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Posted April 14, 2017
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adamhm: Framerates with the RX480 are worse than on the Nvidia card, but it's playable with reduced settings. In general I've found AMD GPUs to underperform on Linux (which is why I continued to use the 750 Ti in my main system even after getting the RX480), but AMD have been putting a lot more effort into their Linux drivers over the past year or so & they've seen (and are continuing to see) a huge amount of improvement. Although there's still a lot left to do, so performance is a bit mixed atm.
Adam have you tried using Gallium9 with your AMD card? I had framerate boost from 40 to 130.
Posted April 15, 2017
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Lin545: Adam have you tried using Gallium9 with your AMD card? I had framerate boost from 40 to 130.
Not yet, I've put the RX480 in my new Ryzen build though & plan to use it as my main GPU for a while so I'll probably give it a try at some point.
Posted April 15, 2017
+1 for the GA.

Transistor is gorgeous and the story/voice is strong. Slightly more mixed feelings about the actual gameplay (esp. the challenge activities), but all in all it's a good immersive experience.

Speaking of, I'm like 90% through, so I should probably wrap it up one of these days.
Posted April 15, 2017
Thanks adamhm for the ga and the useful guides you have written!

I'm in for "Mirror's Edge"

I'm still a beginner in Linux, but I've been using Lubuntu along my microsoft system for almost a year now!
Posted April 15, 2017
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adamhm: I've released another Linux Wine wrapper, this time for Mirror's Edge (Mirror's Edge for Linux), and again I'm running a giveaway (...)
Again?! Thanks for another wrapper and thank you for generous giveaway once again. Not in, I'm still playing your gifts from other giveaways! (: +1
Posted April 15, 2017
Interesting idea, your Linux wrappers for games. I would like to try it out.
So I'm going in for Mirror's Edge.
+1 for the chance.
Posted April 15, 2017
I would like to enter for:
Transistor and Mirror's Edge

Thank you very much for the giveaway
Posted April 15, 2017
Upvoted, and thanks for the giveaway.

I'm in for:
Mirror's Edge.

I've used Ubuntu Linux previously and I expect that I might have to run Windows programs on Linux with Wine or something similar in 10 years after Windows 7 goes extinct. Windows 8/8.1/10 has been the worst thing to happen to Windows - snooping on the end-user by default and general cheapening of the Windows experience (microtransactions, bad updates that have been known to brick computers).

Or perhaps ReactOS might be ready by then.
Posted April 15, 2017
I'm in for Mirror's Edge and TRI: Of Friendship and Madness.

Thank you for the giveaway and all the things you do regarding Linux support.
Posted April 15, 2017
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adamhm: Framerates with the RX480 are worse than on the Nvidia card, but it's playable with reduced settings. In general I've found AMD GPUs to underperform on Linux (which is why I continued to use the 750 Ti in my main system even after getting the RX480), but AMD have been putting a lot more effort into their Linux drivers over the past year or so & they've seen (and are continuing to see) a huge amount of improvement. Although there's still a lot left to do, so performance is a bit mixed atm.
Thank you for the info.

I'm afraid that I don't put much effort keeping my info current regarding expensive graphic cards. I'm AMD-exclusive due to their relative openness (I hope they'll go that libreboot or coreboot way). But I would like to know if you find the RX480 offers good performance/$, assuming the issues you notice don't get sorted. I expect Vega will be too expensive for me.
Posted April 15, 2017
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Gede: I'm afraid that I don't put much effort keeping my info current regarding expensive graphic cards. I'm AMD-exclusive due to their relative openness (I hope they'll go that libreboot or coreboot way). But I would like to know if you find the RX480 offers good performance/$, assuming the issues you notice don't get sorted. I expect Vega will be too expensive for me.
Amd's driver is opensource, not just "relative". The hardware is not. All gpu makers (intel, amd, nvidia) load firmware, they just do it differently and at different time. Intel loads it via UEFI, so even if kernel is blob-free there, the blob is still loaded. If you remember, during development, AMD has supplied different firmware for same GPUs, probably they updated so-called "golden bits", writing in GPU registers in special ways to unlock certain features. I think Nvidia does this too, as they once included "safeboot" into GPU that prevented it to load "unsigned" firmware in an effort to limit nouveau development.

I think its very unlikely AMD will go libreboot/coreboot way, because they seem to have implemented software-only version of TPM in firmware (fTPM). This is probably why stopped supplying AGESA.
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Posted April 16, 2017
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Lin545: I think its very unlikely AMD will go libreboot/coreboot way, because they seem to have implemented software-only version of TPM in firmware (fTPM). This is probably why stopped supplying AGESA.
I also think it is unlikely, but fingers crossed!
AMD is still providing AGESA releases, namely for Ryzen. Look at their "AMD Ryzen™ Community Update #2" from march 30th. But I'm not too sure of what that means regarding the TPM.
Posted April 16, 2017
Thank you for the giveaway!

I'm in for Mirror's Edge.
Posted April 16, 2017
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Gede: I also think it is unlikely, but fingers crossed!
AMD is still providing AGESA releases, namely for Ryzen. Look at their "AMD Ryzen™ Community Update #2" from march 30th. But I'm not too sure of what that means regarding the TPM.
Yes, they are - but those are not publicly opensourced AFAIK.
Posted April 16, 2017
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Thank you for the Giveaway and your work on both the Linux Wine Wrappers and Linux Beginner Guides.

I'm in for Transistor

Also, Happy Easter ;)
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