Damn I didn’t know the driver situation is that bad in Windows. I’m using my 7900xtx on Linux with absolutely no issues for over a year now.
But with Linux being popularized by Valve and the steam deck I can see a shift happen where the average consumer might just get a Linux device, fingers crossed.
Damn I didn’t know the driver situation is that bad in Windows.
It’s better for RDNA GPUs but it’s not the fault of the customers that AMD was still putting Vega cores in relatively recent notebook APUs. Vega is fine for regular web browsing etc but a Vega GPU should easily be able to handle lower end games such as Quake I but just doesn’t.
Quake 1 was released in 1996. Hardware T&L didn’t even exist, I don’t think that’s the driver’s fault that a 90s game can’t launch. Unless you’re talking about the remaster.
I don’t think that’s the driver’s fault that a 90s game can’t launch. Unless you’re talking about the remaster.
The remaster replaced the old release and I explicitly said Vulkan, so obviously it’s the remaster. You need to jump through some hoops to get the original DOS release these days.
Damn I didn’t know the driver situation is that bad in Windows. I’m using my 7900xtx on Linux with absolutely no issues for over a year now.
But with Linux being popularized by Valve and the steam deck I can see a shift happen where the average consumer might just get a Linux device, fingers crossed.
It’s better for RDNA GPUs but it’s not the fault of the customers that AMD was still putting Vega cores in relatively recent notebook APUs. Vega is fine for regular web browsing etc but a Vega GPU should easily be able to handle lower end games such as Quake I but just doesn’t.
Quake 1 was released in 1996. Hardware T&L didn’t even exist, I don’t think that’s the driver’s fault that a 90s game can’t launch. Unless you’re talking about the remaster.
The remaster replaced the old release and I explicitly said Vulkan, so obviously it’s the remaster. You need to jump through some hoops to get the original DOS release these days.
ROCm support for RDNA cards it’s somewhat bad as well. It works, at least on my 6700XT, but it has no oficial support, which is pretty lame.
AMD is weirdly bad with their software side.