Total War: WARHAMMER Linux specifications announced for the release tomorrow, Mesa supported for AMD

Much lighter than Deus Ex, given that the latter one works like a charm on my box (and I completed it, while it is sadly too short)

I'm on nvidia, but I applaud Feral for their first release supporting MESA open source driver! It is another great step for linux gaming opened by our beloved cheetah :)

I'm in, GTX 980 ti ready ;)

I'm on nvidia, but I applaud Feral for their first release supporting MESA open source driver! It is another great step for linux gaming opened by our beloved cheetah :)

Actually it's not the first time they have supported mesa, see here.

Medieval Total War, Tomb Raider, Life Is Strange and Dawn of War II all officially support Mesa.

Edit: Added in Dawn of War II, as Edwin's post is a little out of date now.


Last edited by Liam Dawe on 21 November 2016 at 2:01 pm UTC

I'm on nvidia, but I applaud Feral for their first release supporting MESA open source driver! It is another great step for linux gaming opened by our beloved cheetah :)

If I'm not mistaken it will be their 4th? It depends on how you count the DOW II expansions.

I'm on nvidia, but I applaud Feral for their first release supporting MESA open source driver! It is another great step for linux gaming opened by our beloved cheetah :)

The first Feral game that supported Mesa was also our first game released on Linux! So we've always supported Mesa where possible since the very first game. :)

For the record XCOM 1 (our first release) supported Mesa for Intel GPUs. Total War: Medieval 2, Life Is Strange, Dawn Of War 2 are some recent games that all shipped with Mesa/RadeonSI official support for AMD hardware.

We've supported Mesa where possible and we have a number of titles supported on Mesa and many more that we did all the work needed inside the game but could not support it officially due to the game needing fixes that where not yet available to end users. For example both Mad Max and Deus Ex run on the latest Mesa but had a few driver issues (mainly performance related) preventing official support on launch.

Warhammer is the first complex modern title that we've been able to have Mesa support from launch since games started requiring OpenGL 4 features like compute shaders even on the lowest settings. However it is a long way from being our first Mesa supported title.

Looks 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?

Looks 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?

You should be more than fine :)

Will be update to support vulkan in the future?

@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 !

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?


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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.

Such a long wishlist, so little money.

@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!

@edddeduck_feral official Mesa support is great news :)

Mad Max runs fine on Mesa for me now (RX480) btw!

will grab this as soon as the tux icon shows up. been looking forward to playing this.

Looks 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.

will 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!

It's the 22nd, and the hype is real! Somebody get the cats out of bed, WAAAAAAGH!

It'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

What about Intel GPUs :( ?