R600g+SI Dota 2 Benchmarks With Mesa 11.2, Linux 4.5 Show Open Driver Progress

[phoronix]

Phoronix: R600g+SI Dota 2 Benchmarks With Mesa 11.2, Linux 4.5 Show Open Driver Progress

With now having a workaround for Dota 2 for my benchmarking needs, here are some benchmarks finally of this popular multiplayer online battle arena under Linux when using the R600g and RadeonSI Gallium3D drivers with the latest Linux 4.5 and Mesa 11.2 components...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Dota2-Mesa112-Linux45

[duby229]

At 4K, only the R9 290 and R9 Fury were scoring well with Dota 2.

Then I was doing a second run later on with the system monitoring results with the GCN GPUs at 4K and I noticed something...

hmm, Can't wait to hear more about this discovery!

[Michael]

hmm, Can't wait to hear more about this discovery!

Tests still churning... Hope to have up that next article within a few hours.

[Dukenukemx]

It's been well known that DOTA2 likes Open Source drivers.

[smitty3268]

So I guess the 4.5 rc3 kernel fixed your Fury powerplay issues?

[Michael]

hmm, Can't wait to hear more about this discovery!

At first it looked like it was a regression in DRI3 as during that second run, still had accidentally had my xorg.conf.d of DRI3 (enabled) +SwapBuffersWait (disabled) set to the radeon DDX rather than the amdgpu ddx as I was testing some other non-AMDGPU hardware in between there... So I thought that was it, but now in going back through and trying out different DDX options for AMDGPU, not yet able to figure out if it was just a fluke or what.

[abu_shawarib]

I had this error when running the test:

LoadSystemDependencies():
AppSystemDict: Error in Connect() of interface 'GameUI011'!

Missing dependency?

[Michael]

I had this error when running the test:

LoadSystemDependencies():
AppSystemDict: Error in Connect() of interface 'GameUI011'!

Missing dependency?

Yeah it's a weird one... I hit it initially as well. Unrelated to PTS, others have ran into it too: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota-2/issues/105

The fix from that thread did work: sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.0

[ernstp]

Michael: I made a build of xorg-modesetting for 15.10 that has Fury in it's list of PCI IDs, if you're interested: https://launchpad.net/~ernstp/+archi...es_filter=wily

[Kano]

Why do you need a PCI ID for modesetting? That's a generic driver! You don't need to install the amdgpu ddx.