I have been reading in CHW the article about the success you just had Valve with the port of Left 4 Dead 2 on Linux.
The thing is that recently they managed to make the successful port of the game, I mean, officially it was already running entirely on Linux, but 6 FPS (frames per second) which for a port, at the development level is perfect because generally the first time they don't even deign to run; This one ran at 6 FPS the first time, great.
Once this was achieved they needed to start doing tests and comparisons, you know, the traditional Benchmarking. The first run was carried out on a pc with a Intel Core i7 3930k, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680, 32GB RAM, of those machines that need Slitaz to run xD ...
Then they had to take three important steps to improve game performance:
- Improve integration with the kernel
- Work on Integration with the OpenGL API
- Improve Video Card Drivers
The first two steps were successfully achieved, but the third does not depend on them but on the owners of the drivers, although that was not a problem because immediately after Valve's request to have engineers of AMD, Intel and Nvidia Within the workplace, the companies responded, according to their words, with the best possible disposition and the process of improvement and elimination of bugs in the drivers of the three companies was very fast.
All this gave its results, with the platform mentioned above in Windows 7 servipack 1 64 bits, L4D2 ran to 276.6 FPSI mean zero lag and delay, the dream of every Gamer. In Ubuntu 12.04 32 bits, without optimization, 6 FPS ... after optimizations: 315 FPS! … BOOM HEADSHOT!
All this shows us something: it is possible that OpenGL run Linux games at very high speeds and that proprietary Linux drivers do have real potential, it just needed a real incentive for them ...
An outstanding debt of the companies that develop video chips is an improvement in the quality of their drivers, which although Intel is the one with the greatest commitment in this regard, nevertheless its Windows drivers surpass those of Linux. as we are with drivers in inferior conditions and a development even in diapers, in this situation it was possible to surpass the performance of the gamer platform of a lifetime ...... well gentlemen if this does not put the batteries, I do not imagine with what else they could do it
What I liked the most ... is that this driver needs nothing less than Slitaz to run ... hahahahaha
hahaha, very good observation xD
This is good for everyone, do you think that with games running at those speeds on Linux, the other operating systems will be left with their hands crossed seeing how that small market share called Gamers is doing (I can also make jokes xD), no, definitely no, and without fear of being wrong, I see games coming with excellent graphic quality for all platforms, for not so new machines
The difference is even greater, in Windows they were 270,6
45 FPS difference and according to what they have commented on the blog, the drivers were "the same as always", they have not started working with nVidia to optimize them.
The truth is that incredible how they managed to optimize it. still, it can run at 500 fps with that PC, the thing is that it runs at 60 fps on a normal PC. Kudos to the people at Valve for the bet. All this added to the Fakiu of Linus usher in a new era among Hardware and Linux developers. Let's hope.
The interesting thing about the Linux proposal for games is that developers can easily adapt their games to the Kernel and APIs without any problem, that is the thing about all this, adaptation. To such an extent that in the official blog they comment that they would love to have a version of L4D running under OpenGL on Windows with such capabilities.
And that they used a 32-bit Ubuntu versus 7-bit W64, I don't want to imagine how it will go in a 64-bit Arch xD
... more and more hype ...
Are there real cases when you would put 32 GB of Ram on your PC as it is with micro Intel i7 or AMD X8?
The game will be free or not and where you can download