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So now that 2014 is behind us, we can reflect back on how great of a year it was for Linux gaming. The gargantuan number of games added to the Linux gaming library, combined with the constantly increasing rate at which games continue to be added, is allowing many dual-boot users to nuke their Windows partition which they've kept around for the sole purpose of gaming.
Maintenant que 2014 est derrière nous, nous pouvons nous remémorer comme elle a été une grande année pour les jeux Linux. le nombre pantagruélique des jeux ajoutés au catalogue des jeux Linux, combiné au taux constamment croissant avec lequel les jeux sont ajoutés, permet aux joueurs en dual-boot de détruire leur partition Windows qu'ils avaient gardée pour le seul besoin des jeux.
So with all of these games available now, is your system ready to play the latest AAA game that you've been waiting for? Well, you'll be pleased to know there's a way to find out. I've been writing the video game column for FCM for well over a year now and often I have to rely on published benchmarks to be better informed about the games I play and/or review. For the most part, my CPU, HDD, RAM and latest Ubuntu LTS is up to par when it comes to playing today's games, and I believe it's the same for most readers. However, when it comes to the graphics card and its GPU, that's where some of us may not have what's required to play that game we've so patiently been waiting to be released. So, I've been wondering, is there reliable gaming benchmark software for Linux that I can use to find out how well my system will do against the latest and most demanding video games? I set out on a mission to find the easiest and most reliable benchmark software for Linux.
Aussi, avec tous ces jeux actuellement disponibles, est-ce que votre système est prêt pour jouer au dernier jeu AAA que nous attendions ? Eh bien, nous sommes contents de savoir qu'il y a une possibilité de le savoir. J'écris l'article sur les jeux vidéo pour le FCM depuis bien un an déjà et souvent je dois faire confiance aux comparatifs publiés pour être mieux informés sur les jeux auxquels je joue et/ou dont je fais la critique. Le plus souvent, mes CPU, disque dur, RAM et Ubuntu LTS sont au niveau quand j'ai à jouer à des jeux d'aujourd'hui et je crois c'est pareil pour la plupart des lecteurs. Cependant, pour la carte graphique et le GPU (processeur graphique), certains d'entre nous n'ont pas le matériel requis pour jouer ce jeu dont nous avons tant attendu la publication. Aussi, je me demande s'il y a un logiciel fiable de comparaison des jeux pour Linux que je peux utiliser pour trouver ce que mon système donnera avec les jeux vidéo les plus récents et les plus exigeants ? Je me suis fixé la mission de découvrir le logiciel comparatif pour Linux le plus facile et le plus fiable.
Although it's proprietary and not the easiest to install on Linux, Unigine's Heaven Benchmark is cross-platform, and as such it is perhaps the single most used benchmark application. Unigine's Heaven Benchmark is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. As I stated earlier, the installation is a more involved process on Linux than it is for Windows or Mac. After finding a few websites with very different instructions on how to install and how to run it, I succeeded in installing and running Heaven while at the same time avoiding any major disasters.
Bien qu'il soit propriétaire et pas facile à installer sous Linux, Heaven Benchmark d'Unigine est multi-plateforme et de ce fait, c'est peut-être l'unique application comparative la plus utilisée. Heaven Benchmark d'Unigine est disponible pour Windows, Mac OS X et Linux. Comme je l'ai dit plus haut, l'installation sous Linux est un processus plus impliquant que sous Windows ou Mac. Après avoir trouver quelques sites Web avec des instructions très différentes sur l'installation et le lancement, j'ai réussi à installer et à lancer Heaven tout en évitant en même temps des désastres majeurs.
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Installation The most difficult aspect of using Unigine Heaven 4.0 for me was getting the software installed. Unfortunately, Unigine Heaven is not available in any of Ubuntu's official repositories, which means I had to go to https://unigine.com/products/heaven/ to download the installer package. At Unigine's website, you'll find three options: Basic Edition which is free, Pro Edition or Advanced Edition. There's also a chart comparing the differences between all three editions.
L'aspect le plus difficile dans l'utilisation de Heaven d'Unigine a été pour moi l'installation du logiciel. Malheureusement, Heaven d'Unigine n'est disponible dans aucun des dépôts officiels d'Ubuntu ce qui signifie que je dois aller à https://unigine.com/products/heaven/ pour télécharger le paquet d'installation. Sur le site Web d'Unigine, vous trouverez trois options : une édition Basic gratuite, une édition Pro et une édition Advanced. Il y a aussi un tableau comparatif des différences entre ces trois versions.
For the purposes of this article, and for what I need to get out of it, the Basic Edition will suffice. The Advanced Edition costs $14.95, while the Pro Edition costs $495. The average person who needs to just benchmark their system will need only the Basic Edition. The file that gets downloaded is named Unigine_Heaven-4.0.run, and it's about 280 MB in size. Having downloaded the installer, you'll need to change its permissions to allow it to be run as an executable file, and maybe change a line of script if you're using a 64-bit system. There's a good set of instructions at: http://ubuntuxtreme.com/howto/how-to-run-unigine-heaven-3-0-in-ubuntu-12-04-64bit/3/, but keep in mind to change 'Unigine_Heaven-3.0' for 'Unigine_Heaven-4.0 as you follow the instructions since the version you'll most likely be installing is 4.0 and not 3.0 (which is an older version). I found another great set of instructions at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2144692, and, in the end, I ended up using a little bit of both in order to get Heaven up and running in my system. When it was finally installed, I couldn't get the software to run at all. I had to change directory to my Downloads folder (where I had installed Heaven), and I was able to run the software from a terminal: cd ~/Downloads/Unigine_Heaven-4.0 ./heaven
Pour les besoins de cet article, et pour ce que j'ai besoin d'utiliser, la version Basic suffit. L'édition Advanced coûte 14,95 $ (~14,05 €), alors que l'édition Pro vaut 495 $. La personne normale qui a juste besoin d'évaluer son système n'aura besoin que de l'édition Basic. Le fichier téléchargé est nommé Unigine_Heaven-4.0.run, et il fait environ 280 Go. Une fois l'installateur téléchargé, , vous avez besoin de modifier ses permissions pour qu'il soit autorisé à se lancer comme exécutable, et peut-être de modifier un ligne de script si vous avez un système 64-bits. Il y a un bon jeu d'instructions à : http://ubuntuxtreme.com/howto/how-to-run-unigine-heaven-3-0-in-ubuntu-12-04-64bit/3/, mais pensez à changer « Unigine_Heaven-3.0 » en « Unigine_Heaven-4.0 » pendant que vous suivez les instructions car la version que vous avez le plus de chance d'installer est la 4.0 et non la 3.0 (qui est une version ancienne). J'ai trouvé un autre super jeu d'instructions à : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2144692 et, vers la fin, j'ai fini par utiliser un peu des deux de façon à rendre Heaven opérationnel sur mon système. Quand il a été complètement installé, je n'arrivais pas du tout à lancer le logiciel. J'ai dû changer pour le répertoire Mes téléchargements (où j'avais installé Heaven) et j'ai pu lancer le logiciel depuis un terminal :
cd ~/Downloads/Unigine_Heaven-4.0
./heaven
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Options and Results Some of you might be wondering what the purpose is behind running benchmarking software like Unigine's Heaven. There are many benefits to getting your hardware benchmarked properly. As far as video gaming is concerned, for people who play their games on consoles such as Playstation 3/4 or XBox360/XBox One, it's a reassuring feeling knowing that the game that they just bought will play on their console of choice without any problems, without any lag, and with the best graphics possible. For those of us who game on our computers, we have zero reassurance that any game we just bought (or are thinking of buying) will even be playable. The results of a properly benchmarked computer will give us a good starting point for what kind of games will play smoothly with maximum settings, minimum settings, or not play at all.
Certains d'entre vous se demande quel est le but de faire tourner un logiciel d'évaluation comme Heaven d'Unigine. Il y a de nombreux bénéfices à réaliser correctement une évaluation de de votre matériel. Pour autant que le jeu vidéo est concerné, c'est rassurant pour des joueurs sur console, telles que Playstation 3/4 ou XBox360/XBox One, de savoir que le kjeu qu'ils viennent d'acheter fonctionnera sans problème sur la console de leur choix, sans aucun décalage, et avec le meilleur affichage graphique possible. Pour ceux d'entre nous qui jouent sur leur ordinateur, nous n'avons aucune assurance qu'un jeu juste acheté (ou prévu d'être acheté) sera même jouable. Les résultats d'évaluation faite correctement sur un ordinateur nous donnera un bon point de départ pour savoir quelles sortes de jeux pourront tourner sans acoups avec les réglages maximum, les réglages minimum ou ne tourneront pas du tout.
The user interface for Heaven is windowed and fits in about a third of my desktop space. One of the options on the interface, before you actually begin running the benchmark, is whether you want the benchmark to run in windowed mode or full-screen. Since I play 99.9% of my games full-screen, it would make sense to run Heaven only full-screen, which is what I did. Some other choices you have are Language, Quality, Tessellation, Stereo 3D, Multi-monitor, Anti-aliasing, Full-Screen and Resolution. Then, below all of these choices there's a button labeled “Run” which you should press when you're ready to run the benchmark. The benchmark itself is quite beautiful…
There's a floating town, with a dragon in the middle of the town square, and you get a 360º view of the dragon as well as the entire town before heading up into a sort of zeppelin in the sky. You can hit 'Run' and simply enjoy the graphics and music that accompanies it, but when you're ready to actually benchmark your system and get some results, you'll need to use your mouse and go to the top-left corner of the screen and click on the button that says 'Benchmark'. The benchmark will run, and give you its results when it's finished. The entire benchmark consists of 26 scenes – which you can keep track of in the bottom-right corner while the actual benchmark is being run. On the top-right corner, you'll see some information about your system, such as what graphics card you have, how much of its memory it's currently using, and its current temperature (which, by the way, is changing as the benchmark keeps running its course). You can also see how many frames-per-second (FPS) your system is pushing out during the running of the benchmark. At the bottom-right corner of the screen (and this is only visible after you've clicked on the 'Benchmark' button), you see some additional information about the benchmark such as how long the benchmark has been running (Time), frames, minimum frames-per-second, maximum frames-per-second, and your current score. As long as you're not overheating your graphics card, you should try to let the entire benchmark run its full course in order to get the most accurate results. When the benchmark is done, then the final score results screen will appear, and it will give you the option to save your results in HTML form. In addition to saving your results, I recommend taking a screenshot of the results screen. The reason I suggest taking a screenshot of the score screen is that if you want to compare your result and post it up on the web, some forums require that you post a screenshot of your results to verify that you actually ran the benchmark. One of the websites I went to, techpowerup, has a list of results which I'll be using to figure out which graphics card I should consider upgrading to, especially since my results are better than some of the newer graphics cards that I saw posted.
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System Requirements Yes, believe it or not, there are minimum system requirements for Heaven Benchmark; after all, you need to have at least a semi-decent system to play games, right? One thing the website doesn't tell you is that you'll need a proprietary graphics card to run Heaven. This is what's shown on the Unigine Heaven products page: • GPU: • ATI Radeon HD 4xxx and higher • Nvidia GeForce 8xxx and higher • Intel HD 3000 and higher • Video Memory: 512 MB • Disk Space: 1 GB • For hardware tessellation, both a video card with DirectX 11/OpenGL 4.0 support and MS Windows Vista/7/8 or Linux are required.
My System I ran the Unigine Heaven Benchmark with my custom-made desktop PC consisting of an AMD FX-6100 3.3GHz CPU (overclocked to 3.5GHz), an Asus M5A97-EVO motherboard, a Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 graphics card, 8GB of Kingston Hyper X RAM, and a 1TB Seagate Barracuda hard drive. The software used was Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS, with Unity desktop and AMD 13.9 proprietary graphic drivers. Conclusion Except for the difficulty that most Linux users will encounter in order to install Unigine Heaven, every other aspect of this benchmark gets a nearly perfect score. The scenes through which it runs are beautiful, and a great way for you to really see what your graphics card is capable of. In addition, it also shows you the FPS (frames-per-second) while it's running, and your graphics card's information (including its temperature). The results at the end make it indispensable for all of us Linux gamers.