I have tested some games today. Hitman, Shadow of Mordor, and Arma 3. All worked beautifully and ran brilliantly. I am on Ubuntu Budgie 17.04 Beta 1 and am using the Canonical X Staging PPA for Mesa 17.0.1 and X.Org Server 1.19. I have surprisingly had 0 issues, everything is working great. :)

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Quoting: Joeyboots80

Quoting: AryvandaarCan you take a look in the BIOS for iommu options for me?

I looked at the Bios and there is indeed options for IOMMU. Enabled, Disabled, and Auto settings.

Cheers, thanks comrade!

No problem friend! It's my pleasure! :D

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Quoting: AryvandaarCan you take a look in the BIOS for iommu options for me?

I looked at the Bios and there is indeed options for IOMMU. Enabled, Disabled, and Auto settings.

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Quoting: Joeyboots80:D Just got my parts today and have my new rig put together! Ryzen r7 1700, 16GB DDR4 2666, and an Asrock Fatality AM4 Gaming K4 mobo. Everything booted up fine and sound works fine! System seems to be running smooth and processes seem to be spreading across cores properly. No problems so far with normal usage, I will test some games tomorrow. I will most likely make a forum post about it. Cheers everyone! ^_^

Can you take a look in the BIOS for iommu options for me?

Sure thing. I will do it when I get up and have my coffee. I am going to bed right now. I'll be posting again shortly.

Edit: Also, I want to say I didn't even mess with Bios. Everything just worked. I swapped my ssd in and Linux just booted and worked. But, like I said, I will look into the Bios thing for you when I get up.

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Will check it out. If I like it, i will throw the devs some coinage.

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:D Just got my parts today and have my new rig put together! Ryzen r7 1700, 16GB DDR4 2666, and an Asrock Fatality AM4 Gaming K4 mobo. Everything booted up fine and sound works fine! System seems to be running smooth and processes seem to be spreading across cores properly. No problems so far with normal usage, I will test some games tomorrow. I will most likely make a forum post about it. Cheers everyone! ^_^

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I must be part of the minority of people that does care about open source drivers. I care so much that I will take a performance hit (gladly) in order to avoid using proprietary drivers.

Luckily, I don't have to worry about that scenario with my AMD card because AMDGPU open source graphics drivers simply eats the proprietary driver's (AMDGPU-Pro) lunch, and they keep getting better. I think I would be very unhappy if I had an Nvidia card (Almost bought a GTX 970 a couple years ago) knowing the open source driver is, to be polite, not up to snuff in comparison to the proprietary blob. And I know I said I would gladly take a performance hit but that is far too much of one, especially when the open source AMD drivers are much better.

Nothing against Nvidia folks of course, or to those that choose to use the proprietary driver, and no offense to Intel either but Intel has always been a little too pricey for my taste. But, you buy and use what you like and that's fine. I totally support and encourage choice. But, because my personal choice is to be as open source as possible and still have a modern rig, AMD is the only choice for me.

I am excited for the future, competition can only be a good thing. ^_^

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It's looking to be an exciting year in Linux for an AMD fan like myself. A new cpu architecture and amdgpu open source graphics drivers getting better and better? Consider me stoked. :D

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Must. Buy. Every. DLC. (Opens Wallet)

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Quoting: DuckeenieChuck Rock rides again. Not something I would play but looks like a lot of fun nevertheless.

I had the same thought, except I loved Chuck Rock on the old Sega Genesis/Mega Drive back in the day. I am a sucker for this kind of stuff, definitely going to give it a look.

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