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Mesa 11.1.1 available, has patches for GRID Autosport

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Good news open source GPU driver users, Mesa 11.1.1 has launched and it even includes some patches for GRID Autosport.

If you use Mesa and play GRID Autosport, please let us know how it runs for you now.

It's really great to see that with bigger games coming to Linux, that developers are paying even more attention to the open source drivers.

Fixes that help specific games like this won't just help GRID, they will end up helping all future games that come to the platform by having more stable and featured-filled drivers to work with out of the box.

You can see the announcement and changelog here. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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8 comments

darkszluf Jan 14, 2016
since i use 11.2 devel from padoka i'm really wondering if it already has this fixes, time to run updates :D
prueba_hola Jan 14, 2016
if i using oibaf ppa.... i need wait for update ? or i was using this ?
Thanks!
lejimster Jan 14, 2016
I use lord heavy's mesa-git on Arch and have been playing GRID Autosport with no real issues for the last few weeks. Getting 25-40 fps @ 1080p (medium settings) on my R9 270. Not silky smooth performance, but still very playable.
ungutknut Jan 14, 2016
Sounds great. I have issues with blooming (being... well... way too bloomy) and splitscreen not working properly on my secondary PC (R9 270). Hope the fixes get implemented in oibafs ppa soon...
sobkas Jan 14, 2016
Does anyone experiences hard hangs with Grid Autosport?
Also can anyone test apitrace on:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93548
Thanks
tumocs Jan 15, 2016
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Quoting: sobkasDoes anyone experiences hard hangs with Grid Autosport?
Also can anyone test apitrace on:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93548
Thanks

I had plenty before I changed to steamos-xpad kernel module. After that no hard crashes at all.
edddeduck_feral Jan 15, 2016
Quoting: sobkasDoes anyone experiences hard hangs with Grid Autosport?
Also can anyone test apitrace on:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93548
Thanks

Do you have a XBOX pad attached by any chance their is a known bug with the xpad drivers that can hang the system. The issue was fixed on SteamOS but the fix was not completely accepted in the kernel yet.

If you can contact Feral support we can provide a beta where we disable the xpad force feedback which will avoid the hangs. I don't think the issue is at all related to the mesa drivers.

p.s. I also updated the bug with the relevant inks.


Last edited by edddeduck_feral on 15 January 2016 at 4:02 pm UTC
edddeduck_feral Jan 15, 2016
Quoting: ungutknutSounds great. I have issues with blooming (being... well... way too bloomy) and splitscreen not working properly on my secondary PC (R9 270). Hope the fixes get implemented in oibafs ppa soon...

This happens if your mesa drivers are compiled using the older version of LLVM which means your drivers only support OpenGL 3, if you use drivers compiled with the newer version of LLVM you will gain OpenGL 4 support which fixes the bloom.

Split screen support looks to be a mesa bug that is under investigation.
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