Source Engine and Linux (Intel CPU/AMD GPU)
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2014 10:34 pm
I've been trying to get my home computer over to Linux for a long time but games are really just awful with an AMD GPU. This is the system I'm trying to run Left4Dead2 and TF2 on with Xubuntu 14.10 64-bit (also vanilla Debain, Ubuntu and Linux Mint same performance):
Processor:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 4.00GHz Socket 1155 LGA
Motherboard:
ASUS P8Z77-V LX
Chipset:
Northbridge Intel Sandy Bridge rev. 09
Southbridge Intel Z77 rev. 04
Memory:
Memory Type DDR3
Memory Size 8 GBytes
Memory Frequency 2133.0 MHz
Display adapter:
Name AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
Board Manufacturer Hightech Information System Ltd. (HIS)
Memory size 1024 MB
For the 2D games I play (like FTL, Crypt of the Necrodancer) the Linux Steam client works awesome and the games run great. I use Xubuntu 14.10 at work and on my netbook and it is amazing for productivity.
On the source engine games though:
On Windows 7 @1080 I average above 175fps but I do have to turn some stuff down my video card is just meh.
On Xubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint I get around 40-50 fps.
The game engine on Linux is using an OpenGL hybrid while in Windows it's DirectX so it's really two different games in a sense... still a big drop. Does anyone have nvidia for their GPU or AMD CPU and tried the native Linux client? I'm just curious if the nvidia drivers are better, I've read in they are but the video card market is just all fanboys and everyone lies about the numbers. I would buy an nvidia as my next video card if I could run it well in Debian.
TIA if anyone has tried it!
Processor:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 4.00GHz Socket 1155 LGA
Motherboard:
ASUS P8Z77-V LX
Chipset:
Northbridge Intel Sandy Bridge rev. 09
Southbridge Intel Z77 rev. 04
Memory:
Memory Type DDR3
Memory Size 8 GBytes
Memory Frequency 2133.0 MHz
Display adapter:
Name AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
Board Manufacturer Hightech Information System Ltd. (HIS)
Memory size 1024 MB
For the 2D games I play (like FTL, Crypt of the Necrodancer) the Linux Steam client works awesome and the games run great. I use Xubuntu 14.10 at work and on my netbook and it is amazing for productivity.
On the source engine games though:
On Windows 7 @1080 I average above 175fps but I do have to turn some stuff down my video card is just meh.
On Xubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint I get around 40-50 fps.
The game engine on Linux is using an OpenGL hybrid while in Windows it's DirectX so it's really two different games in a sense... still a big drop. Does anyone have nvidia for their GPU or AMD CPU and tried the native Linux client? I'm just curious if the nvidia drivers are better, I've read in they are but the video card market is just all fanboys and everyone lies about the numbers. I would buy an nvidia as my next video card if I could run it well in Debian.
TIA if anyone has tried it!