New Catalyst For Linux Driver Improves Performance

[legluondunet]

Someone have yet compiled and used this new drivers on Ubuntu 12.10 with success?

Reply to myself: it works!

[bug77]

So AMD does care about Linux, hm? Good news. Can't wait to see the benchmarks. The less reason people have not to use Linux, the better.

Let's not blow this out of proportions. It's an improvement for a single game (a 3 year old game at that). While AMD provides precise improvement % for all windows titles, they only say "significant" when it comes to L4D2. This can mean anything between 20% across the board (very unlikely) to maybe 10% when running crossfired 7970s with AA and AF enabled. Besides one line from AMD, we don't really have much to talk about.

[legluondunet]

Someone have yet compiled and used this new drivers on Ubuntu 12.10 with success?

[FutureSuture]

So AMD does care about Linux, hm? Good news. Can't wait to see the benchmarks. The less reason people have not to use Linux, the better.

[AJenbo]

Thanks.

Not sure how slow a HD 6300M is.
But at a relatively low resolution without AA and still ending up
with less than 20 fps doesn't sound too promising, if you ask me.

It looks to be around the level of GeForce 8600 GT, so not to impressive.

[entropy]

No, everthing else seams to be there though.

Thanks.

Not sure how slow a HD 6300M is.
But at a relatively low resolution without AA and still ending up
with less than 20 fps doesn't sound too promising, if you ask me.

[boucheath]

their characters could run around with white ear buds on them to indicate they're on a Mac.

[AJenbo]

Thanks!
How about antialiasing - is it available?

No, everthing else seams to be there though.

[entropy]

The Radeon HD 6300M in my laptop ran TF2 just fine with the r600g driver (Ubuntu 12.10), but fps looked to be below 20, Resolution was 1366x768. Interestingly the game suffered from black screen when running with fglrx-update.

Thanks!
How about antialiasing - is it available?

[AJenbo]

The Radeon HD 6300M in my laptop ran TF2 just fine with the r600g driver (Ubuntu 12.10), but fps looked to be below 20, Resolution was 1366x768. Interestingly the game suffered from black screen when running with fglrx-update.