IIRC Nvidia needs explicit sync support to work reliably. It’s fairly new and might not have landed in some distros, especially the stable releases.
IIRC Nvidia needs explicit sync support to work reliably. It’s fairly new and might not have landed in some distros, especially the stable releases.
Well, for starters, unless you’re running a quite old card you should be using amdgpu, not radeon. You seem to have them both loaded.
Post a dmesg?
ERROR: […/src/amd/vulkan/radv_physical_device.c:1877] Code 0 : Device ‘/dev/dri/renderD128’ is not using the AMDGPU kernel driver
This is the smoking gun, btw.
I see you’ve got it working, so I’ll just add a bit of explanation.
AMD GPUs used to use a driver called radeon
. It was replaced with the current amdgpu
driver. For a while, you had devices that were supported by both drivers and you could choose between the stable radeon
driver that was missing features like Vulkan and HDMI audio or the brand new amdgpu
driver that had the newest features but was unstable and not well tested.
The kernel has a policy of not unnecessarily breaking things with kernel changes so even though amdgpu
has been well tested in the years since, devices from that era still default to the radeon
driver and need to be forced onto the amdgpu
driver.
I mean, there is, but people have worked hard to set it up so you can just click the button and it all happens.
Slackware just does as it’s told and gets out of the way.
There’s no such thing as stopping processor degradation, it’s just that it usually takes so long that nobody cares anymore.
I meant to do this when I built my old system back in 2018, but I found the handful of games I regularly play worked okay on Linux so I never got around to it, and Linux game compatibility has improved leaps and bounds from there.
If it’s a Steam game, for most of them these days you only have to tick a box in Steam’s settings to tell it to use Proton for all games and the game will just work when you click play.
You might give it a try. Or don’t, I’m not your mother.
If stuff is designed for big servers that run Linux, it’s easier to get it to run on a desktop PC if the PC runs Linux too because then it’s the same thing except much less powerful.
The devs have been working hard to hammer out those troublesome edge cases. There’s a lot less of them than there was a year or two ago.