Gallium3D Optimizations Published For BioShock Infinite

[eydee]

Yea, look at those optimizations for a 3 year old single-player game nobody cares about anymore!
In a meanwhile, popular games still played today struggle to run...

If you optimize a certain technology for 1 game, other games using the same thing will also be faster. Also "popular games still played today" are mostly windows-only, Infinite as of this day is still among the best linux has available.

[feregember]

Yea, look at those optimizations for a 3 year old single-player game nobody cares about anymore!

BioShock: The Collection is expected to be released in 2016 september. It will contain the remasterd Bioshock 1, 2, and all DLCs along with Bioshock 3. Bioshock 1 & 2 gets hires textures and (I guess) the engine of Bioshock 3. Bioshock 3 engine is ported to linux, and now Marek is working on making it faster.

http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/BioShock:_The_Collection

[haagch]

Yea, look at those optimizations for a 3 year old single-player game nobody cares about anymore!

I haven't played it yet, because it wasn't playable on my HD 7970M.

Before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BbyRx90czc
After: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA5PRrIrpVM
(I know, not a very accurate test since it is neither the same settings nor the same scenes. Still shows a general trend in performance)

It's still not where it should be, but much better.

If it improves a little bit more I might even play it through to the end.

[duby229]

That's OK though. It's "feel" of game play that's most important for most people. Exactly repeatable benchmarks can't give a sense of how the game feels, only an actual play thru can. If you can play a bit and it feels ok, that's what is important. At least IMHO.

[Passso]

Yea, look at those optimizations for a 3 year old single-player game nobody cares about anymore!

I am currently playing it.

[frosth]

I want to see tests!

low res but I don't have 1080p for now.

http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1607181-HA-BIO00295886

It's really good.
Thanks Marek

[trek]

If you optimize a certain technology for 1 game, other games using the same thing will also be faster.

exactly, these patches divides the internal buffer object cache into buckets, so when there is the need to clear the cache, only the objects into the specified bucket are cleared (actually used only by radeon drivers)

[Kemosabe]

Get over yourself. You just marginalized the people who still like to play games that aren't within a month or two of their release. I was just playing this the other day.
Get a console if you want to be on the cutting edge of gaming but still use 100% open-source stuff on your PC.

Yeah and as soon as SteamOS driven SteamBoxes are more common, everybody will complain that their games collection performs significantly worse and that's the reason why Linux suxxz111!!!!11

[smitty3268]

Yea, look at those optimizations for a 3 year old single-player game nobody cares about anymore!
In a meanwhile, popular games still played today struggle to run...

I'm honestly curious what games you are talking about that are more popular and newer than Bioshock Infinite.

Also, I'd be willing to bet the stuff Marek is doing to improve performance on this game also helps out on many other Feral ports (and likely other modern games as well). Looking at the patches, it's stuff like reducing stalls from fences and improved pbo caching, which are very much general case optimizations.

[artivision]

I'm still searching for the promised RX470 (2048 shaders) at 150 bucks.