Valve Shares Performance Numbers On Port of Left4Dead

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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Ehhhhhh.

[Anonymous Coward]

Last I checked FPS over 60 generally doesn't mean much for most people. Very few gamers can even notice a difference between 60-100 let alone over 100.

So there is no real point in posting huge FPS numbers in Windows or Linux as it really doesn't matter.