How to enable hyper-z on R500?

[darkbasic]

How to? is RADEON_HYPERZ=1 enough?

[darkbasic]

OMG, yes it's enough, +50% in openarena and perfect rendering

[Melcar]

Where do you pass that argument? Can you write in into .drirc?

[darkbasic]

Put

RADEON_HYPERZ=1

into ~/.bashrc

Actually my X1950XTX beats an HD6870 in world of padman with hyperz enabled
Benchmarks will follow

[Nille]

Its not so that on older cards only one App can use HyperZ?

[pingufunkybeat]

Wasn't this almost finished for r600+ too? Or at least somebody was working on it and it was relatively advanced?

This plus texture tiling and 2d colour tiling would make a huge impact on r600+ cards. We'd be really close to Catalyst.

[crazycheese]

Why are most interesting features are disabled and hidden in open drivers? I didn't know hyperz was finished. By the way, which level of hyperz we are talking about? (or are they handled by hardware and driver only turns compression on?)

[darkbasic]

http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1107175-DARK-110717430

Hyperz does help alot, the rendering was perfect except Smokin Guns and Tremolous which had problems. With another openarena timedemo I reached a nearly 50% boost.
World of padman is just impressive with R300g

I was testing R600g too but my Sandy Bridge system does not want to start anymore: ram led blinks, it doesn't matter if I use one or both the banks or if I change the slots, I even tried another PSU

[curaga]

r600 hyperz appears stalled, but the bug to follow is https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36602

@crazycheese

It's hidden and off by default because it isn't finished :P

[bridgman]

It's hidden and off by default because it isn't finished :P

Yep. I think the usual protocol is roughly :

* can cause problems even when disabled : in a branch
* code works OK when feature is disabled, works for "some people" but not "most people" when enabled : in master but disabled by default
* works for most people : enabled by default