Just the other day Feral Interactive, the same team that brought us the Linux ports of games like, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Company of Heros, and Shadow of Mordor, released the system requirements for their newest port: Alien: Isolation.
LINUX REQUIREMENTS
These system requirements are provisional and subject to changes before release.
Minimum Requirements
OS Ubuntu 14.04.3 (64bit) or SteamOS
Processor 2.6 GHz
RAM 4GB
Hard Disk 35GB
Graphics 1GB*
Input Keyboard & Mouse
Recommended Requirements
OS Ubuntu 14.04.3 (64bit) or SteamOS or higher
Processor 2.6 GHz
RAM 8GB
Hard Disk 35GB
Graphics 2GB**
Input Gamepad
*Requires an NVIDIA 600 series or better running driver version 355.11 or better
**Requires an NVIDIA 700 series or better running driver version 355.11 or better
Intel and AMD GPUs are not supported.
A Steam account is required.
For our AMD users I am sure that these requirements are a bit upsetting, allow me to put you at ease. Although the requirements say that AMD GPUs are not supported it is likely that this will not be the case at launch. Even if Alien: Isolation does not officially support AMD GPUs it is more than likely that our friends on the Red Team will still be able to play this title, they just won’t get any support from the developers IF there are any issues.
The official release date for this port from Feral Interactive is currently unannounced, but you, the readers, will know as soon as we know.
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This game dying light, Cities skylines are the major AAA titles i see for linux so far
Borderlands? Shadow of Mordor?
SOMA, Pillars of eternity, CivV, Ark Evolved, Rust, CS GO, Witcher 2
Witcher 3, MadMax, ProjectCars and Batman AK at STEAM Machines release!
Cool!
Can’t wait to see more distros being supported though.
NVIDIA user here, still It sucks AMD cards doesnt receive support for this title.
It’s quite troubling. I wonder why they aren’t supporting it. I don’t know how well AMD cards perform in Linux.
AMD’s drivers are complete sh*t. Nobody in their right minds would support crap like that. It’s not really supprising either, as many of the tripple A games have not supported AMD.
If you look at Borderlands 2, there is no AMD supported card.
You are met with this message. NOTICE: Intel Integrated video chipsets and ATI chipsets are currently unsupported for Borderlands 2 Linux.
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You are met with this on Shadow of Mordor.
Additional Notes: AMD and Intel cards are NOT supported. If you wish to play the game using an AMD graphics card, you should update your graphics driver to version Catalyst 15.7 or higher. You should be able to run the game without experiencing stability issues or graphical glitches, but you may still experience poor performance.
poorly on linux
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=mordor-win10-linux&num=1
They have some articles at phoronix.com if you are interested in checking it out.
Blames on AMD solely. As AMD didnt release a solid driver till now for SteamOS and linux!
Probably over the small amount of people who own Amd
please i hope vulcan is cross platform and cross GPU
its not been verified yet… AMD might say vulcan is cross GPU… but there is no fact …
AMD have a tiny bit of say in it. They’d have to vote against Nvidia, Apple, ARM, Epic Games, Imagination, Intel, Nokia, Qualcomm, Sony, Samsung and Vivante. That’s the good thing about Khronos, AMD is a tiny fraction in Khronos, and far from their biggest supporter.
And it’s been comfirmed since it was OpenGLNext. Which Nvidia was a strong talker for, just like they’ve been for OpenGL for ages.
https://www.khronos.org/vulkan
“recommended” not required. The game should work on whatever linux distro you’re using as long as Steam is running ok. AMD are still sucking on Linux when it comers to drivers, yet they always trout “open”, it’s pretty hypocritical of them.
For a company with very limited resources, open is great, it means others can contribute. And in Linux’s case. the community is the only once contributing.
That’s no good when AMD drivers for Linux are poor and nowhere near NVIDIA’s, it’s been like that for a very long time. AMD have no excuses.
It wasn’t an excuse for AMD.
This was showing the level of stupidity from AMD’s side on their Linux drivers.
#UbuntuKDEdayONE4kFtW
Well that goes with the trend of AMD’s lackluster linux support. AMD just split AMD RADEON into its own little shindig again. No more CPU managers delegating what happens with VIdeo Cards. Now the AMD GPU side has their own lead (Raj) and he’ll have the drivers developed in house, with out any conflicting sides. They also recently brought someone on to optimize and give their GPU Drivers the TLC they desperately needed. I wouldn’t be surprised if another OMEGA is released here in the near future that shows the love. I hope so for the consumer segment.
Aye, linux has only recently caught their eye. They’ve been giving it some love, but not enough. AMD recently put Raj in a leadership roll to watch over AMD GPU Division. Raj will be overseeing architectural and driver development. They also acquired a few months back someone to fill a position for Driver optimizations, which hopefully will get rid of a ton of garbage code. I’m sure we’ll be seeing some love from AMD to its linux users.