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Latest Comments by pete910
Fantastic looking shoot 'em up 'Sky Force Reloaded' releases for Linux in two days
29 Nov 2017 at 5:22 pm UTC

I will be getting this for Mrs and me for sure, Local coop in the anniversary was fun. Supported duel steam controllers well too

Testing F1 2017 Linux port on AMD GPUs
6 Nov 2017 at 7:19 pm UTC

Quoting: Samsai
Quoting: pete910
Quoting: Samsai
Quoting: pete910@samsai get that ram 3000 + preferably 3200. You are losing 40% ish of perf with that ram @ 2133
The kit I own does not go beyond 2133, so that's where it will stay. Plus, I highly doubt that 40% figure, considering the performance would have to scale almost perfectly with memory speed, which is only possible in situations where you are only stressing the memory and nothing else. Going by figures online, my prediction would be around 10-20% improvement in some games and below 10% in productivity. At the current DDR4 prices I am not going to be replacing my 16GB kit with faster memory for those kinds of figures.
Not done your homework have you :P

The Mem speed is tied in to the inter CCX of the ryzen arch. thus why a big diff can be had.

View video on youtube.com This gives you one example, all be it on windows. There is countless others too

But yes mem prices are ludicrous ATM.
I am aware of the effect memory speed has on inter-CCX communications and the examples you provided align with my prediction of 10-20% improvement, varying from game to game. None of the games shown in that video had scaling up to 40%. Plus, those benchmarks were run with the CPU clocked at 4GHz, whereas my CPU is clocked at a peak of 3.7GHz, meaning that memory speed differences become even more pronounced.
I admit 40% is best case, But yes alot are at stock like yours is at. What I was getting at is that it's not just games that benefit from it. As for your predictions, well



As is evident, pretty much 40%. again best case but still. You see my point.

Testing F1 2017 Linux port on AMD GPUs
6 Nov 2017 at 8:24 am UTC

Quoting: Samsai
Quoting: pete910@samsai get that ram 3000 + preferably 3200. You are losing 40% ish of perf with that ram @ 2133
The kit I own does not go beyond 2133, so that's where it will stay. Plus, I highly doubt that 40% figure, considering the performance would have to scale almost perfectly with memory speed, which is only possible in situations where you are only stressing the memory and nothing else. Going by figures online, my prediction would be around 10-20% improvement in some games and below 10% in productivity. At the current DDR4 prices I am not going to be replacing my 16GB kit with faster memory for those kinds of figures.
Not done your homework have you :P

The Mem speed is tied in to the inter CCX of the ryzen arch. thus why a big diff can be had.

View video on youtube.com This gives you one example, all be it on windows. There is countless others too

But yes mem prices are ludicrous ATM.

F1 2017 released for Linux as Feral Interactive’s first Vulkan-only title, here’s a port report
5 Nov 2017 at 8:34 pm UTC

Quoting: meggerman
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: fatriffFeral recommends using the NVIDIA 384 driver series for now when playing this game as there are some current regressions with the 387 series up through 387.22.

Phoronix is getting 133FPS on Ultra VS your 80FPS on the same card..
As already stated in the article and in the comments, I tested both driver versions and the difference was negligible.

I'm currently going through more tests to see if I can find any reason for me to possibly have lower than expected performance.

Keep in mind with Phoronix, his CPU is overclocked at 1.7GHZ faster than mine.

The linked Youtube be benchmark is also using a 1GHZ faster processor.

The base clock on mine is only 3GHZ, which could account for a lot of it.
Then again keep in mind that it might not be that ..

Quoting: pete910Arguments aside, Vulkan is awesome.

1440p ultra settings. CPU barely braking a sweat. How it should be on modern CPU's ;)

Could it be Gnome again ? I have experienced slower performance on select games under Gnome, it's one of the reasons i moved away from it. Phoronix testing was done under Unity AFAIK and that uses compiz, ubuntu-unity(compiz) is still the default recommended platform for most linux titles and id imagine many are tested on there.

Does Gnome desktop really take it's hand off the compositing fully ? If so how does the full screen hot key to mode work so seamlessly to grab the game window and present it in overview mode. Perhaps now Ubuntu has moved to Gnome, future games can be developed and tested on Gnome.
Could what ?

Not that I use gnome or even *buntu :P

Testing F1 2017 Linux port on AMD GPUs
5 Nov 2017 at 8:14 pm UTC

@samsai get that ram 3000 + preferably 3200. You are losing 40% ish of perf with that ram @ 2133

F1 2017 released for Linux as Feral Interactive’s first Vulkan-only title, here’s a port report
2 Nov 2017 at 11:30 pm UTC Likes: 4

Arguments aside, Vulkan is awesome.

1440p ultra settings. CPU barely braking a sweat. How it should be on modern CPU's ;)


F1 2017 released for Linux as Feral Interactive’s first Vulkan-only title, here’s a port report
2 Nov 2017 at 8:03 pm UTC

Quoting: freerunnerlive
Quoting: pete910Well, looks like my Thrustmaster F430 Force Feedback aint supported :'(

Any idea anyone ?
My logitech formula gp force doent run too:'(
Wouldn't mind but f1 2015 did. You can't even map the inputs either :'(

F1 2017 released for Linux as Feral Interactive’s first Vulkan-only title, here’s a port report
2 Nov 2017 at 7:10 pm UTC Likes: 1

Well, looks like my Thrustmaster F430 Force Feedback aint supported :'(

Any idea anyone ?

F1 2017 released for Linux as Feral Interactive’s first Vulkan-only title, here’s a port report
2 Nov 2017 at 5:44 pm UTC Likes: 4

Nice, Runs well tbh. The whole game is better that the 2015 I had. Not had a lot of time in it just yet though.

Some benchies @ 1440p

Low



Ultra



Just to add, on the 387.22 driver.