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Benchmark: Doom3 on AMD3000+ machine with a Gainward gfx card tested on Windows NT and Linux
The tests are done by Michael Taoushanis The tests were done with Windows XP version 66.81 and Gentoo Linux using X.Org version 6.8. Both operating systems were given the official drivers from Nvidia. The numbers clearly show more frames per second when using Windows XP, even though the numbers ideally should be the same, highest numbers on both operating systems. |
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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.
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.
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.
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
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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