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I'm curious: why not the Intel drivers?

• morganvachon 10y ago
  Speaking from my own experience: Steam games don't perform all that well on Linux using a Haswell Intel GPU when compared to Windows. I would imagine BSD to be worse since Intel's focus is more on Linux, and the Intel BSD driver tends to be a version or two behind. On the other hand, the proprietary Nvidia driver for BSD is fast and stable, in some cases faster than its Linux equivalent, and Nvidia seems interested in continually improving its driver for all platforms simultaneously.
  • talideon 10y ago
    The situation with Intel GPUs is improving though. There's ongoing work to make sure that Linux graphics drivers can be used on FreeBSD where no native driver exists yet. Also, there's a good chance the work in Dragonfly BSD will make it into FreeBSD: Dragonfly has pretty decent support of the more recent Intel chipsets.