New Catalyst 13.11 Beta Supports The R9 290X

[d2kx]

The drivers seem stable to me, it's just that their performance has been a horrendous in games using the source engine up until 3.11 beta. (There's the gl_finish 1 "fix", but it breaks after some use in some games and causes video corruption on my system with lighting.) They also seem to be getting better with putting out updates frequently that actually make a difference, so I must say I'm pretty happy now. But I do have pretty bad indigestion from all that coffee.

Don't use gl_finish 1 with 13.11 Beta 6 and newer. It halves the performance and should not be needed anymore.

[molecule-eye]

Don't use gl_finish 1 with 13.11 Beta 6 and newer. It halves the performance and should not be needed anymore.

Yeah, I haven't been using it since 13.11. It does feel a bit strange though being able to run a game without doing some hackish thing to it to get it to run smoothly. I sort of miss typing in "gl_finish 1" into a game console at start up. It's like a warm up to the game.

[darkbasic]

Oh and thanks for the bits about performance! Interestingly I didn't had those input latency problems since a patch a few months ago (only tested in L4D2), but that game has such huge lag spikes (not sure if that's caused by GPU or CPU...but I guess it's a GPU problem)

For me Left 4 Dead 2 is simply unplayable with latest catalyst, on the contrary it works very well with open source radeon drivers. HD7950.

Edit: I'm talking about beta5, still didn't try beta6.

[Detructor]

For me Left 4 Dead 2 is simply unplayable with latest catalyst, on the contrary it works very well with open source radeon drivers. HD7950.

Edit: I'm talking about beta5, still didn't try beta6.

just installed beta6, L4D2 runs nearly perfectly fine. Only had three or four small lags and even those were hardly noticeable. My GPU is a HD5870.

[darkbasic]

I can't bump x11-drivers/ati-drivers-13.11_beta to beta6, I get this error:

>>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-13.11_beta6/work ...
 * Preparing fglrx module
make -j8 HOSTCC=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc CROSS_COMPILE=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu- 'LDFLAGS=-m elf_x86_64' GCC_VER_MAJ=4 KVER=3.12.0-rc6-fglrx--core-avx-i KDIR=/usr/src/linux 'CFLAGS_MODULE+=-DMODULE -DATI -DFGL' CFLAGS_MODULE+=-DCOMPAT_ALLOC_USER_SPACE=arch_compat_alloc_user_space kmod_build 
make -C /usr/src/linux M=/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-13.11_beta6/work/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-3.12-rc6-fglrx-core-avx-i'
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-13.11_beta6/work/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-13.11_beta6/work/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_acpi.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-13.11_beta6/work/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_agp.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-13.11_beta6/work/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_debug.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-13.11_beta6/work/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_ioctl.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-13.11_beta6/work/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_pci.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-13.11_beta6/work/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_io.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-13.11_beta6/work/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_str.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-13.11_beta6/work/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_iommu.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-13.11_beta6/work/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-13.11_beta6/work/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_wait.o
  LD [M]  /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-13.11_beta6/work/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/fglrx.o
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 1 modules
  CC      /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-13.11_beta6/work/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/fglrx.mod.o
  LD [M]  /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-13.11_beta6/work/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/fglrx.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-3.12-rc6-fglrx-core-avx-i'
 * Building fgl_glxgears ...
In file included from /usr/include/GL/glx.h:332:0,
                 from fgl_glxgears.c:77:
/usr/include/GL/glxext.h:682:24: error: expected declaration specifiers or ?...? before ?*? token
 typedef GLXContextID ( * PFNGLXGETCONTEXTIDEXTPROC) (const GLXContext context);
                        ^
/usr/include/GL/glxext.h:683:67: error: unknown type name ?GLXContextID?
 typedef GLXContext ( * PFNGLXIMPORTCONTEXTEXTPROC) (Display *dpy, GLXContextID contextID);
                                                                   ^

Do someone know how to fix the ebuild for beta6?

Thanks

[darkbasic]

Kind of fixed, here is my ebuild: http://bpaste.net/show/144099/

[darkbasic]

WOW, beta 6 REALLY does MIRACLES

[xpris]

What is it this gl_finish? I'm no expert and do not know what's going on. What is it, What is this for, where it is used, where it activates, where off? As for it gives, what changes?

Can someone explain to me? Because the only thing I'm doing is simply installs the drivers Catalyst, and nothing besides, I do not change them.

Sorry, for noobs question

[Kemosabe]

Well, there is definetly a remarkable performance improvement.
Still HL2 EP2 does not feel very responsive but at least its fluid now. Mouse lag is low but still existing!
And there is a strange camera shaking with HL2: Lost Coast. TF2 is fluid.
X-Plane 10 crashes.
(Euro Truck Simulator 2 performance is really good now! Sir, you are being hunted: +25% fps!)

Can you guys confirm this or is something wrong with my setup?

[d2kx]

What is it this gl_finish? I'm no expert and do not know what's going on. What is it, What is this for, where it is used, where it activates, where off? As for it gives, what changes?

Can someone explain to me? Because the only thing I'm doing is simply installs the drivers Catalyst, and nothing besides, I do not change them.

Sorry, for noobs question

It was an experimental workaround in the Source Engine to counter the input lag with the Catalyst driver. You should forget about it and just use the new Beta 6.

Well, there is definetly a remarkable performance improvement.
Still HL2 EP2 does not feel very responsive but at least its fluid now. Mouse lag is low but still existing!
And there is a strange camera shaking with HL2: Lost Coast. TF2 is fluid.
X-Plane 10 crashes.
(Euro Truck Simulator 2 performance is really good now! Sir, you are being hunted: +25% fps!)

Can you guys confirm this or is something wrong with my setup?

AntiAliasing still causes some problems with performance and input latency, so try if disabling AA helps. Also there are some corner cases like using flashlight in HL2 which are still somewhat problematic, so it's not just you.