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Linux users have no reason to worry about recent AMD GPU driver changes [driver for GPU series RX 5000 and RX 6000 are going into "maintenance mode" is just for Windows] (www.gamingonlinux.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 66 points 1 year ago* (15 children)

Clearly, even AMD wants you to switch to linux, heh.

...I'm not even totally kidding. A mass migration would be a huge boon to their business and leave Nvidia scrambling.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    A mass migration would be a huge boon to their business and leave Nvidia scrambling.

    I mean that would have to be extremely sudden. In reality any shift would be (is?) very slow and at some point Nvidia would just start improving their Linux drivers, and probably open source them.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    As salty as I am from earlier experiences with Nvidia the modern Nvidia cards do work just fine on Linux.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    Not well though.

    In virtually every instance of gaming I've tried, Nvidia is measurably slower on Linux than Windows (where apparently that's not the case with AMD), with the sole exception being Java games like modded Minecraft and Starsector.

    That, and (on my 3090 desktop) I still hold my breath wondering if Nvidia will make my setup blackscreen. And I'm not even using it for display out! This will continue to be a fundamental issue with the drivers closed source and separate from the kernel.

    Point I'm making is, if gamers suddenly had to use linux overnight and reviewers benched it, AMD would suddenly appear much more competitive.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    In virtually every instance of gaming I've tried, Nvidia is measurably slower on Linux than Windows

    My experience has been the exact opposite. FPS gains in virtually all games I tested, including demandibg ones like Cyberpunk.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    This was a few patches ago, but I tried to get modded 2077 faster, and could not, at least not on my setup. And I really tried because I need every drop of FPS on my aging 3090.

    ...That, and I had some HDR problems anyway.

    For reference, I'm on W11, but neutered severely. No defender, no background tasks, services or anything, and a bunch of power plan tweaks. On the linux side I'm running CachyOS. Tested with GoG Cyberpunk, can't remember what patch, but it was on a shared NTFS partition, and CachyOS Proton on the linux side.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I really don't want to shill for nvidia but Isn't the kernel driver open source now?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    That's likely a kernel issue. Happened to me also like a year ago. After updating to the latest kernel I have not had any problems.

    Could also be that the card is not staying in the pci-e slot or is sagging as I have seen this happen often with heavier cards. It causes black screen, instability and performance issues in general.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Nah, this is an ongoing thing for me, for years across different Nvidia machines… Besides, my 3090 is on a riser anyway.

    It wasn’t dramatic running Proton in Linux, within a few percent, and I mostly only tested modded Stellaris and Rimworld which are kinda weird examples.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Linux Mint still has problems displaying games after the system wakes from sleep for some reason. Maybe Bazzite or Pop_OS would work better?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    As far as I know Mint and if things have not changed lately then Pop_OS as well has old kernel. Use distro with up to date kernel. For gaming a rolling release is usually a good option as the performance updates arrive early.

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