Intel Mesa Driver Ups Counter-Strike Performance

Awesome. Thank you Intel.

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Originally Posted by Kayden

I think this was with Wine, sorry. Matt had been working with CS:S long before Valve ever announced any Linux plans. Still, the change should help regardless!

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Indeed, in WINE. Although, I really would like to have native ports of Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source. I've been playing both in WINE on Sandy Bridge and getting pretty good performance.

Valve said they had handed Intel the Source Engine source code, so this performance gain must be about the native Linux version of CS:S.

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Originally Posted by Kayden

The i5 2500k (Ivybridge) hardware can handle at least OpenGL 4.0, as far as I'm aware. It's purely software that limits it to 3.0.

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Good luck fixing/improving your software then.

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Originally Posted by birdie

Valve said they had handed Intel the Source Engine source code, so this performance gain must be about the native Linux version of CS:S.

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Yup, because the person actually responsible for the change, telling you it was for Wine, right above your post, must be wrong. After all, this is The Internet.

L4D is a good game... but I can't wait for CS:GO to be released on Linux. Seriously.

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Originally Posted by birdie

Valve said they had handed Intel the Source Engine source code, so this performance gain must be about the native Linux version of CS:S.

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Oh, Phoronix Forums. I wonder why I visit you.

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Originally Posted by Kayden

The i5 2500k (Ivybridge) hardware can handle at least OpenGL 4.0, as far as I'm aware. It's purely software that limits it to 3.0.

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The i5 2500k is Sandy Bridge, not Ivy Bridge. The hardware is not capable of OpenGL 4 as far as I'm aware.

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Originally Posted by gigaplex

The hardware is not capable of OpenGL 4 as far as I'm aware.

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You know, he's the guy that did the Ivy Bridge bring-up...

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Originally Posted by mattst88

You know, he's the guy that did the Ivy Bridge bring-up...

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I don't follow what you're suggesting here. You cropped out the part of my comment which states the i5 2500k is not Ivy Bridge. Ivy Bridge does support OpenGL 4.0, Sandy Bridge does not.