Unigine OilRush Officially Ships Today For Linux

[Ansla]

Just a heads up for those running the Free drivers and thinking about buying the game:

On my system (Ubuntu 11.10 with Gnome-Shell, using Oibaf's PPA), it currently runs at 30fps 95% of the time, with occasional drops down to ~26fps during heavy action scenes. My card is an HD5770 at 1920x1080, with all settings low except for texture quality (which doesn't seem to have much affect on the fps).


The strange thing is that it never goes above 30fps. It stays at exactly 30, which points to some limiting factor. Turning vsync on or off makes no difference, so something else is causing it. Any ideas? It's no big deal though since this type of game doesn't really require a higher frame rate..

You can add Option "SwapbuffersWait" "off" in your xorg.conf to completely disable any form of vsync. From the radeon man page:

Option "SwapbuffersWait" "boolean"
This option controls the behavior of glXSwapBuffers and glXCopySubBufferMESA calls by GL applications. If enabled, the calls will avoid tearing by making sure the display scanline is outside of the area to be copied before the copy occurs. If disabled, no scanline synchronization is performed, meaning tearing will likely occur. Note that when enabled, this option can adversely affect the framerate of applications that render frames at less than refresh rate.
The default value is on.

[marwi509]

Is there a demo available for the game yet?

[Hirager]

Just a heads up for those running the Free drivers and thinking about buying the game:

On my system (Ubuntu 11.10 with Gnome-Shell, using Oibaf's PPA), it currently runs at 30fps 95% of the time, with occasional drops down to ~26fps during heavy action scenes. My card is an HD5770 at 1920x1080, with all settings low except for texture quality (which doesn't seem to have much affect on the fps).


The strange thing is that it never goes above 30fps. It stays at exactly 30, which points to some limiting factor. Turning vsync on or off makes no difference, so something else is causing it. Any ideas? It's no big deal though since this type of game doesn't really require a higher frame rate..

The Radon driver does v-sync constantly, despite other program's settings, If I get it right. That is all Phoronix benchmarks on this driver are done with swap_buffer_wait=off, or whatever the variable for v-sync is called there. Concluding, if v-sync is constantly on, then the driver looses frames over 30 per second.

[benmoran]

Just a heads up for those running the Free drivers and thinking about buying the game:

On my system (Ubuntu 11.10 with Gnome-Shell, using Oibaf's PPA), it currently runs at 30fps 95% of the time, with occasional drops down to ~26fps during heavy action scenes. My card is an HD5770 at 1920x1080, with all settings low except for texture quality (which doesn't seem to have much affect on the fps).


The strange thing is that it never goes above 30fps. It stays at exactly 30, which points to some limiting factor. Turning vsync on or off makes no difference, so something else is causing it. Any ideas? It's no big deal though since this type of game doesn't really require a higher frame rate..

[storma]

A beta build 1.08 is out that includes the global lobby for games.

[smitty3268]

2D tiling could be a big win i'd think

Anyone adventurous enough to try rebuilding the entire graphics stack? Jerome Glisse says it's done with no piglit regressions: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archive...ry/018658.html

Then again, maybe a title like this is more shader limited. That's the kind of article I'd like to see from Michael, but I'm guessing he won't even test OilRush on the mesa drivers because he'd have to enable the patented code.

[benmoran]

Not to belabor the point, but 49/36 = 36%, which means 13fps => 18fps.

I know someone else has reported 17-23fps on the open drivers, but i don't recall what hardware they had.

That's me. I have an HIS branded HD5770, which I believe has stock memory and core clocks. I'm running a fairly stock Oneiric install with Oibaf's PPA, no special tweaks. I am using Gnome Shell, so the compositor might be a factor.

[smitty3268]

hey thank you now i get it.. but with the PCIE option there are no 50-100$ speed up.

nexuiz 36fps vs 49fps its only 26,5%

13fps+26,5%= 14,26fps LOL!

no sorry a hd6870 will not fix my problem. ,

Not to belabor the point, but 49/36 = 36%, which means 13fps => 18fps.

I know someone else has reported 17-23fps on the open drivers, but i don't recall what hardware they had.

[Scias]

What's with the commercials when starting the game? For the price they ask for it I was expecting an ad-free game!!!

Even big commercial blockbusters have these NVIDIA/ATI ads in their intros. Anyways there's always the Escape button .

[Ansla]

What's with the commercials when starting the game? For the price they ask for it I was expecting an ad-free game!!!