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Re:Valve Source Engine Running Faster on Linux than Windows by junkbit on Thursday August 02, 2012 @08:35AM (#4328385)
Games like L4D are designed to run on Xbox which uses DirectX
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Re:Valve Source Engine Running Faster on Linux than Windows by astrodust on Friday August 03, 2012 @12:47PM (#4334781)
What do you mean "designed to run"? Most big studios have a layer between their application code and the OpenGL or D3D interface to make it portable. They're no more designed for DirectX than they are for OpenGL.
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