Tuesday, November 6th 2012
NVIDIA Delivers Massive Performance Boost to Linux Gaming
NVIDIA today announced the latest NVIDIA GeForce drivers -- R310 -- double the performance and dramatically reduce game loading times for those gaming on the Linux operating system.
The result of almost a year of development by NVIDIA, Valve and other game developers, the new GeForce R310 drivers are designed to give GeForce customers the best possible Linux-based PC gaming experience -- and showcase the enormous potential of the world's biggest open-source operating system.
Available for download at www.geforce.com, the new R310 drivers were also thoroughly tested with Steam for Linux, the extension of Valve's phenomenally popular Steam gaming platform that officially opened to gamers starting today.
"With this release, NVIDIA has managed to increase the overall gaming performance under Linux," said Doug Lombardi, vice president of marketing at Valve. "NVIDIA took an unquestioned leadership position developing R310 drivers with us and other studios to provide an absolutely unequalled solution for Linux gamers."
The R310 drivers support the newest GeForce GTX 600 series GPUs, which have redefined gaming for desktop and notebook PCs by combining revolutionary performance and gaming technology features with an incredibly power-efficient design. Gamers with previous generation GeForce GPUs, including the 8800 GT and above, are encouraged to download these new drivers as well.
For an up-to-date third-party listing of games and applications that are currently in development for Linux, visit the Marlamin site.
The result of almost a year of development by NVIDIA, Valve and other game developers, the new GeForce R310 drivers are designed to give GeForce customers the best possible Linux-based PC gaming experience -- and showcase the enormous potential of the world's biggest open-source operating system.
Available for download at www.geforce.com, the new R310 drivers were also thoroughly tested with Steam for Linux, the extension of Valve's phenomenally popular Steam gaming platform that officially opened to gamers starting today.
"With this release, NVIDIA has managed to increase the overall gaming performance under Linux," said Doug Lombardi, vice president of marketing at Valve. "NVIDIA took an unquestioned leadership position developing R310 drivers with us and other studios to provide an absolutely unequalled solution for Linux gamers."
The R310 drivers support the newest GeForce GTX 600 series GPUs, which have redefined gaming for desktop and notebook PCs by combining revolutionary performance and gaming technology features with an incredibly power-efficient design. Gamers with previous generation GeForce GPUs, including the 8800 GT and above, are encouraged to download these new drivers as well.
For an up-to-date third-party listing of games and applications that are currently in development for Linux, visit the Marlamin site.
50 Comments on NVIDIA Delivers Massive Performance Boost to Linux Gaming
If you made a 'gaming distro' just for gaming, and sold it as a package with the hardware (like a steam box or something) it would run just fine. The same concept as chromebooks.
Linux is great for super-noobs (your grandmother), appliances, and programmers... anything in between (i.e. power users, normal techy people) are gonna hate it. I cant tell you how many hours i spent trying to get my printer/scanner to work properly in linux.
super user do (su is UHC for linux) aptitude (think of this as google for programs) get (get the program in the following line) install (install the program in the following line) nvidia stuff.
super user-su
open-do
apt- aptitude
- (search)
get- find and download
install-install downloaded file
nvidia drivers
su watered down edition but everything has a structure once you know the structure its easy.
Superuser sounds cool:rockout:
i think linux deserve more...,and latest distributions are much more stabile then before!!
u have thons of forums with nice techie ppl to help u out with problems u have if u have it..
i think steam have made huge job here..,now nvidia folow!! belive me ..only thing keeping me on windows is gaming!!long live steam and nvidia!!! amd heat up the chairs!!:respect:
Kinda like, "look at all this stuff that we have, what do you want to have on your computer?" rather than "your computer comes with this that and the other"
come on AMD :shadedshu
Also this new feature means less communication between system ram/cpu and gpu. Less memory swapping, faster rendering.. And OpenGL is still fancier then directx in general, it knows where one texture/object is instead of checking if its A or B like directx (consuming precious bandwidth & time).
For example DX11 can do max max 14000-16000, directx9 stops ~ 9000-11000 before it becomes a serious bottleneck and takes more then 16ms.
Or console can 30000-40000 calls (draw primitives), even 100K is possible if optimized to the max.
But the only thing that sucks with openGL is its hard to code.
As for R310 branch in windows, well it sucks compared to old R304-306. Instead of speeding things up (dropping dx9 gpu support) its for the worse, especially in Battlefield3.
... that android is simply linux + (Dalvik) JVM? all android apps are actually applications developed in java language, running in dalvik virtual machine... :pimp: