Rise of the Tomb Raider for Linux to release tomorrow, April 19th

Damn, the Nvidia beta Linux drivers (396) arent available on Solus, so I guess the game won't be playable on it. I guess I'll have to wait till the drivers get out of beta to get the game.

I didn't say anything like ; Tomb Raider is not AAA though.

Btw , 396.18 driver need is a bit odd.

In regards to that new NVIDIA driver, NVIDIA seem to be closely watching DXVK and have made adjustments to improve it: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/267#issuecomment-382147467

So...Wine being used with DXVK is actually helping NVIDIA's Linux driver.

Is very impressive nvidia stay interesting in DXVK because them have piers daniell active in thread

OpenGL driver engineer at NVIDIA

https://twitter.com/piers_daniell

Hopefully wine devs talks about DXVK in wineconf in june

Must be integrate in wine because DXVK runs on vulkan hardware compatible (nvidia, intel and amd) and in closed driver (nvidia) or open driver (amd)

^_^

So anyone knows if feral has commented if they are using vulkan over dx12 or dx11?

Minimum OS: Ubuntu 17.10
Minimum? So not older than the latest release? I'm intrigued. Mind you I have no objections, but I find it interesting still.

Oh well, I'll upgrade my systems with the next LTS coming next week anyways. So yeah - bring it on!


Oh and btw, the reviews are pretty unison in that this is a better game than the precessor, so worth considering even if you found the last game to be a bit too railed.

I'm curious now, i have Ubuntu 16.04, and 18.04 (beta) installed, plus a SteamOS so lot of testing tomorrow i guess, also r9 Fury and RX 460 so maybe i got somewhere the right combo to play this one :D

So anyone knows if feral has commented if they are using vulkan over dx12 or dx11?

Yes, there is Vulkan-Support:

CRAFTED FOR macOS AND LINUX

Using the latest Metal and Vulkan graphics technology, the Tomb Raider series returns to macOS and Linux in spectacular form.

-> Feral-Store

On Steam it already has the SteamOS symbol.

So anyone knows if feral has commented if they are using vulkan over dx12 or dx11?

Yes, there is Vulkan-Support:

CRAFTED FOR macOS AND LINUX

Using the latest Metal and Vulkan graphics technology, the Tomb Raider series returns to macOS and Linux in spectacular form.

-> Feral-Store

As i understand they translate the dx calls to vulkan calls instead of rewrite the entire graphics pipeline. Rise of the Tomb raider uses dx11 and dx12 as an option, so my question is if they translates dx11 to vulkan or dx12 to vulkan?

If it runs on a phenomII, I grab it. Definition of "works" means that it displays screen content - doesn't have to be fast! Just not sure if it will suffer the same problem as the F1 games or not.

Sorry, missed this bit from the email they sent: "Requires an SSE2 capable processor.".

Guess I am not getting this until the nvidia beta driver goes stable.

PS. I would be nice if nvidia released stable driver that works with the game. They do this on Windows all the time.


Last edited by afettouhi on 18 Apr 2018 at 3:43 pm UTC

Sorry, missed this bit from the email they sent: "Requires an SSE2 capable processor.".

Do they really mean SSE2 and not SSE4? Because SSE2 is on a decade old CPUs while SSE4 just arrived on AMD with bulldozer CPUs.

So do I have to wait until 18.04 is released to play this game? I'm on 16.04 and I don't want to upgrade to 17.10 when 18.04 is 10 days away!

So do I have to wait until 18.04 is released to play this game? I'm on 16.04 and I don't want to upgrade to 17.10 when 18.04 is 10 days away!

Why dont update now, i update more or less 20 days and works ok (lastest citra needs 18.04)

View video on youtube.com

View video on youtube.com

View video on youtube.com

Using this link appears another games native-non native tested xubuntu 18.04

https://www.youtube.com/user/mrdeathjr28/search?query=xubuntu+18.04

^_^


Last edited by mrdeathjr on 18 Apr 2018 at 4:43 pm UTC

I'm assuming I will, isn't Vulkan vastly superior to opengl in terms of performance?

It's not like Vulkan magically speeds up your GPU. It mostly helps in scenarios limit by CPU.

So do I have to wait until 18.04 is released to play this game? I'm on 16.04 and I don't want to upgrade to 17.10 when 18.04 is 10 days away!

Why dont update now, i update more or less 20 days and works ok (lastest citra needs 18.04)

^_^

Because I'm running KDE Neon 16.04 which isn't yet available for 18.04. Looks like I'd have to wait until early or mid May before I can buy it.

I finished the prequel just in time ... uhm 10 minutes ago ;-)

It will probably run like crap on my system. I can run Tomb Raider good so I'll give it a shot. I'm not too crazy about using the beta driver though.

This game is very heavy in my case neither try

According passmark your Q9650 have 1270 points in single thread, and my pentium G3258 @ 4.1ghz give this


But this game must use quad core cpu correctly

^_^


Last edited by mrdeathjr on 18 Apr 2018 at 5:21 pm UTC

I will call it a success if I will be able to see the loading screen with my setup.
Probably I will need to upgrade my driver first.

It will be good to see a performance comparison between this version and the Windows version running via WINe/DXVK using the same hardware...

On other topic:
Feral, if You take your self seriously and if You really have the publishing rights of these games for Linux and Mac, GET RID of STEAMPLAY..
Linux and Mac versions of Windows games must have a different store page and a different price when the Linux/Mac publisher is different than the windows publisher.

I repeat: Steamplay is the enemy of the Linux gaming..
For example, I have a code for the windows version of Rise of the Tomb Raider from a Humble monthly Bundle and that allow me get the Linux version for FREE,
(And I am sure I am not the only one in this situation) This is not good for Linux publishers...

Steamplay was OK 5 years ago, at the beginning of the SteamOS project, as a help for the OS transition and as a help that allowed Windows users to make a safe incursion in the Linux world..

Steamplay IS OK NOW when the publisher of the Linux version and the Windows version is the same publisher; Layers of Fear and Observer_ are a good example of this.. Aspyr is the publisher of all versions..

But Steamplay is BAD when the Linux version has a different publisher than the windows version...
What is the point of to spend money in getting the publishing right of a game for Linux and to spend a lot of money in the porting process, when people can use a cheapest windows version key for to activate the Linux version??

Linux and Mac versions of Windows games must have a different store page and a different price when the Linux/Mac publisher is different than the windows publisher.

I wouldn't mind different pricing, but having separate store pages would only make things utterly confusing for the average user that isn't interested in the politics of publishing.

Anyway, great day tomorrow! Hope that the nvidia driver will come out of beta soon...