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How to improve Compiz performance on AMD's Catalyst trash can. (I mean driver!)


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Roland Taylor
published Dec. 4, 2012, 4 p.m.


Or more specifically, if you use anything below the latest and greatest, and are forced to use their legacy driver as I am, here's how to actually use Unity without causing physical bodily harm to everyone around you when you throw your computer, doused in gasoline and burning.

First, you must install CCSM.

  • Then, go to Open GL.
  • Then, disable Vertex buffer object
  • Then, stop crying at how your life over.
  • Then, enjoy your Unity Desktop (AT LAST!!!!)

Amazingly, this problem doesn't happen with the open source drivers, but that's another story for another post (and believe you me, a lot of these are on the way ;).