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now seriously, i could call a glitch that maybe the got wrong certain function or well nvidia do some trcikery and got everyone using an X extesion in a non standart way so amd have to adapt it or figth it BUT
* 2d slowliness is not a glitch, i mean really i have 2 4850x2 (3200 cores) and i can see how the pixel get rendered 1 by 1 lol, that's no a little regression
* 3d well, fglrx is cool to hit 20000 in glxgears, everything else you can expect any sort of issues that goes from sigsegv, kernel panic (this are quite funny btw), running out of disc cuz the massive syslog warning from the kernel, wine is unusable even in some 2d apps, many native games fails to run (i give ya, this could be partly fault of the engine), shader get messed up depending the driver version (fglrx driver version choose process is as complex as select a good wine lol), composite well that is a beast of issues on his own that again go from massive slowness to massive memory leaks depending the driver version, that is not a simple regression.
*crossfire, well if in X driver version works (some version do, some version crack the hell of the mother of the kernel panics) normally is massive slower than windows, make games more problematic than normal (well in ubuntu beta driver improved a bit, at least the kernel panic dont force me to remove the power plug of my pc and happen less often), either way crossfire is something you want disabled unless you tested it enough
OpenCL, well is still beta i think, but im my testcases, well the library is there but it has too many issues. we were trying an opencl book example and it runned just fine everywhere aka (winX/mac/nvidia/AMD) but never in amd linux(the sdk provide a diff driver but you need to downgrade half distro to use it, i didint try it, at the end i just stopped caring). but well this is not a simple regression but i give you that having the source code of that library could accelerate OSS own's opencl development speed
UVD, well is basically garbage without a nasty combo of version library's, but well if you get it to at least render, well is not even close to vdpau or OSS XV quality, beside in my case, hung my computer after 35ishm of playing hd content (at least for me dont worth the figth, for me is easier just to put a gtx240 in my htpc, wich is like 3m lol), another not a simple regression
GL4, again could work as reference but is still very inmature and buggy, at least unigine heaven demo was very slow, aka my 8800gts 320 almost beated my quadfire with 3200 cores (i guess still need work cuz this api is too new), well i musts say is more like gl 3.3 cuz my card is 4xxx series, now i dont doubt maybe evergreen is a beast in gl4, aka the optimize it only to show off in evergreen, who knows
well, you name advanced memory manager, i would say advanced memory leaker, but well at least has got better than the 9 series of fglrx, and in very powerful system is less noticeable (still i dont like my gfx to steal 1gb of my ram but wth i have 7gb more to work) (i mean i log without anything 3d and the memory for as long as i work is around 500mb, now if i activate let say compiz or kwin in 30m my ram is getting near the 2.2gb and so on until it finally get stuff slower and i have to restart the xorg, obviously i tried with different distros and the OSS driver and it doesnt happen )
i dont say fglrx is completly worthless, i believe that hiring a nice QA manager they can improve a lot in the next years, my point is this bug'S arent few simple regression, this many bug are very heavy problem that even in the case of been released bu amd (which wont ever happen. btw. several thread about it), the community will have to wait a huge time to get something that worth the effort, up to this point i dont see the need of get fps parity with fglrx at the expense of all the time fixing those bugs, when the open stack can be much simpler to maintain and not that slow away from fglrx (when the optimization process get there obviously), and well opencl cant be that hard (is supposed to be royalty free from scracth so maybe get the docs should be easier for amd to release)
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