Black Mesa Is Now Available For Linux Gamers

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Black Mesa Is Now Available For Linux Gamers

If you are looking for some Linux gaming this weekend, Black Mesa was recently released in early form for Linux / SteamOS...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Black-Mesa-Linux-Debut

[tajjada]

So, does Black Mesa run well on Mesa?

[dungeon]

So, does Black Mesa run well on Mesa?

I guess should run at Half (Life ) speed, since it uses non nVidia GL but as there is fast enough hardware nowdays probably not much people will complain

[LeJimster]

Hehe... Punny. I bought the game awhile back when they promised Linux support. Seen somebody on YouTube playing it on SteamOS. Will have to download it and see how it runs on mesa -.-

[GraysonPeddie]

The remake is very impressive, even though I don't mind the 1990s-era graphics.

[FishPls]

Hopefully we'll hear more about Xen soon. Great looking game, bought it yesterday. Haven't had the time to install it yet.

[Amarildo]

So, does Black Mesa run well on Mesa?

On the OpenSource (AMDGPU) Kernel driver:

Games runs fine maxed out, in between 150 and 210 FPS. Some drops to 60 when tons of smoke appear.
Minor stutterings here and there which only happen in the beginning of the game.
Loadings take a while, just as they do on Windows.
Just remember to remove "libstdc++.so.6" from the game's BIN directory otherwise it won't launch (might not be necessary on the proprietary drivers)


Hardware:

AMD FX 6300 (OC @4.1 GHz, NBUS OCED as well)
16 GB HyperX Fury 1935 MHz
AMD R9 270X Dual-X OC Edition


Software:

Arch Linux
Mesa-Git
LLVM-SVN
Kernel: amd-staging-4.7 (latest drivers as possible from AMD, the same as 4.10-wip)
Kernel driver: AMDGPU
OpenGL driver: RadeonSI (mesa)

[johanb]

Just remember to remove "libstdc++.so.6" from the game's BIN directory otherwise it won't launch (might not be necessary on the proprietary drivers)

Is that also necessary if you use steam-native?

[woife]

Is that also necessary if you use steam-native?

It was necessary for me. @Armadillo: Thanks a lot for the tip!

So, does Black Mesa run well on Mesa?

Yes!
It runs on my system with current Mesa from the Oibaf PPA with both the Intel integrated graphics (Sandybridge, slow of course) and AMD discrete card (HD6770M, fine performance, similar to Half Life 2). Unfortunately on the AMD card there is a screen flickering bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98494

[ElectricPrism]

So, does Black Mesa run well on Mesa?

Yup, ran Black Mesa on MESA-git with AMD RX 480, 120 FPS capped to my VSync, otherwise ~220 FPS on Ultra, with max AA and max ASF.

Assuming it's installed to the default prefix this does the trick.

mv "~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Black Mesa/bin/libstdc++.so.6" "~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Black Mesa/bin/libstdc++.so.6.bak"