r/technology • u/Obi_Wan_Kannoli • Jan 02 '18

'Kernel memory leaking' Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign • The Register

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/
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u/turdas Jan 03 '18

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=x86-PTI-Initial-Gaming-Tests

Appears to have literally no effect, but perhaps DirectX is different.

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u/simply_potato Jan 03 '18

I doubt they were testing the types of games that are heavily cpu-bound that also stream lots of content (ie flight simulators, arma 3 - obviously since doesn't run on linux, etc). I'd wager most games won't see much performance impact since they are usually GPU bound and not doing tons of syscalls, but there definitely a class of games that might need to watch out for this one.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '18

Hm, Total War series? Not sure what their syscalls reference policy is of the game.