If you've been holding out on the latest horror game from Bloober Team and Aspyr Media due to it being Steam only, prepare your pants as it's now on GOG. GOG don't tend to make a big splash when they put up a Linux version and I'm surprised they didn't email me directly this time (they usually do). It seems they mentioned it on their forum here.
On top of that, it seems it should also work properly on Mesa in future as well! A user pointed out to me via email this bug report, which has a workaround patch to fix it. Since I don't use Mesa, I'm unsure if/when that patch will land in an official Mesa release (if it hasn't already). Good to see though, as I saw a number of AMD users unhappy it didn't work right.
See Also: My review of Observer.
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About the game:
The year is 2084. If you somehow survived the Nanophage, odds are you were killed in the War. Those who live have turned to drugs, VR, neural implants— anything to distract themselves from this new reality. You are Daniel Lazarski, an elite neural detective known as an Observer, and part of a corporate-funded police unit whose purpose is to hack and invade suspects’ minds. In this future, anything you think, feel, or remember can be used against you in a court of law.
Find Observer on GOG now, also Steam (20% off on Steam).
Thanks for the tip Fabrics!
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: johndoeThe patch is now in mesa master.
This means that the next oibaf ppa mesa release should pick it up for ubuntu users.
I hope it also lands in 17.3.0 which is to be released this weekend.
Just tested Observer today with mesa 17.3.1 and still experience the black screen at that door. Do one have to remove some cache files for this to work or did the patch not land yet?
Quoting: F.UltraQuoting: johndoeThe patch is now in mesa master.
This means that the next oibaf ppa mesa release should pick it up for ubuntu users.
I hope it also lands in 17.3.0 which is to be released this weekend.
Just tested Observer today with mesa 17.3.1 and still experience the black screen at that door. Do one have to remove some cache files for this to work or did the patch not land yet?
Sadly the patch landed only in master (mesa 17.4.0-devel) for now.
You need to install mesa master from Oibaf or Padoka PPA.
In the meantime I've found that "Steamroll" needs this patch too and reported this also to mesa devs asking them to backport the patch to mesa stable 17.3.x.
Look here ...
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104288
Tapani (from Intel) also found another game called "Refunct" and answered that he will attempt to push the patch to stable 17.3 too.
Quoting: johndoeQuoting: F.UltraQuoting: johndoeThe patch is now in mesa master.
This means that the next oibaf ppa mesa release should pick it up for ubuntu users.
I hope it also lands in 17.3.0 which is to be released this weekend.
Just tested Observer today with mesa 17.3.1 and still experience the black screen at that door. Do one have to remove some cache files for this to work or did the patch not land yet?
Sadly the patch landed only in master (mesa 17.4.0-devel) for now.
You need to install mesa master from Oibaf or Padoka PPA.
In the meantime I've found that "Steamroll" needs this patch too and reported this also to mesa devs asking them to backport the patch to mesa stable 17.3.x.
Look here ...
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104288
Tapani (from Intel) also found another game called "Refunct" and answered that he will attempt to push the patch to stable 17.3 too.
I used to use the unstable branch from Padoka but since his automatic build system pushes out DEBs even when the build fails for some of the packages it was always a "ok will my computer work now or will I have terminal only for a week until the next release" so I switched over to the stable branch.
Anyways, good to know that it's coming and that I was simply too eager :)
Quoting: F.UltraI used to use the unstable branch from Padoka but since his automatic build system pushes out DEBs even when the build fails for some of the packages it was always a "ok will my computer work now or will I have terminal only for a week until the next release" so I switched over to the stable branch.
Anyways, good to know that it's coming and that I was simply too eager :)
Good news!
Seems like Tapani could convince Emil Velikov to push the fix to stable. Read here...
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg179633.html
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