I installed the amd gpu driver using amdgpu-install on Ubuntu but it seems like it made everything just worse. the animations are lagging and the display backlight controll does not work anymore. I wanted to have propper amd drivers on my Laptop-13 so i can use DavinciResolve and VLC. More on community.frame.work

I can only provide you a high level overview. I am no developer, just a network engineer, so bear with me and correct my mistakes :) AMDGPU is the open source kernel space graphics driver. This is what comes with your 5.4.0 kernel MESA is the open source user space graphics library that translates your applications calls to something AMDGPU understands. MESA supports AMD/Intel/Nvidia and even more technologies. Usually you won't use it for Nvidia though, as their closed source driver performs much better. AMDGPU-PRO: this is the closed source equivalent of MESA for AMD Graphics card. In most cases you will use MESA RADV: This is MESA's Vulkan implementation. Community maintained. It was started because of AMD's lack of effort in the early days of Vulkan. This comes with MESA (probably pre-installed) and is most likely your go-to implementation for native and DXVK launched games. AMDVLK: This is AMD's open source Vulkan implementation. It's basically the Linux Equivalent of their Windows Vulkan implementation. Sometimes it makes sense to use this over radv. RADEONSI: This is MESA's OpenGL implementation and also co-developed by AMD This should be all you need to know about the drivers, so here about the software you will use in addition to that: WINE: translates Windows API requests into equivalent POSIX code that Linux and other Unix-based operating systems use. It allows running Software written for Windows. D9VK/DXVK: Nowadays, D9VK is merged into DXVK, so you only need this. DXVK is the translation layer for DirectX 9/10/11 to Vulkan. You use it in combination with Wine to run your Windows games. VK3D3: This is WINE's efforts of a DirectX 12 graphics library. It's making good progress so far. You might read about it every now and then. ESYNC: tries to run all synchronization operations in user space without running through the WINE server. Basically turn it on whenever possible, but some games don't like that and therefore you might want to turn it off sometimes -> this is what your "PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 %command%" does. ACO: Shader compiler developed by Valve. It's meant as a replacement for LLVM and works pretty well already. Basically speeds up shader compilation and sometimes massively reduces lag-spikes and improves performance. You probably came across those lag-spikes especially on first launch of your games, before shaders were cached. Similar to ESYNC: use it whenever possible -> RADV_PERFTEST=aco allows you to force it on a specific game, otherwise you will be using LLVM Proton: project of Valve, combining WINE/DXVK/ESYNC, specific fixes for games (like WINE tweaks for specific games so they can white-list them) and probably more I don't know about. There is a popular fork maintained by u/GloriousEggroll you might want to check out as well. Other useful Software: Mangohud : similar to rivatuner on Windows but looks better and has more features. Allows you to force Vsync/framerate limits. Shows you FPS/frametimes/CPU and GPU metrics...hell even your currently played Spotify song if you want to and can draw beautiful graphs on. Works with Vulkan (also DXVK) and OpenGL. WattmanGTK and some other tools allow you to overclock using AMDGPU's features. Depending on your Kernel and card those might vary. You can also do all of this in the terminal as well without 3rd party tools. Lutris : the only Launcher you might ever need. Makes it easy to manage games of multiple platforms. It gives you access to wine/esync/aco/ferals gamemode/and many more in a nice UI and per-application. There are also user scripts on the Lutris Website that allow you to basically one-click install even non steam games (think about GOG/Epic Game Store/Battle.net/etc.) Ever wanted to have a SNES, a PS3 Emulator and every PC game Launcher in a single application? Well, this is Lutris and you might like it. The post became longer than I initially intended. There are many other sources with details you can look up, like the gamingonlinux or wonderful Arch wiki (offering more solutions to every niche issue you will ever need), the many other subs like r/linux_gaming and so on. More on reddit.com

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