Quoting: Guest

(newer benchmarks from Unigine have an unreasonable requirement of OpenGL 4).

No, minimal GL level for Heaven 4.0 and Valley 1.0 is 3.2. All Unigine benchmark works on open source drivers now.

Not under standard packages offered by Arch Linux. Both Unigine benchmarks REFUSED to run.

Quoting: GuestNext, your result are completely horrible. Especially in Valve games. I'm confused, since kernel 3.14 is necessary only for DPM in GCN2.0 cards, and 7950 should work great with 3.13 (afaik). But...

Your Mesa is too old. If I can suggest something - upgrade mesa to 10.2-devel (git) and benchmark your GPU then.

And radeonsi (>HD 7000) needs the latest packages for good results and comability. Mesa git, LLVM 3.5 etc.

Results are results, they differ. These are what I achieved with a standard system packages and Gnome 3.10 using the system outlined in the spreadsheet. My mesa is again what the system offers me. They are the stable drivers that most distros do not even support. I'm not going to benchmark using git packages, because then I would get complaints that they couldn't get such high FPS. And anyway, the results were fine considering the games were running maximum settings and were playable.

I do have the ability to use mesa 10.2 and the rest of the updates, but I don't plan to document them on this article.

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Quoting: asdfDo you own Natural Selection 2 and get it running with the foss driver?

Working, yes.
Playable, ish. I got 13fps at the highest settings. Should be ok under a lower setting.

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Quoting: AnonymousHey guys, Portal 2 has that Puzzlemaker thing ... this means it must include native BSP compile tools for Linux... Woohoo?

right now I'm just getting this, despite the file being there

Code:<code>xseba360@ubuntu:~/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Portal 2/bin$ ./vbsp_linux
./vbsp_linux: error while loading shared libraries: libtcmalloc_minimal.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory</code>

Thanks :D

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Quoting: Half-ShotBloody hell Liam, how do you do that so fast :D

Imagine the film the Matrix, I am plugged into it.

Good internet speeds then. Guess brain streaming tops copper wiring.

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Bloody hell Liam, how do you do that so fast :D

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Quoting: HadBabitsGlad they're still improving. I give them a lot of flack for their mistakes (though I think they deserve a lot of it), but it's also important to recognize progress :)

I think the flack might have pushed them a bit though. And its good to see they are recognising issues as well as fixing them. Still far from what i want but every update makes it a bit faster.

What we could do with is a few 'crysis' type games on linux that will force AMD to improve their drivers to a condition that preforms as well as the greens or they will look terrible when the steam machines turn up.

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Bought. The trailer made me giggle a bit so hopefully its as good as it looks :D.

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Quoting: KurremkarmerrukLooks like a more fleshed-out Angry Birds! &nbsp;Could be quite good.

It does, and i don't know why i'm so attracted to it much more than angry birds. Could be the worms style graphics.:D

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Sounds really cool, I haven't had that much experience with Unity3D web games but I'm sure this can pave some of the way for developers that don't want to think about packaging games.

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Quoting: Quote from AnonymouThough, I have concerns about Debian Devs now rather playing games in their spare time than devoting to Debian ;-).

Hehe, i wonder how much time they get for games.

Quoting: Quote from ShmerlI'd expect that Debian developers are pretty negative about DRM in general, so this move from Valve is rather weird.

Mm. Its rather odd but what can valve actually give except dosh....which is actually probably a better idea.

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