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SteamOS gaming performs significantly worse than Windows
- webaholic 11y agoI think most of the performance degradation is from using the OpenGL API on SteamOS. I heard about Valve investing a lot to optimize the driver stack on SteamOS, so I am a bit surprised by the stark difference in performance. I guess there is still quite some optimization to be done both by Valve and the game developers.
- cwyers 11y agoI found it rather interesting how the CPU benchmarks ran worse on the same hardware compared to Windows 10. Is that due to overhead from the OS? Compiler differences?
- anonbanker 11y agoTo benchmarks do not a significant performance difference make. If anything, this shows how devs who have only worked with DX11 struggle in OpenGL, and how Nvidia's drivers suck compared to their windows varieties. I'd be curious as to AMD (Free and catalyst) and Intel benchmarks compared, but I bet that "Other than Nvidia, Graphics on SteamOS are on-par" is as good a headline. A poorly-written article that wouldn't have seen the light of day in the Ars of yore (forgive the appeal to antiquity).
- chmielewski 11y agoUsing the same low-spec machine throughout: I've run Steam on multiple installations of Windows XP and Windows 7, while simultaneously also on Debian since it was available for Linux. There is most certainly a performance gap beteen using OpenGL or DirectX. I feel this is a good thing, because as they tune SteamOS, they'll be further optimizing Steam on Linux in general.
- yo-code-sucks 11y agoI'm running steam on Arch and it kicks ass. Most games are as good a couple are better and a couple are worse.