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Is there no hope for me with AMD Graphics Card?

Asked by Icemacku

So, I installed Ubuntu 14.02. I really like the design and the feel of a Linux based operating system after using Windows for years. However, I like to play video games too. Which is mainly World of Warcraft. I play 2 expansions, both on private servers. Wrath of the Lich King and Cataclysm. When I open WotLK, it runs smooth and everything's fine, until units start disappearing and eventually the image turns black. On Cataclysm on the other hand, the image just turns black right within the first few seconds. I tried downloading the drivers directly from AMD's website which made things even worse and I ended up having to reinstall the whole OS. Any advice?

PS: I know for a fact that the issue is GPU related as when I tried using Intel HD 4400 everything worked like a charm. Except ofc the drastic FPS decrease. My card: AMD Radeon R7 250 Powercolor

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

Please provide the output of the following diagnostic commands:

uname -a
lsb_release -crid
sudo lshw -C display
xrandr -q

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Icemacku (albertsekt14) said : 		#2

uname -a
Linux al-MS-7817 3.19.0-49-generic #55~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 22 11:24:31 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

lsb_release -crid
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty

lshw -C display
[sudo] password for al:
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Oland XT [Radeon HD 8670 / R7 250]
       vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 00
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=radeon latency=0
       resources: irq:29 memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f7e00000-f7e3ffff ioport:e000(size=256) memory:f7e40000-f7e5ffff

xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 16384 x 16384
HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
VGA-0 connected primary 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 473mm x 296mm
   1680x1050 59.9*+
   1280x1024 75.0 60.0
   1440x900 59.9
   1280x960 60.0
   1280x800 59.8
   1152x864 75.0
   1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0
   832x624 74.6
   800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2
   640x480 75.0 72.8 66.7 60.0
   720x400 70.1

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Icemacku (albertsekt14) said : 		#3

Nevermind, I downloaded the proprietary driver from AMD's website and I have no issues other than the significant FPS drop compared to what I had on Windows.