Users of the
Phoronix Test Suite and
OpenBenchmarking.org can now easily fire-up Half-Life 2: Lost Coast and Valve's Portal for some new Linux game benchmarking.
Two new test profiles added on OpenBenchmarking.org just moments ago are
portal and
hl2lostcoast. Assuming you own these games and have them installed on Steam, it's a simple matter of running
phoronix-test-suite benchmark portal hl2lostcoast for running them in a fully-automated manner within our open-source test harness and framework, with support for easily sharing the results via OpenBenchmarking.org. If you click those two test profile links above you can already see some early result uploads.
As with the
Counter-Strike: Source and
Team Fortress 2 test profiles there's still the same fundamental issues of benchmarking games on Steam that come down to issues with not being able to effectively manage the versions of the games/tests being installed (i.e. no rollback support for specifying a specific game revision to install, to ensure accurate comparisons when installing Steam games on multiple systems at different times and to ensure a matching version) and some issues with Steam that can break automation when the Steam process hangs, etc.
For more on the Steam benchmarking issues see my previous comments within
Finally, Team Fortress 2 Benchmarks For Phoronix and
Running Benchmarks On Other New Linux Games. It's important to read those articles before making any new benchmark requests at Phoronix. The good news is that it looks like an organization might be contracting some work and new PTS test profiles around SteamOS / Steam on Linux and other tests to overcome these issues that will be interesting for Linux gamers going forward, stay tuned; these two new test profiles this weekend are just for evaluation purposes. In the next day or two I might also put out some new AMD/Radeon multi-way comparison results of TF2 / Portal / HL2: Lost Coast / CS: Source on Ubuntu Linux.
