SOLVED - Switching to AMD GPU| blender issues
I upgraded my trusty old GTX1060 to a RX7600XT. Everything works as it should except for blender. It doesn't find the GPU as a rendering device.
Since the driver manager states "No drivers needed" and when running glxinfo | grep "OpenGL version" in the terminal, it outputs
OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 24.2.8-1ubuntu1~24.04.1 I figured I had all important drivers installed.
I don't know why blender won't find the GPU. Do you have any advice for a newbie?
::: spoiler sys specs Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon Linux Kernel 6.8.0-53-generic CPU Ryzen 7 5800x GPU RX7600XT MoBo MSI B550A-Pro RAM 16 GB @3600mHz :::
Solution: Didn't have ROCm installed. For anyone with the same issue, here is a link to the guide I used. I don't know if these were necessary for the solution, but here are the amd drivers, just in case ;)
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What version of Blender do you have running? You can try to add yourself to the video and render group which may get it working. In terminal:
I had this issue and it only worked when I downloaded it from the website and ran it, not from steam or flatpak. I don't have it installed anymore and I'm not sure what the underlying issue was, but you can try that.
Do you have it installed via flatpack/snap? IIRC flatpack/snap doesn't support AMD Hip.
Grab the tarball from here and give that a shot.
Had it installed via steam, gave it a shot, sadly didn't work. But thanks still :D
Maybe you have to install the proprietary driver including the OpenCL stack. See https://amdgpu-install.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install-installing.html