Steam OS from valve.

[shankly1985]

Valve will soon be releasing a free OS call steamos for free and us aimed at gaming.
Valve as hinted it's OS already performs the games better on there OS and promise for AAA titles for 2014
http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/

My view this could very well be great but it's needs the support to push it.

 

[teppic]

There's a thread here:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18544015

 

[Martini1991]

So many threads

 

[LtMatt]

What the hell?

 

[Martini1991]

What the hell?

Steam Linux distro to put it bluntly.

 

[shankly1985]

There's a thread here:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18544015

And This is my thread
Seeing the OS is built around pc gaming and you need a graphics card I find this the correct place.

 

[shankly1985]

What the hell?

Could very well be the end of windows as a gaming OS if valve and only if they can get the support of developing AAA games for it.

I remember reading about Linux vs windows in gaming benchmarks and Linux smashed it.

 

[Martini1991]

Linux "smashed" it due to using a more efficient renderer.

You could improve performance on DX9 games if you did the effects in DX11 for the efficiency, not the extra fancy stuff.

 

[teppic]

There is the potential for better performance. The graphics card drivers aren't as polished (especially AMD), but this will obviously all be fixed by the time the Steambox is launched.

One benefit is there's no longer any API features that force an OS upgrade to get. OpenGL is completely free, so any game can use all the latest features supported by the drivers. Older games ported would likely gain performance, and you'd lose all the compatibility issues of games developed for XP that don't work correctly in 7/8, etc.