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Major Performance Improvement Discovered For Intel's GPU Linux Driver

Posted by Soulskill on 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.

3 of 96 comments (clear)

  1. Re:The "paid Microsoft tax" bit, apparently by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    You read the article, but did you read the summary?

    "However, the patch setting this bit isn't public yet as apparently it's breaking video acceleration in certain cases."

  2. Re:Benchmark Bit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Intel drivers for Linux are official and open source. They are actively maintained by Intel themselves. This is not like the Nvidia/Nouveau split, Intel are actually very open source friendly in this area.

  3. Re:Will it work with my distro? by Wootery · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wine? Valve are supporting Linux natively!