I present a solution, that I should have done. Not it becomes interesting: I had an older driver (amdgpu 17.40) installed and planned to just install the new driver via the amdgpu-install script, hoping, that the older driver will be removed. Just make sure they look like this and save it ( Ctrl+O exit with Ctrl+X). There are two important entries in there, that have to look like this: The way I did it: Edit the /etc/os-release file ( sudo nano /etc/os-release). You have to let them believe, that they are on an Ubuntu 16.04.

The script checks your distro and dpkg also does it. tar.xz file which can be extracted with tar -xf. When I went there, the version was 18.30. Navigate to the Ubuntu x86 64-Bit section and you’ll find a part for Ubuntu 16.04.5 in there. You’ll be redirected to a list with operation systems. I just went to the driver support site and downloaded the driver for my configuration.

Graphics driver before installation: amdgpu 17.40.

I show you how to install the latest drivers (18.30-641594 at the time I wrote this article) to finally play games using Steam Play.

Users of the 18.2 version will have these problems, because there aren’t latest drivers available. Users of the Linux Mint 18.4 distribution won’t have any problems to get latest driver for their AMD GPU. With Steam Play it’s possible to play Windows games in Linux.

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