AMD Reportedly Planning Big Driver Update For November

[Zeioth]

Yesterday I tested the Steam 2D game "Dust: An elysian tale" under Xubuntu 15.10.
Open source from oibaf ppa: Perfectly smooth. Perfect experience.
Catalyst 15.9: Dramatic decrease of FPS. Playable but distracting.

[Ardje]

I heard that AMD will be contracting Nvidia to write their drivers for them... Finally you’ll be able to buy a top end AMD card and have it usable at its full potential on release date!

But suddenly all open source drivers do not work anymore because they are not allowed to use the firmware blobs.

[lordheavy]

http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-driver-ati/2015-October/028213.html

> This has basically the same effect as the xserver patch you posted yesterday, right?
Yes, they are for the same issue. For existing distros/xservers without the xserver patch I posted, we need to fix this issue from driver side.

> [0] BTW, what's your test-case for this?
It is a simple vulkan test application with PresentOptionAsync option specified, in which case we don't need to wait for the vblank.
Regards, Jammy

[teeedubb]

I heard that AMD will be contracting Nvidia to write their drivers for them... Finally you?ll be able to buy a top end AMD card and have it usable at its full potential on release date!

[bjoswald]

Although I'm an "Nvidia Guy", I have an ATi-based backup. Any improvement to the abysmal flgx driver is more than welcome.

[smitty3268]

How does a rumor on a random web site become a promise by AMD ?

Welcome to the internet.

[bridgman]

another empty promisse by amd like in last years

How does a rumor on a random web site become a promise by AMD ?

[Nobu]

None of the Steam machines have AMD graphics. There's one with Intel Iris Pro and the rest all Nvidia. AMD didn't give Valve any choice in the matter sadly, despite a few years notice...

Strictly speaking, that's not entirely accurate. Gigabyte's brix has a couple models with AMD graphics.

[dungeon]

Crossfire support, maybe? Nah, I'm just kidding - that's never happening on Linux )).

You should ask about EMA, CF and SLI are obsolete

DX12 benchmark shows AMD and Nvidia cards performing in harmony

[mao_dze_dun]

Crossfire support, maybe? Nah, I'm just kidding - that's never happening on Linux )).