Catalyst 15.7 For Linux Is Turning Out To Be A Rather Nice Driver Update

[dungeon]

Cool that is fixed for VLIWs

Reading too much air-cooled Fury (non X) reviews today

[kernelOfTruth]

http://steamcommunity.com/app/8870/d...2115078131777/

Seems like the driver 15.7 added GL_EXT_texture_compression_rgtc for older cards - or at least fixed the issues with them

BioShock Infinite appears to run with e.g. the Radeon HD 5850


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[kernelOfTruth]

http://steamcommunity.com/app/8870/discussions/0/537402115078131777/

Linux: AMD Catalyst 15.7 fixes missing texture bug in Radeons older than 7000 series

Not mentioned in the release notes but it appears Bioshock Infinite now displays textures properly with the latest proprietary Catalyst drivers for Linux on my Radeon HD 5850.

Looks like AMD fixed GL_EXT_texture_compression_rgtc on older GPUs.

Can others confirm?

Gotta love AMD ! <3

[dungeon]

He, he, if you guys think that way than Mesa can't also advertise even OpenGL 1.1... because glAccum isn't hardware accelerated

Or whatever some driver has one rendering bug on one generation, then version advertising must be removed or something

Do somone actually test skinning with VLIW hardware on this driver, i dunno it might be fixed?

[eydee]

It is nice that AMD works on GCN hardware, but the latest AMD gfx cards i have got are HD 5670 (3 of em). Does AMD expect that somebody buys a card just to test new features - they should better drop support if they don't fix issues anymore.

This. As long as these cards are supported and the box says OpenGL 4 support, not even having OpenGL 3 is not only bad procedure but also false advertising. (GL_EXT_texture_compression_rgtc is an OpenGL 3 extension.) AMD didn't seem to care this far, even though game developers themselves keep reporting such issues. No wonder that everyone goes green regardless that AMD could dominate the gaming market through the consoles...

[dungeon]

They will drop it... not sure what is an issue with that skinning it only works right on CI (SI maybe?) and with fglrx. On radeon driver (or with older hardware with fglrx) it is also more or less broken.

But yeah hardware skinning it is not something essential just a bit of performance feature, maybe up to +10% more performance for those models and in some games where it is enabled... well if it works right

edit: and yeah, if anyone does not know feature is also broken on intel drivers, swrast, llvm-pipe or whatever

[Kano]

It is nice that AMD works on GCN hardware, but the latest AMD gfx cards i have got are HD 5670 (3 of em). Does AMD expect that somebody buys a card just to test new features - they should better drop support if they don't fix issues anymore.

[dungeon]

Skinning works fine on CI here (althorough checked in Torchlight 2), there only it seems VLIW hardware has that issue... skinning is also borked with radeonsi driver just for your information, etc...

Not that i am using fglrx most of the time (radeon mostly), but i am really impressed by this new Catalyst, it is never better and in every area

[eydee]

Sadly, Civ Beyond Earth is still broken on my 5770 GPU, but differently. Bad terrain flickering this time (which makes it unplayable).

Do you have Bioshock Infinite? If you do, could you check if character skinning works this time?

[oleid]

Sadly, Civ Beyond Earth is still broken on my 5770 GPU, but differently. Bad terrain flickering this time (which makes it unplayable).