Linux gaming

[imast6]

During the most recent Scrapyard Wars season with guest star, Austin Evans, Luke uses Ubuntu to check whether his components are working properly. Since I am an active Linux user (I use Linux Mint 17.03), this got me wondering just how well Linux can run games (or if it can at all) that the LMG use as their normal benchmarkers, like the Tomb Raider and Crysis series, whether it's directly through Steam or WINE. It would also be interesting to see how Linux can stack up against Windows by doing something like a side-by-side comparison. I suppose that at the bottom-line, this process would mainly be determining if Linux is a viable option for a gaming OS, since many of the most popular Linux distributions are free to download. Thoughts?

[MoonKnightSpidey]

During the most recent Scrapyard Wars season with guest star, Austin Evans, Luke uses Ubuntu to check whether his components are working properly. Since I am an active Linux user (I use Linux Mint 17.03), this got me wondering just how well Linux can run games (or if it can at all) that the LMG use as their normal benchmarkers, like the Tomb Raider and Crysis series, whether it's directly through Steam or WINE. It would also be interesting to see how Linux can stack up against Windows by doing something like a side-by-side comparison. I suppose that at the bottom-line, this process would mainly be determining if Linux is a viable option for a gaming OS, since many of the most popular Linux distributions are free to download. Thoughts?

Windows runs games a whole lot better, as you can see in their steam machine videos. As a linux user as well, windows is the only way you can play games for now.

[Vivilacqua1]

I mean, I emulated Skyrim through WI?NE at around 25-30 fps with a 650 and an A10 something##something.

 

I'd say it works reasonably well.

 

Although, doing the same with LOL, it kept crashing, so I suppose it could be luck.

[ShadowCaptain]

SNIP

 

Steam is on Linux, though not all games are supported, also even on the same games performance tends to be lower as drivers dont see to be very good or well optimised on linux (or some other reasons I dunno)

 

performance in WINE is sub par

 

 

Basically Linux is a bit shit for gaming -

 

STEAM OS  - is based on linux but again, not all games are supported, and some graphics cards (i think AMD mostly) have shit drivers

[KemoKa]

Gaming on Linux is an absolute pain in the ass at the moment, especially with the awful drivers. AMD and Nvidia need to get their butts in gear on this.

If you have a processor that supports Vt-d, you can run whatever game you want under Windows in a VM under Linux and use your graphics card. That's pretty much the only way you can do it properly at the moment.

[GodSpoon]

If more devs supported linux it would be great, we need better API support and better driver support

 

Maybe with Steam OS FINALLY FUCKING HAPPENING, we might see some of this come to fruition 

[mantylt]

As long as you stick with Steam, you can pretend you can game on Linux (Ubuntu), but game selection is VERY poor. Valve is working their asses off to port games to Linux, but they seem to be only ones doing it. So if TF and Dota are enough for you - go nuts.