I am curious what the performance on this older hardware is, I imagine it's not running the ray-tracing?

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This is very tempting particularly for Chaos Gate.

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That's very interesting from a technical perspective - does it have an impact to performance?

I imagine DOOM is very serial in processing, I don't think it can be easily spread across thousands of cores.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI dunno about the Dragonball Z game--I heard the boss fights take hours. :tongue:

It's mostly just screaming too. ;)

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Do the above gog links fail to open for anyone else?

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Thank you for sharing, to be honest I do consider this type of stuff to be in the wheelhouse of Linux Gaming.

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I think they really need to get their deployment strategy sorted, I get the impression a lot of this is manually done, and it seems they don't do enough testing to ensure it was successful.

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It's an optimisation that helps with all Mesa drivers not just radv.

Overall it should help reduce latency.

Imagine you want to send a 'command' to the GPU, and sending it to the GPU takes 5ms, sending 10 commands will take 50ms, with this modification sending the 10 commands in a batch will take just 5ms. Now, replace the milliseconds with nanoseconds. It's a lot of time saved, but, compared to the rest of the time taken to process the commands (GPU side) for a frame you may not see a noticeable performance increase. If the game issues a lot of commands (CPU side) in one frame then you could see a noticeable performance increase.

This improvement may benefit weaker CPUs, that could not brute force their way through the individual calls.

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I would have more respect for them if they just openly admitted it was removed maliciously, instead of gaslighting.

It's one thing for a company being 'evil' but being incompetently-evil, that I can't abide.

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Any developers who felt strongly enough to jump ship before this statement should continue jumping. They may be back pedalling now, but give it time and they'll try from a different direction.

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