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| Authored by: Tufty on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 10:22 PM EDT |
Well, duh!
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 11:29 PM EDT |
These aren't exactly like-for-like comparisons, there's two different versions
here and the linux one is more heavily optimised (probably because the windows
version was running at 270 fps - at that point why would you bother?).
More accurate would be to say that valve's opengl version performs better than
their directx one - once they ported some of the optimisations they made in the
linux version back to the windows one there was very little difference.
In any case linux being anywhere near parity here is good news.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 12:13 AM EDT |
> Valve says its developers are still investigating why
> the OpenGL version performs better on Windows,
hmm, last I heard Redmond had stamped NIH allover OpenGL.
In their dev-center it's listed under "Legacy Graphics"
complete with a section "Windows Extensions to OpenGL"
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| Authored by: bilateralrope on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 12:29 AM EDT |
I'm not too interested in how well Valve gets their own games running on Linux,
though I can see that this result will bring gamers to Linux when a lot of game
developers produce Linux ports.
What I'm interested in is how well Valve will get the rest of the Steam
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| Authored by: Wol on Friday, August 03 2012 @ 06:02 PM EDT |
Windows games run FASTER on WINE.
There are a fair few reports that - on a dual boot computer - the same game runs
faster under WINE than under windows!
Cheers,
Wol[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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