Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: sigzAt best you will have near same fps as in windows in some cases, most of times you will get lower fps, and you will never have a 30% more fps on linux than windows.

You might if someone had to port a Linux game written around an OpenGL renderer to Windows using Direct3D, but that won't happen. You know, with OpenGL being cross-platform and all.

Well, Planetary Annihilation is a pure OpenGL game, it has been done with multiplatform in mind, I tested it under windows and I got 20% more fps than linux (Of course I talk about my system only, I didn't found any comparison benchmark)

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Quoting: Cybolic

Quoting: nattydreadWhy is openGL slower under linux than windows?
I'm surprised by that!

Thanks for all the answers!

It's not, but the game-specific optimisations that are in the Windows driver are not enabled in the Linux driver.
Apart from that, depending on how the game is written, the performance will differ between Linux and Windows, sometimes better on Linux, sometimes better on Windows. Here are some recent test results as an example. [External Link]

At best you will have near same fps as in windows in some cases, most of times you will get lower fps, and you will never have a 30% more fps on linux than windows.

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Quoting: TheBoss

Quoting: nattydreadis it a native build or a port?

It was ported by Feral Interactive, and it is native. A port doesn't make something not native.

well what I mean perhaps is: does it use a wrapper to DirectX or does it directly use OpenGL? There must be some reason it doesn't perform as well on SteamOS.

Directx wrappers are obviously always less performant under linux, and opengl is also slower under linux than windows.

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There was a patch today, it completely fixed black screen for me.

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Quoting: MaelraneHow can one defend that stupid practice?

Well, I think it's different between windows and linux. We are on a point where majority of incoming linux players are here to try games against windows, so everything must work perfectly without a single glitch, while under windows there's nothing more to learn (it's admited has the reference platform). It does not suprise me.

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Quoting: Leflmmh too bad that only NVIDIA is supported, would get that even if its a horror game and im afraid of horror games

I think this situation is not going to change, AMD sales are dangerously declining these last months (less than 20% market this year instead of 50% last year)

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Divinity original sin, GRID Autosport, Payday 2

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The saving system in this game is very prehistoric..

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With vsync on ultra gfx I was locked @30fps (on my i5 4690k+gf770 ), then I managed to unlock vsync and framerate became 45/50fps. (Mouse doesn't interact on UI for me, so it is very hard to play with options)

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you can play borderless fullscreen window to avoid secondary monitor blanking

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