Quoting: Kohrias@Kujo: I have an AMD RX 480. With the current Mesa git 17.1 it is playable @ > 30 fps if you do reduce the graphics settings a bit. The driver has been tweaked a lot in the last weeks.

I shall have to try that. I've had the latest (stable) 13.x Mesa on Arch Linux with a AMD R9 380X (amdgpu), and the game will run silky smooth in some areas... but others, with some lighting or textures or SOMETHING that the Mesa driver doesn't like, cuts the FPS way down into unplayable choppy territory.

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Quoting: ShmerlI'm using Nvidia now, but I'm getting an AMD card as soon as Vega chips will come out.

in all honesty i have found the Nvidia desktop and a lot of games too have very bad frame delivery. Sure the FPS is higher but many games don't have that reallybutter smooth 60fps feel that i used to get on windows d3d titles.. that is until i played the same games where i could manage 60fps on the AMD opensource driver and it returned :/
The only thing i have never managed to get out of AMD is peak performance, but if that changes then i will consider AMD.

Agreed, it's always been a bit frustrating to me that on nvidia I could get decent game performance, but have a desktop that would chug, tear and just be a bit inconsistent in general. The first time I experienced a composited desktop on an Intel driver instead, it was a total world of difference in smoothness.

That's what I'm hoping to eventually get with AMD.. The best of both worlds, or near enough.

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I'll be going AMD too, surprisingly.

Not just because of Vulkan, but even with the OSS driver rapidly catching up in gaming performance to the blobs as it is.

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Man I love Feral, lol.

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Wooohooo.

Hopefully this means soon my (Windows using) girlfriend can stop laughing at me for not being able to play Terraria with her.

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OMG OMG OMG

*breathe*

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I agree with Hamish, why can't they just put "Featured Win Games" there. -_- A Linux PC is still a PC

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Beginning to wonder if Carmack is just trolling now

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AWESOME!!

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Interested ;)

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