Mesa Adds More Linux Games To OpenGL Threading Whitelist

[kparal]

if this gets Saints Row 2 working on Linux then its f***ing huge news

It still runs like crap. Just instead of 25 FPS you get 30 FPS. That's a huge boost only in relative numbers. But after reading game discussions, that doesn't seem to be a driver issue, even Windows users complain about the same thing. It's simply a very very crappy port.

[geearf]

i mean it plays like crap

That it did, many crashes and issues with PA :/

[kparal]

If anybody wants to help out testing more games, here are instructions:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/wiki/Performance_impact_of_Mesa_glthread

[SystemCrasher]

It still runs like crap. Just instead of 25 FPS you get 30 FPS. That's a huge boost only in relative numbers.

And it matters. You would have hard time noticing you're doing 125FPS instead of 120 so it would be very little difference to user experience. However, 30FPS instead of 25 would considerably improve experience. Sure, it would still be suboptimal, BUT 25 FPS are worse and for most players 25-30FPS is a "pain threshold" between "totally unplayable" and "suxx, but barely works". Getting over "pain threshold" is something that really counts.