I use amd-staging.4.9 and now 4.11 on my r9 270 and I was seeing similar performance to the Radeon kernel.

Vulkan is improving but still lags AMDs own closed source Vulkan driver.

Speaking of Dawn of War III, I believe Samuel at Valve has submitted the necessary extension to run in Opengl to mesa-dev. Its probably in mesa-git by now.

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Looks like yaakuro is looking into one of the bugs stopping a Linux version from being released right now.

https://youtu.be/HnVCAX4funA

Its nice to see the community working on game engine bugs for Linux as it benefits all future games using Unreal too.

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This is really good. I hope once all the native titles are working they will show some love for Rage and Doom and basically any other game using idtech through wine. I managed to hack the shaders on Rage with a guide from the now defunct website gearsongallium.com. But I was getting weird tiled corruption that I never managed to find a fix for.

I know there is a branch of mesa for testing Doom on radv but that doesn't look like its ever going to be merged. :-(

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I wonder how much performance there is to having asynchronous command stream vs the old implementation of csmt. I'm guessing it would reduce latency and improve throughput if done correctly.

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Quoting: eldersnake

Quoting: Dolus

Quoting: meggermancurrently the AMD FOSS drivers are sitting around 20% behind the binary nvidia drivers.

80%!? Are they really that close?

.....There are some exceptions though (looking at YOU, Deus Ex: MD).

The most recent patches have improved Deus Ex, and some work is being done on additional OGL features that should bring performance for that game.

I would say Radeonsi has very playable performance on most titles now. Just the odd game that doesn't do well and those games using compatibility profiles where the driver falls short.

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The shader cache is an important feature us AMD owners have been waiting for a long time on mesa. Cutting loading times and smoothing out hitches. Its important, although not all games need it as much as others.

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Any discussion of Vulkan is good. We need to hear it talked about more and more. I want to see it adopted on PC as the standard going forward not DX12.

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I havent played any games since the update. But it did a number on Spotify also. Looking through the comments on AUR I had to install some compat packages and update Spotify and it was working again.

Arch can be a blessing and a curse. I like it for getting the latest performance and dev on my GPU tho.

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Quoting: liamdaweWelcome to another Wednesday Madness article here at GOL. Another quick look at some good deals you shouldn't pass up!....

I grabbed Valley from Steam 60% off!

Quoting: PompesdeskyI would have rather supported Feral by directly buying Dirt Rally from them but it was too pricey for me @49.99€, couldn't resist the Humble Monthly :(

I'm waiting on a Feral sale for Dirt Rally, I will buy directly from them if possible. But I don't blame you, it costs too much right now and I was tempted by the humble bundle aswell.

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Ive been toying with the idea of getting a 1070 or 1080 solely down to the drivers just working in most games on Linux. But I do want to continue to support AMD and I know open source is going to be better in the long run.

But seriously not interested by these Titans... Just money grabbing nonsense.

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