Linux game prformance compared to windows?

[mnc fear]

Hi all, was wondering how you guys find Linux gaming compared to windows?

I play Eve Online and was gonna give Ubuntu a shot on my 2nd rig to compare

anyone did this before?

Thanks for looking- I could have looked on the net but thought id ask actual people and get opinions

 

[Spike_UK]

I tried it once with WoW via WINE.
It works rather well, but I prefer Windows (7 of course).

 

[rsatd]

It depends entirely on how well the game is supported under wine/cedega with your video drivers. How efficiently the game is written, look for game name + cedega/wine in google to see case by case.

But generally if a game works, it works well but obviously you will need the overhead for wine/cedega layer.

 

[PermaBanned]

Or indeed if it's a native game...

 

[.walls]

Or indeed if it's a native game...

I always found that the unreal and quake engines ran better in linux (natively rather than using wine) that on windows due to opengl.

Yeah, UT3 was a bit of a let down (no native client... yet...), but still.

@ OP - no idea about eve... sorry, try google.

 

[PermaBanned]

Yeah, i'm looking forward to seeing what we can do with the id Tech 5 engine.

 

[Bhamid]

This is how Eve runs on Wine, they're pretty up to date. Too bad CCP ended Linux support for it...

 

[Solaris]

I run it under Cedega and it works flawlessly... Till you try and close eve and it doesn't reset screen resolution and have to reboot... But that's not too big a problem

 

[PermaBanned]

I don't know quite why OpenGL isn't so widely used as DX... it's clearly superior.

 

[masterluke]

I don't know quite why OpenGL isn't so widely used as DX... it's clearly superior.

that used to be the case but afaik there is not much in it now

 

[PermaBanned]

Aren't PS3 games based on OpenGL 1.x? I just wish we had somebody who could really take advantage of 3.2.

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