Valve are looking to gather a list of games that don't work with radeonsi

Any chance offending games may be reported through other channels other than tweeter?

Steam forum? Mail?

I've got a few of them:

- Crookz
- Grand ages: Medieval
- Dying Light (compatibility profile)
- Dead Island (except for the Ryder campaign, which surprisely works fine)

Apparently it's a problem of GL version detection (core vs compat) for Crookz : http://steamcommunity.com/app/310490/discussions/0/492378806383914128/
From reading that discussion I suppose the game works fine with the mesa compat override.
(env MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.3COMPAT %command%)

Chivalry: Medieval Warfare used to work quite ok, now it freezes in the main screen every time.
Screencheat often freezes in the main menu, but not every time. The sound continues to play, though, might be a game bug.
Magicka 2 shows graphical artifacts when taking damage.
Anomaly Warzone Earth never properly started for me (infinite loading), now when I try it it even freezes my desktop (but can kill it from a VT).

Fedora 25, mesa-dri-drivers-13.0.2-2.fc25.x86_64, llvm-libs-3.8.0-1.fc25.x86_64, Radeon R9 270


Last edited by ripper on 10 January 2017 at 11:04 am UTC

Battleblock theater not launching on AMDGPU-Pro or AMDGPU. Linux Mint 18.


void* memory block::Alloc(unsigned int): (! Assertion `got request for zero bytes!" ) failed.
Aborted.

Just a reminder. On Mint you should also let the system update its kernels (which they officially not really recommend), cause there were a lot of fixes for the radeon and amdgpu driver.

True. But this is with the AMDGPU-Pro driver.

Didn't Mad Max have that weird neon hair bug ?

Portal 2 isn't working and valve is asking which games don't work? That one they should at least know about :D...

If they really get the major issues fixed, I may soon have to get a AMD card (I'd love to).

I have a long list of non working games, but please don't ask me to register to the wiki too!

=> send it to liam or post it here..


Last edited by STiAT on 9 January 2017 at 11:41 pm UTC

Rocket League:

Gameplay is fine, but all menus and any non-gameplay GUI freezes and the music track stops. Especially bad at startup, the issue will sometimes go away after a while but usually does not. This makes navigating menus sometimes impossible, and things like car customization impossible. Once in a match, the game runs flawlessly.

Ubuntu 16.04
Kernel 4.9
Mesa 13.0.3 (Padol Mesa PPA)
LLVM 3.9.1
MSI 8GB RX 480

Anyone else have this? A recent update seems to have triggered it as it used to work fine.

EDIT
There's a bug report for that already, but it would be good for Valve to see it as well:
[[amdgpu] Rocket League: long hangs (several seconds) when loading assets (models/textures/shaders?)](https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97879)


Last edited by ronnoc on 10 January 2017 at 1:11 am UTC

Did Shadow Warrior have a mouse cursor rendering bug under Mesa? Or was that just the proprietary drivers? Can't remember - would have to check.

Any chance offending games may be reported through other channels other than tweeter?

Add them to the wiki, they can keep track of it.

Did Shadow Warrior have a mouse cursor rendering bug under Mesa? Or was that just the proprietary drivers? Can't remember - would have to check.

It works fine with radeonsi / Mesa 13.0.2.


Last edited by Shmerl on 10 January 2017 at 3:10 am UTC

May be we should also make a wiki page with (32-bit) games affected by large XFS partition (aka broken LFS) bug?

If a game requires special compat overrides and such, the developers need to be contacted by Valve to alter the launcher for those running MESA for the time being. People really shouldn't need to get special magic commands setup in order to run games, its annoying and majority of people will NOT know about them.


Last edited by TheRiddick on 10 January 2017 at 3:20 am UTC

If a game requires special compat overrides and such, the developers need to be contacted by Valve to alter the launcher for those running MESA for the time being. People really shouldn't need to get special magic commands setup in order to run games, its annoying and majority of people will NOT know about them.

On the other hand, only Nvidia and Ubuntu are officially supported. So if you don't have that, you can't really complain. (And I don't have that either, and I don't complain ;) )

On the other hand, only Nvidia and Ubuntu are officially supported.

And that's nonsense. Developers should support Mesa officially.

On the other hand, only Nvidia and Ubuntu are officially supported.

And that's nonsense. Developers should support Mesa officially.

Let there be no misunderstanding, as a Fedora user with open source drivers for my RX 480, I also want that!

But the fact is that Valve only supports officially Ubuntu and Nvidia and this fact is mainly why developers are less frightened by the Linux ecosystem, because they've heard that if they have to port their game to Linux, they would have to support the hundreds of distributions and their different lib packages. Valve is their insurance that they would not have to go there.

Hopefully with this news, this might change sooner than later.


Last edited by Creak on 10 January 2017 at 6:36 am UTC

I suppose Valve intend to support Mesa officially, not sure why they wouldn't want to, especially when hiring developers to work on it.

How cool, go go!

Just a reminder. On Mint you should also let the system update its kernels (which they officially not really recommend), cause there were a lot of fixes for the radeon and amdgpu driver.

You can also install even newer, supported kernels through the update manager's Linux-kernels dialog. Mint 18 (Ubuntu 16.04.1) has up to 4.8.0 in the standard repos. For 4.9.0 you need a PPA.

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Just a reminder. On Mint you should also let the system update its kernels (which they officially not really recommend), cause there were a lot of fixes for the radeon and amdgpu driver.

You can also install even newer, supported kernels through the update manager's Linux-kernels dialog. Mint 18 (Ubuntu 16.04.1) has up to 4.8.0 in the standard repos. For 4.9.0 you need a PPA.

Do you have a ppa for ubuntu 16.04 for the latest kernel? I have tried installing it before (manually sort of) but it seems to have some bug with my wifi card (it just does not work). But I would like to try again. It would be nice with a ppa with a new kernel with amdgpu-for-gcn1.1 flags enabled.

Do you have a ppa for ubuntu 16.04 for the latest kernel? I have tried installing it before (manually sort of) but it seems to have some bug with my wifi card (it just does not work). But I would like to try again. It would be nice with a ppa with a new kernel with amdgpu-for-gcn1.1 flags enabled.

I don't use one myself, no. A quick Google search finds this though, if it helps. Daily (mainline and drm-next) builds are available on kernel.ubuntu.com as well if you're feeling adventurous.

This:

http://www.pcgamer.com/cyberpowerpcs-499-oculus-ready-amd-pc-is-now-available/

Vulkan gaining traction + viable AMD Linux drivers = Steam Machine-V2? Along with a new version of SteamOS (3rd priority)?

In this link they are not yet talking about Ryzen + Vega.

Even if I like my Nvidia + Intel rig, I must admit that AMD's solution is much more affordable.

We've just got another proof that Valve has not abandonned Linux. It feels like they are just working on other priorities to make the Linux ecosystem more viable for gaming.

Above all I feel that AMD is preferable since you can run FOSS drivers. With NVIDIA, the foss driver will (it seems) always be pretty crap.