BioShock Infinite Linux Gaming Benchmarks

[eydee]

It's 75% off right now in the Steam Store. (Offer ends 23 March)

[dimko]

thank you

You know you're going to see a lot of games like this using a wrapper for Linux for a while. Especially old games which were build from the ground up on Windows. When we see games using Vulkan then we'll see more native Linux games. One step at a time.

It gave my mind a peace.
Also, knowing that windows 10 will be free for all, makes me worried...

[dimko]

Yes, it uses eON. Yes, it detects Windows XP SP3 as the OS.... But so far in testing seems to be the best eON port so far.

Thanks, I shall reconsider buying game. But I won't buy it full price as Steam doesn't support my distro, and in case it doesn't work for me - it means I lost money for nothing.

[dimko]

You don't happen to read Mahou Tsukai no Yome do you? It released a chapter titled that today and I almost never see that phrase so it seems an odd coincidence to me.

I live in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, they use older phrases once every blue moon.

[Dukenukemx]

You know you're going to see a lot of games like this using a wrapper for Linux for a while. Especially old games which were build from the ground up on Windows. When we see games using Vulkan then we'll see more native Linux games. One step at a time.

[opensource]

Of course it's using wrapper and it's not native game.

Good that I didn't bought it when first hear it's coming to Linux.

Well done Although I'm not a gamer, I too would never buy a game which is not native. I comment on game topics sometimes because games can bring a lot of new Linux users.

[pal666]

I don't have issues with proprietary games as there is no other choice available for now.

Though I'm don't like Wine too as it's bad solution compared to native ports, but at least it's open source and backed by several companies. In same time this eON thingy is proprietary which make it worse than Wine. When this company go out of business there will be nobody who'll able to continue support of their "wrapped versions".

man your brains don't work. what happens when native porter goes out of business? same shit

[pal666]

There is many reasons to not give any money to company that pushing "proprietary Wine". It's not just about performance.

there is exactly zero reasons for that. native port will be just as proprietary as eon one. there are many native ports which work much worse than eon port of tw2, which is working flawlessly since some time in my limited testing. the only thing that matters is whether game working as expected, or not. i can understand preferring open source games to closed source ones - they can be recompiled, but distinguishing proprietary binaries by porting method regardless of results is braindead.

This is literally one of the least accepting communities I've ever seen...

1. Be thankful any interest at all was made for a Linux port. It's fine to be wary of bad ports but the lack of acceptance is totally unreasonable.
2. Has anyone played The Witcher 2 within the past three months? It might have taken awhile but it's in an acceptable state.
3. You have no idea what the cause of performance loss is in any proprietary game (and it's not easy to pinpoint such issues regardless). Stop making assumptions like you have any clue what you're talking about.
4. The game (BS:I) is reported to run incredibly smoothly. From what little gameplay I can experience until I get graphical stalling issues, I get maxed FPS in maxed graphical settings.

Stop being so goddamn unreasonable.

amen.

[Phexe]

2. I can confirm this. I downloaded W2 last night. I have a high end Intel i7 and NVIDIA rig overclocked to the max. The game runs fine at a constant 60 FPS @ 1440p on Windows on Max settings w/o UberSampling. On Linux it is absolutely unplayable. Even when I lower the settings (which is unacceptable to begin with) it doesn't get any better, this probably means that eON CPU bottlenecks the shit out of this game.

My i7 w/ GTX 970M plays W2 fine on Arch x86_64 @ 1080P w/ max settings except Ubersampling. (~60fps)