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The patch we have been waiting on for Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor [Steam, Feral Interactive] is finally live and fixes a major graphical bug on NVIDIA drivers.

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You might not remember, but Mordor on Linux had a bad case of missing body syndrome. This patch will remove the need for any workarounds on later NVIDIA drivers.

Changelog:
- Fixed crash when swapping controller at run time
- Allow bindings of extra mouse buttons
- Fixed various rare crashes and hangs on quit
- Fixed missing bodies and other geometry on Nvidia
- Fixed 7.1 Surround sound support
- Fixed Spanish language support
- Modernised launch scripts to help on various distributions
- General performance improvements, particularly in CPU limited situations
- Fixed forced VSync on AMD Mesa
- Minor text fixes

Something not specifically mentioned in their changelog, but nice to see is that Mordor now uses the Feral launcher.

I absolutely love this game and completed it. I loved nearly every minute of it! If you still haven't picked it up, looks like now is an ideal time to do so. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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lejimster Jan 26, 2017
Love the fact Feral is still supporting their games after release. I have the game already but won't be playing it till I upgrade my GPU. But this is nice to see. With Vulkan ports coming this year I can't wait to see what games they bring to Linux.
ivant Jan 26, 2017
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I'm replaying this game and I played it earlier today. When I tried to launch it a few minutes ago it started this massive 3.3 GB download and I decided that Steam got crazy!
Geppeto35 Jan 26, 2017
A very nice game I enjoy to play and finish, even one of the best experience to play on linux to date! My second AAA game (after Borderland2) I entirely played and finished on Gnu/Linux (a Lubuntu actually with a 750ti that did the job for a 2,560 x 1,440 monitor, thus nice work Feral ^^). Cool that they still release patch for it.


Last edited by Geppeto35 on 26 January 2017 at 5:02 pm UTC
Slackdog Jan 26, 2017
Had this bug -though it looks so funny not sure I want the patch! :P
Ben D Jan 26, 2017
Shadow of Mordor is one of my favorite games (if you can't tell from my avatar :D). I hope this fixes it for AMD too.
ziabice Jan 26, 2017
Brief report on my PC using Mesa + radeonsi, FullHD and medium settings: game seems a little faster, still stutters, but is playable.
Emazza Jan 26, 2017
Do you know if they have fixed the PS3 wireless Bluetooth support?
leillo1975 Jan 26, 2017
Good work, Feral. I feel a little performance improvement. With Ultra settings and 1080 in a i5-3550 and GTX950-2GB I have over 5 fps more than the previous version (26.4->31.83). Obviously, I don't use this setting to play this game (I use medium-high).


Last edited by leillo1975 on 26 January 2017 at 7:44 pm UTC
Aimela Jan 27, 2017
I love this update simply for the addition of proper surround sound support. The only other times I've personally had proper surround in games have been in Minecraft and through Windows games in Wine. It's such a rarity right now and I hope this is a sign of things improving.
Siinamon Jan 27, 2017
This is amazing news! When I get Antergos installed, one of the first things I am going to do is get going on this game again. I haven't beat it yet but I really want to. My partner beat it way faster than I can manage.
jith_feral Jan 27, 2017
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Brief report on my PC using Mesa + radeonsi, FullHD and medium settings: game seems a little faster, still stutters, but is playable.
AMD GPUs aren't officially supported for Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor on Linux, but still worth emailing [email protected] so the team there can look into this.
M@GOid Jan 27, 2017
There is a way to skip the driver warning on Feral games? Its okay to see it the first time, but annoying when you are playing the games flawlessly for several days.
jith_feral Jan 27, 2017
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There is a way to skip the driver warning on Feral games? Its okay to see it the first time, but annoying when you are playing the games flawlessly for several days.

You can skip it on our newer titles, but not the older ones.
M@GOid Jan 27, 2017
It can be done i
There is a way to skip the driver warning on Feral games? Its okay to see it the first time, but annoying when you are playing the games flawlessly for several days.

You can skip it on our newer titles, but not the older ones.

It can be done in Shadow of Mordor? If so, how?
Redface Jan 27, 2017
Thank you Feral for keeping this older title updated, even if it took a while:-)
jith_feral Jan 27, 2017
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It can be done i
There is a way to skip the driver warning on Feral games? Its okay to see it the first time, but annoying when you are playing the games flawlessly for several days.

You can skip it on our newer titles, but not the older ones.

It can be done in Shadow of Mordor? If so, how?

Nope, you can't skip it in Shadow of Mordor.
GBee Jan 28, 2017
Unfortunately following this update it crashes/exits on startup for me.
MaCroX95 Jan 29, 2017
Some huge performance drops for me unfortunately on GTX970 :( The benchmark is better but in actual game it keeps stuttering much...
jith_feral Jan 30, 2017
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Some huge performance drops for me unfortunately on GTX970 :( The benchmark is better but in actual game it keeps stuttering much...

Can you please email [email protected] so that the team there can look into this?
OlliC Jun 21, 2017
Hmm..still having this missing body bug on Arch Linux with nvidia driver 381.22.


Last edited by OlliC on 21 June 2017 at 4:24 pm UTC
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