Steam.... FOR LINUX!!!

Dubslow · 2012-05-14, 02:56

http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/25/29...el-of-phoronix

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...ux_dampfnudeln

Quote:

According to a report, Valve has a working version of the Source Engine running natively on Linux, and the first game that's being demoed on the system is Left 4 Dead 2. Larabel says he saw the game running on a computer with Ubuntu 11.10 installed.

*slobbering nerdgasm*

firejuggler · 2012-05-14, 17:36

good news for gamers around.

Dubslow · 2012-07-25, 09:51

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/

Dubslow · 2012-08-06, 03:56

Linux/OpenGL beat the pants off of Windows/DirectX in a performance test.

ldesnogu · 2012-08-06, 16:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dubslow

Linux/OpenGL beat the pants off of Windows/DirectX in a performance test.

You are slightly exaggerating: Linux is 315 FPS while Windows is 303.4 FPS

OTOH what is interesting is that OpenGL is faster than D3D (303.4 vs 270.6).

Dubslow · 2012-08-06, 18:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by ldesnogu

You are slightly exaggerating: Linux is 315 FPS while Windows is 303.4 FPS

OTOH what is interesting is that OpenGL is faster than D3D (303.4 vs 270.6).

Yes, but as you point out, that 303.4 is Windows/OGL, not Windows/D3D, which is where I claimed the pants-kicking was.

Linux/OGL vs. Windows/OGL is slightly less of a win, but a win none the less.

ldesnogu · 2012-08-06, 20:42

Yes. My experience with an old computational project that was only available on Windows as a command-line executable (Xavier Gourdon pi(x)) is that running it through Wine was slightly faster that running on Windows.

Batalov · 2012-08-06, 20:55

Cue the .NET users... now!

Xyzzy · 2014-06-24, 21:08

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/06/x...-steam-release

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/06/s...lable-on-linux

Well, there goes productivity for a few months!

Mark Rose · 2014-07-08, 14:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/06/s...lable-on-linux

Well, there goes productivity for a few months!

Yep

Xyzzy · 2014-07-22, 16:32

http://store.steampowered.com/app/220200/

https://kerbalspaceprogram.com/about.php

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2012-08-06, 20:42	#7
ldesnogu Jan 2008 France 2·271 Posts	Yes. My experience with an old computational project that was only available on Windows as a command-line executable (Xavier Gourdon pi(x)) is that running it through Wine was slightly faster that running on Windows.

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