Hi Team,
Will there any linux Os can replace Win7 and provide better entertainment and games around ?
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SuperSpy wrote:I saw somewhere that Linux was getting very close to having near native-speed DX10/DX11 emulation support. Has anyone seen that from a reliable source? Sounds like something that would make a huge boost for Linux gaming once it gets integrated into wine.
just brew it! wrote:And there will always be at least some performance penalty, since wine has to take all of the Direct3D calls and translate them to OpenGL; this translation takes a non-trivial number of CPU cycles.
l33t-g4m3r wrote:just brew it! wrote:And there will always be at least some performance penalty, since wine has to take all of the Direct3D calls and translate them to OpenGL; this translation takes a non-trivial number of CPU cycles.
Not exactly, the new dx11 port is native, and not translated through opengl.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a ... 3d11&num=1
just brew it! wrote:l33t-g4m3r wrote:just brew it! wrote:And there will always be at least some performance penalty, since wine has to take all of the Direct3D calls and translate them to OpenGL; this translation takes a non-trivial number of CPU cycles.
Not exactly, the new dx11 port is native, and not translated through opengl.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a ... 3d11&num=1
Well... only sort of. It is native if your graphics card has Gallium3D-aware drivers; and that's a really big "if"! If you're using ATI/nVidia's binary drivers (which AFAIK don't and likely won't support Gallium3D directly), you're still stuck going through an OpenGL translation layer; it is just buried further down in the rendering pipeline.
Things are slightly less grim on the ATI side, as the Open Source ATI driver is improving quickly now that AMD has released the GPU hardware specs.