Open-Source Win: RADV Trades Blows With AMDGPU-PRO Vulkan In F1 2017

[eydee]

Has anyone had any problems? My system freezes after a few seconds of starting to play the game. I'm using Mesa 17.2.3 with openSUSE Tumbleweed, running RX480 and Ryzen 5 1600. I have tried to update the bios to the latest version and force the kernel update 4.14rc7, but it still fails.

I think I have identified the problem. It seems to happen when I activate the "smoke shadows" option.

Any help?

First of all, try disabling the steam overlay. It's known to cause lockups in vulkan games.

[Jumbotron]

There finally seems to be an inflection point especially for AMD that open source drivers are finally not only matching the proprietary but are beginning to outmatch them. In many instances by a LOT ! Just outstanding work !! Hopefully results like these will continue to inspire other open source projects. It really does seem that the entirety of Open Source is reaching some paradigm shift of quality and robustness which hopefully causes an acceleration of both in the future over multiple projects.

[M@yeulC]

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I'm impressed!
I would like to see a community effort on running the open source driver on windows.
Best case, AMD drops support for the other drivers :P

[sa666666]

Also it would be nice to have both RADV and AMD Vulkan implementation.

I disagree. What would be nice is for both the RADV developers and AMD team up and create one outstanding driver, based on the best of both projects. Rather than duplicate effort and have one of them good in one area and not another, and vice-versa. In the latter case, users would have to choose one or the other, and never get the best of both worlds.

[Guest]

It will be some fun healthy competition between them once AMD open sources it.

There is already a competition between them and IF AMD ever open-sources its driver then people will (or should) investigate pros/cons of both and axe lesser driver for spare parts. Nvidia binary blob vs amd driver is a healthy competition (both on hardware and software front).

Existence of multiple AMD drivers isn't helping anyone, it just bleeds resources (driver developers, distro maintainers, game developers) and ultimately fractures already fractured linux space.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Hope the next amdgpu pro release brings a Vulkan performance uplift.

It's definitely nowhere near on par with its Windows counterpart.

[M@GOid]

Has anyone had any problems? My system freezes after a few seconds of starting to play the game. I'm using Mesa 17.2.3 with openSUSE Tumbleweed, running RX480 and Ryzen 5 1600. I have tried to update the bios to the latest version and force the kernel update 4.14rc7, but it still fails.

I think I have identified the problem. It seems to happen when I activate the "smoke shadows" option.

Any help?

I have those freezes too, on a RX 570 and a i7 3770k. Will try run it with all on the very low to see what happens.

[Xillendo]

It's definitely nowhere near on par with its Windows counterpart.

Yes, for some reason, AMD Vulkan driver on Linux is slower than on Windows.

[chimpy]

It's definitely nowhere near on par with its Windows counterpart.

Yea, but how much of that is the driver and how much of that are the games

[nuetzel]

First of all, try disabling the steam overlay. It's known to cause lockups in vulkan games.

What do I have to consider?
I think it is always disabled on our sons account...