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  • #31
    Originally posted by Kivada View Post
    How is it misleading? Larabel wrote and posted the article, the Phoronix news bot didn't.
    You took the quote tag from another post. There is a difference between the two:

    Originally posted by Michael View Post
    Finally, Team Fortress 2 Benchmarks For Phoronix!
    Originally posted by Michael
    Finally, Team Fortress 2 Benchmarks For Phoronix!

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    • #32
      Why are you so hung up on the origins of the engine, calling it to be dumped for a newer one?

      It doesn't matter Xonotic hails from Tech1, if it's been upgraded far beyond. Just like XReaL is far beyond Tech4, despite originating from Tech3. By using your logic, anything using xreal should dump it for tech4, since it's "newer".

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      • #33
        Originally posted by mmstick View Post
        Xorg Edgers PPA does not compile mesa/gallium3d with GLAMOR/s3tc so no radeonsi. It only carries fglrx which is completely broken beyond all repair on radeonsi. Oibaf PPA carries updated stuff but it's also broken on radeonsi and source games cannot be launched without crashing or spewing a ton of errors due to missing files/packages (and even if you manage to figure out all the files you need, it still explodes as soon as you launch a map). There is another ppa which has glamor drivers for radeonsi without bleeding edge stuff, but it doesn't have s3tc texture support so no source games.

        In the end, people with HD 7xxx cards like myself are stuck until something is done.
        I don't use Ubuntu for these and similar reasons..

        The fact is that on just about any other distro it isnt that hard to build. You can do it yourself from thinking about doing it to playing a game in less than an hour.

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        • #34
          Originally posted by curaga View Post
          Why are you so hung up on the origins of the engine, calling it to be dumped for a newer one?

          It doesn't matter Xonotic hails from Tech1, if it's been upgraded far beyond. Just like XReaL is far beyond Tech4, despite originating from Tech3. By using your logic, anything using xreal should dump it for tech4, since it's "newer".
          Indeed. By his logic, TF2 and HL2 shouldn't be benchmarked, because it's just the same old Quake 1 engine.

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          • #35
            The OSS games should be benchmarked. It's good for us that they are.. But this world is full of games and it is about time that we got a little of that variety benchmarked on phoronix. In the real world gaming has nothing to do with repeatability. Trying to create a game benchmark that is repeatable is completely retarded. Gaming is about gameplay and it is never the same twice.l
            Last edited by duby229; 19 July 2013, 11:41 AM.

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            • #36
              Originally posted by duby229 View Post
              The OSS games should be benchmarked. It's good for us that they are.. But this world is full of games and it is about time that we got a little of that variety benchmarked on phoronix. In the real world gaming has nothing to do with repeatability. Trying to create a game benchmark that is repeatable is completely retarded. Gaming is about gameplay and it is never the same twice.l
              I disagree with this. Repeatability is important. Automation is not.

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              • #37
                Originally posted by Kivada View Post
                So you think that the OSS games currently use for benchmarking look as good as professional class games that have sold in the millions? So you think a poorly doctored up original Quake engine can compete with what Valve did years ago now.

                Theres a reason nobody outside of Linus and BSD users has ever given a shit about the OSS games even though they are free, they instead flock to freeware or paid games, they are not and have not ever been good and the only people that played them save for the captive community of Linux and BSD users who basically had no other choice.

                So again, look it up yourself.
                You hide behind lot of words but you said nothing useful.

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                • #38
                  Originally posted by Ramiliez View Post
                  You hide behind lot of words but you said nothing useful.
                  No more is necessary when talking about the OSS FPS titles, they aren't worth keeping around. If you can't see that you have not played ANY closed source freeware FPS games in the last decade. Crap games like GunZ are better made then the OSS titles.

                  Fact: OSS FPS game devs are as useless at producing games as the OSS teams making content creation software.

                  Just as there is no viable OSS match to something like Pro Tools or Avid likewise there is nothing in the OSS FPS world that can be considered an equal to any game made in at least the last decade.

                  Just look at what is being rendered versus the framerate compared to professionally made games. The quality and optimization just isn't there.

                  So yeah, your eyes and frontal lobes, you should try using them some time instead of praising that which is just a clone of a clone of a clone just because it's open source. When all things are near enough to equal, then yeah, go open source, but when the OSS product has been out for a decade and is STILL YEARS behind what is given away for free there is something inherently wrong with the OSS product.

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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by duby229 View Post
                    The OSS games should be benchmarked. It's good for us that they are.. But this world is full of games and it is about time that we got a little of that variety benchmarked on phoronix. In the real world gaming has nothing to do with repeatability. Trying to create a game benchmark that is repeatable is completely retarded. Gaming is about gameplay and it is never the same twice.l
                    Wrong, benchmarking is all about repeatability of results. However it's unlikely that any minor patches made to the Linux version of Valve's old games will have much of anything to do with performance, since they seem to have taken their time and put together very good ports. That and the majority of their library will run well even on yesterday's "meh" level hardware.

                    What we don't need are benchmarks that run in the hundreds of frames per second, they tell us nothing meaningful, we also don't need benchmarks that spit out an arbitrary number like 3DMark/Passmark/FutureMark.

                    However we do need stupid heavy "burn test" type benchmarks like Furmark, which just renders a hairy ball, but does so at such detail that it's capable of maxing out your GPU completely so you can "worst case scenario" the power management and cooling parts of the drivers.

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                    • #40
                      No I'm really not wrong. I'm right. I'm not arguing against repeatable benchmarks. They certainly have their place, but benchmarking a game in a repeatable way with things like timedemos defeats the purpose of benchmarking a game.

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