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What AMD Drivers for 7900xt - Manjaro

I've installed Manjaro with KDE Plasma, most recent bundle(1week ago) from the Manjaro website. Been playing Path of Exile which runs great, but I've installed The Division 2, and there a flickering that make my eyes want off themselves. I'm running the open-source video-Linux 2018.05.04. Would it be better to switch to AMD proprietary. I'm using a 144Hz 1440p freesync monitor paired with a 2560x2880p 60Hz secondary powered by a 7900xt.

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  • That version number doesn't look right and probably isn't the driver (given it's well before the 7xxx cards were released). Make sure you have a recent version of mesa and the kernel (and vulkan drivers) and that amdvlk and amdgpu-pro are not installed.

  • the Manjaro hardware driver setting is absolutely confusing or straight up misleading
    also hilariously easy to bork your system here if you ever think about trying the video-vesa driver for whatever reason

    the solution is to use the newest linux kernel and update all your packages (which updates Mesa and Vulkan tools) and afterwards rebooting (I still believe Manjaro doesn't reload kernel modules on kernel updates automatically?)
    if you experience graphics issues switch between Xorg/X11 and Wayland compositor

    if you actually want worse gaming performance try the proprietary driver

  • what version of mesa do you have installed?

    I'm not aware of a video-linux package existing, tho I am an arch guy, it may just be that it is out of date

    you shouldn't need any of the amdgpupro things just for gaming

  • If you enter vulkaninfo into a teriminal, which driver does it use? You want RADV; 23.something or later. If it says AMDVLK, you want to uninstall that.

    Which kernel are you using? You probably want the latest kernel (6.5) right now.

    • This is what I'm getting vulkaninfo --summary  ✔

      VULKANINFO

      Vulkan Instance Version: 1.3.264

      Instance Extensions: count = 23

      VK_EXT_acquire_drm_display : extension revision 1 VK_EXT_acquire_xlib_display : extension revision 1 VK_EXT_debug_report : extension revision 10 VK_EXT_debug_utils : extension revision 2 VK_EXT_direct_mode_display : extension revision 1 VK_EXT_display_surface_counter : extension revision 1 VK_EXT_surface_maintenance1 : extension revision 1 VK_EXT_swapchain_colorspace : extension revision 4 VK_KHR_device_group_creation : extension revision 1 VK_KHR_display : extension revision 23 VK_KHR_external_fence_capabilities : extension revision 1 VK_KHR_external_memory_capabilities : extension revision 1 VK_KHR_external_semaphore_capabilities : extension revision 1 VK_KHR_get_display_properties2 : extension revision 1 VK_KHR_get_physical_device_properties2 : extension revision 2 VK_KHR_get_surface_capabilities2 : extension revision 1 VK_KHR_portability_enumeration : extension revision 1 VK_KHR_surface : extension revision 25 VK_KHR_surface_protected_capabilities : extension revision 1 VK_KHR_wayland_surface : extension revision 6 VK_KHR_xcb_surface : extension revision 6 VK_KHR_xlib_surface : extension revision 6 VK_LUNARG_direct_driver_loading : extension revision 1

      Instance Layers: count = 8

      VK_LAYER_FROG_gamescope_wsi Gamescope WSI (XWayland Bypass) Layer (x86_64) 1.3.221 version 1 VK_LAYER_MANGOAPP_overlay Mangoapp Layer 1.3.0 version 1 VK_LAYER_MANGOHUD_overlay_x86 Vulkan Hud Overlay 1.3.0 version 1 VK_LAYER_MANGOHUD_overlay_x86_64 Vulkan Hud Overlay 1.3.0 version 1 VK_LAYER_VALVE_steam_fossilize_32 Steam Pipeline Caching Layer 1.3.207 version 1 VK_LAYER_VALVE_steam_fossilize_64 Steam Pipeline Caching Layer 1.3.207 version 1 VK_LAYER_VALVE_steam_overlay_32 Steam Overlay Layer 1.3.207 version 1 VK_LAYER_VALVE_steam_overlay_64 Steam Overlay Layer 1.3.207 version 1

      Devices:

      GPU0: apiVersion = 1.3.246 driverVersion = 23.1.7 vendorID = 0x1002 deviceID = 0x744c deviceType = PHYSICAL_DEVICE_TYPE_DISCRETE_GPU deviceName = AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT (RADV GFX1100) driverID = DRIVER_ID_MESA_RADV driverName = radv driverInfo = Mesa 23.1.7-1 conformanceVersion = 1.3.0.0 deviceUUID = 00000000-0300-0000-0000-000000000000 driverUUID = 414d442d-4d45-5341-2d44-525600000000

      hostnamectl  ✔ Static hostname: Frogs-BattleStation Icon name: computer-desktop Chassis: desktop 🖥 Machine ID: 810cd56700d54e2aa8cf36f256a3d740 Boot ID: 12af05be93ab4082865579d4a3fd1e41 Operating System: Manjaro Linux
      Kernel: Linux 6.5.3-1-MANJARO Architecture: x86-64 Hardware Vendor: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Hardware Model: MS-7C79 Firmware Version: 1.C0 Firmware Date: Fri 2022-06-10 Firmware Age: 1y 3month 2w 2d

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