How about some Gallium Nine test? As far as I know Nine is not supported by proprietary drivers; requires open source drivers. Yaroslav Andrusyak keeps making some Nine vs native OpenGL vs Windows comparison with open source AMD/ATI drivers but I wonder the performance of open source Nvidia drivers with Nine. Testing Source Engine games as OpenGL would not be the best idea, cause Source Engine uses ToGL for D3D to OpenGL transform. But Unreal Engine 1/2/3 offers both pure OpenGL and DirectX 9 support. I suppose it is worth to try. :-)

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I keep being sceptical about The Witcher III and CD Projekt RED in the case of Linux gaming. The Linux launch of The Witcher 2 was a huge dissaster. Instead of making a native port, they decided to use eON wrapper which performed like ...se. Some (not all of them) performance issues are resolved but the game is still performs on Linux not good as it performs on Windows... Sometimes I am okay with Wine ports as long as the original game uses OpenGL; that would removes Direct3D to OpenGL wrapping process and the game performs almost as good as the Windows version. But in the case of The Witcher 2 they decided to use eON wrapper to translate Direct3D calls to OpenGL which resulted poor performance. I still do not understand why would they do they while the native OS X version with OpenGL exists... Anyway, let us cross our fingers for a native GNU/Linux port The Witcher III...

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The Birds (1963) from Alfred Hitchcock kept scaring me during my dreams back then.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056869

"Scary door" scene from Doom 3 scare me and and my friend so much that we needed to go to pee afterwards. :-D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3mMDjeBuV0

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