The venerable Phoronix has reported that SteamOS has been updated to include a preview driver from AMD to fix issues and hopefully lay the ground work for a more stable driver. Apparently this driver isn't available anywhere else.
It fixes poor game performance and makes the return to desktop mode actually work, you will still get poor performance when the Steam overlay is active and screen tearing, still at least people on AMD may actually be able to use SteamOS now.
This is one of the single best reasons SteamOS will make Linux better on the whole, companies are getting their acts together to fix up their Linux support and things can only get better from here.
So maybe by the time the Steam Machines come out with AMD graphics in them, they may actually work.
What other companies do you know of that need to fix up their Linux support? Let us know in the comments! Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
It fixes poor game performance and makes the return to desktop mode actually work, you will still get poor performance when the Steam overlay is active and screen tearing, still at least people on AMD may actually be able to use SteamOS now.
This is one of the single best reasons SteamOS will make Linux better on the whole, companies are getting their acts together to fix up their Linux support and things can only get better from here.
So maybe by the time the Steam Machines come out with AMD graphics in them, they may actually work.
What other companies do you know of that need to fix up their Linux support? Let us know in the comments! Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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The important thing for me is that if AMD actually get up to fixing the driver, I finally can choose in Linux again which graphics card i WANT to use, and I'm not limited to NVidia (for games) any longer.
Though, would be great if Intel finally gets high-end cards too. Nothing against the others, but I'd prefer the open source policy Intel is going for.
Though, would be great if Intel finally gets high-end cards too. Nothing against the others, but I'd prefer the open source policy Intel is going for.
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FutureSuture Jan 10, 2014
I have a R9 270X here which works just great on radeonsi. What you need to get it running good is: mesa >=10.0.1, llvm>3.4 from git and kernel>=3.13-rc7. With this configuration all games I tried run perfectly fast and stable (xonotic, dota 2, Trine 2, TF 2, Surgeon Simulator, Brütal Legend and much more tested here). I also benchmarked TF 2: http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1401063-SO-TF2RADEON90
Source.
Now that sounds very promising.By the time I buy a new GPU which should be in the very near future, all the needed items should be readily available.
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