Half-Life 2 On Wine Is Faster On AMD R600g Over Catalyst
Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Gaming on 21 June 2012 at 06:08 AM EDT. Page 3 of 5. 26 Comments.
With the demanding Unigine Heaven game, the Catalyst driver is still significantly faster than the open-source driver code for this Evergreen graphics card.
With one of Stefan's Direct3D tests, the open-source driver results do much better than the lone Catalyst result.
When running Half Life 2 with the DirectX 8 renderer, the open-source AMD driver beats its older proprietary competition.