launch date. Due to the presence of unoptimized code in Mesa drivers, the performance on AMD GPUs will most likely be smaller than equivalent Nvidia GPUs. Mesa OpenGL might also exhibit stuttering caused by shader compilation.
Shadow of Mordor, a Warner Bros (WB) game ported to Linux by Feral (just like Mad Max), runs somewhat poorly on Mesa (7850K + R9-390: only 40 FPS) and the game engines of these two WB games look similar. However, Feral learned how to make Tomb Raider run good on Mesa+AMD, so maybe Mad Max will be better optimized for AMD hardware than Shadow of Mordor.
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lucifertdark Oct 20, 2016
If Bethesda decided to release Skyrim on Linux I'd happily buy it again. Feral you know what to do. ;)
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Last edited by lucifertdark on 20 October 2016 at 9:08 am UTC
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atomsymbol Oct 20, 2016
If Bethesda decided to release Skyrim on Linux I'd happily buy it again. Feral you know what to do. ;)
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