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 Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2015 4:00 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] r9 390 opensource drivers getting 14fps in cs 1.6 |
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Hello guys I just clean installed gentoo for my new ssd and with my new gpu.
I can't launch dota 2 and so I tried to launch cs 1.6 which got 14 fps  . I followed the wiki for radeon and amdgpu to install the opensource drivers. Governor is on performance.
Any tips or help would be appreciated!
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| You might have made a small mistake somewhere resulting software OpenGL rendering. Running glxinfo will help to get started. I have had issues like that because of forgetting to add my user to video group and having a typo in kernel config firmware file names. |
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dcd94,
Your dmesg may help. Most of the open source drivers depend on loading fimware for 3D hardware acceleration.
They fall back to software rendering, if its not available.
/var/log/Xorg.0.log may give a few pointers too.
None of those logs will fit in a post. wgetpaste is your friend.
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dcd94
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| Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2015 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | dcd94,
Your dmesg may help. Most of the open source drivers depend on loading fimware for 3D hardware acceleration.
They fall back to software rendering, if its not available.
/var/log/Xorg.0.log may give a few pointers too.
None of those logs will fit in a post. wgetpaste is your friend. |
Thanks for the reply. Here is my Xorg.0.log paste: https://bpaste.net/show/15abf5fd0673
I looked closely to my kernel config and I noticed I missed one binary name for location in the kernel I fixed that and compiled with unstable mesa and llvm and it seems I get decent fps but I get some random stutters. Anything I'm missing? First ever going on opensource drivers, only used nvidia proprietary drivers before so this is new. I also put "performance" profile on dpm. I heard something called dri3 that would improve performance |
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dcd94
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| Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2015 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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| rh wrote: | | You might have made a small mistake somewhere resulting software OpenGL rendering. Running glxinfo will help to get started. I have had issues like that because of forgetting to add my user to video group and having a typo in kernel config firmware file names. |
Yeah I missed some firmware in the kernel config. But I got normal letters and capital letters for hawaii gpu. Does it matter which one I use? Can I type both in? the only difference is the capital letters has 1 extra binary that the other doesn't. I typed both so far and it works |
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| Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2015 8:53 am Post subject: |
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| dcd94 wrote: | | Yeah I missed some firmware in the kernel config. But I got normal letters and capital letters for hawaii gpu. Does it matter which one I use? Can I type both in? the only difference is the capital letters has 1 extra binary that the other doesn't. I typed both so far and it works |
I think that the ones in capital letters are for kernel 3.16 and older, and the other ones for later kernels. The kernel should use the right ones. UVD (hardware video decoding) was introduced at that point, and requires the extra binary you noted. I compiled the kernel driver as module (CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=m), so firmware gets loaded from /lib/firmware without the need to include them in the kernel. The amdgpu kernel driver is available for hawaii, but radeon is the one you want. You might wan't to disable the amdgpu in kernel just to be sure to avoid any potential issues. Hawaii support in amdgpu is a leftover from AMD's internal testing, and not really supported.
You can enable DRI3 via xorg.conf, a search in the forums should give more exact instructions. It can increase performance in some games, but also has some bugs. I have had no issues with DRI3.
Does the stuttering show in a certain game or situation, or all over the place? |
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dcd94
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| Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 3:35 am Post subject: |
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| rh wrote: | | dcd94 wrote: | | Yeah I missed some firmware in the kernel config. But I got normal letters and capital letters for hawaii gpu. Does it matter which one I use? Can I type both in? the only difference is the capital letters has 1 extra binary that the other doesn't. I typed both so far and it works |
I think that the ones in capital letters are for kernel 3.16 and older, and the other ones for later kernels. The kernel should use the right ones. UVD (hardware video decoding) was introduced at that point, and requires the extra binary you noted. I compiled the kernel driver as module (CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=m), so firmware gets loaded from /lib/firmware without the need to include them in the kernel. The amdgpu kernel driver is available for hawaii, but radeon is the one you want. You might wan't to disable the amdgpu in kernel just to be sure to avoid any potential issues. Hawaii support in amdgpu is a leftover from AMD's internal testing, and not really supported.
You can enable DRI3 via xorg.conf, a search in the forums should give more exact instructions. It can increase performance in some games, but also has some bugs. I have had no issues with DRI3.
Does the stuttering show in a certain game or situation, or all over the place? |
Looks like I had to emerge to unstable xf86-video-ati for dri3 support. I get better fps by this but still I get some random stutter for most games, but I get way less frequent stutter. Borderlands 2 stutters a lot (csgo and dota 2 are fine for now). Anyways thanks for the help so far  Appreciate it. |
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Thanks for the tips! I can barely notice stutters now  |
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