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In-home Streaming seems to be backwards compility answer. This means they don't start with empty plate like Android for example. To keep cheap rig in living r
by DocG 13y ago
In-home Streaming seems to be backwards compility answer.
This means they don't start with empty plate like Android for example.
To keep cheap rig in living room for stream playing and media center, does not seem to be so bad idea. Most gaming will happen still whereever main rig is, but when you have friends over, you can just move to living room. And knowing steam(compared to others), I think it will be decently out of the box working thing.
Anyway, I support linux gaming, I would love to ditch windows at last.
- XorNot 13y agoI'd love to see Linux get 1st class graphics driver support from vendors. I pay as much for my Radeon card as anyone else, but the fglrx drivers STILL don't support X composite. But other then gaming I never boot into Windows these days anyway.
- asdasf 13y agoI'd love to see them just publish docs so we can get good drivers instead. Bluescreens from video drivers are still a problem on windows, it is an even bigger problem on linux with fewer resources going into making the driver, and fewer people using them to serve as paying testers. Nvidia and ati/amd have both made it very clear that they either do not have the desire or they do not have the resources to make good drivers. So let the open source community do it for you.
- sliverstorm 13y agoI'd love to see them just publish docs They have in the past, and got nothing but flak.
- asdasf 13y agoNo, they haven't. They have released bits and pieces under NDA, but never actual complete docs. That's the problem. Maybe you should have listened a little closer to the "flak" to see if it was actually legitimate problems.
- sliverstorm 13y agoI wasn't nearly as involved in Linux news at the time, and it's too late to go back and change that now. Apologies for not knowing the complete details, and I'd appreciate it if you'd link me. Been having trouble finding the historical details.
- throwaway2048 13y agoATI has released (almost) complete specifications at this point, NVIDIA has released nothing. http://renderingpipeline.com/graphics-literature/low-level-gpu-documentation/ http://renderingpipeline.com/graphics-literature/low-level-g...
- asdasf 13y agoAll you get is register dumps. Compare the ati and intel info on that site. Intel has released full docs. Ati has done as little as possible to be able to say "we released stuff" for publicity purposes.
- TheCraiggers 13y agoDepending on who makes the hardware in the upcoming Steambox, we might finally get some decent drivers for 3D hardware acceleration. I would imagine Valve has the pull to entice AMD, nvidia, or maybe Intel to devote additional resources to it.
- bhassel 13y agoAMD had been releasing documentation for their Radeon GPUs, as well as supporting development of the open source radeon driver for linux (http://www.x.org/wiki/radeon/ http://www.x.org/wiki/radeon/ and http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/ http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/). The open source driver just has nowhere near the resources devoted to it that the proprietary drivers have.
- DocG 13y agoI wish I could do that. At the moment I still use wacom tablet and photoshop+gaming, so I spend most of the time in Win7 :/
- Mikeb85 13y agoNvidia's Linux drivers are at feature parity with their Windows drivers. And perform at least as well...
- CamperBob2 13y agoMeaning they randomly lock up the system about once every three days?
- neeee 13y agoIn my case, yes. But the performance is good.
- computer 13y agoMy Linux system with Nvidia graphics easily gets a month uptime; I only reboot every now and then for updates and changes to the system. Never had an issue with the drivers, even when using them for 3d gaming with Steam. Now, don't get me started on AMD's awful attempt at graphics drivers.
- marcosdumay 13y agoI don't have any instability problems, with neither AMD or NVidia (I have a computer with each). What kills those drivers is ongoing support. Since they aren't at the mainline kernel, they lose sync, and upgrading the kernels turns into a lottery where sometimes I have to uninstall the newest one, not a big deal, but anoying.
- gillianseed 13y agoAre you running beta releases of drivers? Anyway the reason NVidia has had strong Linux driver support for such a long time has nothing to do with desktop Linux and certainly not Linux gaming. It's because Linux is huge in 3d and special effects (mainly movie, tv) and of course dominant in hpc. However, Steambox is likely resulting in NVidia improving their Linux video drivers with focus on game performance.
- CamperBob2 13y ago