So recently I got fed up with Windows, deleted it, and now have Arch running on both my Desktop and my laptop. I only have one native Linux game, but am looking to run some of my windows games through wine. I am currently installing Mesa-git but what are some other ways to increase performance with open source drivers? Just tried playing LFD2 and it was laggy and jumpy as hell. I have a 7950 btw.
Get Catalyst installed, Opensource is not good for 3D graphics
I've had too many issues with Catalyst. From what I understand, the Open Source Radeon drivers have improved a great deal over the past few months and can actually deliver decent performance now.
in addition to mesa-git i think you will need the latest kernel (mainline from aur) and the latest xorg maybe it will still not beat catalyst though, it's getting close but still not there...
Yeah, in most benchmarks I see it performs at 60-80% of the catalyst drivers. I haven't installed the newest kernel, I saw that 3.14 performs slightly worse than 3.13, so I will wait until they get that sorted out. 2D support kicks the snot out of Catalyst, and 3D support is getting there.
May I suggest other native games that you can play on linux?
Thedarkmod, thief-like game (the first thief games, not the last one), but with modern graphics and some great gameplay concepts: http://www.thedarkmod.com/main/
Arx Libertatis, created from the open source engine of Arx Fatalis, it's a great RPG, but you still need the assets from Arx Fatalis: http://arx-libertatis.org/. It also implements a lot of bug fixes over the original. Amazing dungeon crawler, pure awesomeness.
OpenMW, an open source engine designed to recreate Morrowind (you still need the Morrowind data files though): https://openmw.org/en/
Have fun!
Ksajal, Thanks for the thief link, didnt know it was on linux :) another game to add to our collections!
You're welcome! The more people find out about how great linux is, the better we will all be.
Downloading thedarkmod now, looks interesting.