19 out of 25 games ported in less than a year, with a few more not far behind, more companies need to take a page from Valve's book and learn how to get things done.
As far as drivers go, they really aren't that bad atm, not even the AMD ones. There may be other issues at play and perhaps certain cards that run into issues, but I have been getting decent performance out of my system lately and my rig is a budget build with only a dual-core Athlon II and Radeon HD 5670. With some newer games I have to run on medium settings, but I would of had to even on Windows. Some of the Valve games seem to have intermittent lag while things are loading, but that usually only lasts during the first area or two before clearing up and likely has more to do with the way they coded things and my limited hardware than anything to do with drivers. Even screen tearing which used to annoy the hell out of me is much less frequent lately, particularly with the last few driver releases. My biggest problem with AMD has to do with OpenCL when it comes to Blender and Cycles rendering, which is really making me consider dropping them for Nvidia when the time comes to replace my card.
As far as drivers go, they really aren't that bad atm, not even the AMD ones. There may be other issues at play and perhaps certain cards that run into issues, but I have been getting decent performance out of my system lately and my rig is a budget build with only a dual-core Athlon II and Radeon HD 5670. With some newer games I have to run on medium settings, but I would of had to even on Windows. Some of the Valve games seem to have intermittent lag while things are loading, but that usually only lasts during the first area or two before clearing up and likely has more to do with the way they coded things and my limited hardware than anything to do with drivers. Even screen tearing which used to annoy the hell out of me is much less frequent lately, particularly with the last few driver releases. My biggest problem with AMD has to do with OpenCL when it comes to Blender and Cycles rendering, which is really making me consider dropping them for Nvidia when the time comes to replace my card.
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