Will the steam os give better gaming performance then Windows

[alanwest09872]

See windows uses up a ton of resources right off the bat. I am under the impression that linux/steam os will only use a little. Since it uses such a small amount does that mean more will be available for better gaming performance?

 

[Imaginer]

From what I gather, it is minimal to little or no gain at best when all things is said and done.

Memory? If it is SuperFetch, it does take memory space for keeping things that might be used in the near future "there". In short, it is being effective with space it can use, if a program needs space, the OS can allocate accordingly. It is a caching system that is in addition to a virtual pagefile already used in the OS.

If you want a game to perform better, setting that program on a higher priority on the task manager would prioritize the CPU for it and memory cache.

 

[alanwest09872]

Thats good to know thanks. Thats one question that has been burning in my mind. I was going to go out and buy a new ssd just for the steam os but I wont bother for right now

 

[lxskllr]

Some games perform better under SteamOS for reasons unrelated to what you mentioned. Generally speaking, I'd expect most games to run better under Windows at this point.

 

[lamedude]

AMD's Linux drivers get a lot flak and the Direct3D renderer probably still be top priority for most games.

 

[Mushkins]

Unless you have something in the background literally hogging resources or constantly writing/reading from your hard drive, windows overhead is practically meaningless to gaming performance. Most games running on a modern gaming PC will not utilize everything you have available due to limitations in the game engine itself, only the top tier modern AAA titles are really going to see any sort of performance at the high-high end of the spectrum.

If anything, the steamOS will not run them as well. You're essentially running them in a barebones windows process emulator on top of linux. Any performance gains from the saved windows vs linux resources will be considerably dwarfed by the cons of running a non-native app in a wrapper like WINE.

 

[sweenish]

I'd expect most games to run under Windows at this point.

that's better.