Faster Zombies!

[newbie2]

These figures are remarkable, considering Valve has been refining the Source engine’s performance under Windows for almost 10 years, while the Valve Linux team has only been working on the Linux port of Source for a few months. Valve attributes the speed-up to the “underlying efficiency of the [Linux] kernel and OpenGL.”

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/13...ven-on-windows

[Mikeb85]

To quote a Reddit post:

In developing for Linux they uncovered some issues and were able to bring Windows up to 303 FPS, closer to the new Linux speed. So by doing this, everyone wins, not just Linux users.

Yes, but with OpenGL, not DirectX.

[nothingspecial]

Threads merged.

[tjeremiah]

crap, so its true, Nvidia does work better in linux.

[RichardLinx]

Couldn't you just run it using openGL in Windows and achieve the same performance?

[smellyman]

I/O, ram utilization etc is just much better in Linux.

All things being equal, Windows wouldn't be able match the performance in Linux.

[RichardLinx]

I/O, ram utilization etc is just much better in Linux.

All things being equal, Windows wouldn't be able match the performance in Linux.

I didn't know this. Could you link me to relevant sources that prove this statement? That's pretty impressive if it's true. Better RAM utilization? How do they achieve that?

[Lucradia]

OpenGL + Windows actually is faster than the D3D version as well, and is still bested by Linux too.

[shebaw]

I didn't know this. Could you link me to relevant sources that prove this statement? That's pretty impressive if it's true. Better RAM utilization? How do they achieve that?

Better Design.

[zombifier25]

This have yet to prove that gaming under Linux is faster, since Windows 8 promises much better hardware acceleration, along with a newer DirectX.
(but Steam won't get on Windows 8 any time soon, so this IS a good reason to be excited)