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Do you plan to introduce a normal tool for semi-automatic installation of drivers for ATI in MX Linux as well as for Nvidia?

The open source amdgpu driver is much better than the "pro" (proprietary) version for 3D games:

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=27266

So, in short, no.

They are already installed!

Does it work so well on ALL modern ATI video cards?

dreamofdestinyua wrote: Thu Jul 25, 2019 9:05 am Does it work so well on ALL modern ATI video cards?

ATI was purchased by AMD in 2006 so all of the modern cards are actually AMD. That said, the open source driver is recommended for most use cases and is already in the kernel so there is no need to download a proprietary driver. All of the computers at my house use AMD cpu's and gpu's from various years and all run fine on the open AMDGPU driver.

It's not just about image quality, but about performance in 3d applications. Is it not inferior to the proprietary driver?

From the tests I've read, the open-source amdgpu driver has had better 3d performance than the "pro" version Linux for over a year now.

The only reason to use the amdgpu-pro driver is to use OpenCL programs which use your video card as a cpu instead of a gpu to speed up tasks like bitcoin mining.

Many thanks for clarifying!

Since AMD continually releases new cards, the drivers in MX, which consist of parts in the kernel, Mesa, and the xserver-xorg-video-radeon/ati/amdgpu packages, and also need firmware-amd-graphics, may take some time to support the very very latest models.

But that's what Arch is for.

3D Train Studio runs on ArcoLinux with Wine, on my machine with an old Radeon HD 6450/7450/8450.
It does not run on MX Linux 18.3 with WIne or with Wine staging.

Error message:
We could not find any compatible graphics card for display.
No support for DirectX 9.0C and at least shader version 3.0

Remark: Picasa 3 runs fine on both MX Linux and ArcoLinux.

Does ArcoLinux use the proprietary driver or could there be another reason?

What versions of Wine/wine-staging have you tried? We have a much newer version in the test repo.
If you're running 64-bit, you may also need to install the 32-bit Mesa openGL libraries for Windows 32-bit games, just like you would for Steam games.

Tried various Wine installations, also from the test repo. In the end i had to remove Wine completely, including the .Wine folder, because the other applications failed also.
I have installed Wine again from the first tab MX Package Manager.

Picasa 3 and Space Cadet Pinball installed again and no problems.
But 3D Train Studio still gives this message:
We could not find any compatible graphics card for display. Make sure that your video card supports DirectX 9.0c (at least shader version 3.0) or higher) and that you have installed the latest drivers.

It is not really important for me and it loads with ArcoLinux, but does not render correct scenes as with Windows 10.
I only intended to use Wine for Picasa and that is working. The rest is just a little bit playing around with Wine.
MX Linux 18 runs perfectly and is faster than e.g. ArcoLinux or Manjaro!

Thanks and kind regards, GSM