Have you been having problems with the Linux port of Rise of the Tomb Raider? A new opt-in beta released today from Feral Interactive may help with that. See also: Our port report of the Linux version.
Here's what's changed:
- Linux - Improved resource management on Nvidia devices when using driver version 396.18. The game should no longer crash when running at reasonable graphics settings for your hardware (2GB GPU - 1080p with Medium Texture Quality, 4GB GPU - 1080p with High Texture Quality)
- macOS & Linux - Volume sliders now also apply to cutscene audio.
How to access it
Select the game in your Steam library, right click on it and hit Properties. From there, go to the Beta tab and select "mac_linux_public_beta" which will give you access to 1.0.4.
Good to see Feral be so quick after release to work on lingering issues, I'm still incredibly impressed by their work on this port.
Don't own it yet? Buy it from: Humble Store, Feral Store or Steam.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Those guys really love us. It's so nice that they bring high quality AAA ports and sort out issues later if they exist - they care.
I don't like Tomb Raider, but I am somehow in love with Shadow of Mordor, Mad Max and other ports by them. Though, I still consider Deus Ex unplayable due to the endless loading and performance issues on my hardware (would have loved that one to get Vulkan, but we know future ports very likely will all be Vulkan). They seem to have invested a lot into the vulkan backend of their porting layer (most likely doing the same as Croteam, interfacing/abstracting other APIs to Vulkan, which is a lot of work to get it right). Though, not possible for Feral, Croteam seems to be on a Vulkan-only path replacing the middle layers, according to their statements at least.
By now I wished there was more push vor Vulkan in the game industry. For now, it seems we are mostly still with dx11 and dx12.
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I don't like Tomb Raider, but I am somehow in love with Shadow of Mordor, Mad Max and other ports by them. Though, I still consider Deus Ex unplayable due to the endless loading and performance issues on my hardware (would have loved that one to get Vulkan, but we know future ports very likely will all be Vulkan). They seem to have invested a lot into the vulkan backend of their porting layer (most likely doing the same as Croteam, interfacing/abstracting other APIs to Vulkan, which is a lot of work to get it right). Though, not possible for Feral, Croteam seems to be on a Vulkan-only path replacing the middle layers, according to their statements at least.
By now I wished there was more push vor Vulkan in the game industry. For now, it seems we are mostly still with dx11 and dx12.
Last edited by STiAT on 30 April 2018 at 7:15 pm UTC
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On the subject of Vulkan adoption, it is interesting to note that the current Vulkan Developer Day in Montréal is actually being hosted by Ubisoft. Doesn't mean we will see their games on Linux (not what I'm getting at), but it does hopefully mean more of the bigger companies like them are looking more into it - therefore helping a possible future port from the likes of Feral and others.
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buckysrevenge Apr 30, 2018
I'm still on the drivers that came in the latest SteamOS (387.something) and this beta resolved my main issue which was the cutscenes would grind the game to a halt. Thank you, Feral!
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Quoting: Guest"Beta access code invalid."There's no code needed, as mentioned just find it in the beta dropdown.
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GustyGhost Apr 30, 2018
Quoting: liamdaweOn the subject of Vulkan adoption, it is interesting to note that the current Vulkan Developer Day in Montréal is actually being hosted by Ubisoft. Doesn't mean we will see their games on Linux (not what I'm getting at), but it does hopefully mean more of the bigger companies like them are looking more into it - therefore helping a possible future port from the likes of Feral and others.
Who knows? Maybe they will even walk away with a newly discovered passion for software freedom.
"We need to make up for all those wasted years!"
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Tried it with 390.48 drivers. It runs smoother than it was before.
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Well, still crashing for me as soon as I launch the game. Sometimes it makes it up to the actual game, but that never last long.
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Quoting: GustyGhostAnd if that happens... who knows? Maybe Uplay will come for GNU/Linux as well. :P They have a lot of old games they could make available with DOSBox, so Uplay could become a lot of fun if they want to - even with GNU/Linux.Quoting: liamdaweOn the subject of Vulkan adoption, it is interesting to note that the current Vulkan Developer Day in Montréal is actually being hosted by Ubisoft. Doesn't mean we will see their games on Linux (not what I'm getting at), but it does hopefully mean more of the bigger companies like them are looking more into it - therefore helping a possible future port from the likes of Feral and others.
Who knows? Maybe they will even walk away with a newly discovered passion for software freedom.
P.S. I forgot to say thanks, Feral! :D You are awesome!
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Quoting: toorWell, still crashing for me as soon as I launch the game. Sometimes it makes it up to the actual game, but that never last long.Likely a completely different bug, have you emailed Feral support?
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Does the beta fix the freezing issue when you have another application running in the background and it takes focus, e.g. discord, thunderbird etc.?
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Nice! I had quite some trouble with repeated crashing on 396. However, when I switched to 390 those issues went away and I couldn´t notice any obvious change to performance or graphics, so I think I´ll just stick with that driver for now. "If it ain´t broken..." and all that.
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Quoting: buckysrevengeI'm still on the drivers that came in the latest SteamOS (387.something) and this beta resolved my main issue which was the cutscenes would grind the game to a halt. Thank you, Feral!I haven't seen any problem, except for an almost unnoticable error in some shaders.
I am running 387.22-0+steamos17+bso2 on a zotac sn970 (gtx960).
I do switch to full performance before starting the game though...
But maybe the problem is with newer cards?
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Many thanks to the Feral team for this amazing port. Whoever likes action games should really give it a try as it is way better than I had expected. The story is not complex anyways, but it plays like a mixture of Indiana Jones and Assasin Creed.
Running it on an older system, I was assuming that some of the low FPS in cutscenes would be caused by this. In general I had about 2 crashs over the whole game, the rest of the time it was working flawless. For about 30-40 hours of playtime, I consider this pretty well for a AAA title.
Running it on an older system, I was assuming that some of the low FPS in cutscenes would be caused by this. In general I had about 2 crashs over the whole game, the rest of the time it was working flawless. For about 30-40 hours of playtime, I consider this pretty well for a AAA title.
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Quoting: ArdjeNo, I think the crucial difference is that he has 8GB of ram and you have 16GB. As I said in the other thread, the game eats several gigs more memory on the old shader compiler. It'll "grind to a halt" when it starts swapping, or just crashes if there's no swap space available.Quoting: buckysrevengeI'm still on the drivers that came in the latest SteamOS (387.something) and this beta resolved my main issue which was the cutscenes would grind the game to a halt. Thank you, Feral!I haven't seen any problem, except for an almost unnoticable error in some shaders.
I am running 387.22-0+steamos17+bso2 on a zotac sn970 (gtx960).
I do switch to full performance before starting the game though...
But maybe the problem is with newer cards?
I completed the game yesterday and haven't tried the new beta. Maybe it's better now. But it was already almost perfect for me on 396.18.
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Just bought this a few days ago from the Feral Store and I'm loving it (as I knew I would!). Using the 390.48 driver as per the Arch repos with a GTX970 (1080p) and it's been super smooth on high settings (roughly between 60 - 80 fps). Some of the cut scenes were not as smooth as they could be however.
Is the beta opt-in a full download again? I'll try it if not.
Is the beta opt-in a full download again? I'll try it if not.
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Quoting: GustyGhostQuoting: liamdaweOn the subject of Vulkan adoption, it is interesting to note that the current Vulkan Developer Day in Montréal is actually being hosted by Ubisoft. Doesn't mean we will see their games on Linux (not what I'm getting at), but it does hopefully mean more of the bigger companies like them are looking more into it - therefore helping a possible future port from the likes of Feral and others.
Who knows? Maybe they will even walk away with a newly discovered passion for software freedom.
"We need to make up for all those wasted years!"
No its ubisoft about as much chance as Bethesda turning round and saying you know what lets give linux a try.
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Quoting: fabertaweJust bought this a few days ago from the Feral Store and I'm loving it (as I knew I would!). Using the 390.48 driver as per the Arch repos with a GTX970 (1080p) and it's been super smooth on high settings (roughly between 60 - 80 fps). Some of the cut scenes were not as smooth as they could be however.
Is the beta opt-in a full download again? I'll try it if not.
No , it only downloads a small amount of data. Not the whole game.
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