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Gaming On Linux With Newest AMD Catalyst Driver Remains Slow
An anonymous reader writes The AMD Catalyst binary graphics driver has made a lot of improvements over the years, but it seems that NVIDIA is still leading in the Linux game with their shared cross-platform driver. Tests done by Phoronix of the Catalyst 15.3 Linux Beta found on Ubuntu 15.04 shows that NVIDIA continues leading over AMD Catalyst with several different GPUs on BioShock Infinite, a game finally released for Linux last week. With BioShock Infinite on Linux, years old mid-range GeForce GPUs were clobbering the high-end Radeon R9 290 and other recent AMD GPUs tested. The poor showing wasn't limited to BS:I though as the Metro Redux games were re-tested too on the new drivers and found the NVIDIA graphics still ran significantly faster and certainly a different story than under Windows.
Can I LMAO at the blatant hypocrisy of the Linux crowd? All of the talking of FOSS and GNU and when push comes to shove what do they take? The proprietary locked down all to fuck nvidia drivers because wadda ya know, proprietary drivers run better.
Bitch and mod down all you want, that is EXACTLY what you are doing. AMD has opened up their drivers, Nvidia is so locked down Torvalds flipped them the bird, but guess what every forum and TFA says? Buy Nvidia. The hypocrisy is so thick and rich LOL.
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Meanwhile both companies cards work great in Windows LOL. Oh and if Torvalds wasn't such a shit coder maybe they wouldn't HAVE TO constantly futz with their drivers to fix HIS messes, think of that? I have a first year release driver for an HD4650 and its running great in Win 10, that is why having a functional driver ABI matters, its because you DO NOT NEED to beg companies to support old cards for eternity, they "just work". I mean for fucks sake I can take WinXP WDM drivers and run them in Win 7, that is fourteen years of working drivers, and you think its perfectly acceptable to take an OS that can't even run a driver from 2011 without shitting? WTF man, tell Torvalds to quit fucking shit up and come up with a driver model that is newer than the SNES!
BTW did you try the FOSS drivers? Since you seem to not realize that AMD turned support of their older cards over to the FOSS team, even hiring a couple devs to help them out and handing them the docs.
At the end of the day you simply can't gloss over the rampant hypocrisy. What did the community say? "If you just open up your docs we'll support ourselves!" well you got your wish...and you run to the locked all the fuck down nvidia when push comes to shove...so much for that belief in GNU, huh? I bet RMS sure as hell wouldn't be supporting a company that refuses to share code like Nvidia over a company that does like AMD but at the end of the day lets cut through the bull, aye? Most of you don't care about free as in freedom, all you care about is free as in beer and will happily take all the proprietary code if it don't cost ya nothing.
Spin it any way you want, you buy Nvidia and use proprietary drivers? You ARE a hypocrite so don't be tossing that "open the code" crap because AMD did and found out what I've said for years, you take free coders ya get what ya paid for LOL.
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Thank you. And you notice how many just gloss over the fact that despite all their "GNU" talk when push comes to shove they throw their convictions right out the windows for better performance?
This is why I think Linux is gonna bleed users after the Win 10 release, I have a feeling most aren't giving as shit about free as in freedom, just free as in beer and with Win 10 being the latter all those bullshitters talking FOSS and GNU are gonna quietly slink away and get their free Win 10 and see the proprietary is faster without all the BS and just not come back.
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