How's the driver situation for the new AMD cards? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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Usually I'm not hopefull for newly released cards but this arch has already been out for almost a year so it should be a bit less dire, right?

[edit] So the results are in and the verdict is: still kind of unreliable with some people having a good time and some having a bad time. Awesome. I'll just wait a bit. Thanks for the comments everyone 👍

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[-] Molecular0079@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

On my Radeon 680M, I am getting constant freezes whenever I use video acceleration in KDE Wayland and I am not the only one. This bug has existed for almost a year and it's been driving me insane. I really don't see the awesome AMD driver situation everyone talks about.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/2220#note_2072337

[-] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Omg I thought I was the only one with this issue, constant playback freezes, sometimes if I watch too much video accelerated content whole system crashes, and after a while with or without accelerated content I get weird artefacts all over the screen. (680M)

[-] Molecular0079@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah I also get the playback freezes. It does work better in X11, but then it almost begs the question why I even got an AMD device in the first place.

[-] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Same here, I simply can't go back to X11 especially after the smoothness of everything and after trying the gestures in gnome, my workflow is kind of dependent on gestures now

[-] maalmike@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago

@Molecular0079 @independantiste
I have a 5700 and a 6750 the 5700 used to hang win the 4 series kernels, in the beginning of 5 kernels the crashes went away, but temps remain as a problem, since 5.6 it have been rock solid and my 6750 just works no problems.

[-] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe it's a problem with RDNA2 iGPUs then, because I am on 6.5 and I still get freezes and crashes and artifacts

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