Quoting: STiATI just got mesa 24.1 on Fedora 40. And I dumped the Nvidia proprietary driver.

Performance is a bit less, but actually not bad, for my needs and games I currently play more than satisfying. Seems I'm finally done with the nvidia crapware.

As a side-note, there are features missing required for a lot of modern games, and partially necessary for performance.

It's on the mesa issue tracker:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/9479 [External Link]

Some of those, as VK_KHR_deferred_host_operations is an issue for some games. So some games will struggle, some just won't depending on their engine (in example, KCD has huge performance issues - but it always was bad :D, WoW works perfectly well).

Horizon and Bannerlord 2 just crash due to an other issue which should be fixed in 24.2.

I expect we will see more and more features and better performance for more games over time. But not all is "perfect" now, for sure not in a state if you "just want to play", if you can live with just not playing some games for now it's fine.

Since I have a huge backlog on old titles - that's fine for me :D.

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I just got mesa 24.1 on Fedora 40. And I dumped the Nvidia proprietary driver.

Performance is a bit less, but actually not bad, for my needs and games I currently play more than satisfying. Seems I'm finally done with the nvidia crapware.

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Quoting: STiATA few more days to go to 555 nvidia driver.Finally explicit sync. I hope Fedora will be fast on that one - they already got the gnome version having the patches.

You can always download and install the driver manually without hassle. Much like I've been doing since Doom 3 released.

I could, but I'd need to manage and update that myself later... and that's what I really do not want to do. Just glad that will hopefully be gone in the next month.

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A few more days to go to 555 nvidia driver.Finally explicit sync. I hope Fedora will be fast on that one - they already got the gnome version having the patches.

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Cool, really looking forward to that one, hope it continues to run well on either native or proton. But I made the mistake of buying early access and burning out before release before (Valheim ...) - so I'll wait for the release with that one. It hits all the boxes, medieval, city building, RTS... I really could like that one. What I saw so far on Videos - I really liked it.

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I really like the progress on Zink. It's a real effort to get all those different OpenGL implementations into a single abstraction layer - which would be great and basically could render OpenGL drivers mostly obsolete but for Zink (on the driver side - not on the client side ofc, not yet anyway).

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Which immediately crashes the game for me :D. But anyway, that game is still having issues rendering properly for me.

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I think it's great, they're late in the game, but better late than never. I hope they're seriously considering spending time and resources to implement a proper standard driver in mesa like AMD and Intel have. That would give us the real choice, AMD, Intel, NVidia without having to deal with a always half-broken binary driver if you happen to get the wrong graphics card.

As I did on my PC (which was a choice I did, I didn't expect their drivers to introduce real bugs from version to version which do have an impact on me). Or I have on my work laptop (which I couldn't choose).

If it was an open source driver, I would have at least an avenue to debug and report the issue properly. Done so in the past, have a very good experience with AMD and Intel developers responding fast and very interested if you did the according work to have a proper report. Same with the Valve developers on DXVK, which was probably the best experience I ever had reporting bugs (with Philip and Joshua).

For me that's one of the real benefits of having stuff open source: I can either fix it myself, or at least debug it far enough to provide proper findings so developers who know the implementation and know where to look - and what they're doing in that code base.

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... Faith :heart:. As always great work :woot:

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There is always risk involved. Community stuff is even more risky, but even in properly team-maintained software it happened that somebody could slip in risky stuff.

Glad to see they are looking into a curating/review process, but that will cost a ... lot of manpower, which is sad that people will be spending their time to try to eliminate bad actors.

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