SteamOS performs significantly worse than Windows

[jefferz]

A website did some comparing of games dual booting SteamOS vs Win 10. The results are surprising. The hardware isn't impressive so it the results might not be as far apart on newer hardware. They used a Pentium G3220 with a GTX660

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/...gnificant-performance-hit-for-steamos-gaming/

 

[GhostZ06]

well isnt it in alpha?

 

[dAfTiE]

That looks about the same as my results when I tested at home.
It also performed significantly worse than bog standard Ubuntu 14.10 with steam and binary nvidia drivers installed.

My hardware at the time was:
Core i7-4790K
GTX 770

 

[Concrete]

I can't say I'm surprised. I do think in the next few years this gap will end.

 

[Wariowokecancel]

I can't say I'm surprised. I do think in the next few years this gap will end.

I highly doubt it. It has none of the resources of Windows, real Linux or macos. And none of the driver support (Linux drivers are 100%?)

 

[PEB]

I highly doubt it. It has none of the resources of Windows, real Linux or macos. And none of the driver support (Linux drivers are 100%?)

I been involved in some level of Linux development for over 20 years never count them out. Valve requires a considerable amount of community developer support.

Overtime as more people get their hands on the actual release improvement will be considerable. Example Linux controls over 80 percent of the cloud and like 60 to 70 percent of IoT "Internet of things" or smart home.

What Linux has lacked was 3rd party developer support. As more games get ported these developers will tune the games better for Linux drivers. This is the core issue already been proven by a number of simulations.

Some Linux advantages smaller footprint, customization flexibility, open with some open driver support, over 100,000 developers and over 200,000 registered testers.

 

[dAfTiE]

I highly doubt it. It has none of the resources of Windows, real Linux or macos. And none of the driver support (Linux drivers are 100%?)

Well, it's just debian with some awfully dumb changes to gnome and some kernel hacks. You can still install the same drivers as any other linux distro, and the same software too, if you add the apt repos.

At some point it might be faster than ubuntu, it seems like a colossal waste of resources to fuck around and make their own distro.

 

[Cygnus A]

Sad day indeed. I expected better from Valve. Especially if they plan to push these cheap Steamboxes, they will need better performance. Need some comparisons between SteamOS and pure Linux to determine if the real issue is still Linux.

 

[dAfTiE]

Sad day indeed. I expected better from Valve. Especially if they plan to push these cheap Steamboxes, they will need better performance. Need some comparisons between SteamOS and pure Linux to determine if the real issue is still Linux.

When I tested around 7 months ago Metro last light ran ~10% faster in pure ubuntu with zero stuff done to it than it did in steam OS.
I installed nvidia binary drivers, steam, downloaded the game, and that's it.

Not to mention, it's super easy setting ubuntu to just boot straight into big picture mode, which essentially makes steamos completely fucking useless.

 

[echohead]

It seems like it performs worse, but is still within the bounds of quality gaming.

 

[dAfTiE]

It seems like it performs worse, but is still within the bounds of quality gaming.

Depends entirely on your hardware. If you're running one of these underpowered overpriced steam boxes that 10-20% performance decrease can easily be the thing that kills the whole thing for people.

Stack that on top of only being able to play about 8% of the total available games and much less of the actual system seller games people give a shit about and a barely mediocre controller and the whole thing is incredibly underwhelming.