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been a few years and now gaming needs are higher. i have a HD4850 radeon but is there a source of drivers i can use?. i have seen references to "open source" drivers but i fail to see where or how. thanks, confused

(12-15-2017, 12:28 PM)C0nfused link Wrote: [ -> ]been a few years and now gaming needs are higher. i have a HD4850 radeon but is there a source of drivers i can use?. i have seen references to "open source" drivers but i fail to see where or how. thanks, confused

Hi [member=5458]C0nfused[/member]

Are you using LL 3.6? Unfortunately, there are no AMD propietary drivers for Ubuntu 16.04. I have an AMD GPU too, HD6750 and am using Padoka PPA which offers the latest Mesa code. You can read about it here https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n...-Ubuntu-16
That article/post has some benchmarks the author performed while using this PPA. I can't tell anything about gaming performance cause I haven't installed any game since the only one I like is Pro Evolution Soccer and I did try with wine but failed everytime, it's supposed to work according to what I've read but guess I'm missing something. :(

Hope this helps! :)

 

Yeah, your propbably going to have to do this via Deb. 4000 series needs the legacy drivers (fglrx-legacy-driver (8.97.100.7-3~bpo70+1)

https://packages.debian.org/wheezy-backp...acy-driver

TC

thanks, appreciate the advice