A Bunch Of Gallium3D D3D9 Fixes Land In Mesa

[phoronix]

Phoronix: A Bunch Of Gallium3D D3D9 Fixes Land In Mesa

For users of "Gallium3D Nine", the state tracker providing Direct3D 9 API support within Mesa, there's a number of fixes that were pushed into Git this morning...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Gallium3D-Nine-April-Fixes

[duby229]

Phoronix: A Bunch Of Gallium3D D3D9 Fixes Land In Mesa

For users of "Gallium3D Nine", the state tracker providing Direct3D 9 API support within Mesa, there's a number of fixes that were pushed into Git this morning...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...ne-April-Fixes

Very cool. I'll be testing tonight. I'm very happy with Nine in general, and the fact that it's still active makes me even happier.

[jrch2k8]

Awesome, my r9-280 is trembling in joy to test it tonight

i mean just VCE 1.0 support and i will stop giving a shit for the rest and ill consider this driver perfect for some time(after all only 2 games requires gl4+ so far, so for this year gl3.3 + nine should suffice for my gaming needs) and opencl state is good enough for my current uses(image support would be good cherry in the top tho but not a killer for me)

All my love for FOSS developers

[blackout23]

As far as I know there was a Direct3D 10/11 state tracker around some years ago. Why is there no gallium-ten or gallium-eleven driver?

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=mesa_gallium3d_d3d11&num=1

Wonder how well that would run GTA V on Linux.

[duby229]

As far as I know there was a Direct3D 10/11 state tracker around some years ago. Why is there no gallium-ten or gallium-eleven driver?

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=mesa_gallium3d_d3d11&num=1

Wonder how well that would run GTA V on Linux.

My understanding at that time was Gallium drivers didn't implement all the features DX10 needed. I think TGSI wasn't adequate at that point.

Don't know about the current situation though.

[mannerov]

The main fixes to highlight are:

. The 'red shadow' bug on r600/radeonsi that affects several UE based games like Borderlands 2, etc has a workaround (note that windows driver has a workaround too, but slightly different)
. Several games that had black textures should be fixed

[mannerov]

As far as I know there was a Direct3D 10/11 state tracker around some years ago. Why is there no gallium-ten or gallium-eleven driver?

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=mesa_gallium3d_d3d11&num=1

Wonder how well that would run GTA V on Linux.

Would require quite some work to do a new - feature complete - one.
The one that was removed was not feature complete at all, and was only able to run very limited simple tests.

[haagch]

ill consider this driver perfect for some time(after all only 2 games requires gl4+ so far, so for this year gl3.3 + nine should suffice for my gaming needs)

I have more of a feeling the driver has been doing very well for a while, but lately has regressed.
For example I tried playing Counter Strike Global Offensive on my ivy bridge + HD 7970M laptop with prime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVDZowUGlSc
Yes I suck, but the constant flickering (I don't think all of these are prime synchronization artifacts) and performance drops (even on low settings @ 1366x768) are not helping. If you stick to the end of the video there's a bonus GPU lockup. On the other hand that's llvm 3.7 and mesa git, so perhaps it will get fixed before a next release.

[mannerov]

I have more of a feeling the driver has been doing very well for a while, but lately has regressed.
For example I tried playing Counter Strike Global Offensive on my ivy bridge + HD 7970M laptop with prime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVDZowUGlSc
Yes I suck, but the constant flickering (I don't think all of these are prime synchronization artifacts) and performance drops (even on low settings @ 1366x768) are not helping. If you stick to the end of the video there's a bonus GPU lockup. On the other hand that's llvm 3.7 and mesa git, so perhaps it will get fixed before a next release.

And did you try on gallium nine see the difference (should remove the flickering btw)

[haagch]

I haven't but I indeed expect it to run better. But what's the point in native applications if the windows version in wine keeps working better?