heads up - radeonSI

[fallenbit]

arch linux 64
just got kernel 3.19.2-1...
mesa 10.5.1

best experience ever ! Thanks !
wine 1.7.38
bf2 AIX2
Kaveri 7850 RAM at 2133 (RAM 2400 cheap, can only run at 2133), 2x 4 GB

Suddenly bf2 AIX2 runs fully smoothly, I'm in the air for a long time.
I've had a core quad 9400 and a NVidia 275GTX w GDDR3 796? for a long time (note DDR3, not DDR5!)

The Kaveri with open source drivers wins hands down over the old combo with NVidia binery blob (it was a DDR3, a castrate!)
Never had I a smoother game play as of today - about 10 years after the game was released (2005).
BUT! The APU is better than my old dedicated config, with which I played BF2Company and BF3 while I had Winx - I do not have any more for some time.
Hm, what I was hindered by hardware back then, I only really got shown today!

Thanks, you make this hardware shine !

(I know, it's old stuff, but the last with own server !!)

Happy gaming !
fallenbit

[peppercats]

didn't see any improvement, then again I use the mesa-git repo

[sonnet]

Can pls anyone enlighten me? If I want to try gallium-nine performance with wine games, do i still need to install the 'native directx runtimes' ? (the ones that you download from microsoft website)
I obviously use open source drivers