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Mesa 18.1.8 and Mesa 18.2.0 have been released, pushing Linux open source GPU drivers further
9 September 2018 at 7:31 pm UTC

Quoting: lejimster
Quoting: ziabiceFinally I can put my hands on RAGE and Wolfenstein!

Been playing Rage. Although only 64bit works properly for me and I had to add xact to get the sound working.

I need to do some driver testing to see if its just a buggy version of mesa-git, but 32bit Rage and Wolfenstein N.O. tend to crash in the menus.
I think this is the problem:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=bc65dcab3bc48673ff6180afb036561a4b8b1119

Though I'm seeing hangs, not crashes, in the menu in Rage, haven't tried Wolfenstein yet.

Could you try if this fixes the problem for you?
https://pastebin.com/iwGynY9E

What are you clicking on this weekend and what do you think about it?
9 September 2018 at 2:58 pm UTC

Quoting: g000hFallout 3 GOTY - I tried this, but it failed for me - I'm aware that there are tweaking steps involving xlive.dll and using "/tmp/proton_run msiexec /i /path/to/xliveredist.msi" but I don't have and couldn't find "proton_run" (The command "find / -name proton_run" does not find it on my PC. Could not find it to download.) Running Debian Buster and trying latest Proton beta (after the more stable one didn't fix the problem.)
Replacing FalloutLauncher.exe with Fallout3.exe seems to work:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/370

Two Point Hospital released with same-day Linux support
31 August 2018 at 4:26 pm UTC

Quoting: x_wingKDE Neon (Ubuntu 18.04) here with Mesa drivers (18.1.6). It's running fine for me, just took a while to start the first time (you get a blurry window for about 30 secs.). The only problem are some artifacts while you move the camera, out of that, the frame rate and mechanics works fine for me at full graphics.

I'll try with Mesa 18.2RC and check if the artifacts go away...

EDIT: Ok, tested with 18.2RC2 at the artifacts are still there. Fortunately I figured out that they're generated by "Ambient Occlusion" option in the graphics setting. Disabling that feature all the artifacts goes away (I can play at max setting, only need to disable that effect). Definitely it takes some time to start the first time, probably because it compiles and creates a cache of shaders.

EDIT2: Video showing artifacts and how they disappear when disabling Ambient Oclussion
An apitrace and bug report should be helpful if you have the time!
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mesa

Valve's Steam Play should work better today, as DXVK was left in debug mode causing a performance drop
23 August 2018 at 7:17 pm UTC

Turning off esync with PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 got rid of the crashes I had in Carmageddon MD, increasing the file open limit wasn't enough.

Valve's Steam Play should work better today, as DXVK was left in debug mode causing a performance drop
23 August 2018 at 3:12 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: GuestRunning Doom in Steam Play does not work for me.[...]
I think it still starts up in OpenGL mode, try setting the launch option "+r_renderAPI 1" to force Vulkan.

Valve's Steam Play should work better today, as DXVK was left in debug mode causing a performance drop
23 August 2018 at 1:17 pm UTC

I've had some problems with (unsupported) titles* opening file descriptors like crazy and eventually crashing. Not sure if it's a bug unique to Proton or a Wine issue.

* Carmageddon Max Damage, Quake Champions and possibly others.


Apparently this is because of Proton using the esync patch:
https://github.com/zfigura/wine/blob/esync/README.esync

The comments in that file doesn't seem correct. Debian still have a 4096 limit by default. Anyhow, raising that limit does get rid of the errors. Carma still crashes but that's another bug.

...and esync can be turned off with PROTON_NO_ESYNC:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton

Valve's Steam Play should work better today, as DXVK was left in debug mode causing a performance drop
23 August 2018 at 1:13 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: X6205Is it possible also backup and restore Windows games in native linux client when they are compatible with new Steam Play? I have some Windows games backed up, for example Doom 2016. Can i restore from this backup to Steam client beta? I really don't want to re-download this game again under linux..
Works fine!

Wine 3.5 is out with their own Vulkan loader and plenty of fixes for games
2 April 2018 at 6:21 pm UTC

Mafia II should be playable. But it will either not render shadows, or render garbage instead of shadows. Gallium Nine have the same problem.

Wednesday Madness, a look at some good Linux games currently on sale
28 March 2018 at 4:29 pm UTC

American Truck Simulator (and ETS2) are 70% off. I've been freeloading of the demo versions for a long time so I guess it's time for the full version.

A Linux version of Heretic-inspired FPS 'AMID EVIL' is planned
7 March 2018 at 7:30 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: GuestI swear this had a demo for Linux

Maybe I'm thinking of a different game
Apocryph did have a build.