Hi All, My name is Edwin and I am the head of production at Feral Interactive. We are the Mac development and publishing company responsible for Shadow of Mordor and other AAA games on Linux. I spoke with Jorge on reddit and he suggested I post in this mailing list with some thoughts.
Firstly the addition of an easier way of updating drivers is very welcome, so thanks for doing this. I think it should really help our users update without worrying about upgrading issues. With games like Shadow Of Mordor and others we have in development right now we're pushing the latest OpenGL features to the limit. This means we are hitting driver and performance issues that you might not see when using the desktop or older simpler games that only use OpenGL3.x. For example if you play Mordor on Nvidia using the default (closed source) drivers on Ubuntu the game runs in "Smurf mode" due to a driver bug, the performance is also lower than later drivers. We usually attempt to support all three graphics card vendors if possible (AMD, Nvidia and Intel) so having a good selection of drivers for all three vendors would be very advantageous. We can help by providing you with driver versions that upcoming games will be needing before they launch so the drivers are listed in time for the games launch day. We try to always try and avoid recommending the very latest drivers unless they are completely required due to driver bugs. The reasoning is the very latest drivers might have issues that have not been uncovered so being able to recommend drivers that are a few months old increases the probability they work well with the OS and other products not just our game(s). Adding the latest drivers when they are released so people can try them out if they want would be useful for users as we have found sometimes a brand new driver update can add extra performance especially shortly after a new card has been supported for the first time. Below are the drivers we recommend users to install for Mordor and also the Intel driver version we plan on recommending for the next Intel supported title we have in development. Nvidia 352.21 or later Intel 10.5.2 - http://www.mesa3d.org/relnotes/10.5.2.html (default driver for 15.04) AMD Catalyst 15.7 - http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDCatalyst15-7LINReleaseNotes.aspx If I can add anything to the conversation at this stage or help out please let me know. Best Regards, Edwin -- Edwin Smith Feral Interactive Limited 64 Kimber Road London, SW18 4PP England tel: 44-(0)208-875-1375 fax: 44-(0)208-875-1846 www.feral.co.uk **** Make Your Play ****
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