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Valve Shares Performance Numbers On Port of Left4Dead

Posted by Unknown on from the meaningless-but-interesting dept.

New submitter nschubach writes in with an update on Valve's progress porting one of their games to GNU/Linux. From the article: "One factor in creating a good gaming experience is throughput. This post discusses some of what we've learned about the performance of our games running on Linux. ... After this work, Left 4 Dead 2 is running at 315 FPS on Linux. That the Linux version runs faster than the Windows version (270.6) seems a little counter-intuitive, given the greater amount of time we have spent on the Windows version. However, it does speak to the underlying efficiency of the kernel and OpenGL. Interestingly, in the process of working with hardware vendors we also sped up the OpenGL implementation on Windows. Left 4 Dead 2 is now running at 303.4 FPS with that configuration." nschubach adds "It seems there are good things coming out of this for both Operating Systems!"

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  1. Year of... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    LINUX DESKTOP

    1. Re:Year of... by Yvan256 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Linux Desktop? Nope. Desktops are dying anyway, almost everyone has moved to laptops.

      Year of the Linux game console, perhaps?

    2. Re:Year of... by KhabaLox · · Score: 5, Funny

      My Debian brings all the beards to the yard
      And they're like, it's better than yours
      Damn right it's better than yours
      I could fork it and I wouldn't even charge

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  2. Great by Yvan256 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can we bring those improvements to Mac OS X?

  3. Re:Valve is big on Linux by Minwee · · Score: 4, Funny

    % wine Steam.exe

    Yeah, look at them all.

  4. Re:Conserve Energy! by PremiumCarrion · · Score: 3, Funny

    Uh, use of linux will surely lead to us running out of a natural resource which cannot be replenished. Frames.
    By burning more frames per second we risk our childrens future, those poor bastards will have to view TV on e-ink at this rate.

  5. Re:Valve is big on Linux by Minwee · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's a great game. When did Valve release it?

  6. Re:What does it tell you? by Joce640k · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does the openGL driver/port have the same graphic detail as the directX version?

    You think they don't know how to benchmark their own game?

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  7. Irony by oneandoneis2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It'd be highly amusing to me if, in a few years time, Windows users are keeping a copy of Linux around because "I need it for the games" :)

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  8. Re:Episode 3 by demonbug · · Score: 4, Funny

    Its what blizzard did, of course I no longer consider them a game developer after diablo 3.

    I'm not familiar with that game; did you mean Auction House Tycoon?

  9. Re:Valve is big on Linux by pushing-robot · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was wondering why the difficulty level increased with each version.

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