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Story: Valve's L4D2 Is Faster On Linux Than WindowsTotal Replies: 5
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Jeff91

Aug 02, 2012
12:42 PM EDT 		They also mentioned that the game runs faster on Windows using OpenGL instead of directX.

Guess Microsoft can't do anything better than the Open Source folks.

~Jeff
jdixon

Aug 02, 2012
1:14 PM EDT 		> Guess Microsoft can't do anything better than the Open Source folks.

Marketing. :(
JaseP

Aug 02, 2012
5:23 PM EDT 		Vendor lock-in,... Extortion, ...
tracyanne

Aug 02, 2012
6:58 PM EDT 		Marketing,because Microsoft are and always were a marketing company. Vendor lock in because that is how they guarantee continued sales, Extortion, because that's really the only viable business plan they have left.
BernardSwiss

Aug 02, 2012
10:02 PM EDT 		also:

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/08/valves-optimizations-m...
tracyanne

Aug 03, 2012
2:37 AM EDT 		Most of the posters seem to be saying, I don't want those results to mean what they appear to mean. I'm not sure why, perhaps they are afraid of something.

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