Arma 3 Compared On SteamOS & Windows

Quoting: ZeitgeistI never expected to say this: "Nice work VP". Optimize your OpenGL renderer to the max and it will outperform DX. Dota2 is an other example.

To be honest, I'm a bit suspicious of these Dota 2 benches. Usually well optimised games perform about the same on DX and OpenGL (at least from what I've seen). The cynic in me wonders if Valve haven't borrowed a couple of tricks from Nvidia's marketing manual :))).


Last edited by mao_dze_dun on 8 September 2015 at 1:51 pm UTC

have to give credit to this guy, each new comparison is done better and better. one of my first channels where i look for this.

also, one has to wonder how this will work if VP ever adds support for Vulkan. one of probably most important things they made was multithreaded csmt like solution and Vulkan downright excels at that since it can not only move it to separate thread, but spread it over cores.

still, VP is doing pretty awesome jobs. i kind of feel good since i was saying "give them time" at time of Witcher 2 fiasco on launch

Yep runs good on a 980GTX. I will have a 390x to test it out on soon, on kernel 4.2 so will see if latest dev drivers work.

Quoting: maodzedunWaaaaah, but it's not native, waaaaah. I want a native port even if it runs like my PC is a potato, waaaaaaah. I wonder how the purist fanboys would react if VP convince Bethesda to port Skyrim. Once again - great job VP.

Why do you mock? Up until now, it has generally been true that native ports out-perform wrappers like eON even in cases where a native port performs worse than the Windows version.

Now that was unexpected. Impressive figures.

I am still not a fan of using virtual programming for Linux ports, it still feels a little skeezy to me. But I really can't deny the great work that eON has been doing with these ports. I am impressed that the performance is actually better in some instances on SteamOS. This is a massive leap ahead of the performance that you would get while running the game in wine or some other virtual machine.

Bravo eON!

I'd like to see how this would stack up to Windows 8.1 or 10 though.


Last edited by MisterK on 8 September 2015 at 5:17 pm UTC

yet not avaiable !


Last edited by metro2033fanboy on 8 September 2015 at 6:40 pm UTC

Quoting: metro2033fanboyyet not avaiable !

Only if you own the Windows version, you can use the Beta Version from Arma 3.
It's not even sure if there will be an official Published release of Linux and Mac version.

Quoting: tuubiDid you happen to miss this article?

Ah! Indeed. Thanks.

Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: maodzedunWaaaaah, but it's not native, waaaaah. I want a native port even if it runs like my PC is a potato, waaaaaaah. I wonder how the purist fanboys would react if VP convince Bethesda to port Skyrim. Once again - great job VP.

Why do you mock? Up until now, it has generally been true that native ports out-perform wrappers like eON even in cases where a native port performs worse than the Windows version.

I am mocking because there are a lot of hypocrites who give VP crap but close their eyes for native ports. VP were basically torn for the initial Witcher 2 release but when Dying Light came out everybody were like: "Give the devs more time". There is a widely spread bias in the community against VP and eON. Everybody is talking how much worse their ports compare in performance to Windows but nobody is talking about the fact that Shadow of Mordor runs with about 60% the efficiency of the Windows version. But hey - it's native.