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TF2 on Ubuntu
Created 24th February 2010 @ 12:14
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Quoted from gryzor
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Oh, lol.My nV 7800GT (yes, 7800) with an old E2xx-processor with a dvi->hdmi dongle is faster than my (not as old in comparison) 4870×2 with an I7@4ghz under linux. Here’s a checklist:
1. No ATI
2. Check the hardware compatibility list
3. “Partially supported” means “barely functional if you can get it to install.”
4. No ATI
5. No, really, don’t use ATI.
6. Really, I don’t care if you’re a fanboy, don’t use ATI!!!There we go.
Well it’s not a case of being a fanboy, I don’t have a nVidia card so if I can’t get my 4870 to perform at a decent level I’ll be going back to Windows 7.
Quoted from klu
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Well it’s not a case of being a fanboy, I don’t have a nVidia card so if I can’t get my 4870 to perform at a decent level I’ll be going back to Windows 7.
Heh, as Algot mentioned to me, it was perhaps not too obvious I was thrashtalking the ATI-driver for LINUX, nothing else. It is a real shame, since ATI has released some truly interesting cards as of late with passive cooling, latest HDMI-standards support and support for all the audio-formats (such as DTS Master Audio), but you CAN’T USE THEM with xbmc. It makes one truly sad.
Out of curiosity, those of who that had poor performance what dx level were you using? Seems dx8.1 is much better performance wise.
Quoted from klu
Out of curiosity, those of who that had poor performance what dx level were you using? Seems dx8.1 is much better performance wise.
I thought source 2007 only supported dx9 and higher?
Quoted from dotfloat™
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I thought source 2007 only supported dx9 and higher?
You can run CSS in dx7.1 and TF2 in dx8.1 o.O
Quoted from Stimpy
Oh and chris the linux kernal is far better than windows, not to mentions far more custom. funny how windows needs a page file and always uses it, linux hardly touches the pagefile unless it really has to. possible coz the kernal clears the memory where as windows is lazy. not to mention u can run linux @ a 1000hz kernal if u wanted.
The lack of use of a page file is not an indicator of performance, especially considering what a page file does (please tell me you are not one of those people that thinks it acts as an overflow for memory or something). The Linux kernel and the Windows kernel just use and allocate resources differently.
Neither windows or linux “needs” a pagefile. Some linux-distributions REFUSES to install unless you dedicate a partition to it — which sucks, since common sense says you just dd /dev/null to the size you want it and mount it on the filesystem instead of wasting a primary partition that is a PIA to reszie if needed. Slackware and redhat have this retarded shit and it’s beyond stupid you have to work around it every time.
Never had any problems turning off the pagefile in windows though.
Alrighty, got Ubuntu 9.10 installed with my old Windows7 install on dual boot.
Picked up all my hardware automatically, and suggested installing FGLRX graphics drivers by itself.
Now the fun begins :S
Quoted from klu
Alrighty, got Ubuntu 9.10 installed with my old Windows7 install on dual boot.
Picked up all my hardware automatically, and suggested installing FGLRX graphics drivers by itself.
Now the fun begins :S
Good luck, keep us posted :)
Quoted from gryzor
Neither windows or linux “needs” a pagefile.
Well, in all Windows NT versions from XP upwards even disabling paging doesn’t actually disable use of the page file. Perhaps it doesn’t “need” it, but you can’t disable it, and to disable it would be to actually degrade performance, because it would need to be written twice instead of once.
Wahey.
Got Ubuntu installed with Grub dual booting Win7 and ubuntu, was awkward as fuck setting it up over three hard drives.
Got the latest version of wine installed, got Steam & TF2 installed and running perfectly. Steam fonts were a bit funky, fine once I took the whole ‘fonts’ folder from Win7 and installed them in Wine’s C:/ drive.
TF2 now runs at a solid 60fps (capped to match monitor hertz) without any lagging / crashing.
Result.
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