The Grand Features Of Mesa 17.1: Vega, RadeonSI Shader Cache, Maturing Vulkan, New OpenGL Extensions

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Phoronix: The Grand Features Of Mesa 17.1: Vega, RadeonSI Shader Cache, Maturing Vulkan, New OpenGL Extensions

We are just a few weeks out from the release of Mesa 17.1 as the latest quarterly update to this important component to the open-source 3D Linux graphics driver stack. With "Mesa 17.1" already having been mentioned in 102 Phoronix articles to date, here's a look at some of the most exciting changes and new features with Mesa 17.1.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=24529

[adila01]

What a great time to be alive

[Horigo]

Doom Vulkan will work with this ?

[cRaZy-bisCuiT]

As the latest benchmark article on Phoronix has shown there's still a lot of performance regression present Mesa 17.1. Let's just hope that it will be ironed out with the final release.

[smitty3268]

Doom Vulkan will work with this ?

Doom isn't compliant with the Vulkan spec, so no. Dave has long had a small patch that fixes Doom, but it's not going upstream because they want to encourage devs to fix their apps instead of working around everything in the drivers.

[pal666]

Doom Vulkan will work with this ?

there is no doom linux port

[Dreakon]

there is no doom linux port

True, but it works fantastic on Wine as long as you have an Nvidia card, or use the AMDGPU-Pro drivers, but those drivers are kinda spotty and only work with specific kernels and distros.

[pal666]

True, but it works fantastic on Wine as long as you have an Nvidia card

if you are buying windows cards and windows games, you could just as well play on windows

[cj.wijtmans]

if you are buying windows cards and windows games, you could just as well play on windows

nvidia still best performance on linux so what are you talking about.

[nanonyme]

Doom isn't compliant with the Vulkan spec, so no. Dave has long had a small patch that fixes Doom, but it's not going upstream because they want to encourage devs to fix their apps instead of working around everything in the drivers.

Is there a ticket or any way to followup? This has actually been reported to the game company, right?