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Occulus

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10. Now that Netflix is there, all I need is for
Thu Dec 6, 2012, 11:10 AM
Dec 2012

Steam to get released for linux and I can probably leave Windows entirely.

I signed up for the beta, of course. Valve intends their entire library to be there eventually. How they're managing to do it, I don't know but the blog claims the following:

Submitted by keynight on Tue, 11/06/2012 - 17:37

NVIDIA today announced the latest NVIDIA® GeForce® drivers -- R310 -- double the performance(1) 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...

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(1) Comparing 304.51 driver performance of 142.7 fps versus 310.14 driver performance of 301.4 fps in beta build of Left for Dead 2. All tests run on the same system using Intel Core i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz with 8 GB memory, GeForce GTX 680 and Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit. Source


Three hundred and one frames per second.

Jesus. Jesus Christ.



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Shouldn't there be a "not" in your title uriel1972 Nov 2012 #1
D'oh! Fixed. n/t backscatter712 Nov 2012 #2
Linux is SO nice to have. dixiegrrrrl Nov 2012 #3
Now that Netflix is there, all I need is for Occulus Dec 2012 #10
ohhh..thanks for pointing that out! dixiegrrrrl Dec 2012 #12
Second for latest Kubuntu Adelante Nov 2012 #4
join us... don't be afraid phantom power Nov 2012 #5
Here's what I'm running now! backscatter712 Nov 2012 #6
shiny... phantom power Nov 2012 #7
I had some fun with KDE's theming features and plasmoids. backscatter712 Nov 2012 #8
I see Steam Occulus Dec 2012 #11
That screenshot has the Windows version. backscatter712 Dec 2012 #13
K&R !!! n/t RKP5637 Dec 2012 #9
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