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Are The Open-Source Graphics Drivers Good Enough For Steam Linux Gaming?
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I tried several games with mesa, nice ones are Killing Floor (Unreal 2.5 mod), all Source engine based (Goldsrc of course too). Then there are Unity ports which run, but may need a modified config file for the res or just do not have achievements like Larry Reloaded (I had to play the Win variant to get those). Unreal 3 engine games differ a bit but mainly they work (even Borderlands 2 is UE3 based). Metro Last Light (not Redux!) basically can run with Intel but crashes a lot, no real fun. I miss the Intel benchmarks in this article as these drivers power 20 % of all Steam installs and the most used card is Intel HD 4000 (Ivy Bridge).
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Originally posted by bibaheu View PostThe GPU doesn't heat up much (very silent too) in Linux, while in Windows is like a plane ready to take off... the reference cooler of my 290x is quite bad in that.
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I tried Insurgency in my 290x (Arch Linux), it runs over 60 in some maps, but in others (the ones with big open spaces) it can drop to less than 20. This is with everything maxed out.
Borderlands 2 has the same problem, but it only drops to 35-40 when a lot of stuff is going on. But most of the time is locked at 60fps. Again, all graphical settings maxed out at 1080p.
I suppose Mesa has high-cost draw calls, and the CPU can't keep up. The GPU doesn't heat up much (very silent too) in Linux, while in Windows is like a plane ready to take off... the reference cooler of my 290x is quite bad in that.
Last edited by bibaheu; 29 October 2015, 06:57 PM.
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Originally posted by raonlinux View PostYes the problem with Dota 2 is that you record a demo yourself, for some reason when you update the client for some reason the demo is stop working. Well at less happen to me one time with the reborn.
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Personally, I had to bring down the resolution of Bioshock: Infinite to 720p and almost all of the settings at the lowest possible to make it playable with OSS. I beat the whole game like that and since I had a 120GB SSD, I deleted the files, so I never tried that page/pool size fix for the UE 3 games.
Insurgency runs anywhere between 20 fps to 130+ fps on OSS.
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Originally posted by Michael View Postits timed demo mode for Benchmarking isn't working...
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