Good to see that bugs are being tackled. I had noticed the weird wheel trails, but not the other bugs (Speedometer and foliage).

What about the performance regression Phoronix reported while testing radeonsi with mesa 17.1 (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=rally-dirt-radeon&num=2)? Is that acknowledged and being investigated by someone?

I'm on mesa git-ish with llvm 5.0 (padoka packages) with a RX480 on Kubuntu 16.10 with an ultrawide 2560x1080 screen. My CPU is an AMD FX8370 with 16GB DDR3 RAM @1600MHz. I know this CPU pretty s*cks nowadays, but it should handle this game graciously (Autosport, for instance runs really well). (In any case I hope I can get a Ryzen in the mid term).

In order to play with acceptable framerates (minimums above 20) I've had to turn down many graphics settings. With a mix of medium-low settings my averages are around 40 with maximum of 61 fps. However, there are some areas where the minimum fps are really low. For instance, there is one stage in Wales where the tracks goes through some twists out of the woods (so not much vegetation in sight) where there are alot of spectators above an embankment. In that particular section I would say I was getting about 10fps.

In any case, I'm absolutely loving the game!! It's a lot of fun and I would say the game depicts rallying pretty well. The sound of the cars is gorgeous.

On another topic, edddeduck_feral, in your supported wheels steam page I asked if there have been any advancements with Fanatec. I'm looking forward to replacing my Logitech G27 pedals with something better like the Fanatec Clubsport Pedals. Is there anything you guys can share? Sadly I haven't been able to find anybody reporting the Fanatec pedals/wheels working on Linux.

(Sorry for the long post and for derailing the thread with the last question)

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Oh, man, these guys should be renamed to "The fierce ferals" :D

Pretty excited looking forward to that Vulkan game!

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Oh man, my wallet loves you Feral.

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Approaching Laminar for proper X-Plane 10 (and upcoming 11) mesa support would also be great.

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: jsa1983Any chance offending games may be reported through other channels other than tweeter?

Steam forum? Mail?

I've got a few of them:

- Crookz
- Grand ages: Medieval
- Dying Light (compatibility profile)
- Dead Island (except for the Ryder campaign, which surprisely works fine)

See the wiki page in the original post, I'm sure Liam can send it to Valve later.

As for the games, make sure that you actually report bugs upstream: https://bugs.freedesktop.org [External Link]

I see no entries at all for Crookz or Grand Ages there. Mesa devs can't fix bugs they aren't aware of.

Grand Ages: Medieval and Crookz seem more like llvm symbol conflicts, not mesa crashes. At least that's what I get from the log. I am incapable of properly hunt llvm or use trace so I guess my bug report would be not too useful.

[Just to clarify, I have opened and contributed to other bug reports. It's just that llvm compiling and tracing is too much for me and my limited free time]

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Quoting: meggermanBattleblock theater not launching on AMDGPU-Pro or AMDGPU. Linux Mint 18.

void* memory block::Alloc(unsigned int): (! Assertion `got request for zero bytes!" ) failed.
Aborted.

Can confirm that (mesa 13.1 RX 480)

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Any chance offending games may be reported through other channels other than tweeter?

Steam forum? Mail?

I've got a few of them:

- Crookz
- Grand ages: Medieval
- Dying Light (compatibility profile)
- Dead Island (except for the Ryder campaign, which surprisely works fine)

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GTA V, or even GTA IV. That would be soooo neat! :-) Hell, having all the GTAs that are available for Mac (GTA III, VC and San Andreas) would also be sweet.

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Well, for me the upgrade was more than welcome.

With all previous FM, which had much worse 3D match graphics, the fps with the free drivers (AMD 7870 and RX 480 paired with an AMD FX 8150 and an AMD FX 8370) were at about 20 fps (fps were the same at high and at low graphics settings). Now with this new 3D engine, graphics are much much better (SI Games are probably now using OpenGL 3 and therefore using another codepath of the mesa driver) and fps get to stable 60 fps (capped as per my preference of settings) with all graphics settings maxed out without sweating a drop...

Not that graphics matter that much in a FM style of games but watching the game at low fps is not enjoyable.

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Quoting: pontostroyAll you need to know about Deus Ex: Mankind Divided on Mesa including Windows vs Mesa benchmark and tweaks for loading time and fps.
http://www.gearsongallium.com/?p=3467 [External Link]

Great post and great work (as usual), pontostroy!! Mesa users are very thankful :)

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