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A reason for poor performance on AMD plus Mesa has been found and a patch is in progress
18 Aug 2016 at 7:17 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: grenadecx
Quoting: babaiYou tell us that you're all for freedom, and don't support a freedom friendly company... that makes you a hypocrite.
You've clearly no idea what the word hypocrite means, or freedom for that matter.

Fun fact, did I say I do not support AMD?
Alright, enough now, let's not derail it any more please. Continue it in the forum you if want.

Cities: Skylines - Natural Disasters expansion announced, mother nature is pissed
18 Aug 2016 at 7:03 pm UTC

Quoting: omer666
Quoting: Mountain ManSpeaking of Cities: Skylines, I wonder when they're going to get the Linux performance issues sorted out?
Performance issues are related to Unity engine. While it's getting better, progress is slow. I don't think it's Colossal Order's fault.
I still think it is their issues, considering I personally tested and livestreamed it before release where it worked far better before a patch seemed to nerf it down. They have still never replied to me on that.

A reason for poor performance on AMD plus Mesa has been found and a patch is in progress
18 Aug 2016 at 6:30 pm UTC

Quoting: babai
Quoting: liamdaweYou should remember not everyone uses Linux for just freedom, there's many reasons. You should just accept others choices and move on. Not everyone needs a lecture and we don't need an AMD topic derailed because of it :)
Sure Liam! that's why I said earlier that if you use linux for whatever other reasons, its completely fine.
Ohh and can you please benchmark some games like Mordor with the latest patches? (the one's claiming 25% improvements for bioshock infinite)
I would love to, but I don't own any AMD GPU to test with unfortunately. Until the Patreon grows bigger I can't really afford to shell out on some.

A reason for poor performance on AMD plus Mesa has been found and a patch is in progress
18 Aug 2016 at 6:17 pm UTC Likes: 9

You should remember not everyone uses Linux for just freedom, there's many reasons. You should just accept others choices and move on. Not everyone needs a lecture and we don't need an AMD topic derailed because of it :)

A reason for poor performance on AMD plus Mesa has been found and a patch is in progress
18 Aug 2016 at 6:03 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Purple Library GuyA custom BO manager? You mean, like, heavy-duty underarm deodorant?
Yeah the main issue is the BO problem, they are working on a spray for it.

Totally Accurate Battle Simulator is probably the second funniest thing I have seen all day
18 Aug 2016 at 5:53 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Zeloxhaha is this some hint, gol users dont read the articels xD.
I wonder what else I can get away with :D

A reason for poor performance on AMD plus Mesa has been found and a patch is in progress
18 Aug 2016 at 5:50 pm UTC

Quoting: babai
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: babaialso this fix will probably go into the radeonSI userspace driver and not MESA.
Forgive me if I am wrong, but isn't radeonSI part of Mesa?

Also, it's Mesa not MESA isn't it? http://www.mesa3d.org/ [External Link] "The Mesa 3D..." :)
Yeah, I should have probably written "Core Mesa".

I would have labelled you a grammar nazi, but since Linux is case sensitive, you're right, it should be Mesa. :)
Probably the best fun use of that I've ever seen :D

A reason for poor performance on AMD plus Mesa has been found and a patch is in progress
18 Aug 2016 at 5:43 pm UTC

Quoting: babaialso this fix will probably go into the radeonSI userspace driver and not MESA.
Forgive me if I am wrong, but isn't radeonSI part of Mesa?

Also, it's Mesa not MESA isn't it? http://www.mesa3d.org/ [External Link] "The Mesa 3D..." :)

Nvidia beta driver 370.23 has initial support for PRIME Synchronization
18 Aug 2016 at 5:12 pm UTC

Quoting: etamRead the paragraphs about "Output" and "Offload". Read the sentence "NVIDIA has no plans to support PRIME render offload at this time.". Say "Fsck you NVIDIA! I'm staying with bumblebee." :/
While sad, this is still a really good step in the right direction. It still means if you choose to use the Nvidia GPU you will have a much better experience.