Feral Interactive is a popular porter of games from Windows to Linux (and Mac.) I have several games that they have ported, but I've run into a frustrating development with their recent games. A two year old game, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, experiences a bug with the open source drivers documented here:
So they stated that one must use the fglrx driver for XCom. OK so far.
Recently I purchased another game ported by them called LIfe Is Strange. In the release notes they specify that only the open source drivers are supported. And indeed, when I try to play the game with fglrx loaded, all I get are menus and flashing colors, but no 3d rendering at all.
I find it extremely frustrating that I can't play two different games by the same developer without rooting out one driver set and replacing it with another. Changing video drivers on a Linux laptop can be a frustrating nightmare, and I don't want to have to do it every time I want to switch games. Does anyone think that Feral is taking a reasonable position on this?
So they stated that one must use the fglrx driver for XCom. OK so far.
Recently I purchased another game ported by them called LIfe Is Strange. In the release notes they specify that only the open source drivers are supported. And indeed, when I try to play the game with fglrx loaded, all I get are menus and flashing colors, but no 3d rendering at all.
I find it extremely frustrating that I can't play two different games by the same developer without rooting out one driver set and replacing it with another. Changing video drivers on a Linux laptop can be a frustrating nightmare, and I don't want to have to do it every time I want to switch games. Does anyone think that Feral is taking a reasonable position on this?
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