mesa drivers or amdgpu pro

[Fei the SCREAMING BEAN!]

i was excited to se this on linux as it would make a good alternative to fallout. but im really disappointed that there's no support for amd
my specs are as followed
ubuntu 16.04 LTS
amd rx480 gpu
fx8570 8 core cpu
and im using amdgpu pro driver. i see forums talking about mesa drivers somehow bewing better but i dont knowhow to ACTUALLY USE them. most of my other games run fine using amdgpu pro. meanwhile this is the only game i have sofar that gripes at having unsupported card/driver all while flickering and glitching and crashing. it would be really appreaciated if there was a guide somewhere on how to get the drivers needed and setup correctly so i can actually play this game...without impairing my ability to play other games.

[Flesh]

Use one of these Ubuntu PPAs to get a more up to date version of Mesa for Ubuntu:

https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/mesa

https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/ubuntu/graphics-drivers

Then switch to the amdgpu or radeonsi driver - either should work well for your card, though I think amdgpu has more advanced features (e.g. working Vulkan support etc.)

[Fei the SCREAMING BEAN!]

sofar the first link was garbage but the second link installed without complaints. now how do i actrually use the open source amdgpu drivers. as i said before i have the rx480 card and sofar other games only work right if i install the pro driver

[Fei the SCREAMING BEAN!]

nevermind. threads like these seem to neglect mentioning kernel updates

[Beanow]

I found that amgpu-pro 17.10-429170 and 17.10-446706 froze my entire system when in the loading screen. I had to switch to Mesa.

GL_RENDERER: Gallium 0.4 on AMD HAWAII (DRM 2.49.0 / 4.10.0-26-generic, LLVM 3.8.0)
GL_VERSION: 3.0 Mesa 12.0.6

The PPA listed above however wouldn't install the 32bit libraries preventing steam from running. So these are the Ubuntu 16.04 standard mesa drivers.