RadeonSI / AMD GCN Is Actually The Mesa 11.2 Requirement For Tomb Raider

[phoronix]

Phoronix: RadeonSI / AMD GCN Is Actually The Mesa 11.2 Requirement For Tomb Raider

Yesterday Feral Interactive published the Linux system requirements for Tomb Raider. They mentioned Mesa 11.2 support on the AMD side, but the graphics card's minimum requirement is very different from what's actually the minimum requirement...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Radeon-R7-Tomb-Raider

[brent]

So, does anyone know when this is going to be released?

[Min1123]

I'm wondering if they ported TressFX, or if that stays a Windows-exclusive feature. It was a big deal, but it'd be an interesting piece of tech too, since it used DX physics and graphics. To do it correctly in a cross-platform way, I imagine they'd have to use OpenCL and sync, or use the OpenGL shader extension, which is supported (maybe) by Mesa 11.3 on these cards with LLVM 3.9 (which hasn't been released either).

[justmy2cents]

So the Tomb Raider Linux port isn't light enough for playing on old pre-GCN hardware with the R600 Gallium3D driver

all their ports are more or less fixated on having 4.3 support for some extensions. i doubt this is so much about power as it is about can it even work or not. and then there is a thing where Feral always specifies much heftier minimum requirements than they are actually needed. all their games can be played on much lower hw. they probably want to avoid bug reports saying "poor performance" with simple "not supported"

I'm wondering if they ported TressFX, or if that stays a Windows-exclusive feature. It was a big deal, but it'd be an interesting piece of tech too, since it used DX physics and graphics. To do it correctly in a cross-platform way, I imagine they'd have to use OpenCL and sync, or use the OpenGL shader extension, which is supported (maybe) by Mesa 11.3 on these cards with LLVM 3.9 (which hasn't been released either).

they said TressFX is ported as well in their gamecast on April 1st

[bug77]

all their ports are more or less fixated on having 4.3 support for some extensions. i doubt this is so much about power as it is about can it even work or not. and then there is a thing where Feral always specifies much heftier minimum requirements than they are actually needed. all their games can be played on much lower hw. they probably want to avoid bug reports saying "poor performance" with simple "not supported"



they said TressFX is ported as well in their gamecast on April 1st

Having a common baseline for all titles can be a money-saving trick.

[Pecisk]

I'm wondering if they ported TressFX, or if that stays a Windows-exclusive feature. It was a big deal, but it'd be an interesting piece of tech too, since it used DX physics and graphics. To do it correctly in a cross-platform way, I imagine they'd have to use OpenCL and sync, or use the OpenGL shader extension, which is supported (maybe) by Mesa 11.3 on these cards with LLVM 3.9 (which hasn't been released either).

Devs confirmed that they have ported TressFX code.

[vein]

Devs confirmed that they have ported TressFX code.

I wish they could push the ported code to the gpuopen github. Would be nice to take a look

[srkelley5]

And with this, I think that I can move my gamebox to dualbooting linux with the eventual plan of removing Windows altogether. I don't have many graphically demanding games, but this was one of them. Every demanding game that I both have and care about has a linux port now.

[duby229]

Devs confirmed that they have ported TressFX code.

That's cool. I would like to see appropriate command line parameters so it can be used as a real world benchmark.

[juno]

Wow, do you have the source for that?
I think the OSX port didn't have TressFX.