Nvidia Doubles Linux Driver Performance, Slips Steam Release Date 363
leppi writes "Nvidia has announced a huge increase in Linux gaming performance for their GeForce R310 drivers after almost a year of development alongside Valve and other game developer partners. Nvidia's announcement also indicated the Steam beta for Linux should be out today. Quoting: 'Available for download at www.geforce.com, the new R310 drivers were also thoroughly tested with Steam for Linux, the extension of Valve's phenomenally popular Steam gaming platform that officially opened to gamers starting today. ... 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.'"
Update: 11/06 21:00 GMT by S : Valve has gone ahead and announced the Steam for Linux Beta. They've sent invites to a number of people who filled out the application, and they'll be inviting more as the test goes along. The beta test is available for installation on Ubuntu 12.04, with support for other distros to come: "We intend to support additional popular distros in the future; we’ll prioritize development for these based on user feedback."
What a Slip! (Score:5, Informative)
Nvidia's announcement also indicated the Steam beta for Linux should be out today
I think Valve's [steampowered.com] announcement kinda indicated that too.
Re:Some perspective needed (pun optional) (Score:4, Informative)
No need to go far [slashdot.org].
Re:Yet another YOTLD estimate (Score:4, Informative)
That is a pretty good imagination you have.
Every linux user I know is pretty happy about this.
Re:Steam Programs (Score:2, Informative)
Ubuntu already updates the nvidia driver through default repositories.
Re:Optimus? (Score:4, Informative)
Or you can see that they were trying to enable it but they want to use the DMA-BUF API to pass the buffers between the open source and proprietary driver but can't because it's GPLed.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIwNDI [phoronix.com]
Re:Yet another YOTLD estimate (Score:4, Informative)
I've actually just started trying out KDE and have indexing running. It's slightly more active than Gnome, but *way* less than Windows. I have indexing turned off on my work Windows machine and it's still far more active than KDE as well.