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Originally posted by andy_v View PostThere's no amdgpu driver goodness in 3.19. To my knowledge, patches haven't even been submitted for review yet, let alone reviewed (for instance, it took 6 revisions and 5 months for the HSA driver to finally get merged).
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Originally posted by molecule-eye View PostReally? What's Gallium like with latest mesa from git and kernel 3.18? I haven't seen any dips in online gaming with my 6870 using Gallium, and I was planning on upgrading to a 285 later, just to get that AMDGPU driver goodness in 3.19. But if the performance of a 290X is worse than my 6870 in Source games, forget it!
I can check latest Gallium/Mesa/etc. for you, if you you're interested that much, otherwise I wouldn't bother.
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Originally posted by alexThunder View PostIt's been a few months since I last tested Gallium, but it was significantly worse. Can't say anything about it's current state since I don't actively follow it (I just check it when I read something convincing about it's development). However, I had a Radeon 5870 before and with Catalyst the performance of Dota 2 didn't improve nearly as much as you might expect. That's not the case for other games, since every other one at least runs smoothly now.
I can check latest Gallium/Mesa/etc. for you, if you you're interested that much, otherwise I wouldn't bother.
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Hmmm...
So I'm guessing that I've done something wrong:
After upgrade zsnes no longer works - segfaults immediately. However, if I run it as root it runs without segmentation faults.
VAAPI decoding a 1080p high profile h264 video seems to take 100% of the cpu time - the previous driver version with the xvba va api bindings was more like 30%...
Anyone else observed this and/or is there something obvious I've missed?
-bms20
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Originally posted by molecule-eye View PostI'm quite interested since phoronix doesn't benchmark dota, but I'm not interested enough to waste your time if you yourself are not interested in checking out the performance of the latest mesa + 3.18. That said, I AM quite interested!
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Originally posted by MrCooper View PostWhat fix are you referring to? Keith's glamor glyphs rewrite hasn't even landed in Git master yet, so it most definitely won't be in 1.17. And I don't know of any other fix for this problem, so it's most likely not fixed yet I'm afraid.Last edited by dungeon; 10 December 2014, 09:44 PM.
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Originally posted by Master5000 View PostThis is why linux will never be popular on the desktop: matching driver with kernel version is a huge PITA. Linux world really needts to learn to play nice with closed source or else it will never have a chance.
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