Title: Borderlands 2 finally playable with latest AMD driver
I installed the daily build of Ubuntu 15.04 tonight, as I wanted to test the beta of the latest AMD proprietary driver which is currently only available for 15.04. Borderlands 2 finally runs with 60fps, everything maxed out on my 290x. I doubt I'm the first to notice the performance improvement, but since I didn't see anybody else mentioning it, I decided to share. Please, bear in mind it's still not as good as in Windows - there are annoying frame drops which I hope they'll fix by the time of the final release. And while I'll definitely continue playing it in Windows, I can wholeheartedly recommend Linux purists who had the same problem to give it a try. It is finally in a state in which you can actually enjoy it.
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I never had any problems playing it on my 5870. Must be an issue with newer graphics cards coming from AMD
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I think it's 290 and 290x problem since they're different chips that the rest of the 2** series. Still it's nice to see the performance boost. Now if they manage to make Bioshock run with solid 60fps - I would be a happy camper.
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