Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and XCOM 2 are both super cheap this weekend

The poor sales are from a BAD reception of the games lack luster story line and DLC content, coupled with bad performance issues on PC. Unfortunately they are outright blaming people not spending money as the issue... its not.

Quoting: Kohrias@Kujo: I have an AMD RX 480. With the current Mesa git 17.1 it is playable @ > 30 fps if you do reduce the graphics settings a bit. The driver has been tweaked a lot in the last weeks.

I shall have to try that. I've had the latest (stable) 13.x Mesa on Arch Linux with a AMD R9 380X (amdgpu), and the game will run silky smooth in some areas... but others, with some lighting or textures or SOMETHING that the Mesa driver doesn't like, cuts the FPS way down into unplayable choppy territory.

Quoting: eldersnakeI shall have to try that. I've had the latest (stable) 13.x Mesa on Arch Linux with a AMD R9 380X (amdgpu), and the game will run silky smooth in some areas... but others, with some lighting or textures or SOMETHING that the Mesa driver doesn't like, cuts the FPS way down into unplayable choppy territory.

I have only played ~5-10min. So I am not sure if there are still areas with frame-drops.

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Quoting: eldersnakeI shall have to try that. I've had the latest (stable) 13.x Mesa on Arch Linux with a AMD R9 380X (amdgpu), and the game will run silky smooth in some areas... but others, with some lighting or textures or SOMETHING that the Mesa driver doesn't like, cuts the FPS way down into unplayable choppy territory.

I have only played ~5-10min. So I am not sure if there are still areas with frame-drops.

Yah, well I installed the latest Mesa git but not much difference for Deus Ex unfortunately (though it did make The Witcher 2 a heck of a lot better by fixing the black flickering texture problem that Mesa 13.x had with it).

The area where Jensen's apartment is, the FPS is pretty good even on Ultra details for me. But if I take the train to the next area, the game is pretty much unplayable even on Low. Lol.

I'd love to know what specifically in the game in certain areas is causing the amdgpu driver to spaz out, but there's not much info I can find on it. And I don't have the know-how on tracing it.

It's the only game I'm having any trouble with though. Everything else I throw at my 380X it handles no problem, often on max details @ 1080p. With open source drivers no less, that's pretty impressive to me.


Last edited by eldersnake on 5 February 2017 at 8:19 am UTC

Quoting: eldersnakeThe area where Jensen's apartment is, the FPS is pretty good even on Ultra details for me. But if I take the train to the next area, the game is pretty much unplayable even on Low. Lol.

I am wondering if it is related to loading or compiling shaders. Curious to see if the shader cache feature will help with this.

Last night I updated my Mint 18.1 installation to kernel 4.9 and Mesa 17.1. Now I have OpenGL 4.5 activated, but with the radeon kernel driver. AMD Tahiti/Tahiti Pro hasn't got AMDGPU-Support till now.

By this my Cities Skylines-Steam Installation runs fine now. Before (radeon, OpenGL 4.1 and Mesa 11.2.0) I had strange graphical artifacts around lights. That's fixed now.

So I'll give DE:MD a try and have a look at it.


Last edited by KuJo on 5 February 2017 at 11:00 am UTC

Darn it, i just bought the game, only to realize that I can't run it because it needs SSSE3 support, which my overclocked Phenom II X6 lacks. Will have to refund this one.

Kind of a shame that the price for a relatively new game like Deus Ex deteriorated so quickly.
But I also have to admit that Deus Ex: MD never gripped me like its predecessor did. I played through Human Revolution multiple times but I have yet to finish Mankind Divided. Problem is, I simply don't feel like playing the game. For some reason I don't find it interesting enough.

Quoting: buenaventuraI subscribed to last month's humble monthly bundle to get XCOM2, I am tweakin' and stuff to get it to work (I am like just about on recommended specs, with AMD card) and it seems awesome. I like that I got it for 10.8 dollars, (also I got all those other games, but they were kinda meh). It seems great anyhow, I hope I can play it well soon!

I read your optimize XCOM2 post Liam, and I get OK FPS during play, but what is not working is cutscenes - they play (I can hear them fine) but there is only the first frame of video showing for some reason, it's frozen.

Also, the wait between turns/actions is very long (FPS is fine, I can scroll about and so on, but loading dialogue lines during the tutorial takes ages, nothing happens for seconds for no apparent reason). I will try to fix that, perhaps just turn audio off (I dont care), and I am verifying the game also. I am happy I can play at all! Kinda of a gamble to buy the game with my specs!

Hey buenaventura, if you can please contact [email protected] So we can take a closer look at the issue you are having.

Quoting: Feral_SamyHey buenaventura, if you can please contact [email protected] So we can take a closer look at the issue you are having.

Hey! Sure, I have, ticket 9097 - actually, I dont particularly mind the no-video-cutscenes (you can still hear the audio and get what's going on - I would be fine with a written transcript even). However, a more serious issue I've encountered now (and reported in that ticket as well) is that all loadtimes, including riding the ship and starting a new game,are quite OK EXCEPT when loading a saved game - I thought it had frozen and just left it for a while (I can alt-tab out easily with no performance hit) but then, something like an HOUR later, poof I was in the base! This is the case both with tweaked .ini and with the standard ini.

Also, something I forgot to mention is that if I start from normal Steam interface, I sometimes fail to get any image (I can hear all sounds) - however, starting from Steam Big Picture Mode is foolproof, gets me to menu well each time.

Also, damn are those loading screens handsome! I printscreened one immediately and set it as wallpaper, DAMN!