Use linux for gaming

 I did already read a forum post about that on teksyndicate. But that answers were not good enough. I have found this link now:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/08/21/how-easy-is-it-to-play-windows-games-on-linux/

 

 

which shows an easy tool, to be able to make this things happen quick, as quick as needed, I guess. The only con I have is: I'll get an hd 7870, and there are no drivers for it on amd's site. Will it still work the right way?

 

 So, what do you guys think, or know?

 

 

 

I think I'll be trying gaming on Linux tonight. What flavor are you using? I was thinking Arch. Maybe Ubuntu since it 'officially' supports Steam.

can you play League of Legends on linux ?

yeah, the problem is, that this just happened recently, since months. So, you can't play a big minority of games on linux. But that could maybe change, if that tool is promising that easy, and fast use. I don't care about learning stuff, I love it. But right now, I can't learn everything in the wolrd XD. All the cons I have, are the drivers. Anyways, try it out if you have ubuntu and post if it worked dude.

Apparently you can but it takes some setting up http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=1946188

I've tried both Wine and PlayOnLinux and they significantly reduce performance, but I also don't have a powerhouse of a rig so lemme know if the performance is decreased compared to Windows as it was for me.

I'll maybe test it later.

The thing about linux is it takes some real time for titles to move over. There is a problem with dx games working natively in linux without wines emulation. What seems to be turning though is games more and more converting to linux. Going forward as we see with what the PS4 will do is get people back to openGL and take a gaint shit on microsoft directx apu. Which is good for us linux gamers cause PS3 runs a unix so does apple and so does android and so does the ouya. Microsoft is all alone with its apu on pc and xbox. I'm hoping and hopeful that this trend will let the dev community strafe left and go with more open programming langauges.

FYI, there are the catalyst and the free radeon drivers which both support the hd 7870

That was very useful! But what I hate the most about Microsoft, is not the $$BOX, but espeacially stealing my Masterchief from PC, and milking the series. But now they have done a big mistake, Windows 8 is the beginning of their failure.

thanks a lot!

Correct the performance decrease is about 10-20% when using a directx to opengl wrapper like ToGL. Take dota 2 for example on linux is direct x 9 based. I'm sure everyone knows direct x 11 is likely gonna be perform better. On some cards though direct x 9 performs better. It depends on the platform of the gpu. Anyway, the point is to open up games for the platform not eek out every drop of performance at this point. Since windows xp users will get windows 9 for free that will slam the door shut for direct x 9. So few if any new games will support it. Valve and others will have to implement a higher level of direct x to be translated or stop their projects.

did you check your Linux distro's repos for current AMD drivers? Don't download them for a web site you aren't using Widows. The drivers are normally packaged and install-able through your distro's package manager. 

Things will work right away but your system will be using the open source Radeon drivers. They work good enough for regular work but will in most cases give you a pretty big performance impact in games compared to AMD's drivers. You could download the drivers from AMD's website but it's probably a lot easier to get them from the Ubuntu repositories (I'm assuming you're interested in Ubuntu).

This article should help you: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/AMD

If you have an intel CPU that isn't a 'k' version and supports VT-d, you can run Linux as your main OS, virtualize Windows, and use PCI passthrough to the VM to use your video card. I found booting into Linux just to play a handful of games that could be played on the Windows machine, to be almost pointless.

Yes, I will look into that method. My next "stage" when I finally quit dual booting :)

The necro is strong with this one.

Was just playing CS:GO on Linux. Valve needs to get their stuff together and release a 64-bit version of Steam so I don't have to install 32-bit stuff... There's also a lot of random stuttering in CS:GO

It is still in beta mind you. LFD2 wan't running that great at first but it now runs faster than Windows.

Yeah, just played a few hours as well.

Was using the stable nvidia drivers (340?) and the game crashed every 10ish minutes. Updated to the beta drivers and CS GO has been running smooth as butter.