feral made a mac port of thief
https://store.steampowered.com/app/239160/Thief/
its just 5 bucks on steam. i guess if i play it with proton feral wont get any money, right

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and there are so many games for proton i want to play (again) on linux
Beyond Good and Evil, brothers in arms, gunslinger, contrast, ryse, turing test
but i dont have time and so many other games and i try to resist

shadow of the TR -50% 2 months after release! (but i wait for feral)


i wish they would make a MAD MAX DLC. graphics still nice, so no need for a new game. i always wonder why they didint make 1 or 2

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Quoting: kokoko3k

Quoting: chui2ch

Quoting: kokoko3k

Quoting: liamdaweBingo. Feral's ports are specifically tweaked directly to run as good as they can possibly do it on Linux in the time they have. Quite different to Proton, which has such a big target I would be surprised if a Feral port ever performed worse than DXVK with Steam Play.

One of the first feral ports i played for hours, Grid Autosport, performed better in Proton:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/for-those-on-nvidia-the-3965405-driver-seems-to-have-some-noteworthy-performance-improvements.12564/comment_id=134440

I suspect even DeusEx MD would perform better, i could not try it because it won't even start on my side, but other people say it works, who knows.
Anyway, if is true that proton gives a 20% performance penalty, (like his developer stated on github), then it should perform 10% better on proton (Feral ports is about 30% slower than native dx11).

I think that was more of an issue with Opengl. From the benchmarks I've seen and when playing Rise of the Tomb Raider I was very close to windows performance for my setup.

Yes, could it be.
Translating to DX11->Vulkan is more efficient than DX11->Opengl
Anyway i'm still waiting to start playing DeusExMD (opengl), and i'd like to try via proton to see if i can squeeze some more fps out of it.

i played deus ex MD yesterday. i had to turn off MSAA, because it ruins the performance AND what i also notice was 10GB RAM after 1h gameplay
i wonder if it is the same on windows.
if you only have 8gb ram, then maybe thats a bottleneck

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a bunch of games and im sure hitman 2 will follow

i am very happy about these ports, but i still dont know how feral makes enough money
they release the games after a few month, when its much cheaper and linux/mac has much less buyers

cant be that hard to port a game to linux/mac if 100 can work on various games simultaneously

Number of employees 50-100
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_Interactive

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Quoting: ReverendJ1

Quoting: mylkadying light (dead island doesnt have support for any linux newer than ubuntu 15.05. im kinda pissed about that, because it doenst work with 16 and above for me)

I swear I played Dead Island on 16.04, but I guess I can't say for sure. I just deleted it and installed the Definitive Edition though (which works like a charm, since it uses Dying Light's engine), since my friend just bought it and wanted to play through it with me. It'll probably be down to $5 again on the next sale.

yes, it worked for me too with 16. but now i have 18 and it doesnt work anymore. i wrote an email to the developers, but they say, that they dont support 18
the Definitive Edition came out 2016 and they dont support it anymore, thats kinda lame. so i am waiting for vavle to let me install the windows version with proton

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Quoting: Thormack

Quoting: mylkai wonder how they have the ressources to support linux
https://steamdb.info/app/464920/graphs/
only a few 100 players

i am not complaining, but every time i see this, i ask myself: why can they do it and big companies dont. or why are games like RUST cancel linux support

Where did you find this 100 players information?
I opened that link and didn't find anything related to the O.S.

i didnt say OS. it is overall and they have to maintain the game for every OS

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i wonder how they have the ressources to support linux
https://steamdb.info/app/464920/graphs/
only a few 100 players

i am not complaining, but every time i see this, i ask myself: why can they do it and big companies dont. or why are games like RUST cancel linux support

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: mylkalets face it. thats the best we can hope for until linux has a higher market share.

Didn't we were getting a lot of nice supported native games for about 5-6 years before Proton? Nah, must be my imagination.

still a pretty low number compared to all games released in the past 6 years. dont you think?

games i played in the past years on win, cause they dont have linux support: ALL batman, gta, wolfenstein, assasssins creed, far cry, call of juarez, kingdom come, witcher 3, fallout, doom, raft, the uncertain, styx, FF15, just cause, ghost of a tale, mirrors edge, mafia, inside, dead rising, watch dogs, crysis, thief, sniper elite, south park, get even, RE7, outlast 2, sleeping dogs, prey

AAA titles on linux? tomb raider, hitman, dying light (dead island doesnt have support for any linux newer than ubuntu 15.05. im kinda pissed about that, because it doenst work with 16 and above for me), saints row, deus ex, metro, spec ops... and a bunch of indie games (some of them are very poorly ported. metro, saints row, tomb raider 1 need way better hardware, than windows AND/OR have a huge delay after the windows release)

it is a nice list, but we wont get any bethesda game, any rockstar game, any ubisoft game, etc and this really sucks for linux and for me, because i love these games
if they all switch to vulkan and i can play them like bethesda games on linux i am totally fine with it

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lets face it. thats the best we can hope for until linux has a higher market share. developers officially support proton
i think thats the way to go for the next years
developers that start program their games now make sure, that they work with proton. im totally fine with it, as long as i dont have to install win10 in 2020

and maybe some win7 users try linux afer the support ends, if they see, that new AAA titles work on linux with 1 click

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Quoting: chui2ch

Quoting: mylkawhy not shadow of the tomb raider and hitman 2 ?

also batman origin,styx, flame and the flood and prey

I hope they do not add shadow of the tomb raider and hitman 2. Games we may get ports of should not be purchased using steam play imo.

why not? try hitman 2. you can play the tutorial for free. for me it works better, than hitman 1 (actually you all should install it, to show IOI that we want linux) https://store.steampowered.com/app/863550/HITMAN_2/

i mean i get it. you want support feral, but we all want more market share for linux
it is the same with life is strange 2.
why wait, if you can advertise this game now for linux? (it is bad luck for feral, that they already started to port it)

i thinik it is for the best for linux, if you can say "i play TR and hitman NOW" and not "maybe i can play this titles in 1-3 years and if not i have to use proton anyways"

play AAA titles immediately, with good performance at the same time as windows. that helps the linux image

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