I definitely agree with this article. While there are many titles, many of them are just simply not something I'd want to play since I'm not really much of a fan of indie games that were crapped out in a month or two for a quick cash grab. Not to discount some indie games which are decent games, but since a lot of the indie games on steam are pretty terrible in my eyes, looking through the indie games to find something good is a chore I avoid most of the time.

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This game is in my library. Diligently waiting for a patch so AMD gpu's can play. :(

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Quoting: kernelhavok

Quoting: g0rg0rAre you an Nvidia fanboy or employee?

No, just realistic. AMD do not produce as good a hardware, grunt, as Nvidia (trawl through any open-source dev convos on trying to implement gfx between ATI and Nvidia hardware of the same generation). ATI also have suffered lackluster prop-driver development over the last 5 years. Open source implementation has gotten a lot better but far from where it needs to be.

I was originally a big supporter of ATI/AMD before moving to Linux (during high school,like, 2006) so I can understand if new users of linux are upset but if you've been using linux for years now and continue to buy poorly supported or implemented hardware, for specific purposes like 3D and gaming, then you can only blame yourself.

I don't really know about graphics programming, but I thought libraries like opengl and openal and other such things were there specifically for abstracting away the differences between different hardware?

You'd think open source devs would have a harder time with Nvidia cards considering the fact that they actually have to reverse engineer the proprietary drivers and analyze hardware dumps to write the open source driver for them as far as I know.

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Quoting: kernelhavokAlthough I do sympathise with those who buy AMD hardware -- I think you have to accept the fact that we all know, and have for a few years now, that buying AMD hardware often leads to pain and misery for linux desktop, essp. one used for 3D and gaming.

So if you continue to buy AMD hardware, as it is generally cheaper, and knowing the last few years of poor AMD prop-driver implementations -- then you really only have yourselves to blame.

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AMD's proprietary driver for Linux is actually pretty decent at this point with performance closing in on their Windows drivers (not saying it shouldn't be optimized further or anything). I couldn't say the same thing 6 - 12 months ago due to the fact that it used to break boot post install for me, but now it installs easily for me. No more messing with xorg.conf afterward to get the OS to boot properly and there's also not really much to configure once it's installed. The open source drivers seem to be making good progress as well. I'll probably switch to the open source drivers when they become as fast as the proprietary drivers or at least very close.

Hopefully Feral steps up their game with AMD since they recently mentioned that they were building AMD machines.

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Using Catalyst 15.7, I get an error message on launch telling me AMD cards not supported and that I should update to AMD's Catalyst 15.7 drivers (the same driver I have installed)

If I click 'Continue Anyway' it creates a full screen window and Displays the Company Of Heroes 2 Logo/Title but nothing else, it just freezes there indefinitely.

I'm disappointed, I wanted to check the game out before free day expires on Steam.

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