Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais has tweeted out asking for information on Linux games that don't currently work with radeonsi.
Is anyone maintaining a list of Linux games that don't work on radeonsi? GL compatibility context, extensions Mesa won't implement, etc.
— Pierre-Loup Griffais (@Plagman2) January 9, 2017
I'm sure a few of you have a list of games you know don't work, so why not let them know. They might be able to help Mesa get the games running.
Valve actually hired Samuel Pitoiset, a Mesa developer to work on radeonsi (source):
Samuel PitoisetThis is my last contribution for the Nouveau driver for a while because I have been hired by Valve to work on radeonsi. Do not expect such perf improvements with radeonsi because it already performs really well, unlike Nouveau. But with time and patience we can do better. :-)
So it's quite likely this list will make its way to Samuel to work through.
If anyone wants to keep a public list, I have setup a Wiki page for it.
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Quoting: TheRiddickIf 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 ;) )
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Quoting: CreakOn the other hand, only Nvidia and Ubuntu are officially supported.
And that's nonsense. Developers should support Mesa officially.
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Quoting: ShmerlQuoting: CreakOn 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.
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I suppose Valve intend to support Mesa officially, not sure why they wouldn't want to, especially when hiring developers to work on it.
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buenaventura Jan 10, 2017
How cool, go go!
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Quoting: tuxintuxedoJust 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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buenaventura Jan 10, 2017
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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.
Quoting: tuubiQuoting: tuxintuxedoJust 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.
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Quoting: buenaventuraDo 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.
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Mohandevir Jan 10, 2017
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.
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.
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buenaventura Jan 10, 2017
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.
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