i3 370M, 8GBs of DDR3 and a Radeon 5000 series GPU but can’t remember which one and lspci says
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Madison [Mobility Radeon HD 5650/5750 / 6530M/6550M]
Thanks will check some of those out, I already have a couple of them.
Are you using the open source driver and does the laptop have dual gpu?
yes to both
iirc add ‘DRI_PRIME=1’ before a command to use the amd gpu
alright will try that, I’m fairly sure the radeon gpu is being loaded by default though as radeontop shows the card with 100% usage and almost all its video memory.
Was just a thought. Sounds very vram limited
yep will try it nonetheless. card only has 1GB of vram though.
i3-370M is pretty trash, but the Madison/Redwood VLIW core can be overclocked pretty well via BIOS flash or software.
Interesting, I’ll have to give this a look.
One of my contacts for PC parts gave me a stack of motherboards that he claims were completely dead. No power or anything.
So far I’ve got one X79 board half-working (only works running dual-channel RAM), one completely working X58 board, and one working 780i board out of the stack. The rest of these boards I can’t test since they’re Z97 and I don’t have any Haswell tester chips.
“Stack of worthless, dead boards,” he says. 
you should be getting way better FPS than that though
Yeah is strange, do you think trying the AMD proprietary driver might provide better results?
Definitely but i dont think you can use the new ones with that card
yes I believe I have to use the catalyst drivers, iirc is it was I used to use on this laptop before.
So from looking around installing the catalyst drivers on Fedora is an absolute bitch to get working without breaking anything and since AMD discontinued support for it the open source drivers apparently provide way better performance anyway and it isn’t worth it. thought I’d try it anyway and they won’t install because my version of Xorg is so new it doesn’t even recognize it.
RIP. so what are you going todo?
I’m not sure if there is much else I can do other than trying to get the catalyst drivers to work on Fedora or switch to Ubuntu as they are still supported and see if that helps but don’t really want to go that route.
could downgrade your fedora version or install ubuntu to see if it even helps
If it doesnt then just wipe the install and continue on as normal
I could but I’m not sure what Fedora version I should downgrade to. everything I can find for getting the drivers to work is on Fedora 24 or below and even rpm fusion removed them because of how fucked they were on Fedora so its looking like Ubuntu might be my best option.
