Dead Island GOTY Now Available On Linux/SteamOS

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Dead Island GOTY Now Available On Linux/SteamOS

For those longing to play the Dead Island action RPG / survival horror game on Linux, the Game of the Year Edition of Dead Island is now available!..

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTgyMjc

[gens]

unrelated but springrts engine got a new version a couple weeks ago
balanced annihilation is a good game

[edoantonioco]

How about the performance? Does it use eON?

[Tuxee]

How about the performance? Does it use eON?

I uninstalled Witcher 2 because of its abysmal performance on my system (i7 - GTX660). Can't say the same about DI - runs very smooth.

[jsa1983]

Has anyone managed to run Dead Island on radeonsi / mesa? I get a buffer overflow with radeonsi when I hit select character under new game (i.e. when the game should load the first level).

[peppercats]

I uninstalled Witcher 2 because of its abysmal performance on my system (i7 - GTX660). Can't say the same about DI - runs very smooth.

you can get far better performance playing witcher 2 through wine with CSMT or galliumnine, it's pretty sad :/
If witcher 3 is going to be like this, i don't want it.

[nightmarex]

Has anyone managed to run Dead Island on radeonsi / mesa? I get a buffer overflow with radeonsi when I hit select character under new game (i.e. when the game should load the first level).

I get it to run, problem is everything is blue like it's missing textures, maybe a workaround or something but haven't had time to figure it out

[jsa1983]

I have tried running the game with catalyst under Kubuntu 14.04 with Steam's runtime libgcc and libstdc (which cause conflict with newer mesa versions since llvm is compiled with a newer gcc version) and the game runs ok. So I guess it is a problem with Kubuntu 14.10's libstdc and libgcc libs or a problem in mesa.

@nightmarex: With regard to the mesa textures, since I had only managed to run it till the character selection I didn't notice the textures were wrong (I thought they should look like that), but after playing for a few minutes with catalyst, you are right the textures show incorrectly, and also do in that selection screen.
What is your distro, btw?

[sacrediou]

Fix shader problem using open source drivers

I get it to run, problem is everything is blue like it's missing textures, maybe a workaround or something but haven't had time to figure it out

I had this problem too, and solved it using this :

http://steamcommunity.com/app/91310/discussions/0/613940109818649734/?tscn=1414264143#c613940109821198853

Basically, you need to add this to ~/.drirc (create the file if it does not exist) :

<driconf>
<device>
<application name="DeadIsland" executable="DeadIslandGame"/>
<option name="allow_glsl_extension_directive_midshader" value="true"/>
</application>
</device>
</driconf>

The screen where you choose your character now render correctly, but then the game crash when loading the first level (haven't managed to solve this one yet).

[sacrediou]

Fix for shader problem using open-source drivers

I get it to run, problem is everything is blue like it's missing textures, maybe a workaround or something but haven't had time to figure it out

I had this problem too, and solved it using this :

http://steamcommunity.com/app/91310/discussions/0/613940109818649734/?tscn=1414264143#c613940109821198853

Basically, you need to add this to ~/.drirc (create the file if it does not exist) :

<driconf>
<device>
<application name="DeadIsland" executable="DeadIslandGame"/>
<option name="allow_glsl_extension_directive_midshader" value="true"/>
</application>
</device>
</driconf>

The screen where you choose your character now render correctly, but then the game crash when loading the first level (haven't managed to solve this one yet).