AMD CPU Use Among Linux Gamers Approaching 70% Marketshare

Re:AMD CPU Use Among Linux Gamers Approaching 70% Marketshare by idonotknowwhy on Sunday July 02, 2023 @05:38PM (#36566056)

I've had nothing but issues with AMD on Linux. 7970,280x,rx580 and vega64. All of them had horrible bugs for what I was doing and amd opengl sucks. I eventually got sick of all the hard lock bugs running emulators, and the driver devs not wanting to fix it because Nintendo was their customer.

Then I switched to nvidia and everything just works with similar performance to windows.

Unless installing the drivers is too hard, nvidia is the best was to game on Linux

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Re:AMD CPU Use Among Linux Gamers Approaching 70% Marketshare by code_duck on Sunday July 02, 2023 @05:52PM (#36566178)

Installing the drivers is easy, but that doesn’t mean they work immediately. I got a fairly old computer a couple of years ago and put an RTX 3070 in it… I tried installing several distros and each of them would go through the install fine, then give a blank screen when I tried to boot. I tried all sorts of configuration and driver installations, both free and offical NVidia. I finally got one to work like it should, but it took about 10 days of messing with it.

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Re:AMD CPU Use Among Linux Gamers Approaching 70% Marketshare by anonbanker on Monday July 03, 2023 @05:10PM (#36578881)

Spoilers: he was trying to install them all on Ubuntu 16.04

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