Warsow 2.1 Recently Released With Offloaded Rendering

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Gaming on 27 April 2016 at 09:10 AM EDT. 2 Comments
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While checking on various Linux game benchmarks this morning, I noticed Warsow 2.1 was quietly released at the end of March without much attention. Warsow continues to be a multi-platform, GPL-licensed first-person shooter game powered by the Qfusion engine, a very distant derivative of the Quake II engine.

Warsow 2.1 was released back on 28 March as an Easter present for open-source gamers. One of the big changes is that the game's renderer is now offloaded to a separate thread. However, it does still support running in a single-threaded mode if so desired.

Besides offloading the rendering work to a separate thread, Warsow 2.1 now sandboxes third-party maps and textures, the Linux build now follows the XDG directory specification, improved support for Quake 3 / Quake Live maps, there are now four background loader threads by default, various gameplay changes, modding enhancements, and much more.

Those wishing to learn more about the few-week-old Warsow 2.1 release can visit the Warsow.gg forums for a complete change-log. I'll be working on getting my Warsow test profile updated for some fresh benchmarks.
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