WOW Linux version is here

[Aargh Tenna]

All penguins, rejoice!

all sins of CA were suddenly forgiven....

[Hori]

OS: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS x64
RAM: 6 GB
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz × 8
GPU: GeForce GTX 960

Benchmark:
XVGA + Maximum Performance = 50 FPS
XVGA + Extreme Quality = 21
WUXGA (native) + Maximum Performance = 36
WUXGA + Extreme Quality = 17

The FPS count is noticeably lower during real gameplay and the same as in the benchmark after you turn off the user interface.
I believe something to be wrong with this game.

[Justiz1]

Originally posted by Cercallunes:

Hi everybody,

I was looking for people talking about performances and different setups on Linux and found this thread.

I really would like to buy this game but I fear that the Linux port will not be playable by now with my setup.

I would settle with medium quality configuration for graphics... And, honestly, I never felt the need for check the FPS of my games... I just want it runs simply fine. An enough decent performance to play without nuisance.

This is my setup:

Processor: AMD A8-5600k: quad core @ 3,60GHz, 4MB L2 cache.
RAM: 16GB DDR3 @ 1866MHz, dual channel (2 GB as shared memory for video).
Graphics: APU (integrated with processor), Trinity generation: Radeon HD 7560D (supports OpenGL 4.2 - It seems that got 4.4 support with driver updates - and OpenCL 1.2.)
Drivers: Catalyst 15.20.2

What do you think, guys? It's worth to try or it will be a very probable refund??

Thanks in advance for your help!!

I am using Ubuntu 15.10 and can not run it. I contacted the company and they said they do not support Ubuntu 15.10, I have seen on this thread the other people are able to run it on Ubuntu 14..04 LTS, Fedora 23, and Arch Linux.

[Aargh Tenna]

Originally posted by beerme:

Originally posted by Cercallunes:

Hi everybody,

I was looking for people talking about performances and different setups on Linux and found this thread.

I really would like to buy this game but I fear that the Linux port will not be playable by now with my setup.

I would settle with medium quality configuration for graphics... And, honestly, I never felt the need for check the FPS of my games... I just want it runs simply fine. An enough decent performance to play without nuisance.

This is my setup:

Processor: AMD A8-5600k: quad core @ 3,60GHz, 4MB L2 cache.
RAM: 16GB DDR3 @ 1866MHz, dual channel (2 GB as shared memory for video).
Graphics: APU (integrated with processor), Trinity generation: Radeon HD 7560D (supports OpenGL 4.2 - It seems that got 4.4 support with driver updates - and OpenCL 1.2.)
Drivers: Catalyst 15.20.2

What do you think, guys? It's worth to try or it will be a very probable refund??

Thanks in advance for your help!!

I am using Ubuntu 15.10 and can not run it. I contacted the company and they said they do not support Ubuntu 15.10, I have seen on this thread the other people are able to run it on Ubuntu 14..04 LTS, Fedora 23, and Arch Linux.

And on Debian stable.

[Ricardo]

I run it on Gentoo and works pretty fine :)

[SeekerOfMoons]

Originally posted by Amp:

At least currently it doesn't work (won't start) with mesa. I can't say anything about catalyst/crymson though.

Yeah, I read somewhere about mesa drivers... But at least one guy in this thread said that the game runs fine for him with Catalyst. Thanks four your comment Amp.

Originally posted by beerme:

I am using Ubuntu 15.10 and can not run it. I contacted the company and they said they do not support Ubuntu 15.10, I have seen on this thread the other people are able to run it on Ubuntu 14..04 LTS, Fedora 23, and Arch Linux.

Thanks for that info beerme (fortunately I still run Ubuntu 14.04 LTS...).

But, returning to the hardware side... What do you think guys? Could I get a very moderate but still enough smooth performance with my A8-5600K processor with integrated APU?

[Amp]

I just tried to run the game with mesa drivers (Radeon R9 270X) on Arch Linux with lldb and got the following output:

Process 6854 launched: '/home/amp/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Total War Attila/Attila' (x86_64)
szCmd: /bin/sh -c '"/home/amp/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh" "steam://run/325610"' &
Running Steam on arch rolling 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
[S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed; no appID found.
Either launch the game from Steam, or put the file steam_appid.txt containing the correct appID in your game folder.

(process:6961): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: /usr/src/packages/BUILD/glib2.0-2.32.3/./gobject/gtype.c:2722: You forgot to call g_type_init()

(process:6961): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `result != 0' failed

(process:6961): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed
gsettings: symbol lookup error: gsettings: undefined symbol: g_settings_schema_has_key
Process 6854 stopped
* thread #1: tid = 6854, 0x00007ffff548319b libc.so.6`__memcpy_avx_unaligned + 427, name = 'Attila', stop reason = signal SIGSEGV: invalid address (fault address: 0x0)
frame #0: 0x00007ffff548319b libc.so.6`__memcpy_avx_unaligned + 427
libc.so.6`__memcpy_avx_unaligned:
-> 0x7ffff548319b <+427>: movl %esi, (%rdi)
0x7ffff548319d <+429>: movl %ecx, -0x4(%rdi,%rdx)
0x7ffff54831a1 <+433>: retq
0x7ffff54831a2 <+434>: cmpb $0x1, %dl

Maybe this could help to find out what's going wrong here. If you need more information, feel free to ask.

[McCoy!]

Your first problem is using a Radeon graphics driver in a Linux OS and the second is using Mesa drivers. You're wasting your time, even if you get it working it will be glitchy as hell. If you want to play a highend game like this on Linux you need a nvidia graphics card. They're the only company that regularly update their drivers for the Linux community.

However if you wish to keep pursuing this I'd recommend just seeing if you can even get it up and running in steamos or ubuntu first. If neither of those work either then you will know for sure it won't work in Arch until you update your hardware.

[rusty_dragon]

Originally posted by McCoy!:

Your first problem is using a Radeon graphics driver in a Linux OS and the second is using Mesa drivers. You're wasting your time, even if you get it working it will be glitchy as hell. If you want to play a highend game like this on Linux you need a nvidia graphics card. They're the only company that regularly update their drivers for the Linux community.

However if you wish to keep pursuing this I'd recommend just seeing if you can even get it up and running in steamos or ubuntu first. If neither of those work either then you will know for sure it won't work in Arch until you update your hardware.

Yea, we need to use nvidia bad OpenGL.
Don't be so fat, please.

[Admiral Uflg]

Originally posted by McCoy!:

Your first problem is using a Radeon graphics driver in a Linux OS and the second is using Mesa drivers.

Fat trolling is not good for solving the problem. The problem is in developers of the linux port because according to tests open source mesa drivers for radeon has the most correct implementation of OpenGL. Nvidia's OpenGL is full of errors. OpenGL from AMD's fglrx is a bit more correct than OpenGL from nvidia.

[higuita]

and almost all the games i played work fine in current mesa drivers for radeon. Catalyst might have more features and still faster most of the time, but open source drivers are getting better each month

[Edge]

Originally posted by McCoy!:

Your first problem is using a Radeon graphics driver in a Linux OS and the second is using Mesa drivers. You're wasting your time, even if you get it working it will be glitchy as hell. If you want to play a highend game like this on Linux you need a nvidia graphics card. They're the only company that regularly update their drivers for the Linux community.

However if you wish to keep pursuing this I'd recommend just seeing if you can even get it up and running in steamos or ubuntu first. If neither of those work either then you will know for sure it won't work in Arch until you update your hardware.

Not sure whether this is trolling, or marketting FUD.
Am sure it's deliberately wrong.

[rusty_dragon]

Some bad developers with low-qualified programmers like CDPR made their games working only on nvidia(Witcher 2).
I don't know did they fixed this shait or not.

[McCoy!]

Originally posted by Edge:

Originally posted by McCoy!:

Your first problem is using a Radeon graphics driver in a Linux OS and the second is using Mesa drivers. You're wasting your time, even if you get it working it will be glitchy as hell. If you want to play a highend game like this on Linux you need a nvidia graphics card. They're the only company that regularly update their drivers for the Linux community.

However if you wish to keep pursuing this I'd recommend just seeing if you can even get it up and running in steamos or ubuntu first. If neither of those work either then you will know for sure it won't work in Arch until you update your hardware.

Not sure whether this is trolling, or marketting FUD.
Am sure it's deliberately wrong.

Definitely not marketing. Rolling on PCLinuxOS but I definitely think ATI is garbage on Linux or rather the driver support is garbage.

What I find hilarious is my install worked right out of the box and is just as smooth as Empire. Who's the one having driver issues? Instead of trying to sound smart you could have quicky installed one or both of those distro's and checked to see if it ran smoothly. As I said I highly doubt it, but if it does you can check the setup and see if you have similar drivers on Arch.

Good luck though! You're missing out on quite a fun game! Radious adds a ton of content I highly recommend you try it out.

[jamatik [Linux]]

Never had any problems with AMD-GPUs on any linux distro, all games run fine.
This one here too!

But recently on a far underpowered sub-notebook with intel-gpu this game doesn't start. But this was expected by me.

Only Triple-A games if they are bad ported run a bit slower compared to nvidia-gpus, but in compare the better OpenGL of AMD implemantion gives a better graphic-experience in motion.
Indie-games in fact don't ever have this problem. So I doubt that bad GPUs or bad drivers of any companies are the problem. Sometimes it seems the problem is forced to even exists. Nvidia was busted with Benchmark-Manipulating (3Dmark), faking hardware performance (970/980). Why should I trust this company again. And this Nvidia-is-better-than-AMD-on-linux-war, if my experience shows otherwise. On paper any Intel-CPU outruns an AMD FX. Still Today I can run any game on ultra-settings in a playable state. Also I need that high Ghz per core any modern Intel CPU is below. So I don't see the need to trust a company that only goal it is to sell me stuff.

[McCoy!]

I couldn't care less about benchmarks. Both top tier cards are amazing and we are well past the days when you'd actually notice a difference in game between the two flagship cards. What I do care about is when I go to play a game will I be able to? I also care about how long one has given me support as opposed to the other who has just boosted support apparently in the last couple years.

Perhaps in the future I will be given a real reason to jump ship again but in the meantime feel free to pop over for a beer and maybe you can point out to me this "subpar graphics in motion" you speak of at the same time lol.

Oh well theres not really a winner or loser in this debate as it all comes down to personal experience I guess. But again I hope you get it working. Worst case scenario t's definitely worth setting up a dual boot of steamos or ubuntu to play :)