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Feral Interactive have pushed out another Mad Max [Steam, Feral Store] patch for the Vulkan Beta, they claim to have improved Vulkan further, so I took a look.

First up, here's their changelog from the release notes:
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  • Fix for performance issue in kernel 4.9+ with lower core/hyperthread count. Previously this could be worked around with Steam offline mode.
  • Improved Vulkan performance, particularly in Tyrant's Lash
  • Added game version and graphics API to benchmark results
  • AMDGPU-PRO 17.10 is now out and resolves the darker rendering issue

They also note an issue they are keeping an eye on:
QuoteVarious crashes with NVIDIA 381.09 Beta on Pascal GPUs


I did another round of benchmarks, this time focused solely on this beta vs the old beta for Vulkan performance.

Vulkan New Vulkan Old Camp - Hollow Point, Beta 11/04/17Antergos Linux, 1080p, i7 5960x, 980ti NormalHighVery High Vulkan New 266Vulkan Old 241Vulkan Old 171Vulkan New 164Vulkan New 142Vulkan Old 136 266241171164142136 054108162216270 Average FPS

Vulkan New Vulkan Old Stronghold – Tyrant’s Lash, Beta 11/04/17Antergos Linux, 1080p, i7 5960x, 980ti NormalHighVery High Vulkan New 94Vulkan Old 77Vulkan New 82Vulkan Old 70Vulkan New 70Vulkan Old 60 947782707060 01938577695 Average FPS

Vulkan New Vulkan Old Cutscene - Hope, Glory, and Dog is Dead, Beta 11/04/17Antergos Linux, 1080p, i7 5960x, 980ti NormalHighVery High Vulkan New 262Vulkan Old 253Vulkan Old 161Vulkan New 156Vulkan New 137Vulkan Old 135 262253161156137135 053106159212265 Average FPS

Vulkan New Vulkan Old Cutscene – Landmover, Beta 11/04/17Antergos Linux, 1080p, i7 5960x, 980ti NormalHighVery High Vulkan New 293Vulkan Old 277Vulkan Old 180Vulkan New 175Vulkan Old 155Vulkan New 155 293277180175155155 059118177236295 Average FPS


Just as they said, Tyrant’s Lash has improved for me on every setting quite clearly there. The others are a bit hit and miss, but any that might seem like a regression are quite probably noise at around 5FPS each time, whereas the increases are double that and more. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Tags: Benchmark, Vulkan | Apps: Mad Max
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Ardje Apr 12, 2017
Quoting: dubigrasu
Quoting: fabry92Sry why steamos isn't supported? I can't run serious Sam vulkan too :(
Probably the driver is too old? I run SteamOS too and I see no issues, but I install latest drivers myself.
Actually some games should already be working with 367 it was on steamos?
I have now beta running 375.26, and even that doesn't change a single thing...

How many video outputs do you have?
tuubi Apr 12, 2017
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Quoting: HoriPlease compare it with Windows. It would be incredibly useful.
Why would it be useful?
Egonaut Apr 12, 2017
Quoting: edddeduck_feralDo send in your reproduction steps though as it does sound like you have an issue most people never experience.
Will do in the next days.


Last edited by Egonaut on 12 April 2017 at 8:24 pm UTC
Koopacabras Apr 12, 2017
Alex Smith from Feral just sent a patch to freedesktop, to fix some rendering issues with Mad Max on Vulkan with radeon drivers.

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=4603bea1aa0879656f7efb1e19197488bfdb1f41

great work Feral!! thanks for your contribution on making better open drivers!.


Last edited by Koopacabras on 13 April 2017 at 12:07 am UTC
catskinsox Apr 13, 2017
Quoting: Vash63
Quoting: catskinsoxI have a Pascal card, and it still crashes on the 381 drivers. I have gone back to the 378 drivers again.

Do other Vulkan games work for you on 381? I have a 1080 and I can't run SteamVR, Mad Max or Serious Sam Fusion for longer than 5 minutes on the 381 series. It seems to be just broken across all games and not game specific.

I'm really not sure how that got past Nvidia QA...

I was having trouble with Serious Sam even with 378. My computer would lock up before even getting into the game. Had to hard reset. I haven't tried again for a while, though.
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