[SURVEY] Linux Gaming guide - AMD Drivers

BS86 · February 21, 2023, 5:02pm

there is already work for Ray Tracing with RADV, I just lack a game to test it

keybreak · February 24, 2023, 10:10am

Pity it’s only soyberpunk so far

BS86 · February 24, 2023, 10:20am

I would like to try it in WoW - but it is running in Wine and there it does not enable raytracing as WoW does not detect compatible drivers xD (stupid Windows games )

Native Linux Games should already be able to run Raytracing on RADV, but I know of none …

keybreak · February 24, 2023, 10:39am

Metro Exodus should

fbodymechanic · February 24, 2023, 12:27pm

I just picked this up. Looking forward to playing it soon.

keybreak · February 25, 2023, 9:09am

More! MORE!!!

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JKMooney · February 27, 2023, 10:18pm

I shouldn’t vote here because when I did my own research prior to installing my AMD card last year and RADV seemed the overwhelming favorite. So, I haven’t even tried the others.

Echoa · February 27, 2023, 11:28pm

Its a little disingenuous to make this claim

If you mean it “works” as in you can execute ray tracing tasks yes, but all I’ve seen of it is performance is poor at best and unusable at worst.

ATM the only real way to get ray tracing with decent performance is AMDGPU-Pro

keybreak · February 28, 2023, 6:37am

What are you talking about?

there is already work = literally what it says, nobody claimed it’s perfect or usable
There is a hope however!

Echoa · February 28, 2023, 6:43am

try running ray tracing games with RADV is my point, i doubt itll be a good time

I didnt claim it was or wasnt perfect either way, but at the moment claiming RADV is an option for ray tracing titles is only not technically a lie because its not entirely false. Itll be a while before its really usable but it really mattering is up to personal opinion if ray tracing matters.

keybreak · February 28, 2023, 6:48am

User nobody except you claimed that

When someone says there is already a work, it means it is in the work, not ready for use or anything.
You don’t start to live in house once workers come to lay it’s foundation.

Smokus · February 28, 2023, 2:55pm

It has gotten much better:

One

AMDVLK

RADV

Two

AMDVLK

RADV

Three

AMDVLK

RADV

Four

AMDVLK

RADV

Echoa · February 28, 2023, 5:36pm

That’s Doom right? AFAIK that’s the only usable title as it wasn’t till a few days ago it was even possible to for instance run Cyberpunk without the game just crashing if you tried. Performance being usually around 1/2 windows or amdgpu-pro performance

I don’t believe metro has good performance either but if the only title you test is Doom its OK

Also isn’t AMDVLK also worse than pro for RT? You able to test the actual pro driver not vlk.

Smokus · February 28, 2023, 5:45pm

Yeah, I know, I’m just saying that it has gotten much better than it was in the begining.
It’s still crap compared to windows or -pro.

That’s actually not my source. It’s from LinuxGamingDev’s discord. Lots of wine, proton, mesa, vkd3d, dxvk developers are there.

Echoa · February 28, 2023, 6:15pm

Unfortunate, was hoping for some other tests. I don’t touch discord due to privacy concerns though but that’s another topic.

keybreak · March 1, 2023, 1:22pm

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MOOOOORE VOOOTES!

joekamprad · March 8, 2023, 7:51pm

keybreak · March 8, 2023, 7:53pm

Yes, yes, i’m just a clown…
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fbodymechanic · March 9, 2023, 12:35am

I think it’s the last one?

Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 23 [Radeon RX 6600/6600 XT/6600M] vendor: Lenovo
    driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-2 code: Navi-2x process: TSMC n7 (7nm)
    built: 2020-22 pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
    active: DP-4,DP-5,HDMI-A-1 off: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2,DP-3
    bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:73ff class-ID: 0300
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.20.14 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.8
    compositor: gnome-shell v: 43.3 driver: gpu: amdgpu display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: DP-4 model: Acer R240HY serial: T4BAA0012411 built: 2018
    res: 1920x1080 dpi: 93 gamma: 1.2 size: 527x296mm (20.75x11.65")
    diag: 604mm (23.8") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
  Monitor-2: DP-5 model: Acer R221Q serial: T6KAA0012421 built: 2017
    res: 1920x1080 dpi: 102 gamma: 1.2 size: 476x268mm (18.74x10.55")
    diag: 546mm (21.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
  Monitor-3: HDMI-A-1 model: HP 32f serial: 3CM0352739 built: 2020
    res: 1920x1080 dpi: 70 gamma: 1.2 size: 699x393mm (27.52x15.47")
    diag: 806mm (31.7") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
  Monitor-4: eDP-1 model: BOE Display 0x0a81 built: 2021 res: 1920x1080
    dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64") diag: 395mm (15.5")
    ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: AMD Radeon RX 6600M (navi23 LLVM
    15.0.7 DRM 3.49 6.1.14-200.fc37.x86_64) direct-render: Yes
[derek@legion5 ~]$ dnf list installed | grep amd
amd-gpu-firmware.noarch                                   20230210-147.fc37                   @updates                                    
teamd.x86_64                                              1.31-6.fc37                         @anaconda                                   
xorg-x11-drv-amdgpu.x86_64                                23.0.0-1.fc37                       @updates                                    
[derek@legion5 ~]$

ajucodz · March 9, 2023, 7:43am

I use vulkan-radeon.
Once I tried amdvlk but none of the games did even run.