Linux

[Soukyuu]

6. Have fun at very slow performance (GTX460 3000[win] points vs 600[wine] points [ffxiv benchmark], and thats why a OpenGL client would help..)

Uhm.. thank you for taking your time to write down the steps, but I'm not really serious about getting it to run, especially because of the reason I quoted above. It was just an experiment to see if it works out of the box.

I have done most of it already though, except 1. and 2. I only use linux for programming and other university stuff, so my partition is quite small. And I'm happier with win7 UI than I am with what linux can offer me so far.

Still, I'd love to see a native linux client. Would give me more reasons to dump M$ once win7 becomes obsolete (lolWin8)

[KoKuToru]

And I'm happier with win7 UI than I am with what linux can offer me so far.

Thats what you get for using Ubuntu.. lol .. Ubuntu used to be nice..

especially because of the reason I quoted above

Yeah it's too bad.. I am actually trying to find out whats up.
The biggest mistery is that a GT430 and a GTX460 have same peformance at FFXIV with wine.
I believe the render-targets eat up a lot of performance.
When you check how many times wine changes the FBO.. and it's ID's
You can see that it uses the same render-target multiply times for 1 frame.
Which I believe kills the performance, because the FBO will stall..
But probably the biggest biggest mistery is.. Wireframe or not, doesn't matter ... same performance (probably because the FBO gets reused).
Something is really wrong here.. Haven't found the cause yet (I am myself a pretty experienced porgrammer, with some little opengl/wine-hacks I could boost my performance from 8fps to 15fps [made it playable for me..])

I believe when I find the problem.. the performance of the GTX460 should speed up by at least 4 times.
Because it makes really no sense that a GT430 has same speed as GTX460 ! Something is blocking here..

[Soukyuu]

Thats what you get for using Ubuntu.. lol .. Ubuntu used to be nice..

Eh, unity isn't bad in it's 12.04 version and actually replicates win7 quite well. Now if it had more config options and didn't have those sporadic redraw issues...

Other than that I used gentoo (which was lots of fun, learned a lot about linux) and fedora (that one is kinda weird cause they're doing some things differently).

When I said I don't like linux GUI, I meant i don't like KDE (dolphin is eww), gnome3 (one app on a screen, "taskbar" always hidden) or XFCE (it feels kinda unfinished). I tried messing with e17 too, but somehow everything looks too overloaded and overly flashy.

Gnome2 was fine, but it's not supported anymore afaik and I got used to having my taksbar on the left, so that also kills LXDE and XFCE in that sense.

Yes, I am picky and windows isn't perfect either :P