Thanks for the insight. I installed my RX460 with the open source drivers because it seemed just the easiest and dabbled a bit with it (just a few games). Actually, I have very interesting performance results (latest Mesa).

First of all, in Linux I was surprised that actually a lot of the games did run with the open source driver - and not as bad as I expected.

I ran the gallium patched testing it with WoW (dx9 engine version), and it more than doubled my FPS compared to a GTX1050Ti with normal wine. I even had more FPS than I reached with my GTX1050Ti in Windows ... and more than I had with the RX460 in Windows (did the cross test. Yes, I still maintain a Win7 install for software porting purposes).

Still have to test more with the gallium patched version, but to be true - I don't own too many windows games I'd like to play, but I certainly will try it with DragonAge: Origins and Skyrim.

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and if Vulkan doesn't destroy itself with driver shenanigans

We just can hope and wait ...

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Note to myself:
Have less windows open, don't write in wrong threads :D.

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Quoting: soulsourcewine-gaming-nine should work with all graphics drivers, but in order to enable the Gallium Nine feature, you'll need to run a Gallium3D driver (AMD or nVidia open source drivers).
Also, I'd suggest not to waste time with AMD GPU-Pro drivers, as they in general don't have better performance than the open source drivers (except for a few games, Deus Ex: MD being the only one that comes to my mind) and are (except for *buntu) a pain to install.

So you'd recommend me to go with the radeonsi driver when testing with the RX460? That should be pretty straight forward then ...

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Quoting: PlutonMasterGreat. I replaced my wine with wine-gaming-nine

How the heck did I miss that one? Going to try it tonight for a few games I'm having performance issues with... especially WoW with DX9 engine lately had massive fps drops...

On which drivers does this work? AMDGPUPRO? NVidia / OpenSource / Closed drivers (guess not closed, since they don't use Mesa).

Bought a RX460 to be able to test amdgpupro drivers and one day kick out my NVidia, and wanted to test that one tonight, would be nice if the wine-gaming-nine worked there as well.

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Quoting: ziabiceI noticed that radeonsi tends to stutter: ie. Shadow of Mordor or Tomb Raider have stuttering. Recently I played Deadlight using Wine+Gallium Nine and it has stuttering too when changing a scene. IMHO it has longer shaders compile time.

Tomb Raider even stutters on my NVidia GTX 1050 ;-).

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Quoting: Nyamiou

Quoting: MaelraneI honestly don't know: does amdgpu (mesa! Not proprietary pro one) profit from this?

It would help fix this bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97879 [External Link]

and potentially hangs in other games.

They are actually fixing this one.

Timothee Besset 2017-01-24 18:20:55 UTC
Hello! I have started working on this. I haven't found the root cause yet but I will update here when I have something.

(For context, I did the initial port work for Psyonix. I just recently got a radeonsi setup together so I can look at this now.)

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Well, wrong approach for shader caching.

Though, there is another interesting note on the mesa list

Hi,

Welcome to contributing to Mesa :)

I'm not sure how much time you have to work on this feature, but just
letting you know it was my intention to start work on shade cache
support for radeonsi next week.

Tim

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Yey!

I personally have no issue with wine-bundled and tested games. Most of them suffer in performance to the windows version, but if tested and optimized properly they still just run well enough.

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While it's certainly mixed in reviews, I was looking forward to that one though. Sad it's likely not going to happen.

Well, there will be other games to play.

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