amd How do I change AMD driver settings on linux?

[B Bergen]

Using the open source drivers.

[igormp]

What settings do you want to change exactly?

[Sauron]

There's no radeon control panel if that's what you're asking. A lot of things can be set through other tools, some through config editing, some are just not available on Linux.

[TheCoverUp]

there is the crimson edition radeon control panel for linux but I think it is a bit old....

2 hours ago, Sauron said:

There's no radeon control panel if that's what you're asking. A lot of things can be set through other tools, some through config editing, some are just not available on Linux.

 

[B Bergen]

Ok, so could I still install it?

[Guest]

1 hour ago, B Bergen said:

Ok, so could I still install it?

If your asking about AMD's proprietary driver, it performs worse than the open-source drivers outside of workstation use.

 

What settings are you wanting to change?

[igormp]

1 hour ago, B Bergen said:

Ok, so could I still install it?

The proprietary driver also nas no GUI.

 

Again, what settings do you want to change?

[B Bergen]

I want to see if I can change some settings to get better performance in my games.

[B Bergen]

1 hour ago, Nayr438 said:

If your asking about AMD's proprietary driver, it performs worse than the open-source drivers outside of workstation use.

 

What settings are you wanting to change?

I'm using the open source driver

[igormp]

50 minutes ago, B Bergen said:

I want to see if I can change some settings to get better performance in my games.

The only way to get better performance is by enabling things such as the ACO compiler (which you'll need to do without a GUI), and maybe overclocking (there are 3rd party GUI programs for that, such as corectrl).

[Guest]

3 hours ago, igormp said:

The only way to get better performance is by enabling things such as the ACO compiler

I take it that it's not default in most distros yet. It's been default with the "RADV_PERFTEST" option removed upstream for quite some time.

 

4 hours ago, B Bergen said:

I want to see if I can change some settings to get better performance in my games.

 

ACO will be where most of the performance improvements are.

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To enable ACO globally, add "RADV_PERFTEST=aco" to /etc/environment

or to enable it on a per game basis

Steam->Game->Launch Options->RADV_PERFTEST=aco %command%

Lutris->Launcher preferences->System Options->Enable ACO Compiler

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For smoother gameplay in steam for dxvk.

Steam->Settings->Shader Pre-Caching->Allow background processing of vulkan shaders.

 

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Overclocking

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To enable overclocking (Boot parameter)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AMDGPU#Overclocking

You will need to add it to grub

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_parameters#GRUB

If your using popos, then it will be systemd-boot instead, replace arch.conf with whatever your conf is called. "ls /boot/loader/entries/"

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_parameters#systemd-boot

 

Tool to help with overclocking

https://gitlab.com/corectrl/corectrl

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For Screen Tearing (Tear Free Rendering) and AMD FreeSync (Variable Refresh Rate)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AMDGPU#Xorg_configuration

 

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Don't enable 10-bit color that is listed on that wiki, it will break several applications. 10bit color is still very unsupported in most Linux Applications.

10bit color, is the same as Windows 30bit, just named differently.

[B Bergen]

In enviroment all I find is "QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2", so do I add it or replace it?

[igormp]

27 minutes ago, B Bergen said:

In enviroment all I find is "QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2", so do I add it or replace it?

Add it a new line

[B Bergen]

THX

[B Bergen]

When I try to save, I get the "permission denied" error.

[B Bergen]

Never mind, I just installed nemo.

[B Bergen]

So I added it without any other symbols is that OK?

[B Bergen]

So to clarify I just added it with a space in-between.

[Guest]

8 hours ago, B Bergen said:

So to clarify I just added it with a space in-between.

Its just a new line in /etc/environment

RADV_PERFTEST=aco

 

[B Bergen]

8 hours ago, Nayr438 said:

Its just a new line in /etc/environment

RADV_PERFTEST=aco

 

Thanks!