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AMD Still Struggling With Linux Gaming

Posted by Soulskill on from the some-things-never-change dept.

An anonymous reader writes: AMD's Linux gaming performance has been embarrassingly bad, and it doesn't look like there's any quick remedy. Virtual Programming just released Dirt: Showdown for Linux, and it's the latest example of AMD's Linux driver issues: AMD's GPU results are still far behind NVIDIA's, with even the Radeon R9 Fury running slower than NVIDIA's aging GTX 680 and GTX 760. If a racing game doesn't interest you, Feral Interactive confirmed they are releasing Company of Heroes 2 for Linux next week, but only NVIDIA and Intel graphics are supported.

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  1. Come AMD.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Get it together, competition in the market place is good for us all!

    1. Re:Come AMD.... by cplusplus · · Score: 3, Insightful

      AMD is a company struggling to stay afloat and relevant, it doesn't make sense to invest their limited R&D dollars in Linux driver optimization when Linux is a small fraction of the total gaming market (~2% of Steam, last I checked). I think they're probably doing what they need to be doing - improving their crappy Windows drivers.

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    2. Re:Come AMD.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Hence why they're putting so much effort into open-sourcing as much of their drivers as possible, while working with the community to make what remains a binary blob more secure. It takes time to fix your mistakes and get your shit together, but that doesn't mean they're doing nothing about it. As a bonus, the same effort may also potentially be helping to fix their shitty Windows drivers.

  2. Open source the problems! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Open source the problems!

    Many eyes will fix it.

  3. Busy on DX12 and Vulkan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have no inside info but it seems obvious that for a while now (pretty much most of this year) the focus has been on DX12 and Vulkan. I think Graham Sellers is on the GL team and he is definitely knee-deep in Vulkan.

  4. Re: Suddenly by binarylarry · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Intel has much, much better drivers than AMD. Intel gpu hardware isn't nearly as good, unfortunately.

    AMD = Awful Motherfucking Drivers

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