By Luck, Marek Discovers A "Serious Performance Fix" For RadeonSI

[torsionbar28]

It's not really by luck. The guy is an expert and top-notch programmer. He created this improvement by being an expert and trying things.

Precisely. Winning the lotto is luck. Being good at what you do and working hard to achieve real results is not luck.

[bridgman]

This seems to be a good example of the old saying "the harder you work, the luckier you are".

[treba]

valley extreme hd preset
before
1233
after
1607(1623 on windows)

Wow! But just to be sure: on windows you used the opengl renderer, too? And did you test the linux performance with the properitary driver?

[pewspewpew]

I think (did not bother to patch at the time, so not sure) this one fixed Saints Row IV a little bit.
getting minimum 19fps now. I still remember having 8 at times this year.