{"id":2294,"date":"2022-08-30T15:23:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2014\/01\/05\/gaming-with-ati-open-source-drivers-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/"},"modified":"2022-08-30T15:23:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:23:40","slug":"gaming-with-ati-open-source-drivers-collection-of-common-programming-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2022\/08\/30\/gaming-with-ati-open-source-drivers-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaming with ATI open-source drivers-Collection of common programming errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1. Consider switching to LXDE or KDE desktop environment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think you should seriously consider switching to Lubuntu. Compiz is bollocks and it will remain so at least to late 2013. That&#8217;s if you believe it will -ever- do less harm than good, that is. Please note that <strong>you can install LXDE on regular Unity Ubuntu and choose your desktop environment at login!<\/strong> (session)<br \/>\nLXDE also affects gaming performance?<\/p>\n<p>If I install any dekstop environment (like XFCE) alongside Unity can it affect Unity?<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Re-consider your choice to use open-source ATI drivers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They are usually 3 times (yup, 300%) slower than the proprietary ones. See:<\/p>\n<p>How to review the current state of open source vs. closed source graphics drivers?<\/p>\n<p>If you have ATI\/Intel hybrid (switchable) graphics: You can use your Intel for desktop and ATI for gaming. Switching on Linux is cumbersome for older generation hybrids though<br \/>\nHow to re-configure graphics from Intel integrated to Intel \/ ATI switchable?<\/p>\n<p>As for the bug you experience:<br \/>\nIntel vs AMD desktop performance &#8211; worse on AMD<br \/>\nCatalyst Tear Free option requires over 256 MB video RAM<\/p>\n<p id=\"rop\"><small>Originally posted 2014-01-05 09:57:56. <\/small><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Consider switching to LXDE or KDE desktop environment I think you should seriously consider switching to Lubuntu. Compiz is bollocks and it will remain so at least to late 2013. That&#8217;s if you believe it will -ever- do less harm than good, that is. Please note that you can install LXDE on regular Unity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}