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Total War: WARHAMMER [Steam, Feral Store] comes to Linux tomorrow and it’s good news for AMD GPU users as Mesa will be officially supported on normal Linux distributions, but not on SteamOS.
Thanks to recent strides in Mesa development, Feral Interactive have been able to officially support AMD cards with this release. We may even have a fresh interview with Feral coming soon, stay tuned on that.
Minimum requirements
3.4GHz Intel Core i3-4130
3.5GHz AMD FX6300 processor
4GB RAM
1GB Nvidia 650ti/2GB AMD R9 270 graphics card* or better.
Recommended requirements
3.4 GHz Intel Core i7-4770 processor
8GB RAM
4GB Nvidia 970/4GB AMD RX 480 graphics card* or better.
*Nvidia cards require 367.28 drivers or newer. AMD cards require Mesa 13.0.1 drivers compiled using LLVM 3.9 or newer. AMD graphics cards are not supported when running SteamOS.
I will likely have a port report, benchmarks and thoughts up at release tomorrow.
I imagine the game will be released on Linux in the early afternoon UTC tomorrow, like what has happened with the previous releases from Feral. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Thanks to recent strides in Mesa development, Feral Interactive have been able to officially support AMD cards with this release. We may even have a fresh interview with Feral coming soon, stay tuned on that.
Minimum requirements
3.4GHz Intel Core i3-4130
3.5GHz AMD FX6300 processor
4GB RAM
1GB Nvidia 650ti/2GB AMD R9 270 graphics card* or better.
Recommended requirements
3.4 GHz Intel Core i7-4770 processor
8GB RAM
4GB Nvidia 970/4GB AMD RX 480 graphics card* or better.
*Nvidia cards require 367.28 drivers or newer. AMD cards require Mesa 13.0.1 drivers compiled using LLVM 3.9 or newer. AMD graphics cards are not supported when running SteamOS.
I will likely have a port report, benchmarks and thoughts up at release tomorrow.
I imagine the game will be released on Linux in the early afternoon UTC tomorrow, like what has happened with the previous releases from Feral. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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I've still with the latest 375 nvidia driver performance issues with ATTILA on my GTX 970 / i7 6700K system when I set everything to maximum. In some situations the frame rate drops to 10 fps or lower. At the same time the GPU utilization drops. Also there are constantly micro stuttering when I watch single units for example. I've read that there are the same problems exits under Windows.
The game uses the memory of the graphic card just below the 3.5 GB limit but only barely. Could maybe have something to do with it or not?
Even with lower settings I can make constant only 30 fps. I wonder if Warhammer has similar problems. So I have my doubts that you can play it with a GTX 970 with the best settings. Because I love the Total War series I'm already thinking about buying a new graphic card. But I'm unsure if this really helps. I'm wondering how well AMD cards perform with Linux. As before, most games do not run well with AMD cards or not?
Last edited by 0aTT on 21 November 2016 at 3:33 pm UTC
The game uses the memory of the graphic card just below the 3.5 GB limit but only barely. Could maybe have something to do with it or not?
Even with lower settings I can make constant only 30 fps. I wonder if Warhammer has similar problems. So I have my doubts that you can play it with a GTX 970 with the best settings. Because I love the Total War series I'm already thinking about buying a new graphic card. But I'm unsure if this really helps. I'm wondering how well AMD cards perform with Linux. As before, most games do not run well with AMD cards or not?
Last edited by 0aTT on 21 November 2016 at 3:33 pm UTC
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I recently got into the feral spiral and I dit not know about other titles! It's even better :) I was also commenting as Feral has asked canonical if they could get MESA official ppa which would be awesome if they can support it.
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Such a long wishlist, so little money.
Rome 2 especially would be awesome!
Quoting: gojul@edddeduck_feral : do you plan to port to Linux the remaining Total War games, I mean Rome 2, Shogun 2, Napoleon ? It would be really great !
Rome 2 especially would be awesome!
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@edddeduck_feral official Mesa support is great news :)
Mad Max runs fine on Mesa for me now (RX480) btw!
Mad Max runs fine on Mesa for me now (RX480) btw!
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will grab this as soon as the tux icon shows up. been looking forward to playing this.
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slaapliedje Nov 22, 2016
Quoting: Mountain ManLooks like I'm somewhere between the minimum and recommended specs. It worked out well for Mad Max, so I wonder if I'll be able to eke some good performance out of this one?
Have you gotten to the area in front of Gastown in Mad Max yet? Performance on my system (32gb / i7-6700k / 1080 GTX) dies there. Granted I have max settings, but it's fine everywhere else, just chokes on all the garbage.. er particles there. Haven't tested if it's a Linux performance thing or not yet though.
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slaapliedje Nov 22, 2016
Quoting: neowiz73will grab this as soon as the tux icon shows up. been looking forward to playing this.
Same! Been wanting to get into the Total War games, but then held off until I had read that there was going to be a Warhammer version!
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It's the 22nd, and the hype is real! Somebody get the cats out of bed, WAAAAAAGH!
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Crazy Penguin Nov 22, 2016
Quoting: FredOIt's the 22nd, and the hype is real! Somebody get the cats out of bed, WAAAAAAGH!Bloody Orks! Bring it on then! KHAZUKAN KAZAKIT-HA! ;P
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What about Intel GPUs :( ?
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