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PayPalThe moment many have been waiting for, Feral Interactive have just announced that Rise of the Tomb Raider for Linux will release tomorrow, April 19th. As a reminder, this title will be using Vulkan.
I honestly haven't felt this hyped up for quite some time! April is turning out to be a damn fun month for Linux gaming.
Here's what Feral sent along for the official system requirements:
Minimum
OS: Ubuntu 17.10
Processor: Intel Core i3-4130T or AMD equivalent
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: 2GB AMD R9 285 (GCN 3rd Gen and above), 2GB Nvidia GTX 680 or better
Storage: 28 GB available space
Recommended
OS: Ubuntu 17.10
Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K
Memory: 12 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GTX 980Ti
Storage: 28 GB available space
For NVIDIA GPU users, you will need the latest 396.18 beta driver at a minimum. For AMD GPU users, you will need Mesa 17.3.5, although if you're on Vega you will need Mesa 18.0 or later. AMD GCN 1st and 2nd generation graphics cards are not supported, Intel GPUs are also not supported.
Also, it requires an SSE2 capable processor.
We shall have a review out tomorrow at release and likely a livestream, so do ensure you're following us on Twitch.
If you wish to pick it up now, you can do so on the Humble Store, Feral Store or Steam directly. If you're worried about it not counting for Linux, Feral themselves have said publicly they're happy for people to buy games when they've announced them.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: BrisseDownloading 21.8GiB. Will take 4-5hours on my slow connection :/How is it slow? It will take more than 30 hours for me.
Quoting: ageresQuoting: BrisseDownloading 21.8GiB. Will take 4-5hours on my slow connection :/How is it slow? It will take more than 30 hours for me.
Ouch. I guess it's relatively slow for a wired connection where I live (18Mbit down, 2Mbit up ADSL), but we are spoiled with great broadband connection in this country. We have been able to get fiber for years but the entry fee is too steep in my opinion and the return on investment would be something like ~20 years.
Quoting: WJMazepasQuoting: ErzfeindI love Steamplay, however I would like to support porters like Feral in additional ways (donation, subscription on twitch, etc.).
You can buy their games from their store. They will receive a lot more money than buying on Steam
Yeah, I know, will probably do so for LiS Before the Storm as I don't own it already on Steam. But I already owned LiS, Tomb Raider, Rise of the Tomb Raider and wanted to give them a little "thank you!".
Quoting: ErzfeindYeah, I know, will probably do so for LiS Before the Storm as I don't own it already on Steam. But I already owned LiS, Tomb Raider, Rise of the Tomb Raider and wanted to give them a little "thank you!".
They do have a Twitch channel, so you might be able to subscribe (or whatever one is doing there :) ) them.
Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTQuoting: BrisseIf you do, it would be nice to have a comparison with the same system and Linux. (:Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTCould someone who has the chance to please post Windows vs Linux benchmarks after it has been released?
I recently made some benchmarks on Windows, including multi-GPU but I can't find the results right now :S:
These are all @ 1080p high. Normally I would run the game @ 1440p very high though.
DX11 Single-GPU 91.97fps
DX12 Single-GPU 102.99fps
DX11 Multi-GPU 124.50fps
DX12 Multi-GPU 107.44fps
Linux Vulkan Single-GPU 60.84fps
Quite a bit of performance loss for the port compared to liamdawe's Nvidia-machine.
I'm running a Ryzen 1700X, 32GiB DDR4-2400 cl14 and two Sapphire Nitro R9 Fury's on Debian Sid with kernel 4.15, Mesa 17.3.8 and CPU governor set to performance.
Edit: Found an issue. See later comments in the thread, and ignore the Linux frame rate in this post.
Last edited by Brisse on 19 April 2018 at 5:11 pm UTC
Quoting: BrisseQuoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTQuoting: BrisseIf you do, it would be nice to have a comparison with the same system and Linux. (:Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTCould someone who has the chance to please post Windows vs Linux benchmarks after it has been released?
I recently made some benchmarks on Windows, including multi-GPU but I can't find the results right now :S:
These are all @ 1080p high. Normally I would run the game @ 1440p very high though.
DX11 Single-GPU 91.97fps
DX12 Single-GPU 102.99fps
DX11 Multi-GPU 124.50fps
DX12 Multi-GPU 107.44fps
Linux Vulkan Single-GPU 60.84fps
Quite a bit of performance loss for the port compared to liamdawe's Nvidia-machine.
I'm running a Ryzen 1700X, 32GiB DDR4-2400 cl14 and two Sapphire Nitro R9 Fury's on Debian Sid with kernel 4.15, Mesa 17.3.8 and CPU governor set to performance.
As a sanity check, was Linux run with vsync disabled (just asking seeing as it's 60)? Also, same AA setting between both Linux and Windows as well?
Quoting: aejsmithQuoting: BrisseQuoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTQuoting: BrisseIf you do, it would be nice to have a comparison with the same system and Linux. (:Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTCould someone who has the chance to please post Windows vs Linux benchmarks after it has been released?
I recently made some benchmarks on Windows, including multi-GPU but I can't find the results right now :S:
These are all @ 1080p high. Normally I would run the game @ 1440p very high though.
DX11 Single-GPU 91.97fps
DX12 Single-GPU 102.99fps
DX11 Multi-GPU 124.50fps
DX12 Multi-GPU 107.44fps
Linux Vulkan Single-GPU 60.84fps
Quite a bit of performance loss for the port compared to liamdawe's Nvidia-machine.
I'm running a Ryzen 1700X, 32GiB DDR4-2400 cl14 and two Sapphire Nitro R9 Fury's on Debian Sid with kernel 4.15, Mesa 17.3.8 and CPU governor set to performance.
As a sanity check, was Linux run with vsync disabled (just asking seeing as it's 60)? Also, same AA setting between both Linux and Windows as well?
It's off. I wonder if Mesa 18.0 would help though. I just looked at Samsais benchmarks on Mesa 18.0 and it looks better than my results even though the Fury should be faster than the 580.
Last edited by Brisse on 19 April 2018 at 2:26 pm UTC
DX12 "somewhere in the eighties" (can't find the exact number, but that's how I played the game when it first came out)
Linux 49.36fps :'(
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