Rage Linux Port Is Not Likely Until 2012

[deanjo]

win7 is really bullshit with all games while xp is real good . i have better pings and fps with xp x64 than w7 x64 .

Complete opposite here. W7 X64 matches XP64, if not faster in both latency and fps.

[V!NCENT]

There is this general (and extremely wrong) idea that XP is faster than Vista and Windows 7.

The problem with the introduction of Windows NT 6.x (which is what Vista and Windows 7 is) is threefold:
-Old apps run sandboxed and therefore slower; NT 6.x apps runs faster;
-RAM is, just like Linux, mostly cached and optimized for bigger RAM size (Windows Vista actually consumes in the megabites < 300MB);
-Designed to be optimized for newer hardware, thus older hardware functions on a "Good enough to boot Word"-level.

[jcgeny]

Complete opposite here. W7 X64 matches XP64, if not faster in both latency and fps.

it can not be faster , only because win7 has a lot more services running or a lot more network protocol .
win xp does not have aero/gnome3 for exemple that needs a lot of the GPU and so on....

There is this general (and extremely wrong) idea that XP is faster than Vista and Windows 7.

The problem with the introduction of Windows NT 6.x (which is what Vista and Windows 7 is) is threefold:
-Old apps run sandboxed and therefore slower; NT 6.x apps runs faster;
-RAM is, just like Linux, mostly cached and optimized for bigger RAM size (Windows Vista actually consumes in the megabites < 300MB);
-Designed to be optimized for newer hardware, thus older hardware functions on a "Good enough to boot Word"-level.

not sure but i only installed drivers and vmware 8 , after booting win xp x64 consumes 608 Mo out of the 12 Go .
L4D is very good with it and latest drivers for Rage .

to talk about Rage , it is a KILLER Game . very few people can have it playable , according to the first 20 minutes i played with XP X64 ;']
it uses around 500 Mo of Ram and Max is 1 Go
but it mostly use my 2x 4cores HT at 50 - 70 % : 12 cpu at full load
i ll post more later

[fettouhi]

I've played almost 8 hours of Rage (from Steam) now through wine on Arch Linux 64 bit and it runs great. I've had very little problems with the game.

[xpander]

ati drivers still poor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkiypdBrzgs

anyway getting nvidia soon. so im free from those nasty issues that the ati drivers deliver.

[jcgeny]

ati drivers still poor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkiypdBrzgs

anyway getting nvidia soon. so im free from those nasty issues that the ati drivers deliver.

latest 11.10.2 are not bad as the video shows . with the update i have no-crash . having a nvidia seems mandatory with this game , at least i use the vt_useCudaTranscode = 2 http://www.geforce.com/News/articles...-simple-tweaks and now the game uses only half of what it did . so it needs 6 cores by now and is really smooth .
i did only killing of bandits and now i start second mission that is to grab medicine

[xpander]

latest 11.10.2 are not bad as the video shows . with the update i have no-crash . having a nvidia seems mandatory with this game , at least i use the vt_useCudaTranscode = 2 http://www.geforce.com/News/articles...-simple-tweaks and now the game uses only half of what it did . so it needs 6 cores by now and is really smooth .
i did only killing of bandits and now i start second mission that is to grab medicine

latest 11.10.2? those are out for linux now?
cant find the link. im forced to use 11.8 atm. cuz 11.9 has some random x crashes

[deanjo]

it can not be faster , only because win7 has a lot more services running or a lot more network protocol .

Not really, while Win 7 does have IPv6 installed by default, so does XP 64 and any unneeded extras are simple a click away from disabling them. The Win 7 network stack is also far more efficient then XP's ever was and there are several network benchmarks out there to back up that fact.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/reviews/windows_7_review?page=0,3

win xp does not have aero/gnome3 for exemple that needs a lot of the GPU and so on....

Aero is suspended when running games in fullscreen. It isn't even close to being a factor. The only time that XP might have an advantage is on old titles that did see some ever so slight increase when utilizing DirectSound but most of the new games out there utilize openAL and it becomes a non-factor especially given the processors that are in use today.

[gcala]

I want to report a fresh interview of Carmack so probably we stop deceiving ourself from playing Rage on linux:

Carmack: PC Not The Leading Platform For Games

An abstract:

?We do not see the PC as the leading platform for games?

?Nowadays most of the quality of a game comes from the development effort put into it, not the technology it runs on. A game built with a tenth the resources on a platform 10 times as powerful would be an inferior product in almost all cases.?

[Khudsa]

Declarations of John Carmack about PC version.

We do not see the PC as the leading platform for games. That statement will enrage some people, but it is hard to characterize it otherwise; both console versions will have larger audiences than the PC version.