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You seriously overestimate "driver optimization" importance for modern games. Optimizations are of course important, but in most of cases it's not more than 5-1
by SXX 11y ago
You seriously overestimate "driver optimization" importance for modern games. Optimizations are of course important, but in most of cases it's not more than 5-10%.
For instance Nvidia proprietary driver without any special optimizations can easily achieve 50-80% of Windows performance depend on game in Wine which translates D3D9 API calls into OpenGL.
There is also Gallium3D Nine state tracker that usable on AMD open source drivers which is implement D3D9 natively on Linux. It's can easily achieve 80-95% performance in some cases and this is with very limited number of developers.
- exelius 11y agoI think you just proved my point. No company would want to support this setup for the small number of users on Linux. It might be possible to support something narrow like SteamOS, but most of the times D3D wrappers end up failing as a porting strategy (see Final Fantasy XIV for a recent example).
- SXX 11y agoI don't argue with fact that Linux isn't first class gaming platform, but your argument that driver optimizations have anything to do with that is wrong.