NVIDIA GT 425M: Windows 7 Ultimate vs. Ubuntu 10.10

[gilboa]

Thank you Phoronix for posting some actual numbers unlike most Linux fans who will just blatantly claim that Linux is faster.
We have to face the truth. Windows has an advantage in 3D acceleration.

1. For the 100,000'th time. Ubuntu != Linux. You can see major performance different between distributions even if you're using the nVidia binary blob (E.g: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...buntu910&num=2).

2. Given the fact that Phoronix is using Ubuntu in its stock configuration, it's entirely possible that Ubuntu's default configuration is ill-suited to run games.

Just to put things in perspective, on my Fedora 13 workstation I use a hand-written script to start games. Among other things, this script disables BOINC and kwin composition. Last time I bothered to check, using this script both UT2K4 and Doom3 showed a 10-30% performance increase at -very- high resolutions (Dell U2711).
Now, you may claim that kwin should have automatically disabled composition once I start a full-screen OpenGL application (Much like Windows Vista/7), but given the fact that a composing window manager is not a prerequisite for playing games (Windows XP anyone?), a well-optimized distribution should be able to give Windows a run for its money if not suppress it (But given Phoronix' reluctance to pit any other distribution besides Ubuntu against MAC/W7, we will never know...)

- Gilboa

[mitcoes]

Quake 3 is the best FPS network game ever

Nothing new. Drivers are optimized for specific resolutions. In the past this was 1024x768. I suppose today it's higher.

Btw, no, gamers don't use low resolutions. You're still stuck in the MS-DOS days.

Also, Quake is hardly a reason for anyone to switch to Linux. Gamers want Fallout 3, F1 2010, the upcomming Dragon Age, etc, etc, not Quake Live that's just the ancient Quake 3 Arena but in a browser.

Quake 3 and Quake Live is the best FPS to play network battles ever made, there are also who like more the Half Live Counter Strike.

One thing is to prove new games, or play solo, but for battle Quakers there are a lot, see the growinng user numbers of Quake Live. i have been in Quake contests, and in ciberparties and still is the main battle game, no succes fir q4 in this field.

Obviously people do not change in one day, but this quake champions play with minimal configs and minimal resolution because is faster, even in network. The best IP stack in Linux and if it is, the best results at lower resolutions I assure you would make this guys to put a minimal Linux with firefox and Quakelive if they can make a littel more frags because this advantage, In competition every little advantege is a lot.

And they are liders of a big community, where some thousends would change to a dual configuration if it is worth,

Of course nobody would migrate or dual config for MS WOX 7 specific games,

[gedgon]

Michael, are you still benchmarking games with Compiz on? If you really want default settings, at least add results with Compiz off.

[Yezu]

Yeah, you could've actually done the math yourself, but someone else has done it for you:

debunking-the-myth-of-the-debunking-myth.html


OK. Back to where we were some months ago. I'd like you to be right, though.

Hmmm... Essentially there is no way of telling how much of Desktop/Laptop/Netbook systems are Linux... It seems it can be anything from 2% to 15%

[devius]

What part of "top titles" don't you get? What part of gamespot.com don't you get? What part of common sense don't you get?

Ok... guess I need to be more clear and use sarcasm tags like everybody else. There's no need to be offended. Here's what I meant:

Just because a game YOU like or YOU want to play doesn't exist on a gaming platform that doesn't make it less of a gaming platform. It may not be a gaming platform YOU will want to game on, but that is it. Also, your argument of using gamespot as a reference to determine if something is a gaming platform doesn't make much sense. Why not use mobygames instead as it's a much bigger database and not commercially orientated? Oh wait, I know why! Because mobygames actually lists linux as a gaming platform, so that wouldn't be too beneficial to your argument.

If I got your argument correct, only the systems that show up on the main gamespot navigation bar are eligible as gaming platforms. And, of those only the ones that have the more popular and best selling titles (and long running franchises), like the ones you listed, so that leaves us with windows, PS3 and XBOX360 as the only gaming platforms that exist. That makes sense? The point is you can't use a commercial/promotional games site to figure out what is a gaming platform and what is not, because these sites benefit from promoting always the more recent (and profitable) games and game systems.

[yotambien]

Heh... Hate to disillusion you there- but we're already at that threshold according to something Ballmer showed people this year. You can actually do the math yourself- but someone else has done it for you:

http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2010/09/debunking-the-1-myth.html

If you accept the figures that the industry pundits give on Netbooks, just for starters, the floor for shipped units using Linux (nobody will typically go out of their way to buy a Linux netbook and put Windows on it, sorry...) if you go off of the official shipped Netbook figures, is 6% of the total estimated market. That's the minimum and only using netbooks for a figure. The figure is quite a bit higher than that, obviously, because there's more than just netbooks out there.

Yeah, you could've actually done the math yourself, but someone else has done it for you:

debunking-the-myth-of-the-debunking-myth.html

there's some changes going on in the background that might change the story you're talking to.

OK. Back to where we were some months ago. I'd like you to be right, though.

[yogi_berra]

What part of "top titles" don't you get? What part of gamespot.com don't you get? What part of common sense don't you get?

What part of a sarcastic point about everyone not wanting to play the same games don't you get? Now calm down before you give yourself a coronary and kindly point out the linux ports of peggle and bejeweled.

[RealNC]

Crap... I bought a Nintendo DS thinking it was a gaming platform but it has none of those games!!
I also have a Super Nintendo which has about 1000 games and I also thought it was a gaming platform, but it doesn't have any of those games either?? What the hell??!!
Even DOS which I always thought of as a gaming platform doesn't have any game in that list... It seems to be really dificult to find a gaming platform these days.

What part of "top titles" don't you get? What part of gamespot.com don't you get? What part of common sense don't you get?

[Kano]

OpenGL would not be much faster using Win with vsync enabled which usually looks better. As you usually don't need a anti-virus solution you save cpu/memory which makes the response time usually faster inside Linux when you start new apps. On a slow system this is more significant than on a fast one - it also depends on your a/v solution. For much more games you would need DX9 to 11 and this would be much slower using wine - even when you manage to run the game. So basically Linux will never be a full replacement os for gamers but for opengl it should be fast enough. When the test would have be done with ATI gfx and Unigine Heaven 2.1 up to 10.10 driver (without 10.10a hotfix) then the OpenGL results would be really low inside Win compared to DX11.

[Tuxee]

Where are the installers, because I haven't seen many and when I do find them they almost always have problems where I have to use the command line on them, something that should never have to be done anymore for Linux to be successful for desktop users.

Secondly, where are the tie-ins to the software managers? If I install OilRush using the installer for it, will I be able to easily remove it via my distro's manager? I.e. I hope that's something that is standardized...

As soon as software developers and companies don't have to make exceptions for specific distros in their software, THEN you'll be able to say that Linux fragmentation has been taken care of and that good standards have allowed successful interoperability.

The "incompatible installer" myth...

Makes you wonder how those small independent game developers manage it, to turn out Debian and RPM packages for their games.
Even more amazing: They somehow manage it, that their games run on a plethora of distributions.