AMD Catalyst 13.6 Linux Graphics Driver Beta Released

[rikkinho]

simple

AMD... please update your Catalyst Legacy driver (for 3000/4000 series) to support latest X.org and Kernel!!\

Windows is on Catalyst Legacy 13.4, while Linux is still stuck on the old 13.1 version. WHY??

no comercial interest from amd ...

[gururise]

AMD... please update your Catalyst Legacy driver (for 3000/4000 series) to support latest X.org and Kernel!!\

Windows is on Catalyst Legacy 13.4, while Linux is still stuck on the old 13.1 version. WHY??

[schmidtbag]

Sounds like a typical vsync problem, have you made sure it's disabled in-game and in CCC? (also did you delete /etc/ati/amdpcsdb with Xorg shut down before upgrading?)

No such issue here, although FPS tank in WINE with vsync on.

(I've also noticed that I can't click on buttons in TF2's menu, actually I can only navigate with the arrow keys, but then again a quick googling points towards a TF2/old code bug.)

I can confirm that doesn't work. If anything, turning on vsync actually reduces the problem. There's still a delay but it's much more bearable. From my experience with portal, the "color correction" and "motion blur" options seem to have the greatest impact on this issue, but turning them off doesn't eliminate it.

[PsynoKhi0]

Unfortunately, again the same as the 13.4 ... "slow motion effect" for mouse in 3D applications ... tested on AMD APU E-350 for example on: Xonotic, Couter Strike: Source, etc..

Sounds like a typical vsync problem, have you made sure it's disabled in-game and in CCC? (also did you delete /etc/ati/amdpcsdb with Xorg shut down before upgrading?)

No such issue here, although FPS tank in WINE with vsync on.

(I've also noticed that I can't click on buttons in TF2's menu, actually I can only navigate with the arrow keys, but then again a quick googling points towards a TF2/old code bug.)

[edoantonioco]

And Catalyst-legacy?

I hope there will be a new version of the catalyst-legacy driver avaiable in june (the legacy driver is released each 6 months)

[d2kx]

Windows isn't anywhere near as bad about it though - I personally find it tolerable in Windows. In Portal with same graphics settings, the mouse doesn't lag so bad, but there are noticeable frame drops. However, I am using Crossfire, which could be the cause of the frame drops (crossfire doesn't work in Portal for linux).

Portal on Windows uses DirectX 9. Although Valve wants to switch to OpenGL eventually there aswell. Try Unigine Heaven (OpenGL) on Windows.

[schmidtbag]

It's a bug in the OpenGL driver. It's on Windows, too.

Windows isn't anywhere near as bad about it though - I personally find it tolerable in Windows. In Portal with same graphics settings, the mouse doesn't lag so bad, but there are noticeable frame drops. However, I am using Crossfire, which could be the cause of the frame drops (crossfire doesn't work in Portal for linux).

[ext73]

Have you tried running desktop without compositor? Try XFCE without and with its own compositor. The issue could actually be compiz, limiting the onscreen frame rate.

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PS. Use opensource drivers instead.

Only it is not a matter of the compositor ... I use KDE, and here both in 3d for fullscreen windows and not ... is the same ... at 13.3 beta3 is ideally ... with the beta2 13.3, 13.4 and 13.6 beta are such problems.

[d2kx]

Have you tried running desktop without compositor? Try XFCE without and with its own compositor. The issue could actually be compiz, limiting the onscreen frame rate.

It's a bug in the OpenGL driver. It's on Windows, too.

[Vim_User]

VTs work ? since 13.2beta I don't have VTs on my system (switching to console produces a black screen with no prompt). I went back to 13.1, VTs work, X3:Albion Prelude from Steam does not crash anymore on startup ...

Same problem here, has anyone tested that with the new drivers?