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and to make matters worse I decided that I MIGHT like to play around with hsa some day and so picked up an A10-7850k + well either an R7-260X or R7-250(yeah, yeah, another "pure" build which I'll probably regret), but this one is waiting in the wings as I need to transplant the fx-9590 into another more CLC friendly case as my current setup is purely jury rigged.Ī plus so far, looks like ATI(/AMD) figured out HOW to UNLOAD the old driver then LOAD the new AND RESTORE the display rather than leaving us with a black screen and guessing. Hey guys, how's this going? I broke my rule from my old MSI GT725 and built one AMD machine (FX-9590(got it for the same price as the 8350, so.)) + R9-280X(wasn't wasting cash on poorly supported ATI(/AMD) crap again). Sure the open-source driver is better in both of those situations in-terms of stability, but at a performance cost (and on my laptop, there's excessive color banding). This doesn't happen on the open-source driver.īut overall, I don't quite see the huge fuss over how unstable fglrx is. On Ubuntu, I noticed if I switch the boot splash over to the text output, it seems to transition over to the desktop more consistently than if I leave it at the boot splash, but this could be a coincidence. The only instability I've experienced consistently was when messing with games in Wine (osu! and Guild Wars 2 both on a 7850 and a 7660G + 7670M laptop), and that was fixed by using a CSMT-patched Wine.Īs for in-consistent instability, my 7660G + 7670M laptop (with 7670M in-use in Catalyst Muxless laptop) sometimes locks up during the boot animation before switching over to the desktop.
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Are the Catalyst drivers really that bad in terms of system stability? I've been wanting to slap together a mini-PC and was considering using an AMD APU.Stability-wise, fglrx is fine, in "most" cases.