Didn't you notice that your character faces look plasticky and missing FBI logos and material shading on the jackets? :D Seems to be issue for AMD GPUs atm.
With nvidia everything seems to work but frametimes in the town area are pretty bad with lots of stutters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU0f1IOL-1k

Yeah noticed the FBI was missing from the jackets - faces are ok, hard to gauge how much is the engine used vs the translation. I've got a few nvidia cards (3090 and a 4060 in a laptop) haven't tried them yet as amd/6900xt is my main go for gpu. haven't tried ray tracing on amd (probably not worth the effort) - much more taxing than Control. game still plays pretty well and looks good - notice the strong denoising at times (but that was similar to Control).

Bummer, I'd really like that (love Alan Wake, love Control), except it's published by Epic, so it doesn't exist to me. I won't tolerate their problematic shitware and pollution. Even EOS... if I buy a game on Steam that unknowningly uses that, I send it right back with the reason "Please list Epic Online Services on the store page to avoid these refunds". I know immediately, because my game won't run. I don't even care that it won't run, I'd honestly rather it didn't

We can pretty much guarantee that it will never be on GoG, too.

Very well, Remedy added to my shitlist too. Nobody needs to buy games and these companies should remember that. I'll buy my games from stores that provide good services to users (my heart just pumps purple piss for those poor, hard done by publishers) and game companies that don't use problematic middleware or authoritarian anti-tampering.

Last edited by Grogan on 29 October 2023 at 5:24 pm UTC

Quoting: XpanderDidn't you notice that your character faces look plasticky and missing FBI logos and material shading on the jackets? :D Seems to be issue for AMD GPUs atm.
With nvidia everything seems to work but frametimes in the town area are pretty bad with lots of stutters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU0f1IOL-1k

This is now fixed in the updated mesa-git 24 released today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMhuyXR3Xzo

yup. playing on nobara with an rtx 4070 on driver 535 via lutris, i can get good framerates but weird, almost random framedrops and stutters. funny enough though, on windows the random jump-scare black and white flashes that happen throughout the game during gameplay causes a one second stutter but on linux it's seamless as it should normally be, very weird. its cool to have the game running but i feel like its the nvidia driver woes or something with wine/proton

I was getting slide show framerates on a rtx3070 using nvidia 525 drivers, Switching to 535 drivers fixed this. Unfortunately the dualsense controller doesn't work on linux, so will probably continue playing on windows.

Quoting: KeebI was getting slide show framerates on a rtx3070 using nvidia 525 drivers, Switching to 535 drivers fixed this. Unfortunately the dualsense controller doesn't work on linux, so will probably continue playing on windows.

sounds like some nvidia woes from what people are saying, although i just tested my ps5 controller wirelessly and it worked perfectly on linux so it is probably a setting somewhere that needs tweaking.

Using a driver branch (525) that is more than 1 year older than the game itself, ofc there could be performance issues with games that use the latest available tech under the hood, not to mention all the vkd3d-proton updates and optimizations that probably wont work on drivers that old.

As for controller issues. I have zero idea what controllers work on linux and what doesn't. I don't use controllers to play games

edit: the frametime spikes aka stutter is known issue. It only seems to happen more heavily in the Diner area in Bright Falls. Not much anywhere else.

https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/issues/1753

Last edited by Xpander on 14 November 2023 at 12:46 pm UTC

Hello,
the game won't run. I am not able to install d3d_compiler_43 on Heroic.
Lutris is a pain in the neck with Epic, I will try it.
Which version of Wine did you use to install the game properly?

Quoting: TreitoHello,
the game won't run. I am not able to install d3d_compiler_43 on Heroic.
Lutris is a pain in the neck with Epic, I will try it.
Which version of Wine did you use to install the game properly?

Sorry to hear about the problems with Heroic - I've never tried it. eventually I got used to lutris.
in lutris i used wine-ge-8-22. checking now it looks like its updated to wine-ge-8-25.
Only got around to finishing the game lastnight about 19hrs gametime - casual playstyle.