AMDVLK 2019.Q2.5 Brings Fixes For World War Z, F1 2018, Other Optimizations

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMDVLK 2019.Q2.5 Brings Fixes For World War Z, F1 2018, Other Optimizations

The AMDVLK 2019.Q2.5 driver was released this morning as the newest open-source Radeon Vulkan driver for Linux systems wishing to use this official driver as an alternative to the Mesa RADV driver...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMDVLK-2019.Q2.5-Released

[mphuZ]

Also:

Implement HDR10 support

[xxmitsu]

No mention about Navi support, yet?

[aufkrawall]

It crashes nicely at least every game with DXVK I've started so far. Do they even test it at all before calling it a "release"?

[nadro]

It crashes nicely at least every game with DXVK I've started so far. Do they even test it at all before calling it a "release"?

I checked ELEX, The Witcher 3, Strange Brigade and all those three games works fine.

[bridgman]

It crashes nicely at least every game with DXVK I've started so far. Do they even test it at all before calling it a "release"?

It's definitely tested prior to release but I don't know if the testing includes DXVK yet.

[Masush5]

Also:

Not really interesting for desktop linux, because no window system (neither X nor wayland) supports it and the relevant vulkan extensions are not exposed.
It would be more directly beneficial if they implemented freesync or even proper vsync handling (see https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK/issues/16) which radv already supports.

[Evil Penguin]

Any indication when FreeSync support will be added? It's sorely missed and even RADV supports it.

[ernstp]

It's definitely tested prior to release but I don't know if the testing includes DXVK yet.

They mention a DXVK specific bugfix so it sounds like they test that also!

[aufkrawall]

bridgman

It's definitely tested prior to release but I don't know if the testing includes DXVK yet.

Thanks. It was an issue in a custom wine build that somehow only affected amdvlk, but not radv.
Though, the situation regarding both vsync and freesync is very unsatisfying:

https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK/issues/16

amdvlk would be much more recommendable without these issues.