Speeding up Minecraft?

[Kerai]

@sci4me

because the linux drivers arent nearly as good as the windows ones. -_-

I installed proprietry drivers from NVIDIA on many Linux machines and never had any problem with it.
I once had a radeon card, but I also don’t remember having any driver issues with it.

If you have NVIDIA or ATI, just install proprietry drivers - card manufacturers know best how their cards work.

[Z-Man]

@gouessej

The last version of Windows having a better support of OpenGL than GNU Linux was Microsoft Windows 98. After that, OpenGL was known to be faster and more reliable under GNU Linux in general.

Adding to this statement, IIRC Valve managed to get better performance on Ubuntu when they began porting some of their games to OpenGL.

“That the Linux version [of Left 4 Dead 2] runs faster than the Windows version (270.6) seems a little counter-intuitive, given the greater amount of time we have spent on the Windows version. However, it does speak to the underlying efficiency of the kernel and OpenGL” - Valve Linux Team (source)

[Z-Man]

@gouessej

The last version of Windows having a better support of OpenGL than GNU Linux was Microsoft Windows 98. After that, OpenGL was known to be faster and more reliable under GNU Linux in general.

Adding to this statement, IIRC Valve managed to get better performance on Ubuntu when they began porting some of their games to OpenGL.

“That the Linux version [of Left 4 Dead 2] runs faster than the Windows version (270.6) seems a little counter-intuitive, given the greater amount of time we have spent on the Windows version. However, it does speak to the underlying efficiency of the kernel and OpenGL” - Valve Linux Team (source)