Aspyr Media are getting a little help from Intel for the long-delayed Linux patch to Civilization VI

I guess Aspyr is no longer really a porting house, so I can soft of understand why that's no longer a priority for them. I hope Firaxis will work with Feral in the future, or - god forbid - actually start multi-platform development in-house.

Perhaps support for amdgpu and radeonsi would be fine as well. IIRC CIV VI has no official support for those drivers at all and there are a lot of serious issues with the port when attempting to run them on Linux using MESA...

It doesn't help that the ports of Civ V and Beyond earth are BROKEN and crash constantly...

I am very dissappointed with Aspyr i don't remember a single port from them without serious issues. Especially when those games become older, they tend to break in many ways... I just hope Civ VII port goes to Feral...

I have Civ5 , Fahrenheit , Borderlands 2 from Aspyr and they work without issues. Though i'm on Nvidia.

The delay sucks but I don't think the negativity towards Aspyr is warranted. They are still one of the top porting houses and need all the support they can get. Let's not do what people did to CD Projekt Red.

Take as much time as you need guys. We're anxious but will be thankful when it comes and works well. I still remember doing a Civ V LAN night with two buddies. One Windows, one Mac and me running Linux. It worked well and I'll never forget it.

..personally I had no issues with Civ V or Civ VI ..should I feel lucky?

Regardless, I really like Civilization series (big fan since 1991) and I want a native build (obviously it's always good to have other options like proton/wine as well).

The previous comments make me worry a bit about future compatibility. I would hate it if my next gpu (or pc for that matter) had issues running these games. Hopefully Aspyr will fix the issue and then focus on improving the port.


Last edited by SadL on 17 October 2018 at 8:54 pm UTC

I had a period where it wouldn't start, but I think it was due to me missing some libraries.

But I have had Deus Ex (ported by Feral) crash to gnome quite a few times, so it is all very subjective. Software has bugs. It is annoying, but it happens.

..personally I had no issues with Civ V or Civ VI ..should I feel lucky?

Regardless, I really like Civilization series (big fan since 1991) and I want a native build (obviously it's always good to have other options like proton/wine as well).

The previous comments make me worry a bit about future compatibility. I would hate it if my next gpu (or pc for that matter) had issues running these games. Hopefully Aspyr will fix the issue and then focus on improving the port.

From what i understand , they both using AMD gpu's. I'm on Nvidia like you and never had a problem.

I actually reinstalled windows recently to play Civ VI with a friend. That's the thing with crossplay, it's hard to explain to someone that you won't play with them because you're on linux and they are on windows.

Looking forward to crossplay on Civ VI!

Can we please specify when Humble merely provides a Steam key versus when they actually provide a build with no middlemen?

..personally I had no issues with Civ V or Civ VI ..should I feel lucky?

Regardless, I really like Civilization series (big fan since 1991) and I want a native build (obviously it's always good to have other options like proton/wine as well).

The previous comments make me worry a bit about future compatibility. I would hate it if my next gpu (or pc for that matter) had issues running these games. Hopefully Aspyr will fix the issue and then focus on improving the port.

From what i understand , they both using AMD gpu's. I'm on Nvidia like you and never had a problem.

Maybe that's the case. Hopefully things can get better for them from the driver's front as well.

I really agree with Spacesurfer and LibertyPaulM. Pretty sure Aspyr feels the heat and they are trying. Getting a port up to date with crossplatform multiplayer after a delay (even a big one) is better than having no port at all.

This is NOT the way to support GNU. I would take Proton over this one hundred times. I hope Firaxis will do the work in-house for their next game.

This is NOT the way to support GNU. I would take Proton over this one hundred times. I hope Firaxis will do the work in-house for their next game.

Well, this is about a game's Linux port, not about its GNU port...

I am not really into marketing names; the game runs on the GNU os (I run it on my computer), the Linux kernel by itself won't help (else it would run on my phone too).
The point is, having a third party try to patch up an existing code base may not lead to best results, unsurprisingly.

Please, for everyone's sanity - do not start an OS naming war.

Hmm, Civ 5 works perfectly on Linux for me (faster than on Windows, even). I had some issues with mods, but the base game was great. I didn't know that people had problems with the port. Civ 6 is unplayable for me on Linux, but my integrated graphics is bellow minimum specs on Windows and unsupported on Linux so I can't really complain.

As an AMD user (of course radeonsi) I never had any issues with both, Civ 5 and 6. Yes, the FPS in Civ 6 could be better, but it's turn based, so I don't really see an issue if it's slightly stuttering.

Personnnaly I'm on Intel + Nvidia laptop most of the time and no Aspyr ports picks up my GPU not a single one of them. And of course they were not exactly of any help at all. Sooo I'd like to see them up their game a little because their track reccord is iffy at best for me.

Please, for everyone's sanity - do not start an OS naming war.

What's even more stupid than an OS war?

...hey, how could you know before I told you?!?

Civ 5 segfaults at start since I upgraded to a Ryzen 1700. I believe it's a combination of too many(?) cores and too new GCC version.
Because of this I haven't even considered buying Civ 6.

I believe it's a known issue (many people have it on the steam forums), but I haven't seen a patch for it in half a year.

I've never had problems with Civ5 on my laptop with Nvidia card with Optimus (so kind of non-typical setup). The only crashes I encountered was after installing some invasive mods like NQMod or Enhanced UI, but that's probably because nobody tested them on Linux.

I can't help feeling the criticism of Aspyr is somewhat undeserved here.

Hi Paul, while I am very grateful to them for actually bringing Civ VI to linux and I am basically ok with their code quality (although I can make it leak and grow the process way past 20GB until the reaper comes for it) and Civ V still crashes on exit every third time or so) I think that we can start to be unhappy about their performance if they fail to provide one of the main features of such a game (multiplayer with the majority of other players) after a year or so... if they then proceed to take away our ability to go into multiplayer games with more than half of the remaining players previously available (the mac users) then excuse me if I start to strongly disagree with you and I think that criticism is necessary. You can't just always take everything because you're a minority and I spent my money on that game and its extension, so yes, I would like to make them aware of the fact that while it is ok to take your time and provide good results, that also has its limits.

Howewer It's sad to see people attacking them for delaying the patch because cross platform multiplayer can be extremely complicated in some situations and they just want to make sure the patch meets their QA standards.

We're not talking about just delaying a patch, we're talking about a feature that is missing for way longer than a year and a patch that makes everything worse since it breaks most of what little in terms of multiplayer we already had. You can't tell me that QA is the reason for that. And you can't tell me either that multiplayer is so complex that somebody who is calling porting their job can't figure that out in more than a year. I should know - we do lots of networking (with much more real time data than a little game produces on the handful of possible systems involved) among different OSes and our customers would lynch us if we'd break that for a month, let alone more than a year.

I think that you are being too apologetic and that yes, there is a valid reason for people to speak up in a civilized way.