Deus Ex: Mankind Divided to be released on Linux and Mac

[Notional]

Feral Interactive, a publisher of Mac and Linux games, announced that Deus Ex Mankind Divided will be released on both OS' at a later date.

 

There are no technical details so far, other than the game will use the Metal API on OSX. Considering the game is out in beta on DX12 and will use Metal, another low level API, it is expected to be released on Vulkan on Linux. Especially since OpenGL in it's current form is a mess of obsolete, redundant code, and utter useless by today's standard.

I asked Feral for confirmation about the Linux port, but they could not confirm (nor deny) at this point.

 

A mini site has been released for this release, at https://www.feralinteractive.com/en/games/deusexmd/story/

 

By the looks of the company they do not seem to actually be handling the porting of the game. As Nixxes only does Direct X ports at this point in time, it's doubtful that they will be behind it, especially taking their "experience" with DX12 into account (Rise of the Tomb Raider, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.

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So I can only assume the 3 Linux users that actually play games on Linux will be extatic. Are you looking forward to this? Even if it is not in steam?

 

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Sources:

https://www.feralinteractive.com/en/games/deusexmd/story/

 

[Misanthrope]

Hey as long as they're making a Vulkan port....can we get a Vulkan WIndows build too? That way Windows 7 AMD users can still take advantage.

[dlf]

And if Windows gets a Vulkan port we could compare performance with Linux . . . .

[vorticalbox]

I would be one of the linux uses if more games actually support linux. With the way windows is going it would be nice to switch to a more open ecosystem.

[shdowhunt60]

I can see Linux support, but not for OS X. Apple doesn't support OpenGL past 4.3 anymore, and I haven't heard of anybody making anything noteworthy with Metal yet. So I'm interested as to how they're going to make the game run decent in OS X.

[raphidy]

Did Feral implement Vulkan in previous Linux port?

[matrix07012]

I don't know if OS X support is really worth it, since Macs don't have really good GPUs, but Linux support? Yes please.

[dalekphalm]

How many Mac's actually have a good enough GPU to play this game?

 

But seriously, this is good news. I also hope it's Vulkan, and not OpenGL.

[AlexGoesHigh]

24 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

How many Mac's actually have a good enough GPU to play this game?

 

But seriously, this is good news. I also hope it's Vulkan, and not OpenGL.

well it's running on metal, maybe it could reach the cinematic 30fps on a mac pro XP

[Misanthrope]

28 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

How many Mac's actually have a good enough GPU to play this game?

 

But seriously, this is good news. I also hope it's Vulkan, and not OpenGL.

Some of them do have the GPU but it might start making sizzling sounds and smelling like burnt electronics right away.

[as96]

That's a bit weird, why use three different APIs? I mean isn't Vulkan supported by all of those platforms?

[dalekphalm]

2 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

Some of them do have the GPU but it might start making sizzling sounds and smelling like burnt electronics right away.

Oh I know that many macs come with GPU's, but most of them are, erm, pretty low end

 

6 minutes ago, AlexGoesHigh said:

well it's running on metal, maybe it could reach the cinematic 30fps on a mac pro XP

Any idea how the Mac FirePro drivers are for gaming? Since some of those FirePro's are pretty damn beastly.

[AlexGoesHigh]

Just now, dalekphalm said:

Oh I know that many macs come with GPU's, but most of them are, erm, pretty low end

 

Any idea how the Mac FirePro drivers are for gaming? Since some of those FirePro's are pretty damn beastly.

I have no clue how good are for gaming but seriously speaking, they maybe could reach 60fps with decent quality.

[AlexGoesHigh]

2 minutes ago, as96 said:

That's a bit weird, why use three different APIs? I mean isn't Vulkan supported by all of those platforms?

Apple is not supporting Vulkan at all, and developers cant run Vulkan on Mac OS until Apple supports it, or somehow let outsider do the job but well, they need Apple's cert for that.

[as96]

Just now, AlexGoesHigh said:

Apple is not supporting Vulkan at all, and developers cant run Vulkan on Mac OS until Apple supports it, or somehow let outsider do the job but well, they need Apple's cert for that.

Oh I didn't know that, I thought Vulkan was supposed to be supported by Mac

[dalekphalm]

Just now, AlexGoesHigh said:

I have no clue how good are for gaming but seriously speaking, they maybe could reach 60fps with decent quality.

I wouldn't be surprised. Especially if Mac Pro's got the Hawaii/Grenada based FirePro's. I know they had the Tahiti based ones. My HD 7950 is still going strong, albeit not high end anymore.

[dalekphalm]

Just now, as96 said:

Oh I didn't know that, I thought Vulkan was supposed to be supported by Mac

Well The Kronos Group designed it to be compatible with Mac OS in theory. So it's all on Apple at this point.

[Valentyn]

41 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

Oh I know that many macs come with GPU's, but most of them are, erm, pretty low end

 

Any idea how the Mac FirePro drivers are for gaming? Since some of those FirePro's are pretty damn beastly.

I actually used the D700 FirePros, they're rather good. But only ar 280X levels of performance.

Also what people fail to realise is that this is not the first AAA game Feral has ported to Macs. They're really good at it.

Sadly the Mac Pro line has not been updated since late 2013.

[dalekphalm]

Just now, Valentyn said:

I actually used the D700 FirePros, they're rather good. But only ar 280X levels of performance.


Also what people fail to realise is that this is not the first AAA game Feral has ported to Macs. They're really good at it.

Oh I know that Mac OS X does have some AAA, I'm just poking fun at their lackluster GPU selection

[Valentyn]

Just now, dalekphalm said:

Oh I know that Mac OS X does have some AAA, I'm just poking fun at their lackluster GPU selection

Well if someone is still using one of the older Mac Pros, 2009-2012 they can just slap in a Titan X if they wanted.

I personally replaced my ancient GT 120 with a 660 GTX, and then a 780 after that. 
Apple actually bake in drivers, and NVIDIA release up to date drivers within a month or two usually, to just use "PC" hardware.

[The Benjamins]

10 minutes ago, Valentyn said:

Well if someone is still using one of the older Mac Pros, 2009-2012 they can just slap in a Titan X if they wanted.

I personally replaced my ancient GT 120 with a 660 GTX, and then a 780 after that. 
Apple actually bake in drivers, and NVIDIA release up to date drivers within a month or two usually, to just use "PC" hardware.

what about driver support in OSX? I thought is was minimal.

 

My dad just bought a 2012 Mac Pro its nice, he uses it for music production and its faster then his old Mac mini. If you can find one for a good price they are still awesome machines (OSX or Windows)

 

https://soundcloud.com/robin-benjamins If anyone wants to check out his songs.

 

[Valentyn]

33 minutes ago, The Benjamins said:

what about driver support in OSX? I thought is was minimal.

 

My dad just bought a 2012 Mac Pro its nice, he uses it for music production and its faster then his old Mac mini. If you can find one for a good price they are still awesome machines (OSX or Windows)

 

https://soundcloud.com/robin-benjamins If anyone wants to check out his songs.

 

Driver support for NVIDIA GPUs is really good. Apple puts a lot of effort in there, and so does NVIDIA.

OS X uses a unified driver for GPUs so Quadros and GeForce cards use the same one.

 

Have a look through this thread about compatibility and drivers. There's also folks there that make custom BIOSs for the cards to work perfectly with OS X as well.

He can also upgrade the CPUs if he doesn't have the top end 6 cores yet.

http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/frequently-asked-questions-about-nvidia-pc-non-efi-graphics-cards.1440150/

[The Benjamins]

1 minute ago, Valentyn said:

Driver support for NVIDIA GPUs is really good. Apple puts a lot of effort in there, and so does NVIDIA.

OS X uses a unified driver for GPUs so Quadros and GeForce cards use the same one.

 

Have a look through this thread about compatibility and drivers. There's also folks there that make custom BIOSs for the cards to work perfectly with OS X as well.

He can also upgrade the CPUs if he doesn't have the top end 6 cores yet.

http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/frequently-asked-questions-about-nvidia-pc-non-efi-graphics-cards.1440150/

he has the top 6 core and 64GB of ram, I think it has a SSD boot drive but not sure, and a 7850 I think.

[Valentyn]

Just now, The Benjamins said:

he has the top 6 core and 64GB of ram, I think it has a SSD boot drive but not sure, and a 7850 I think.

For the SSD he can move it to an PCIe card like the Apricorn Velocity X2, which removes the SATA 2  bottleneck. That way the SSD can run at full speeds as well.

If he can install OS X 10.10 he can also use a GTX 980, those need the latest NVIDIA web drivers, which are in the link I provided.

[ThinkWithPortals]

1 hour ago, dalekphalm said:

Oh I know that many macs come with GPU's, but most of them are, erm, pretty low end

 

Any idea how the Mac FirePro drivers are for gaming? Since some of those FirePro's are pretty damn beastly.

IIRC driver support for FirePros actually isn't bad. That said, the highest-end cards available only on Apple's highest-end computer (ie. the FirePro D700s in the Mac Pro) are only on par with crossfired R9 280Xs