Quoting: Guest

Quoting: dubigrasuAlas, for all the good words about SteamOS the Beamdog client doesn't work on it. (older libstdc++.so.6).

You’re making me eat my words :-/. Although maybe they did that consciously and they assumed people wouldn’t use it on SteamOS, like Liam says.

Yeah, not much point in testing your client on SteamOS proper, but the moment you switch to desktop mode is basically Debian Jessie, and Debian Jessie is a pretty big distro to be left behind.

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@DamonLinuxPL
Yes, is one of the downsides of using Debian stable.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: dubigrasuAlas, for all the good words about SteamOS the Beamdog client doesn't work on it. (older libstdc++.so.6).

Their games are built to work on SteamOS of course, but their client is not. SteamOS isn't a place where you're meant to go around installing other clients ;)

In the BPM mode indeed, but in desktop mode is basically Debian stable, where I do have some other clients installed (basically itchio and Gamejolt).
Or leaving aside SteamOS, the client doesn't work on Debian stable.

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Alas, for all the good words about SteamOS the Beamdog client doesn't work on it. (older libstdc++.so.6).

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Hm, the old OpenGL version is still faster than the new one, and in some places faster than Vulkan.

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Quoting: TraversyI wonder if this will fix the stuttering in Borderlands 2 even with gl threaded enabled. I guess there's only one way to find out...

There's a short test here with my old AMD CPU (try to watch it in 1080p HD to see the graph more clearly):
View video on youtube.com

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Quoting: GuestI benchmarked Talos with all the governors on my Core i5 4690K, in Vulkan mode, on Linux 4.9.6 with nvidia 375.26.

Long story short:
- intel_pstate performance and powersave give the same framerate (76.5 FPS).
- acpi_cpufreq ondemand and conservative achieve the best performance (78.7 FPS).

Both CPU core 0 usage and GPU usage were 100% when I benchmarked in Ultra quality, but I tried again with the GPU Speed setting set to Medium to make sure the GPU wasn’t the bottleneck and still got the same framerate for intel_pstate performance and powersave (~240 FPS).
EDIT: I also tried the opposite, CPU Medium and GPU Ultra, again same framerate.

As for OpenGL all the governors gave the same framerate (55 FPS) except acpi_cpufreq powersave (29 FPS).

I have some mixed Intel results here showing that overall there's not much difference indeed in average FPS. http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1605221-DE-ALLGOVERN95 [External Link]
However, it can be a significant improvement in alleviating the stutter especially in not so demanding games (where the CPU gets down-clocked frequently).
Also it was something much more visibly on my previous AMD CPU.
Thing is, fiddling around with governors is not something that will give instant guaranteed boost in performance on every game and every CPU out there, but is something worth trying when you want to squeeze some more oomph from your CPU.

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For those puzzled by the lower perf with Vulkan vs OpenGL, check if shadows are working correctly in OpenGL mode.
At least on my system in OpenGL mode they seem to work at random (most often not).

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Quoting: poisond@liamdawe
Uh, powersave isn't the default governor, at least it shouldn't be. powersave will run your CPU at the minimum freq.
You want ondemand.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt [External Link]

It is for Intel (with intel_pstate), ondemand is the default for AMD.

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I always set the governor in performance mode when I'm playing, this is not the only game with such issues.
While my current Intel CPU is not that affected, the former AMD one FX 8370 was really bad at this, the framerate was all over the place on ondemand mode and stuttering all the time.

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