So I have an r9 290x, and play CS:GO on Windows with about 450fps. On OpenSUSE 13.2 with the new AMD driver I get 17fps constant, roughly 4% of the performance I get on Windows. Does anyone have any idea why? I tried it on xubuntu 14.10 and got something like 20% max. Maybe a combination of Hawaii and the new driver?
On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 13:46:01 +0000, mspele wrote:
> So I have an r9 290x, and play CS:GO on Windows with about 450fps. On
> OpenSUSE 13.2 with the new AMD driver I get 17fps constant, roughly 4%
> of the performance I get on Windows. Does anyone have any idea why? I
> tried it on xubuntu 14.10 and got something like 20% max. Maybe a
> combination of Hawaii and the new driver?
What’s the output of:
fglrxinfo
on the system (in a terminal window)?
Jim
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Sorry, I can’t provide that info. I originally installed to check what worked and if opensuse was ok with my hardware setup, this is where I did the check for the driver and CSGO. I then reinstalled, to give it a bigger partition and separate / and homes.
Now my system is using the radeon driver and the script I used to install the catalyst driver (from Sebastian… Seibert?) fails. Installing the drivers from a community repository did seem to work but has now broken kde plasma and the session fails to load.
I guess this topic can be closed for the foreseeable future.
On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 18:26:05 +0000, mspele wrote:
> Sorry, I can’t provide that info. I originally installed to check what
> worked and if opensuse was ok with my hardware setup, this is where I
> did the check for the driver and CSGO. I then reinstalled, to give it a
> bigger partition and separate / and homes.
>
> Now my system is using the radeon driver and the script I used to
> install the catalyst driver (from Sebastian… Seibert?) fails.
> Installing the drivers from a community repository did seem to work but
> has now broken kde plasma and the session fails to load.
>
> I guess this topic can be closed for the foreseeable future.
Which version of the script did you use? There was an update not too
long ago. He’s also fairly responsive on his blog (I’ve got an active
question about issues with gdm going there), so if you’re not using the
most recent script, give that a shot, because it’s specifically for 13.2.
Otherwise, feel free to start a new thread detailing the failure you’re
getting, and we’ll see what we can do to help. 
Jim
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I used the script from the latest post on http://www.sebastian-siebert.de/ I believe it’s the most recent. It failed on checking the SHA repeatedly, even though running the command seemed to work fine. Tried redownloading and it didn’t work. I then added the repo from https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:AMD_fglrx#Building_the_rpm_yourself and installed the packages. KDE plasma then fails on loading components, all it gives me is a black screen with an open Konsole, and brings up a lot of errors. There’s no debug information. ICEWM works fine. Removing plasma5 and reinstalling plasma4 doesn’t seem to work.
I would start another thread with the topic but since it’s a fresh install, I think the 30 minutes to just reinstall the OS might be more efficient than troubleshooting. Thanks though.
On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 19:46:02 +0000, mspele wrote:
> I used the script from the latest post on
> http://www.sebastian-siebert.de/ I believe it’s the most recent. It
> failed on checking the SHA repeatedly, even though running the command
> seemed to work fine. Tried redownloading and it didn’t work. I then
> added the repo from
> https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:AMD_fglrx#Building_the_rpm_yourself and
> installed the packages. KDE plasma then fails on loading components, all
> it gives me is a black screen with an open Konsole, and brings up a lot
> of errors. There’s no debug information. ICEWM works fine. Removing
> plasma5 and reinstalling plasma4 doesn’t seem to work.
>
> I would start another thread with the topic but since it’s a fresh
> install, I think the 30 minutes to just reinstall the OS might be more
> efficient than troubleshooting. Thanks though.
No prob. 14.12 is in the name of the latest version of the script -
those packages are also now in the fglrx repository, too.
Jim
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I installed the drivers via SDB-oneClick and everything went OK, the game runs very smoothly on my R9 270X (150fps, my processor bottlenecks this card so it only uses 25% of it’s capacity on CSGO, even on Windows). I might say it runs even better than on Windows.
The driver I’m using is 14.5 on openSUSE 13.2 with KDE.
If I recall the 14.9 driver performed better than 14.12 on Linux, I see a lot of people complaining about Omega.
Here’s the link I used: https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:AMD_fglrx#1-click_install_64_bits
Installed, edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf so I can have a better monitor resolution, then reboot. Done 
This shouldn’t be necessary under any circumstance unless EDID is incorrectly recognized (usually if you’re using VGA as opposed to DVI/HDMI/DP), X and the drivers should use the optimal resolution by default.
KVM switchs can mess up EDID also
Just out of curiosity, do the drivers seem to be working fairly well? I have the Radeon HD 6450 card and installed the drivers (with the script) a couple months back, and they worked during a couple of reboots, but then I lost my DE. Been using the Radeon drivers lately, but wanted to give the repository another run.
Thoughts? Opinions?
Hi
If you get a kernel update, the driver needs rebuilding…
I use the rpm method from SDB:AMD fglrx - openSUSE Wiki which takes care of it all on a kernel update.
Thanks for the info!
Yeah, I still use an old Samsung CRT 17" Flat monitor 
It’s pretty good tho!
I’m not sure what KVM is, I just paste the following line in the subsection of “Screen”:
Modes “1600x1200” “1280x1024” “1024x768” “800x600” " 640x480"
All fine here.
So with this method (which I also use) we have to do nothing? Great!