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| tzafrir Oct 08, 2004 12:25 PM EDT |
Are there better details of the hardware and software involved? The text only mentions "gentooo/linux 2.6.8.1, XP" and the CPU type. |
| spuzzzzzzz Oct 08, 2004 1:25 PM EDT |
A couple other issues:
The video driver versions are different. 66 is supposed to be a reasonable amount faster than 61. Maybe not enough to account for the whole framerate difference, but still... What services were running on the linux box? I run lots of services in the background and game performance really increases if I stop them. I would expect Linux to have better performance in doom3, if only because the system requirements are lower. I would expect that id has lots of internal benchmarks, and they would have based the sysreqs on those. |
| MESMERIC Oct 10, 2004 5:52 AM EDT |
I think such attempts are valid.
And am surprised and somewhat happy noone flamed here. It is important to see why then - Windows XP is winning in this case. I got a few stolen theories :) * Sometimes the code is optimized more towards the Windows platform * Sometimes the driver itself is optimized more towards Windows * The latest driver 6111 is not the best/fastest * Gentoo could have been tweaked wrongly - try benchmark with other distros. So perhaps you want to analize this article and benchmark results: http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2114 The study involves more than one benchmark and other applications. Which I think is fairer and more constructive too. "Oh Doom3 so much slower on my spiced-up Gentoo" = Linux is **** for gaming? Hardly ;) This message was edited Oct 10, 2004 8:57 AM |
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