AMD Posts Initial AMDGPU Hybrid Driver With Vulkan Support

[Kano]

You need to specify glamor? I don't think you have got a choice.

[calexil]

Have you tried tearfree?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI#Driver_options

tl;dr:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-radeon.conf

Section "Device"
Identifier "Radeon"
Driver "amdgpu"
Option "AccelMethod" "glamor"
Option "DRI" "3"
Option "TearFree" "on"
EndSection

Yes I did exactly that, still tearing like crazy

should be noted That I am on kernel 4.2.0-35 mint mate 17.3 marco wm no compositing

[pete910]

AMD has conformant drivers, No linux ones though

https://www.khronos.org/conformance/adopters/conformant-products

Yes I did exactly that, still tearing like crazy

should be noted That I am on kernel 4.2.0-35 mint mate 17.3 marco wm no compositing

Put a post up about testing the valley bench on extreme , rather than ultra.

[bridgman]

should be noted That I am on kernel 4.2.0-35 mint mate 17.3 marco wm no compositing

Aren't you always going to get tearing when running without a compositor (other than full screen games with vsync enabled) ?

IIRC the Linux Catalyst driver included triple-buffering code which basically emulated a compositor even if you weren't running one, but I don't think we have anything like that in amdgpu (there was a lot of push-back about it in Catalyst).

EDIT - I'm not sure what the TearFree option in X does these days, will ask around.

[Nille_kungen]

AMD has conformant drivers, No linux ones though

https://www.khronos.org/conformance/...rmant-products

No news here since there's only an early beta of amdgpu-pro for ubuntu 14.04.
IIUC the vulkan is the same that's in windows so once the pro driver is out for real then we should have an conformant vulkan driver.

[calexil]

Aren't you always going to get tearing when running without a compositor (other than full screen games with vsync enabled) ?

IIRC the Linux Catalyst driver included triple-buffering code which basically emulated a compositor even if you weren't running one, but I don't think we have anything like that in amdgpu (there was a lot of push-back about it in Catalyst).

EDIT - I'm not sure what the TearFree option in X does these days, will ask around.

It should be noted that I tried compton and metacity compositing to no avail

more info here: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/c..._tearfree_and/

and here: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gamin...380x_and_test/

[calexil]

AMD has conformant drivers, No linux ones though

https://www.khronos.org/conformance/adopters/conformant-products

Put a post up about testing the valley bench on extreme , rather than ultra.

for now I am more concerned with getting tearfree working.. benchmarks can wait.

more info here: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gamin...380x_and_test/

and here:https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/c..._tearfree_and/

[bridgman]

Which driver were you using with your GCN 1.0 card and was that tear-free ? Just trying to figure out what the baseline should be here...

Also my recollection is that compositors used to have the ability to enable/disable vsync just like games - if the compositor isn't locking to vsync then I think you'll get bad tearing even with a compositor.

[calexil]

Which driver were you using with your GCN 1.0 card and was that tear-free ? Just trying to figure out what the baseline should be here...

Also my recollection is that compositors used to have the ability to enable/disable vsync just like games - if the compositor isn't locking to vsync then I think you'll get bad tearing even with a compositor.

For my r9 270 I was using fglrx crimson 15.203 from the amd website, desktop tearfree on, 3d off unless app specefies. I was using the marco(MATE) wm and no compositor.

[calexil]

bridgman you can contact me a lot faster on irc freenode #gamingonlinux I'm on 24/7

also fglrx crimson 15.203 and the r9 380x do not play nice even on older kernels, tearfree not functioning

I am starting to think Im cursed... I bought a newer gpu to get better performance... and all I got was more issues

[NEVERMIND I SOLVED IT!!!](https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/c..._beta_drivers/)