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?

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Virge?

http://www.anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2241&p=4
http://www.anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2241&p=5

Like those?

Kristopher

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People still playing this disappointment?

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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.

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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.

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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:=)

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That bit about the 16x AA you can enable in Linux is surely interesting. Maybe you can try this on a less performance-demanding game than Doom 3.
I'd love to see UT 2004 and Enemy Territory benchmarks for this mode... :-)


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The AA pictures won't work for me. When I click on them, I get a new window w/ the alert 'hold your mouse over the picture' and then the page doesn't load. When I hold my mouse over the original image, nothing happens. Also, the black pictures to the right of those are way to black to tell a thing about them. Interesting article though. I wonder if 16X AA would be playable in a lower resolution.
Jason

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Neither NV nor id has much of a reason to optimize heavily for linux, and it's entirely unsurprising that the windows version performs better. Nevertheless, I expect that the gap will close considerably as the Doom 3 engine matures.

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Kris, please put Windows and Linux numbers on the same graph, you know that people will want to see how they stack up against each other.

Not clear on why you wouldn't want to do that.

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