It's the first build with Vulkan support and they also write that it's still in early shape. Just look how it evolved on Talos Principle. The first builds were slower than OpenGL, later builds were faster than OpenGL but slower than DX11 (on Windows) and again later it was finally faster than DX11.

Those things will take time and a lot of work to improve. I wouldn't judge the implementation before it's in final state.

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Quoting: TheRiddickHas anyone tried this via Wine with the Vulkan renderer? does it work decently I wonder...

I've just tried, you need to install Steam in x64 Virtual Environment (The game won't install in a 32bit Environment) and then switch on the Beta tab to "Opt-in - v2.40 Release"and install it. It starts up fine but currently I'm stuck in the loading screen.

On the Steam forums they write that the first load could take longer, but I doubt it will take longer than 20 minutes. Also tried to kill the game and start it again without any success.

I guess the game starts by default in DX11 mode and I have no idea if or how I can change that to use Vulkan.

*update*
I've just renamed the AshesEscalation_Vulkan.exe to AshesEscalation.exe, which gets started by the launcher, still the game hangs in the loading screen for ever.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusWell, given how popular Dota and CCGs are I'm sure this'll make lots of people very happy.

Yes and all of them work at Valve, this will be a cash cow. F2P and with micro transactions, that's the only thing you can count on from valve. I highly doubt we will ever see a solid game from Valve ever again, they make way too much money with F2P games.

And I don't get why people still expect Valve to be able to make a uniqe IP again. The only IP Valve ever created was Half-Life, every other IPs Valve brought up where bought in. Even Portal is a bought IP.

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The Linux version has still the same bugs as 2 years ago. Right, they never fixed any Linux specific bug in 2 fucking years. Not a single one, believe me. Worst developers ever.

Also I got the game for free by the devs, to do a pre-aplha test of the Linux version. Now they gave us the codes, we installed it reported bugs and guess what? Yep, they didn't even fixed one of them but released the Linux build just 12 hours after giving us the keys anyway. They just realised that there are many bugs to fix and probably decided to just ignore it but still put a price tag on it.

They alos claimed several times they would go for a newer Unreal Engine version, to bring OpenGL4 to Linux and with that the same graphics as the Windows version have. Yep, you guess right, still haven't updated the UE Version in 2 years.

Please, don't buy this game, never ever. Even if you can get it for 12€ on a key reseller. Thank me later.

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As long as I have to download 10 GB for every new release, I skip it. Epic get your shit together and make a proper Linux launcher which downloads only the patched files instead of the whole game, sigh.

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I suggest to use the list on SteamDB, it's much better to use, especially that you can sort it on the fly. If you log in with your Steam account, you can highlight/hide owned games, also it shows how good the current deal is.

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My point wasn't the prize, but lucifertdark's statement that all games in the complete pack would be added to Fusion. And that is, as I wrote, wrong.

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Quoting: lucifertdark

Quoting: GuestDoes it make sense to get Buy Serious Sam Complete Pack BUNDLE for Linux players or should we only get the few games listed for Fusion? This whole thing is a bit confusing.

Yes it makes perfect sense to buy the bundle, everything is being added to Fusion over time, so eventually you'll be able to play the whole lot in Linux.

That's not true. Nothing before Serious Sam HD will be added to Fusion. This means that only Serious Sam HD: The first and second encounter, Serious Sam 3 and Talos will be added.

The engine of Serious Sam 2 is already too old to be ported with a reasonable amount of work. This of course apply to Serious Sam Classic.

Basically it's best to only buy the games which definitely get support.

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The Demo downloads 6.2GB for me but this is just the two first Tutorial missions, nothing more...

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Quoting: fcastillo

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: fcastilloI just got this game a couple of months ago but never played it because I couldn't change the monitor where it opened. It was annoying and ultimately unplayable. Hopefully this new edition will fix any remaining issues on linux.

You know there's plenty of ways to move a game from one to another right? KDE for example you can just drag a fullscreen game from one monitor to another.

Well, that's true for KDE. On Ubuntu/Unity it's a little more complicated but there's a way that doesn't always work with all windows using the "Place Windows" plugin in Compiz. On Gnome Shell I haven't been able to find any way to do this yet. So changing your window manager just so you can play a game is not really a solution for me.

Look for devilspie2, that can do this and other stuff too.

For example:
if (get_window_name()=="Payday 2") then
   set_window_position2(1920,0)
end

That will move a Window with the name "Payday 2" to 1920px from the very left of your desktop. This will be done the moment the Window opens up, so you don't have to interact with it, as long as the devilspie2 daemon is running.

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