Witcher 2 & Rocket League Get Fixed Up With Mesa 17.2 Git On RadeonSI

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Witcher 2 & Rocket League Get Fixed Up With Mesa 17.2 Git On RadeonSI

Marek Olšák's changes to make Rocket League and Witcher 2 happy on the RadeonSI OpenGL driver are now in place...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Witcher-2-Rocket-Mesa-Git

[Niarbeht]

I just found myself wondering if any of the Mesa devs have public Steam profiles. It'd be hilarious if a bunch of them got a few items fulfilled from their wishlist every [INSERT FAVORITE ANNUAL HOLIDAY].

[log0]

So the Rocket League fix also fixes Witcher 2.

[Veerappan]

So the Rocket League fix also fixes Witcher 2.

Both games depended on behavior specified by DirectX that is not specified in OpenGL. Because that behavior causes a performance hit, it's not the default behavior for radeonsi. The changes that were just merged allow setting a drirc override that forces the DirectX-style behavior, and the overrides were activated for Rocket League and Witcher 2 in 2 separate commits.

[cevito]

I just found myself wondering if any of the Mesa devs have public Steam profiles. It'd be hilarious if a bunch of them got a few items fulfilled from their wishlist every [INSERT FAVORITE ANNUAL HOLIDAY].

Mesa developers already get all games on Steam for free.

[shmerl]

The changes that were just merged allow setting a drirc override that forces the DirectX-style behavior, and the overrides were activated for Rocket League and Witcher 2 in 2 separate commits.

Did the variable for override exist before, or it was just introduced as well?

[droste]

Just introduced.

[shmerl]

Just introduced.

OK, I'll build Mesa to test it. Glad this is finally fixed, it was the only issue remaining with Mesa for the Witcher 2.

[shmerl]

By the way, the referenced commit is just for exposing the variable in drirc. The actual fix was here: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/me...ea6f09dc426f34

[Luke_Wolf]

Mesa developers already get all games on Steam for free.

Not quite. Debian and Mesa developers get all Valve games on steam for free and there may be a few other such deals in place but it's not all games on steam.