Unixlord

Nexuiz 2.3 Time Demo Performance
This benchmark is to compare the relative performance of the cross-platform open source 3D shooter, Nexuiz. For the Linux Distros the SDL binary was used. I've seen people claim that its much faster on Linux so I had to try it out myself.

Method:
I executed demo1 five times on each OS, ommited the first run and averaged the rest.

Specs:
<--- Same as profile
(To keep things fair only official Nvidia drivers are used.)

Operating systems:
Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn 32bit - Forceware 96.31
Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn 64bit - Forceware 97.55
Windows XP Pro SP2 - Forceware 94.24 WHQL

Settings:
Resolution of 1280x1024 textures on "Best" setting and graphical effects set to default (Which Included dynamic lighting and bloom), because I am comparing Operating system it would be stupid to disable sound so that's on high quality as well and is tested along with everything else.

The chart says it all really. Ubuntu finishes the time demo a whopping 5 seconds faster than Windows XP. 64bit and 32bit editions of Ubuntu perform almost the same with the 64bit edition faster by a fraction. Not bad considering it's GPU limited and 64bit OSes used to take a nasty performance drop in games.

Congratulations to the Nexuiz Dev team for a such a wonderful new release.
note: Time demos from previous versions cannot be directly compared because the way the time demo works has been changed in this release. While playing you will notice 50-500% (no kidding) performance gain vs previous releases, specially on Nvidia cards.

Update:
NGO v215822 drivers perform much better than the official nvidia drivers for windows xp. I am currently investigating the reason behind this.

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lumo

well comparing a game which was originally written for linux is evil
err, just read its supposed to be cross platform; what is used for windows? also sdl?

did you try unreal tournament too? (think they official released both, linux and windows binaries.)

Unixlord

It is cross platform and it's running natively on all tested OSes. All SDL. Unreal Tournament is closed source shit so they can't and won't fix any performance issues because it's not their time/money to do so and they Legions of the Linux community (every victorious) can't do anything to help either.

You are welcome to download Nexuiz (Nexuiz) and try it yourself.

FYI: The game was developed for all platforms from the start. You better research something before making such accusations. This is NGOHQ not tom's hardware.

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Mac Daddy

Will check it out Unix THX for the post

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Zamoldac

i've downloaded the game and played it like 2 hours and it's acceptable similar to unreal 2

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lumo

messed it up, meant quake 3 as its open source now.
for the no research part. usually games need about 30% more on hardware than on windows systems (do not ask me why, but i noticed that when i tested some stuff on linux)
will download and test it :P hopefully my new gfx arrives to see full settings
in the meantime start flaming me again

edit: will test on same settings (windows only) and report my results

xiaomhome

Nice, but i dont get how Windows could be slower (5 secs), are you sure you used the same SDL version in both? Are you using a custom kernel (what patch are you using? - ck, nitro, beyond, emission, viper)? nV Drivers versions please.

Unixlord

If you have ATI graphics the Linux performance will go to oblivion. They're so crap you're lucky if you get 50% of the performance of windows. In other words your test is/will be worthless. That's why I don't buy ATI's trash until they fix this.

I'm glad you asked about SDL. On all three OSes the SDL is the latest stable version which is 1.2.11 and the kernel is stock. If anything the Linux drivers are outdated and I could get better performance switching to the new 100.xx series. I tried 9636 and 9755 on linux with no noticable change in performance. For XP it's the latest official WHQL 94.24.

If the Nvidia Linux graphics drivers were significantly improved and given more attention nothing would come close.

Here's someone else's results but it won't be as valid as mine (5 runs). Same thing. Oh it must be bug then because XP must be better? One can easily say the opposite whenever
it applies.
Ubuntu Forums - View Single Post - Nexuiz FPS - What do you get?

Bottom line: I tested Nexuiz and the FPS was great in XP but even better in Linux. Now YMMV (esp poor ATI users )...

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lumo

as you might have read, the ati card in my computer is only a replacement till new gfx card arrives, as the last card i bought was incompatible with my motherboard (god knows why... was an nv 7950gx2) now wainting for my 8800 gtx to arrive (already waiting over two weeks)

Unixlord

8800GTX doesn't have the level of Linux support that series 7 does. Still I expect it to eat through Ultra settings with HDR, dynamic lighting, dynamic shadows and maxed AF no problem on any OS.

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