Wauve a wice way.

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Brodie thinks that they still left themselves some wiggle room for ““selling”” user data.

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Ah, ok. Thanks.

Either involuntary AI generated pornography is wrong or it isn’t.

Agree. Laws have to be applied evenly, or else they are not Laws.

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I don’t think AMDVLK is even installed by default with Fedora.

From that link I sent you it seems like it has to, because it’s the low-level driver, and then RADV is a user space one that calls into it.

That’s basically what I’m asking you about, if I’m understanding you correctly, you’re saying it’s an either or, but that other comment that I linked you states that they’re both needed, one is system level, and the other is user space level.

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The default driver used by Fedora is RADV.

Alright. I remembered them switched around, but there was a migration a year or two ago from one to another, default wise.

Help me with >THIS< then?

This suggests that both (most/all??) are bundled, and you could even run one program in one driver and another program with the other driver.

This was mentioned in that post/thread as well …

Also if you use AMD card RADV is the best for gaming and it’s the default for most distros so it’s an out of the box experience

Its also mentioned that environmental variables can be set at runtime to switch on the fly (at program startup) which is used. I just don’t know if Proton does any of that for you under the covers at startup or if you have to manually add the parameters to the properties for the Steam game to force it to use another one.

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Bummer. And I had such high/good thoughts about the Netherlands.

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You’re missing my point. AMD’s official Linux drivers are ALSO garbage. Try it. Go install AMDVLK and check how well games work. You’re almost certainly using RADV, which was not developed by AMD.

I’m using whichever one Proton/Steam uses. I’m assuming its AMDVLK because its the ‘official’ one. I think I remember RADV being switched away from in Proton a year or two ago, but don’t hold me to that. I checked my enviromental variable “AMD_VULKAN_ICD” but didn’t see it set to anything.

Whichever one I’m using, I get 120fps on my 3D games (playing No Man’s Sky and/or Baldur’s Gate 3 on the second monitor while typing) running them through Steam/Proton without a hiccup. Never a problem.

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Which country is that?

I’m looking for a new gaming laptop. It’s impossible to find any with an AMD GPU here.

I did a search on “gaming laptop with amd gpu” in DuckDuckGo and got THIS link that listed gaming laptops.

I’m sure that if you take more time than you did to reply to me to look for them, you’d find them. Edit: Apologies, apparently the Netherlands are a no-AMD GPU in a Laptop free zone. My bad.

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AMD’s first party drivers are still garbage.

As I mentioned in my comment you replied to, I use Linux, and not Windows, so can’t speak (today) towards AMD’s Windows drivers.

For me, I let Linux worry about the drivers, so I don’t have to.

Best decision I’ve ever made, PC build wise. So nice to get away from NVidia and not worry about graphics drivers.

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You’re not wrong (as someone who has owned both cards) but lets be honest here, two generations ago AMD had HORRIBLE drivers/support, like epic-level WTFness bad.

They had a hole they dug themselves into to get out of, and I believe they have, and then some. But they are still battling that negative rep from that time. Some people still see them in that “hole”, flailing about, which is what I was initially pushing back against with the OP, to say that AMD is no longer in that hole.

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Yep, agree! Would definately LOVE to buy an Intel GPU if they could get their drivers up to snuff.

I’ve watched a few Gamers Nexus videos where the Intel guys are interviewed and talk about their drivers work, good stuff.

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Well I don’t game on Windows, so their Windows drivers could still suck. But I used to on my RX 6800 XT before switching to Linux, and I did not have driver problems with Windows at all.

My son had a 5X00 gen card, and he can’t wait to get away from AMD because of driver issues he’s having all the time, when playing LoL in Windows. I’m having a hard time convincing him to make his next card AMD because of that, even with all of the current Nvidia shenanigans going on. So, I do get where you’re coming from, drivers wise.

But all I can vouch for reliably is that my all AMD rig with a RX 6800 XT card works great, no driver issues/crashes. My biggest headache is sometimes having to select a different version of Proton for when I’m playing a game (thank god for protondb.com).

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AMD seriously needs to start taking driver support seriously.

That’s been an issue for them in the past, but not recently. Last I heard, the quality of their drivers has improved allot from two generations ago.

I game on an all-AMD Linux (Fedora/KDE) rig, and I haven’t had one crash with any game that I play (via Steam/Proton).

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I can’t wait for Intel to step up their game and for AMD to reengage. We really need the competition.

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Have a nice day

Hang in there brother/sister, times will be better again.

Yes it’ll be a long 3 years 11 months, but still, even the laziest people usually figure their shit out at some point and change their course appropriately, and vote differently.

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Sorry for becoming a cynical asshole, it’s actually a good news but I can’t help myself these days.

Hope you’ll take this criticism as honestly given, and not meant as an attack, but you’re not improving the quality of Lemmy with these kind of posts.

May I suggest, instead of making a comment and apologizing for it in the same comment, you just don’t make the comment at all?

It really sucks having to push through these type of comments.

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