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props to AMD (lemmy.one)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have (had?) A win10 machine for gaming with a nvidia 1080 for the past ten years since gaming wasn't performant enough for me on Linux. Nouveau wasn't cutting it fps wise and the nvidia drivers were a nightmare if you dared to alt-tab or expected more than 20fps.

I bought a mid tier (radeon7600xt) from AMD and it was (I am not kidding) plug and play. And I don't mean the Microsoft blue screen presentation plugnplay.

Natively I got performant 3d fps (glxgears must be celebrating its 100th birthdaynow) and thanks to valves wine fork it was even easier to get more demanding games up and running. Before icouldn't even run portal.

Thank you AMD for doing something right where nvidia is obviously screwing up.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I ran, without any issue, portal 1 and 2 on an nvidia 1070 under Linux. Alt+tab and all. Great performance (well, for what the 1070 could do).

I really don't understand the issues some people report and why I never see them with my nvidia hardware.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Same. I've had various AMD cards in the past and had nothing but problems with them on Linux. With Nvidias closed driver on the contrary, I've never had ANY problems at all. That's why I'm using Nvidia exclusively for almost 10 years now and am very happy with their hard- and software. And I'm only running Linux, none of that Wind*ws cr*p.