I am talking about the like one month old open source drivers for my Radeon 4870. I read a thread here at Phoronix about them and of course I installed them but had to switch like half my Ubuntu system to Lucid packages. But hey, now I am on Debian Sid and got everything the latest, and Xorg edgers' PPA from Ubuntu.
My games are working with Wine now. No dead locking after a couple of seconds when starting certain 3D applications, even native ones - as it did with that FGLRX. Sorry, but they can't do drivers at AMD. Luckily enough they too noticed that and released the documentation for others to do it.
Yes, my FPS. It is in a game called Warcraft III, with Wine. The game was really choppy and FPS was like 25 and really unplayable. I got a Phenom 2 X2 550. It was at stock 3.1 GHz. So I think i put it to 3.7 GHz and it really made a difference. 50+ FPS in Warcraft III and no problems playing it. It feeled like more responsible than in Windows. You know, like it feels when you play Counter Strike in Wine. The shots are immediate.
I read somewhere that not everything is implemented in the drivers and the processor do some stuff. But is it really that different. From 3.1 to 3.7 GHz and the double in FPS. It's crazy.
I am seeing forward to new releases to these crazy drivers. Thanks.
My games are working with Wine now. No dead locking after a couple of seconds when starting certain 3D applications, even native ones - as it did with that FGLRX. Sorry, but they can't do drivers at AMD. Luckily enough they too noticed that and released the documentation for others to do it.
Yes, my FPS. It is in a game called Warcraft III, with Wine. The game was really choppy and FPS was like 25 and really unplayable. I got a Phenom 2 X2 550. It was at stock 3.1 GHz. So I think i put it to 3.7 GHz and it really made a difference. 50+ FPS in Warcraft III and no problems playing it. It feeled like more responsible than in Windows. You know, like it feels when you play Counter Strike in Wine. The shots are immediate.
I read somewhere that not everything is implemented in the drivers and the processor do some stuff. But is it really that different. From 3.1 to 3.7 GHz and the double in FPS. It's crazy.
I am seeing forward to new releases to these crazy drivers. Thanks.
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