Their drivers are getting there. I have not heard many bad things about Battlemage’s driver support beyond typical launch day bumps, and would consider buying one myself now honestly.
Their biggest weakness is that their entire architecture is built around dx12 and Vulcan, it has NO hardware level support for dx11/9 or older graphics API’s. The largest problem Arc had at launch was it would run modern games decently, but even games a few years old would run at single digit framerates (if at all!) as their driver tried to translate older api draw calls into a newer API, and very poorly at that. They’ve apparently vastly improved that translation layer by now so it’s no longer a problem.
AMD seriously needs to start taking driver support seriously.
Both my dad and myself have (begrudgingly) moved to Nvidia because we both got hit with constant driver timeout crashes. My dad also got rapidly flashing black and green screens countless times. I use my PC for work purposes so that kind of crap is unacceptable; I need absolute reliability that I can depend on.
Myself and so many other customers would love to see better bang-for-buck options in the GPU space like the good old days, but AMD really needs to sort this shit out. Intel has the excuse of being a brand new player that is working entirely from scratch. AMD has been in the GPU game for decades and should know better. I mean, christ, their CPU division is basically printing money right now.
I’m not gonna lie, if you’re having continuous driver timeouts that’s probably a personal Windows issue. I had some issues with my 7900xtx until I just fresh installed Windows (despite the install only being a month old) and all those problems magically went away.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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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datavoid@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Cynical side note - anyone scraping comments doesn’t care above it your creative commons link, and will be happy to ignore it.
Hominine@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not a fan of the phrase “virtue signalling” but this is absolutely that.
hakase@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I’m sure that’s never occurred to them before, and that they’re incredibly thankful for your very original input.
Anti_Face_Weapon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Maybe so but then they’re committing a crime. If there is ever any evidence, like his comment shows up in a database, it is a slam dunk case
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Intel has great hardware in the Intel Arc. The biggest problem is their shitty drivers.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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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empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Their drivers are getting there. I have not heard many bad things about Battlemage’s driver support beyond typical launch day bumps, and would consider buying one myself now honestly.
Their biggest weakness is that their entire architecture is built around dx12 and Vulcan, it has NO hardware level support for dx11/9 or older graphics API’s. The largest problem Arc had at launch was it would run modern games decently, but even games a few years old would run at single digit framerates (if at all!) as their driver tried to translate older api draw calls into a newer API, and very poorly at that. They’ve apparently vastly improved that translation layer by now so it’s no longer a problem.
TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
AMD seriously needs to start taking driver support seriously.
Both my dad and myself have (begrudgingly) moved to Nvidia because we both got hit with constant driver timeout crashes. My dad also got rapidly flashing black and green screens countless times. I use my PC for work purposes so that kind of crap is unacceptable; I need absolute reliability that I can depend on.
Myself and so many other customers would love to see better bang-for-buck options in the GPU space like the good old days, but AMD really needs to sort this shit out. Intel has the excuse of being a brand new player that is working entirely from scratch. AMD has been in the GPU game for decades and should know better. I mean, christ, their CPU division is basically printing money right now.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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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empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I’m not gonna lie, if you’re having continuous driver timeouts that’s probably a personal Windows issue. I had some issues with my 7900xtx until I just fresh installed Windows (despite the install only being a month old) and all those problems magically went away.