Rise of the Tomb Raider on SteamOS?

[Flyhigh]

Will Rise of the Tomb Raider running well on SteamOS?

[GRouND]

1. I don't know how this showed up as a message to me.

2. I do request for Steam to provide me $$$ for replying to this.

3. After some trouble of installing Steam OS(Linux) on my PC with a Gigabyte GA-9XX series M/B I finally got it to work properly.

4. No, Rise of the Tomb Raider does not install to Steam OS.

5. Last option is to have it running on a Windows Based PC and to have it stream over the local network to the Steam OS.

6. Steam OS is very limited on functionality and support for games. Good Luck!

[TinMan1325]

Originally posted by GRouND:

4. No, Rise of the Tomb Raider does not install to Steam OS.

It will be later this month

[Flyhigh]

@GRouND Thanks for your answer.

But my question relates to the Rise of the Tomb Raider Port from Feral.

[NeptNutz]

It releases in 2018-04-12 on Mac. Linux will release shortly after.

https://store.feralinteractive.com/en/mac-linux-games/riseofthetombraider/

They just finished a Twitch livestream of the Linux version a few hours ago.
Here is the replay:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/248824631

They are playing using i7-4790K @ 4.00GHz, 16GB RAM, Radeon RX 580 8GB. (The stream is only 720p.)

They show in-game settings at around 23:30 in the video.

There is no mention of frame rates, but it looks like it is hitting an easy 60fps for that machine. That means at HIGH settings and 60 fps it is probably equivalent to the 'HIGH FRAMERATE ' mode (60 fps) of the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X.

(FYI - Equivalent 'ENRICHED VISUALS' and '4K RESOLUTION' mileage will vary on PC since PC does not have proprietary checkerboard or dynamic resolutions for 4K displays.)

[gibblets]

Yes, it should work fine depending on your hardware. Worst case scenario is the Vulkan drivers in SteamOS are too old which means it may either take a few days/weeks for Valve to update or for you to manually update the drivers. Hopefully Valve's packaged drivers are new enough that this isn't a problem, but only Feral could answer this. You might have better luck asking their twitter or Reddit accounts as Feral is pretty active on both.

[NeptNutz]

I'm pretty sure they said they were using Mesa 18 in the chat (on Ubuntu 17.10). For Nvidia, I get an 'unsupported' warning launching F1 2017, but everything works perfectly.

[Flyhigh]

@gibblets and @NeptNutz Many thanks

Another problem with SteamOS is the broken Vulkan support on the current stable Release.

I wish it will run on SteamOS at release date even though the problems with Vulkan. Maybe it runs on OpenGL, too?

[NeptNutz]

Originally posted by Flyhigh:

@gibblets and @NeptNutz Many thanks

Another problem with SteamOS is the broken Vulkan support on the current stable Release.

How is it broken?

[Flyhigh]

Originally posted by NeptNutz:

Originally posted by Flyhigh:

@gibblets and @NeptNutz Many thanks

Another problem with SteamOS is the broken Vulkan support on the current stable Release.

How is it broken?

Read this, this and this.

[NeptNutz]

I'm assuming you're talking about AMD and Mesa. If so, there's a lot more broken than just Vulkan. I got tired of waiting and scored a great deal on a 1070 Ti before prices skyrocketed.

I found the MESA 18 answer from Feral. It's at 46:51 in the chat. So that means Feral must be waiting for Ubuntu 18.04 to release, since that is going to ship with Mesa 18.

I wouldn't be surprised if SteamOS comes out with kernel 4.15 and Mesa 18 in the beta branch soon. That should be a real boost for AMD users. Hopefully stable won't be far behind.

[Flyhigh]

Originally posted by NeptNutz:

I'm assuming you're talking about AMD and Mesa. If so, there's a lot more broken than just Vulkan.

I have a Zotac Steam Machine with a GeForce® GTX 960 GPU.

I hope the next SteamOS release comes out soon, too.

[Flyhigh]

Rise of the Tomb Raider is running on SteamOS with NVIDIA GPU after deinstalling AMDGPU PRO packages.

But the same problme as https://steamcommunity.com/app/391220/discussions/0/3288067088111688087/ still exists.

I am waiting for a new SteamOS release with newer kernel and NVIDIA driver.

[buckysrevenge]

Yeah, I was able to play up until the end of the Syria chapter in the beginning (~2% complete) with no problems, then a cutscene brought my system to a screeching halt. I wish Valve had a more regular schedule for rolling out OS updates, so we'd know how long we have to wait

[thorneo]

My system at first 4 times trying to run it would lock up but after a few tweakes in steam os it runes DAMN GOOD I've played upto 10% "russain complex".

[MadHatter]

Originally posted by thorneo:

My system at first 4 times trying to run it would lock up but after a few tweakes in steam os it runes DAMN GOOD I've played upto 10% "russain complex".

Do you mind describing the tweaks you had to do in steam os?