Major Performance Improvement Discovered For Intel's GPU Linux Driver

Posted by Soulskill on Friday November 7, 2014 @01:49AM from the striving-for-parity dept.

An anonymous reader writes: LunarG, on contract with Valve Software, discovered a critical shortcoming with the open-source Intel Linux graphics driver that was handicapping the performance. A special bit wasn't being set by the Linux driver but was by the Windows driver, which when enabled is increasing the Linux performance in many games by now ~20%+, which should allow for a much more competitive showing between Intel OpenGL performance on Windows vs. Linux. However, the patch setting this bit isn't public yet as apparently it's breaking video acceleration in certain cases.

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Pointless improvement? by AqD · 2014-11-07 02:55 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Real gamers use either AMD or nVIDIA cards, even on laptops. And they already have official support offering comparable performance to Windows versions.
Increasing a retard's IQ from 10 to 12 doesn't make him any smarter in real world.