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  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world[Gamers Nexus] The RTX 50 Disaster
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    5 days ago

    The default driver used by Fedora is RADV.

    Alright. I remembered them switched around, but there was a migration a year or two ago from one to another, default wise.

    Help me with >THIS< then?

    This suggests that both (most/all??) are bundled, and you could even run one program in one driver and another program with the other driver.

    This was mentioned in that post/thread as well …

    Also if you use AMD card RADV is the best for gaming and it’s the default for most distros so it’s an out of the box experience

    Its also mentioned that environmental variables can be set at runtime to switch on the fly (at program startup) which is used. I just don’t know if Proton does any of that for you under the covers at startup or if you have to manually add the parameters to the properties for the Steam game to force it to use another one.

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  • You’re missing my point. AMD’s official Linux drivers are ALSO garbage. Try it. Go install AMDVLK and check how well games work. You’re almost certainly using RADV, which was not developed by AMD.

    I’m using whichever one Proton/Steam uses. I’m assuming its AMDVLK because its the ‘official’ one. I think I remember RADV being switched away from in Proton a year or two ago, but don’t hold me to that. I checked my enviromental variable “AMD_VULKAN_ICD” but didn’t see it set to anything.

    Whichever one I’m using, I get 120fps on my 3D games (playing No Man’s Sky and/or Baldur’s Gate 3 on the second monitor while typing) running them through Steam/Proton without a hiccup. Never a problem.

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  • Well, scrapers probably would ignore it.

    Maybe, I wouldn’t doubt it, if true. We live in the age of “ask for forgiveness and not permission”. But the law is the law, and forgiveness may cost them some $$$ down the road. At the very least it leaves them exposed vis-a-vis ‘Safe Harbor’ laws-wise, when some other powerful entity wants to go to war with them.

    In either case, I’m not going to give up my rights just because currently laws are not enforced. Like most things with humans, things move back-and-forth throughout time, and what may be overlooked today may be scrutinized thoroughly tomorrow.

    (And for the record, you’re the bazillionish person to tell me that. The repetition is real.)

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