Quoting: STiATWhat kind of compositor does Cinnamon use?

Muffin, a fork of Gnome's Mutter.

To be fair, I turned off the compositor for fullscreen applications (in general settings) and the 4K results for Vulkan were even worse.

I don't think Cinnamon is good for testing at all. I will reserve that final judgement for when I get Ubuntu back on though.

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Quoting: STiATVery interesting. Since for me, well, I used the dem of the guy doing the video, Vulkan clearly outperformed OpenGL. Very interesting.

I have a feeling Cinnamon is a bit of a hog for games.

Phoronix tests also showed OpenGL beating Vulkan at 4K: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=dota2-vulkan-redux&num=4 [External Link]

He had Vulkan doing better at 1080p than OpenGL. He was using a different demo file though and he is on a different distribution with a different CPU. Still, it shows my 4K results are within expectations right now for Vulkan vs OpenGL.

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Quoting: wojtek88Hmmm hd to 4k comparison got you weird results. 4 times more pixels to render and only like 2-5 fps less?

For those seeing this comment, the tests had to be re-done. There's a greyed-out slider for graphical quality on Dota 2 that you don't really notice unless you go to advanced options. It changes when you change resolution.

The tests are correct as of this comment btw.

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Quoting: InspectorGidgetI know we're all really upset with Deep Silver right now... but!

I don't think it's good for Linux gaming for someone to commit to never buying another product from them again. I'm not saying I won't consider the fact that this crap went on when purchasing one of their games, because I definitely will. I love Linux more than I dislike the publisher, so I'll continue to at least give them consideration in the future.

Indeed, this should apply to all developers. If they do release a game they support well, why not buy it.

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Those are just what he happened to be testing with, doesn't mean the are the best. Just different.

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So you're using a different demo file to me then, I am using the same one the guy who did the video provided which is why I imagine my results are so different. The one in the video is much heavier.

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@dubigrasu What demo file are you using? I'm using the demo file provided by the linked video and I get rather different results.

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Quoting: STiATYou get an output? Where :D.

In the dota2 dota folder it gives you "Source2Bench.csv".

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You're right, it needed to be in the main folder.

The output doesn't give a minimum FPS. It gives you a CSV file with FPS (average I assume) and a variance figure, and numframes.

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Quoting: STiATyou have to put the file provided into the replay folder, renaming the file to a number.

Then it will show in "downloads" tab at "watch".

Valve specifically gave that commmand I posted above to Phoronix, which seems different to running it inside Dota itself?

It's simply the launch options of dota2

In Steam you can right-click dota2, and select "Set launch options" in the "General" tab.

Note that [-vulkan|-gl] is an OR, so either one or the other into the line (both won't work).

So for Vulkan set the launch options to:
-vulkan +timedemo OctPerf +timedemo_start 46800 +timedemo_end 47000 +cl_showfps 2 +fps_max 0 -novconsole -noassert -nosound

For OpenGL to
-gl +timedemo OctPerf +timedemo_start 46800 +timedemo_end 47000 +cl_showfps 2 +fps_max 0 -novconsole -noassert -nosound

Note that you need the OctPerf demo file in the right folder (I think), which I don't have ;-).

I gathered as much, but doing that acts as if I haven't put any options in. I have the OctPerf file in the replays folder.

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