I plan on filling out some of the DLC I've been wanting to get for my Paradox collection, and maybe the Atari Vault if it's discounted. I probably won't be buying any new games simply because I don't have time to play the ones I already have -- although my wife would disagree (Pro tip: Never let your significant other see the "hours played" in your Steam library!).

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Yes, but that was a leak. This is official confirmation.

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Quoting: dubigrasuI'll add some details in a moment but this is what I get on SteamOS:

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SteamOS Alchemist (kernel Linux steamos 3.10-5-amd64)
Windows 10 Pro
i7-4790K
16 GB RAM
Nvidia GTX 780 with
Linux Nvidia driver 367.27
Windows Nvidia driver 368.39

Demos were ran for 10 times each for both systems.
SteamOS BPM stands for the default SteamOS configuration with steamcompmgr, the others test were made in desktop mode (Gnome 3).

Interesting. So according to your test, SteamOS kicks Windows to the curb in both OpenGL and Vulkan, but particularly Vulkan.

Between this and the OpenBenchmarking test, I'm beginning to the think the kid in this video screwed up his Linux benchmark.

https://openbenchmarking.org/result/1606109-HA-DOTA2AMDG22 [External Link]

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"Always nice to see games that promise Linux support get fully funded."

It will be even nicer if the developer doesn't pull the all-too-common "Windows now, Linux later (or never)" stunt.

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Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: Mohandevir...Besides...

Slice of life:

I'm working for a CAD company and we just upgraded our workstations to Win10... Not new workstations. Just a full and clean Win10 reinstall...

Conclusion:
if the situation apllies to gaming too, I can live with lower fps if it permits to avoid loads of BSODs... Crap! I've never seen that much BSODs in my entire life! Not one workstation... On all worksations with diffrent hardware configurations ranging from i7-2600 to i7-4790 with quadro gpus. Yuk! Yuk! Yuk!

End of slice of life, but still funny. :)

I'm not a big fan of OSX or Apple in general, but I do know in my experience that it's far more stable and reliable than Windows. Our Windows machines at my job are always a mess while OSX always "just works". I can't tell you how many times we've solved a problem with a Windows computer by replacing it with a Mac.

Thanks but unfortunately, SolidWorks is Windows only.

I wasn't offering my anecdote as a solution but just another "slice of life".

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Quoting: ElectricPrismIt seems only fair to run the tests on SteamOS in my opinion. Seriously Ubuntu is trash

Ubuntu is fine. It's not the problem here.

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Quoting: Mohandevir...Besides...

Slice of life:

I'm working for a CAD company and we just upgraded our workstations to Win10... Not new workstations. Just a full and clean Win10 reinstall...

Conclusion:
if the situation apllies to gaming too, I can live with lower fps if it permits to avoid loads of BSODs... Crap! I've never seen that much BSODs in my entire life! Not one workstation... On all worksations with diffrent hardware configurations ranging from i7-2600 to i7-4790 with quadro gpus. Yuk! Yuk! Yuk!

End of slice of life, but still funny. :)

I'm not a big fan of OSX or Apple in general, but I do know in my experience that it's far more stable and reliable than Windows. Our Windows machines at my job are always a mess while OSX always "just works". I can't tell you how many times we've solved a problem with a Windows computer by replacing it with a Mac.

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In that case, I won't be supporting the developer.

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Quoting: liamdaweTo the people asking about the fullscreen mode used, it was stated in the article:

I spoke to the person who did it on twitter, he mentioned both Windows/Linux were done in borderless fullscreen mode.

It sounds like he's confused, because "borderless fullscreen" isn't a thing. There's fullscreen, and there's borderless window which can occupy the fullscreen, but just plain "borderless fullscreen"? No such beast exists.

The fact that he was running in a borderless window presumably with the compositor crunching away in the background makes me feel better about these results. Someone needs to do another benchmark using actual fullscreen mode or with the compositor disabled at the very least.

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Quoting: reaVerI'm still calling for this to be tested on a high performance distro rather than Ubuntu.

What, exactly, is a "high performance distro"? Every benchmark I've seen suggests that the performance differences between mature distros is negligible, especially when it comes to gaming.

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Quoting: MblackwellTo the above question about borderless window: No, if an application is not exclusive fullscreen it won't set the flag required to bypass the compositor.

That's a great point. Running with compositor enabled is a great way to kill gaming performance on most Linux desktops.

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