Arielunek: Hi, I am the dev. ...
Hi,
thanks for taking the time to be present on GOG - and especially to support GNU/Linux as a platform.
From what I saw it looks that your game is really good - so the 1st impression was very good.
I am looking forward to the release of "Please Fix The Road" in June 2022 (or when ready ;).
Would be nice if you could make a forum post on GOG giving a way (E-Mail/Discord?) how to
send in make bug reports (if any :) or feature requests - or would you look at GOG forum so
one can leave some info there?
As noted by "WinterSnowfall", I supported your view that for Nvidia proprietary drivers are necessary,
but wanted to state that:
o Linux (the kernel handling GPU HW, i.e. DRI: KMS/DRM) and
o Mesa (free 3-D graphics library: OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, ...)
are in really good shape and that Nvidia is the only company which always undermined the efforts
of free driver developers (and thus a stable and supported GNU/Linux system) while AMD and Intel participate
not only by documentation but also by code.
Nouveau is the Mesa driver for Nvidia HW (started in 2006) and it was Nvidia who made it worthless
(up to GTX 700 "Kepler" reasonable free driver support existed, while since GTX 900 series the trouble
with re-clocking started (!!no performance!! without re-clocking) ... so the free driver no longer has any support
for gaming HW by Nvidia and was left abandoned concerning future development (at least the one relevant for games,
unfortunately - waiting for Nvidia to end this situation).
Thus no Vulkan driver was developed yet as this would not make any sense for Nvidia HW when using free drivers.
I had Nvidia HW in 2000 - and after really bad experience (new kernel with aging HW) never used
anything from Nvidia again.
So if one wants to be productive on GNU/Linux (or have a stable gaming platform for > 8 hours) and
well supported, Nvidia is no choice (as long as they don't support free driver development - which they do
for their SoCs used in embedded devices only).
So this problem has nothing to do with your game - nothing with Unity - nothing with GNU/Linux: Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, ...
but only with this special vendor playing unfair - and your note is just correct.
One should keep in mind that on AMD free drivers are more stable and faster in most conditions (based on AMD
documentation and available AMD code {being multi-platform} - but tailored to Linux graphics stack;
Intel does not even have any proprietary driver at all for GNU/Linux - and this is a good thing) ...
Mesa is regarded as reference implementation for the given graphics standards and
that gaming business is sponsoring free driver development.