Too many machines lost ability to run Fusion not because of shiny new tech that Croteam implemented, but just because OpenGL support was suddenly dropped.One of the bigger concerns, aside from being able to catch cheaters, is keeping them out once they are caught. Probably they would have to do it anyway in the (very) long run as engine gets updates incompatible with their old renderer and old hardware, but definitely not so soon. I understand that they don't want to support OpenGL in their future games, and that's cool, but removing completely working and mature OpenGL renderer from existing games is. I have an old laptop with Radeon HD 5850 which was running SSF with OGL on medium settings with very high framerates, and now it's not able to run SSF at all. OpenGL renderer in SSF was working stable and insanely good on the old hardware. I wrote my opinion on it further in that thread, and I'll repeat it here for convenience :) Now SSF is Vulkan-only on Linux, and so it means that likely SS4 will be Vulkan-only too.That's cool, sounds like the right move.
Quoting: slaapliedje Quoting: FlabbAccording to comment by Solais (one of Croteam devs), OpenGL renderer was removed in the latest update for Fusion. Unsure if it's a bug or a problem on my system but I've let them know anyway.
With all games available, this makes the download around 12 GB.Ĭurrently it seems to work fine, apart from the graphics options menu crashing to the desktop every time for me.
Unfortunately due to this, the patch will re-download and re-install your game from scratch.
However, we are finally at a point where Fusion can be branched out as a stand-alone project, so SS4 development will no longer make its code unstable. This development path brings with it various potential hickups, many of which we have experienced during the preparation of this patch. Fusion also brings many improvements to previous games including a brand new engine - the same one Serious Sam 4 will be based on. Speaking about how this update to Fusion took so long, going by their news on Steam it was a hotfix way back in February, they said this:įusion is a central hub that connects all the main Serious Sam games in one and allows regular and VR players to jump in to the game together.