⨯ Every article tag can be clicked to get a list of all articles in that category. Every article tag also has an RSS feed! You can customize an RSS feed too!
Latest Comments by mrdeathjr
Life is Strange released for Linux & SteamOS, some thoughts and a port report included
25 July 2016 at 10:01 pm UTC
Quoting: edddeduckferal
Quoting: manero666The problem here is that this Feral port requires way more hardware power to get the job done..
The requirements differences between Window$ and Linux (native) are huge

I think we have one of these posts for every port we've done. :)

We only support hardware back to the hardware we could buy when we started porting. Often our games might run on older low spec hardware however we can't go an buy all the older 5+ year old hardware on eBay just so we can test the odd game on older and less popular hardware. Apart from the issues with buying second hand equipment from eBay the potential cost of buying (and then hiring more staff to test on them) isn't really feasible.

We set out our min spec hardware based on the min spec hardware targeted for the initial SteamOS boxes when we announced XCOM 1 on Linux. I hope that explains why our min spec will never drop below certain hardware (Nvidia 640, AMD R7 Series & Intel Iris Pro).

First thanks for your ports if them dont have any of this games

In my case dont run good (adquired in summer sale) but need more cpu power but dont matter

If can add another titles in future case: another racing games case: dirt 3, f1 race stars, some lego games, some batman games, bioshock 1-2, maybe some final fantasy , sleeping dogs, older tomb raider and others

^_^
The Wine Development Release 1.9.15 Is Now Available
23 July 2016 at 1:21 pm UTC Likes: 2
In this wine version have contributions of Jan Schmidt (gstreamer dev), thanks to this bloodrayne 1 videos works correctly (fullscreen videos works) cutscene.exe dont needed rename (however with some mpg + mp2 have some troubles)

View video on youtube.com

View video on youtube.com

^_^
Life is Strange released for Linux & SteamOS, some thoughts and a port report included
22 July 2016 at 3:03 pm UTC
[quote=manero666]
Quoting: MblackwellAlright but:

The problem here is that this Feral port requires way more hardware power to get the job done..
The requirements differences between Window$ and Linux (native) are huge

MINIMUM:
OS: Windows Vista
Processor: Dual Core 2.0GHz or equivalent
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: ATI or NVidia card w/ 512 MB RAM (not recommended for Intel HD Graphics cards)
DirectX: Version 9.0
Storage: 5 GB available space

MINIMUM:
OS: Ubuntu 16.04 / SteamOS 2.0
Processor: Intel i3 or AMD FX6300
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA 640 (1GB), AMD R9 270, Intel Iris Pro 6200 or better
Storage: 16 GB available space
Additional Notes: NVIDIA GPU's require Driver version 367.27 (tested). AMD and Intel GPU's require MESA 11.2 (tested). AMD GPUs are not supported on SteamOS

Unfortunately not everyone have a powerhouse at home, and I was just pointing out that, on a not so powerful system, run the game with Wine is better and it is closer to the experience that you can have on Window$ (with the same hardware).

I know that my cpu sucks, is old etc. and most of the people here have an i5 or i3 at least..

But what if they port a game that has an i5 2500 as minimum requirement on Window$???
Could that port be playable with a "good pc" or just with an overclocked 6700K???

I'm not trying to trow sh*t at Feral here, quite the opposite, i'm trying to send a constructive feedback, hoping to get less "hardware selective" ports in the future

And ????

Most ports on linux needs more machine, yeah must be have lower requirements but this dont change your actual linux port reality

If you want play native games needs powerfull cpu if you dont have begin save for upgrade your hardware

^_^
Life is Strange released for Linux & SteamOS, some thoughts and a port report included
22 July 2016 at 12:54 pm UTC
Quoting: manero666Another CPU-DESTROYER port from Feral...

I compared with the same pc the native port vs Wine vs Wine Staging
You can find more info on our forum

To protect your privacy, external media requires approval to load. Source: manerosss.files.wordpress.com
View cookie preferences.
Accept & Show Accept All & Don't show this again   Direct Link


I'm very sorry to say this, but this port (at this time) adds nothing to what we already had on Linux (with Wine).

I'm not the best person to judge someone else's work because I'm not a "porter" but in my opinion Feral needs to review their port method because the cpu usage is always HUGE, and I encountered this issue also on Grid Autosport and Tomb Raider.

You can enjoy this game if you have a very good cpu, use Wine Staging (Wine Gallium Nine for AMD) if the native port doesn't satisfy you

Anyway great launcher! i liked it a lot

But other said if your machine dont stay on minimum requirements

Actually amd cpus is too weak: ipc per core lower compared with actual intel cpus (especially notorius since haswell), fpu shared (bulldozer and upper based on CMT cpu model), higher latency on L3 and L2 memory and without forget higher tdp compared with intel

For this reasons actually most gamers have intel cpus, in lastest ports core i5 and upper are needed (i3: dual core + ht works in some titles but is not equal to have 4 real cores)

Without forget if you have this cores to 4Ghz and upper, works really good in most applications

Native is better than wine, more easily for final user and have support*

*Wine have official support too but only in vanilla version and stagged

^_^
Life is Strange released for Linux & SteamOS, some thoughts and a port report included
21 July 2016 at 5:30 pm UTC
Quoting: WienerWuerstelThe only difference is that my head tells me to buy the GTX 1070.

AMD is heading into a good direction but it's still going to take a couple years before it's really going to be competitve with Nvidia in all games on Linux (*cough* Feral and VP *cough*.

Yeah GTX 1070 is very good card with very good performance / watt ratio, recently gigabyte launch mini model but is so expensive

Maybe when appears RX 490, GTX 1070 hopefully can reduce price

^_^
Life is Strange released for Linux & SteamOS, some thoughts and a port report included
21 July 2016 at 5:24 pm UTC Likes: 1
On SteamOS have this notice related with amd gpus

NVIDIA GPU's require Driver version 367.27 (tested).

AMD and Intel GPU's require MESA 11.2 (tested).

AMD GPUs are not supported on SteamOS

^_^
Life is Strange released for Linux & SteamOS, some thoughts and a port report included
21 July 2016 at 5:16 pm UTC Likes: 1
On feral radar spacious skies and f-foxy* remains equal

*f-foxy dont is life is strage and so which game could be???

^_^
Overlord for Linux release date announced, arriving tomorrow the 21st of July
20 July 2016 at 12:39 pm UTC Likes: 4
Quoting: NaibIf only Lego games were ported I would look into a steambox

If feral ears that

^_^
The curious tale of vanishing Linux & SteamOS ports, a status on a few of them
19 July 2016 at 12:49 pm UTC
VP put this teaser video related with overlord

View video on youtube.com

^_^
The curious tale of vanishing Linux & SteamOS ports, a status on a few of them
18 July 2016 at 12:53 am UTC Likes: 5
Quoting: STiATInteresting that I don't find Overlord in the wiki anymore.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/overlord-overlord-2-coming-to-linux-two-more-virtual-programming-titles.6041

was that one cancelled?

Overlord stay very active this days

https://steamdb.info/app/11450/history/

Them add ./overlord-config

Maybe this title can appear in any moment

^_^
★ Support Us
Popular this week
Search or view by category
Contact
Buy Games
Buy games with our affiliate / partner links:
Latest Comments
Latest Forum Posts
Misc