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by tomc1985 2999 days ago
Up until very recently I was on Catalyst drivers on Mint 18 and it was just as bad. Thank God the open source drivers work decent now.

And Intel? HA! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

One word: gma500 ... welcome to hell!
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ahartmetz 2999 days ago
Yes, I'm talking about the state of software now and hardware up to about five years old. gma500 is from about 2008, apparently.
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izacus 2999 days ago
Except that Intel still doesn't make a graphics chip worth anything when it comes to running 3D games like Fortnight. And AMD opensource drivers are far from having nVidia-like feature and capabilitiy parity with their Windwos counterparts. Sadly.
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ahartmetz 2999 days ago
What is missing from AMD's drivers? They are great now IME, I'm using them to play games. (Note I have older GCN hardware - there seem to be more bugs with more recent hardware where they are still making bigger changes)
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dragontamer 2999 days ago
> What is missing from AMD's drivers?

OpenGL performance. NVidia tends to be far more performant than AMD on OpenGL games.

AMD has put more work into Vulkan, but a lot of games on Linux are still on OpenGL. See the CEMU community for details: https://www.reddit.com/r/cemu/comments/7nehtz/cemu_1113_amd_...

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tomc1985 2999 days ago
For a while my employer was buying motherboards with a graphics chip that requires gma500 drivers. Forget which but it was an Atom platform of somewhat recent vintage. gma500 ain't dead yet, sadly
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