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Is that really a problem these days ? Nvidia has had very good Linux drivers for a long time and in the recent years, Intel and AMD has made great improvements.

ekianjo 8y ago
It's not. Drivers are pretty good nowadays and for AMD last year has seen huge strives in quality and performance of drivers with Mesa.
Symmetry 8y ago
I go with AMD to have the open source driver and things aren't perfect but I knew what I was getting into. A year ago Mankind Divided worked great but Total War: Warhammer had horrid graphics glitches. Today both work great. I really wish there were some sort of registry of which games work on which drivers for Linux...
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- foepys 8y ago
  Not directly drivers but Linux overall: https://appdb.winehq.org https://appdb.winehq.org Some people post which drivers they used, especially when it didn't work.
  - Cogito 8y ago
    To add to this, it's really easy to add your experiences to the database. If you get a game to work, take the time to head over and add your experience.
izacus 8y ago
I've had severe issues and glitches even these days (granted I have an nVidia card because AMD drivers were a dumpster fire at the time of purchase) and even things like fullscreen mode doesn't always work reliably depending on the screen (external/internal) and other settings.
tomc1985 8y ago
nvidia's drivers are pretty good, but at least for me they seem to cause crashes with libavcodec on certain video formats. That's linux on the desktop for ya...
- ahartmetz 8y ago
  Nvidia was probably the best you could get at the time, but better buy AMD next time. The AMD drivers are very good and don't have the integration issues of Nvidia's.
  - tomc1985 8y ago
    The last time I ran AMD I had even weirder issues than nvidia. The card+chipset I had was not supported by Mesa, though. (It was a triple monitor setup on two display adapters, both AMD) Too bad, I'm pretty happy with my nvidia card...
    - HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
      I don't know when was the last time you looked but AMD has mainline drivers now and have contributed a lot of general purpose code for other drivers to use.

ekianjo 8y ago

It's not. Drivers are pretty good nowadays and for AMD last year has seen huge strives in quality and performance of drivers with Mesa.

Symmetry 8y ago

I go with AMD to have the open source driver and things aren't perfect but I knew what I was getting into. A year ago Mankind Divided worked great but Total War: Warhammer had horrid graphics glitches. Today both work great. I really wish there were some sort of registry of which games work on which drivers for Linux...

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foepys 8y ago
Not directly drivers but Linux overall: https://appdb.winehq.org https://appdb.winehq.org Some people post which drivers they used, especially when it didn't work.
- Cogito 8y ago
  To add to this, it's really easy to add your experiences to the database. If you get a game to work, take the time to head over and add your experience.

izacus 8y ago

I've had severe issues and glitches even these days (granted I have an nVidia card because AMD drivers were a dumpster fire at the time of purchase) and even things like fullscreen mode doesn't always work reliably depending on the screen (external/internal) and other settings.

tomc1985 8y ago

nvidia's drivers are pretty good, but at least for me they seem to cause crashes with libavcodec on certain video formats. That's linux on the desktop for ya...

ahartmetz 8y ago
Nvidia was probably the best you could get at the time, but better buy AMD next time. The AMD drivers are very good and don't have the integration issues of Nvidia's.
- tomc1985 8y ago
  The last time I ran AMD I had even weirder issues than nvidia. The card+chipset I had was not supported by Mesa, though. (It was a triple monitor setup on two display adapters, both AMD) Too bad, I'm pretty happy with my nvidia card...
  - HeadsUpHigh 8y ago
    I don't know when was the last time you looked but AMD has mainline drivers now and have contributed a lot of general purpose code for other drivers to use.