Borderlands 2 Launches On Steam For Linux

[kaprikawn]

Just tried it on R600 on a 6870. Seems to be working fine. Performance is a little iffy, but certainly playable. I'm getting a fair bit of micro-stutter. Well I think it's micro-stutter, it's not something I've come across before, I normally game on Windows with a fairly high-end card, so I normally can play 1080p/60fps without much trouble. But I'm noticing some stutter in places (not in full on combat though thankfully, mainly in the exposition bits).

All in all, I'm impressed. Everything seemed to default to the lowest setting, so definitely go into settings before you launch a game, or you'll be playing at a fairly low resolution.

For reference, this is on a fully updated Arch install, with all the crappy old libraries that Steam ships with deleted so I don't get that 'no GLX rendering' error. CPU is i5 750, and it's with 8gb RAM game running from an SSD (though that didn't stop a bit of texture pop-in which plagues many Unreal 3 titles).

I might try sticking a 7970 in to see if brute force can improve performance. The 6870 is always the most mature card on the OSS drivers which is why I've stuck with it, but the 7970 (which I've got lying around) is a much better card, now might be the time to try it out.

Ok, so I just tried it out on a 7970, on the exact same configuration I'm getting ~40fps (still with but noticeably reduced stutter). That's against ~25-30 on the 6870. R600 may be more mature, but it looks like the brute force of a much better card has bumped performance considerably. I'm impressed.

[scorp]

Doesn't work on RadeonSI + HD7850

Mine had a bug that massively influenced visual quality.
Thanks to someone on steam I found out that in the file

~/.local/share/aspyr-media/borderlands 2/willowgame/config/willowengine.ini

the option

DynamicLights

Was set to

False

Changing it to

True

worked with Catalyst 14.9 without performance drop and finally made the game look like on Windows.

Unfortunately, with this option activated, I get full system freeze directly when the main menu appears. Could be related to this one:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84614

However, I also can't investigate because the system is completely dead after this. Running HD7850 on ArchLinux x86_64, Kernel 3.16.3, mesa 10.3, LLVM 3.5.

[lokinv560ti]

geforce 560 ti

By default i have ~ 50 fps in start menu.

With this launch options in steam: LD_PRELOAD="libpthread.so.0 libGL.so.1" __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 %command% I have around 70 fps in start menu and around 40 fps in game. If i additionaly disable dynamic shadows and lights i have 90fps but game colors look ugly.

[lokinv560ti]

I forgot mention that i use ubuntu 14.04 and this script to start steam:
if [ $# -ge 1 ]; then
game="$(which $1)"
openbox="$(which openbox)"
tmpgame="/tmp/tmpgame.sh"
export DISPLAY=:1.0
export ALSA_DEFAULT_PCM="duplex"
echo -e "${openbox} &\ncompton &\n${game}" > ${tmpgame}
echo "starting ${game}"
xinit ${tmpgame} -- :1 || exit 1
else
echo "not a valid argument"
fi

don't forget to install compton

[Dukenukemx]

By default i have ~ 50 fps in start menu.

With this launch options in steam: LD_PRELOAD="libpthread.so.0 libGL.so.1" __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 %command% I have around 70 fps in start menu and around 40 fps in game. If i additionaly disable dynamic shadows and lights i have 90fps but game colors look ugly.

That's interesting, what does that do? Multithreading?

[pete910]

Mine had a bug that massively influenced visual quality.
Thanks to someone on steam I found out that in the file

~/.local/share/aspyr-media/borderlands 2/willowgame/config/willowengine.ini

the option

DynamicLights

Was set to

False

Changing it to

True

worked with Catalyst 14.9 without performance drop and finally made the game look like on Windows.

Did this trick too, Have mine running @1440p on high/far detail. Working rather well tbh. FPS jumps around 60 to silly numbers if I don't have it capped.
No idea what it performs like in windows!
Not noticed ant stutters.
Any particular areas this happens?

If you want to see your FPS you will need to enable the console key in the ini.

.local/share/aspyr-media/borderlands 2/willowgame/config/willowinput.ini

Line 123, change

ConsoleKey=Undefined

Too

ConsoleKey=Tidle

Bring console up in game then type

stat fps

[Dukenukemx]

It still stutters a lot for me.

[stiiixy]

...

ConsoleKey=Undefined

Too

ConsoleKey=Tidle

Bring console up in game then type

stat fps

tilde or tidle? Interesting if it's tidle =D

[pete910]

ConsoleKey=Tilde

My bad, was late when I posted that up

Would love an edit button about now.....