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I completely agree. There's something wrong with that port. With a machine that can run The Witcher 3 on high settings (on Windows), Witcher 2's port for Linux

I completely agree. There's something wrong with that port. With a machine that can run The Witcher 3 on high settings (on Windows), Witcher 2's port for Linux barely gets to 30fps on medium-low settings.

ekianjo 8y ago
I have a 970 and Witcher 2 runs constantly above 60fps on ultra settings. You sure you have tried it after the port was improved?
- onli 8y ago
  I think that goes to me as well... I dug a bit into my blog archive. My first try with Witcher 2 on Linux was just a month after its Linux release, I wrote down that the recommended fglrx driver worked worse than the free mesa driver, which in 2014 was a new experience. I was happy to see that I did not bash the developers at all, I was just a little bit disappointed, but happy about the improvements of Mesa. I also wrote that, at least at that time, only Nvidia was officially supported. I guess that explains why your experience was (is?) so much better. Also, the 970 is a very strong gpu for a game released 2014 on Linux and 2011(!) on Windows. But I definitely played it again not too long ago (trying to get all the achievements) and I stand to the statement that performance was bad, but I did not write down when that was exactly. But didn't I make some screenshots? Yes, with Steam, and the details reveal that playthrough was in 2017! But that was also with a Radeon (but a stronger one than the first try, I upgraded in the meantime). To be fair, I will download now and check the current FPS, but even it worked great now, the bad performance in 2017 makes clear that the vitriol expressed in the interview is wrong. They never made the game run great, at least not with AMD, and from what I read also Nvidia performance remained bad when compared to the Windows version.
  - onli 8y ago
    It did not even start :/

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I completely agree. There's something wrong with that port. With a machine that can run The Witcher 3 on high settings (on Windows), Witcher 2's port for Linux

by setzer22 8y ago

ekianjo 8y ago
I have a 970 and Witcher 2 runs constantly above 60fps on ultra settings. You sure you have tried it after the port was improved?
- onli 8y ago
  I think that goes to me as well... I dug a bit into my blog archive. My first try with Witcher 2 on Linux was just a month after its Linux release, I wrote down that the recommended fglrx driver worked worse than the free mesa driver, which in 2014 was a new experience. I was happy to see that I did not bash the developers at all, I was just a little bit disappointed, but happy about the improvements of Mesa. I also wrote that, at least at that time, only Nvidia was officially supported. I guess that explains why your experience was (is?) so much better. Also, the 970 is a very strong gpu for a game released 2014 on Linux and 2011(!) on Windows. But I definitely played it again not too long ago (trying to get all the achievements) and I stand to the statement that performance was bad, but I did not write down when that was exactly. But didn't I make some screenshots? Yes, with Steam, and the details reveal that playthrough was in 2017! But that was also with a Radeon (but a stronger one than the first try, I upgraded in the meantime). To be fair, I will download now and check the current FPS, but even it worked great now, the bad performance in 2017 makes clear that the vitriol expressed in the interview is wrong. They never made the game run great, at least not with AMD, and from what I read also Nvidia performance remained bad when compared to the Windows version.
  - onli 8y ago
    It did not even start :/