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Many sites are reporting on the release of AMD's Crimson driver, which replaces Catalyst, features a redesigned interface and gives DirectX 9 applications access to variable framerates:
AMD’s first tease of Crimson was a run-through of the slick new Radeon Settings hub designed to replace Catalyst Control Center. (R.I.P.) At the time, AMD revealed some of the overt new features in Radeon Settings, such as per-game OverDrive overclocking settings and one-click Eyefinity multi-monitor configuration. On Tuesday, AMD’s unwrapping the deeper-level goodies in Radeon Software Crimson—with handy features for new and old graphics cards alike—and pushing the drivers live so you can try them out for yourself.
Crimson officially supports Windows 7—10. Linux users can expect a new, partially-open-source driver (AMDGPU) sometime in the future, but only for the latest, shiniest of graphics cards. The current driver's performance has been improved somewhat.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by aristarchus on Thursday November 26 2015, @04:51AM
Pay your tribute to your undead master, AMD! The Land of Redmond, where the shadows lie, will not let you get away with decent, free, unencumbered software to run your hardware by the likes of elves, or hobbits, or neckbeards. We are doomed, Micro$oft because it is what it is, and the rest of us, because we let it be what it is. Time to chose. If a company makes a driver for Windows 10, they do no service to their customers, but instead enslave them to telemetry. Am I not right, this time, Hairyfeet?
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Thursday November 26 2015, @07:32PM
DaFuq are you babbling about? You DO know AMD has opened all their docs, just as the Linux community asked, yes? And that they actually PAY for extra devs to work at both Coreboot and the Opensource AMD GPU drivers so that they will be able to get drivers for their new releases quicker, right?
As far as Windows 10 goes? As soon as I get a chance (just found out I'm getting a palette and a half of desktops dropped off in the next few weeks so I should have plenty for experiments) I'm gonna run a traffic analysis of a Windows 10 desktop after running those "kill WinSpy" programs and if it works? I'll be recommending Windows 10 to my customers, as its speed and performance is impressive, if it fails? Well unlike Linux one can stay with the previous version for a solid decade without having to worry about no longer getting security updates and Windows 7 (supported until 2020) and Windows 8.1 (supported until 2023) are both really solid OSes and has both driver and software support that I'm sorry to inform you but Linux just doesn't come anywhere close to. As we have seen with the recent SteamOS benches even when Linux supports the hardware? Your performance suffers compared to Windows. I wish it wasn't so, having a free OS with the same level of performance and support would save me a pretty penny at the shop but Linux is simply not in the same league as Windows and OSX when it comes to ease of use, support, and range of software and hardware you can choose from. Linux is great for a server or embedded OS, for desktops? Yeah not so much.
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