Alternate OS's

**geeseven** · 06-14-08, 12:44 PM

Originally Posted by Ewok

I have TF2 working under Wine on my Linux box at work, but it's not as smooth as I would have liked. However I don't blame wine for this, I blame the work-oriented Linux distribution that my job makes me use.

what kind of hardware?

**HeavyG** · 07-25-10, 08:32 PM

What the hell? Who dug this topic out of the trash? Is geeseven still alive?

**hannibal** · 07-26-10, 12:43 AM

Well I just got source games working on Ubuntu, they look like shit compared to the same game on the windows side of my machine add to that the 30fps and you have yourself a fucking looser. Cant wait for native steam/source for Linux.

-H

P.S. The problem is that you have all of the DirectX calls being funneled through openGL which is not as good as DirectX.

**HeavyG** · 07-26-10, 05:08 AM

Originally Posted by hannibal

Well I just got source games working on Ubuntu, they look like shit compared to the same game on the windows side of my machine add to that the 30fps and you have yourself a fucking looser. Cant wait for native steam/source for Linux.

-H

P.S. The problem is that you have all of the DirectX calls being funneled through openGL which is not as good as DirectX.

That is the same issue with PC games on the MAC OS... no DirectX. As much as I appreciate OpenGL, it just isn't in the same weight class.

**WileECyte** · 08-15-10, 10:25 AM

OpenGL is fine, if the program is developed for OpenGL. id uses OpenGL exclusively. It's only when you have to get into driver wrappers, that's when it gets messy.

**Ewok** · 08-17-10, 07:40 PM

Agreed. Under the hood, its the same card. DirectX and OpenGL are just APIs; they don't bring anything new to the table the cards don't fundamentally support, they just expose the card to developers slightly differently. An unfortunate side effect of that is that developers tend to use one or the other, so they only know how to use one of them efficiently and when they start to use the other, their code performance suffers because they're not experienced with it.

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