Microsoft Pledges to Use ARM Server Chips, Threatening Intel's Dominance

Re:Microsoft Pledges to Use ARM Server Chips, Threatening In... by gnarbarian on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @03:23PM (#13823441)

My personal anecdotal evidence is that many of the games available for Linux on steam are really terrible ports. Gang beasts for example couldn't even find the binary. Once I fixed that, I was lucky to get 5 fps with lowest settings on my 6 core i7 with a Titan x. Yes I had the latest Nvidia drivers. Chivalry medieval warfare was another unplayable performance offender.

This isn't necessarily valve's fault though. It's because the devs will shit out a Linux build without even trying to run it or they just don't care.

Some games work great. Some don't work at all and shouldn't even be listed with Linux support.

I sincerely hope Linux takes off as a viable gaming platform. All the tools and components are there. The only thing missing at the moment is developer mindshare.

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Re:Microsoft Pledges to Use ARM Server Chips, Threatening In... by the_af on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @03:54PM (#13823690)

That's completely different to my own experience. In my experience, there tend to be minor issues with graphically intensive games but they mostly work fine with good performance. For example, I'm playing Alien Isolation on a Lenovo Ideapad laptop, with most settings at max, and I'm impressed by how well it runs.

There are some problems and glitches unrelated to the games, in my experience (like how newer nvidia GPUs have screen tearing on Ubuntu -- unrelated to vsync, by the way -- and there's pretty much nothing you can do about it for the time being)

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