S3 Linux Driver Outperforms Its Windows Twin In Nexuiz

An anonymous reader writes "Chrome Center has done some benchmarks with the proprietary S3 Chrome 400/500 Driver on Linux and Windows. They compared Nexuiz frame rates on a Phenom II system with a S3 430 GT — the surprising result: The Linux driver outperforms its Windows equivalent, offering frame rates about twice as high on average. The question now: Is the Linux driver that good or the Windows driver that bad?"

I would say the latter...

[Fallen Kell]

The windows driver is just that bad. It probably has tons of bloat and previous artifacts from older video drivers that were simply copy/pasted into the new one, with many obsolete functions, while the linux version was recently written from scratch and does not have that issue.

Oh FP?

Re:Only Minimum framereat changes

[JorDan Clock]

No, the max remains the same because the hardware remains the same. The maximum framerates are from the hardware being pushed to its limit in this particular benchmark.

What I'm interested in is a timeline of the benchmark. I want to see how long each run stays are maximum and minimum. I'm curious as to how consistent the framerates are for either OS.

Other reasons

[Dogun]

There should be benchmarks for how other cards perform as well. It could just be Nexuiz isn't performant under load on windows.

yet another

[Bizzeh]

yet another meaningless statistic of "Program X runs better on System Y because driver Z is faster on said system"..