Im idiot, in my country few days ago I see Magicka 2 on big sale... for only 14 PLN, so Its about 3,3 euros... Why I not buing it...

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I have strange feeling that this is a port of toGL. Right?

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Quoting: Sabun

Quoting: maodzedunI use this REPO - it's Oibaf + LLVM3.7:

https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/mesa [External Link]

I don't mean to be a bother, but can you list out the steps you took to install this PPA and unlock OpenGL 4 support?

I'm on an R9 390 (Hawaii) card, and with this PPA I am still stuck at OpenGL 3 on Ubuntu 15.04 64bit.

Im not using MESA but I think for support OpenGL 4X in main profile you need have installed LLVM 3.7, if you don't have this, OGL 4.1 is support only in Mesa core profile.

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Hmm. If I good understand new eON games have still disabled some OPenGL extension like ARB_texture_storage on Catalyst driver and this causes worst performance. So we can run this like the witcher2 with command line with command "--eon_disable_catalyst_workarounds"
And now check performamance. Anyone can test it on Catalyst 15.7?

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Quoting: SamsaiOkay, after some fiddling around I managed to get up-to-date Catalyst on this system. However, the impact was quite minimal and most of the time non-existent. I've added corrections to the article in places that need them and updated one of the benchmark graphs where the update yielded a performance increase. Games like Shadow of Mordor and benchmarks like Heaven were unaffected by the driver update and after the update HL2: Lost Coast started running without graphical glitches but the performance remained the same.

For me Catalyst 15.7 gives better performance in many title.

- Metro 2033 Redox and Last Light Redux - unplayalbe on old catalyst, but on new Catalyst 15.7 performace is great.
- Dying Light - completly broken and low FPS on old driver, on new Catalyst 15.7 working like charm :)
- DOta 2 Reborn - with new Catalyst 15.7, I have about 15-20 FPS boost on max graphics setting
- Borderlands 2 - about 20-40 FPS more!
- Interstellar Marines - few FPS more
- all eON games like The Witcher 2, Stroneghold 3, SpecOps : The Line or Bioshock Infinite gives boost if we run it with --eon_disable_catalyst_workarounds, bacause all older Catalyst have broken ARB_texture_storage, so devs disable it and this cause lower FPS. New drives fixed it, but still we need manually enabled all OpenGL extension.
- Bioshock Infinite - unplayable on all pre Radeon HD 7000 cards. New drivers finally fixed it, so its playable!
- some source game is broken on Catalyst 15.3 beta like TF2 or CS:GO. New drivers fixed it and gives some FPS boost.
- if we rename CS:GO binary to hl2 we get also on new Catalyst big FPS boost :P

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Install new Catalyst 15.7 and try stream Shadow of Mordor :P

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Quoting: Samsai

Quoting: sorathAt first thanks for benchmarks for AMD videocard.

Could you clarify please: FGLRX 15.20 is Catalyst 15.7? On Ubuntu Catalyst 15.3beta AFAIR also was marked as fglrx 15.20.

Could you also compare game's performance between Linux and Windows ports with the same video cards if WIndows OS is available for you?

I'm not entirely sure if the FGLRX I installed from the repositories was 15.7 but I think it was. I still don't understand the Catalyst version numbering too well.

As for the Windows comparisons, I will not run such things on my hardware. The only Windows license I had was thrown to Liam and getting a new license is too expensive. In addition to that I don't like Windows a whole lot and I don't want to put up with its quirks for the sake of booting it up maybe 4 times a year for some comparisons. Also, I would have to get a new hard drive because I'm not wasting a gigabyte of my current storage for something like Windows.

If you don't know what version you have, please check what OpenGL version is supported.
If OpenGL 4.4 - you have old Catalyst 15.3 beta (15.20.1013)
If OpenGL 4.5 - you have new Catalyst 15.7 (15.20.1046)

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Quoting: sorathAt first thanks for benchmarks for AMD videocard.

Could you clarify please: FGLRX 15.20 is Catalyst 15.7? On Ubuntu Catalyst 15.3beta AFAIR also was marked as fglrx 15.20.

Could you also compare game's performance between Linux and Windows ports with the same video cards if WIndows OS is available for you?

What I understand, they tested AMD card on old drivers.
New is (including performance boost and many opengl fixes) is Catalyst 15.7 (15.20.1046), old Catalyst 15.5 (15.100) and second old Catalyst 15.3 beta default in Ubuntu (15.20.1013). All old not includes fixes.

So If you want boost FPS in games please try new Catalyst 15.7 (15.20.1046) from AMD website.

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They should make open beta.

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Because a good hunter hunts only evil. But to hunt down evil, need to be angry, in this case, as I am angry, so I am Angry Penguin.

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