Mesa 19.1 Adds Workaround For Epic Games Launcher With OpenGL

[Brisse]

Adarion Agree, and also the fact that this shitty games launcher doesn't even have a native Linux release. *sigh*

[Adarion]

Obviously this is the wrong way. If the SW does something wrong, the very game SW should be fixed and not mesa acquiring quirk after quirk for faulty SW. This might be one reason blob drivers are so huge: of course, bundled non-sense and 100 language packs you never need, but also quirks, compatibility profiles, cheats for benchmarks and so on.
But I guess it's still "easier" or at least done faster to workaround in mesa than wait for a game (launcher) to change its behaviour.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa 19.1 Adds Workaround For Epic Games Launcher With OpenGL

The latest change merged for Mesa 19.1 is a workaround so the Epic Games' game launch correctly renders when using OpenGL...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-191-Workaround-Epic-Launch