Extreme speed improvement with 2.6.34-rc4 on rv670 in some OpenGL games

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By now the schedule for the games devroom is done, too:
http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/trac...opment_devroom

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The call for speakers for the "Open Source Game Development" devroom at FOSDEM 2012 is now available. Please have a look at https://lists.f...

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There are obviously several open source games out there already. Yeah, I am talking about non shooter games! Just have a look at the list of projects...

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The source code is open source, the data files are in fact not. But, since it most likely intrerests many in here, this is the latest update of the site:...

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This is the question that you answer after getting the confirmation that you bought the bundle:

In fact you can select >1 platform there....

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Argh, okay, when reading there blog you really see what the pie graph is about. It is in fact about how money contributions are split, not how the platforms...

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Now they also start to list the average contribution split by platform. And who would have guessed this, linux users are the ones most generous. Currently...

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Let me list my experience so far. That is the experienced regarding fglrx is from some time last summer. What I was using at that time was kde 4.2 on...

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Okay, I managed to get some fps numbers shown in sacred. Here my results with this new kernel so far:

* There is not much difference in fps...

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Hi everybody!
I just installed kernel 2.6.34-rc4 (was using rc3 before) and the speed of my HD3850 is significantly improved in some games. That...

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Have you considered sending these patches to the respective freedesktop.org mailing lists? IIRC they do only add patches that were discussed on the mailing...

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That one is *really* easy to answer:

IIRWIIR (It Is Ready When It Is Ready)

It will be released once it was tested and the...

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Fixed in latest git master!...

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Thanks to the people in #radeon on freenode! They pointed me to this bugreport in the kernel tracker: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1518...

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Jepp, the same over here. On my rv670 I do especially get "black rectangles" where eg the currently running program is shown or the whole area...