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NVIDIA Optimus On Ubuntu 13.10 Linux vs. Windows 8.1

When running Xonotic the open-source Intel driver performance is decent at the lower resolutions, but aside from that, the story is the same as with the other OpenGL games/benchmarks. Using Bumblebee in this setup does show very noticeable performance overhead compared to Windows 8.1.