It seems Valve have been busy. GPUVis is a Linux GPU profiler similar to GPUView on Windows. It's supposed to help track down Linux gpu and application performance issues.
While Valve announced it and did a presentation on it, it's mostly developed by Michael Sartain. Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais said he's a "consumer of it". It's largely written for VR and as a front-end for Ftrace, but it could be useful for other things. Right now, it's limited to AMDGPU and they're looking into Intel too. They say it's easy to add support for a GPU driver, so it will be interesting to see if NVIDIA look to make it work with their drivers.
It was introduced at the 2017 X.Org Developer's Conference (XDC 2017). You can see a video about it below, you need to watch from 8:10:40 onwards:
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The source can be found on GitHub, under the MIT license. Great to see more open source tools coming out, especially nice to see Valve getting their hands dirty on more projects. Considering Valve are the ones to announced it, I imagine they're working closely and possibly even contracting the developer to do it.
Thanks for the tip from our Telegram Group, Andrew!
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
somebody1121 Sep 22, 2017
Quoting: charliebrownauYou have tried kernel 4.8? For me is the last kernel that perform well on my 380x. Beyond that i have 4 - 12 fps on life is strage...Quoting: GuestQuoting: charliebrownauI still havent found an easy way to get my R9 380 video card to work correctly in mint or ubuntu or debian
Why does drivers have to be such a chore in linux
While I know how you feel, these days it is pretty easy on Ubuntu/Mint:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:paulo-miguel-dias/pkppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
reboot
I tired 5 different messa drivers and 3 different kernals on ubunutu mate , none gave the same performance as AMD GPU PRO
I am now using Debian 9.1 Mate , it lacks PPA support
Also Ubuntu Mate 17.04 had issues working with my audio interface correctly
it seemed when i was messing around with mesa drivers it resulted in screwing up pulse audio
The only solution I could see to fix pulse audio was to install debian
Quoting: GuestJust hope it doesnt go the same way as VOGL, which turned out to be uselessWhat's the problem with it, too limited/buggy/etc or the lack of maintenance?
charliebrownau Sep 22, 2017
Quoting: ElectricPrism@charliebrownau -- I suspect that the latest mesa will perform the best. I get good enough frames on RX 480 to tackle anything at 1080p / 60hz.
You'll need the latest xorg-amdgpu driver and mesa driver. It also doesn't hurt to use the amd-staging kernel. In my experience Arch has been the best. If you have a spare drive and some time to give it a check I would download Manjaro and the related packages and give it a ago to confirm or deny this.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-amd-staging-git/
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/mesa/
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/xf86-video-amdgpu/
Thanks
If possible I would like to stay on the Debian/Ubuntu eco system
Can you use xorg-amdgpu/AMDGPU (opensource driver from AMD???) and MESA at the same time ???
Do I need a third driver to get vulkan working aswell ???
Quoting: GuestDisappointing then, I had hopes for it (for developers use that is) since it was presented at Steam dev days and developed IIRC by Rich Geldreich. Too bad it went nowhere...Quoting: dubigrasuQuoting: GuestJust hope it doesnt go the same way as VOGL, which turned out to be uselessWhat's the problem with it, too limited/buggy/etc or the lack of maintenance?
All of the above, not to mention it was nigh-on impossible to build. We had to get Valve to send us binaries. Most of the time any traces we tried to get either became too large, or simply crashed VOGL/the driver when attempting to play them back.
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