Doom3 Linux and Windows Battlegrounds
by Kristopher Kubicki on October 13, 2004 12:50 AM EST- Posted in
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Doom3 Low Resolution
Below, you can see how our cards performed under lower resolution on both Windows and Linux. Texture Sharpening was disabled in all tests. Obviously, since we could not run these tests at 16X AF on Linux for all cards, we had to turn the settings down to 8X AF on Windows. (We talk more about the 16X issue in the IQ section of this analysis.) Both platforms are using 4X 9-Tap Gaussian AntiAliasing. All tests were taken with default settings in game (other than resolution).
Notes From the Lab
Feel free to check here how our Linux testing fared on Windows from the Doom3 launch. Derek uses a slightly faster machine with slightly different testing parameters, but it should give you a general idea of where our results scale on Windows.Unfortunately, it's fairly ridiculous to think that you will run the game with any of these settings on a 5600XT.
At this point, we are looking at ulterior meanings to Timothee's statement. Performance ranges anywhere from 25% to 15% worse on the Linux platform fairly consistently. Performance looks OK, but we certainly can't expect our Linux platform to outperform Windows in this portion of the analysis.
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mave - Wednesday, October 13, 2004 - link
I guess the biggest reason why Linux performance lags behind Windows could be NVidia Linux drivers aren't optimized for doom3 yet. Their version number is 6111, windows drivers 61.77 (used for testing).Also Doom 3 binary will propably get performance boost later.
(Just a guess, just have to wait and see)
Being Linux gamer always means that you have to have patience:=)
jepapac - Wednesday, October 13, 2004 - link
From reading your article, I'm guessing that you ran Doom 3 from within KDE on SUSE. Can you run some Doom 3 benchmarks from a super-lightweight window manager like blackbox or better yet just the failsafe xterm. I'd be interested in how much running a bloated desktop environment like KDE or Gnome slows down the gaming performance.tyski34 - Wednesday, October 13, 2004 - link
Putting the Linux and Windows FPS numbers on the first couple of pages on the same chart would have been very helpful (even more helpful if they were color-coded or something). As it is, it was pretty tough to compare the two.Zebo - Wednesday, October 13, 2004 - link
People still playing this disappointment?KristopherKubicki - Wednesday, October 13, 2004 - link
Virge?http://www.anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2241...
http://www.anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2241...
Like those?
Kristopher
ViRGE - Wednesday, October 13, 2004 - link
Since you're comparing Linux and Windows from time to time, wouldn't it be prudent to at least post a couple of Windows numbers, just so we know what the actual difference is?