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Performance of muh freedoms ATI drivers vs Nouveau
2016-05-19 08:51:55 Post No. 54631705
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Performance of muh freedoms ATI drivers vs Nouveau
Anonymous
2016-05-19 08:51:55
Post No. 54631705
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I've been using NVidia cards (GeForce GT 630M / Intel i7-3610QM integrated on laptop and GeForce GTX 560 on desktop) with nouveau drivers, and I am finally feeling the bad performance of nouveau, on top of sort-of old graphics cards. I noticed that the freedomware drivers for ATI cards have more features than nouveau and are considered very stable, but are they also significantly more performant than Nouveau with NVidia cards?
Also, yes, this is vidya gaymes related. I am trying to run Rabi-Ribi in WINE, which lags in any of the graphics providers I listed. Ironically, it runs a little faster on the integrated card, but crashes due to lack of video memory. Running the game does not max out CPU usage, and changing the card used changes the performance, so I am assuming it's a graphics bottleneck. Can I expect significantly more performance by just getting an "recent" (1~2 years old) ATI card, and using the Free drivers? The only other reason I have for an ATI card is support for video acceleration on my chinese cartoons.
I know that proprietary drivers exist, but I would prefer to avoid them if possible. I'm aware of the irony of trying to use nonproprietary drivers to run a proprietary game, but a game just feels less invasive than drivers or an operating system.
