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[Retired]Rosen has Steam for Linux

Apr 13, 2017 @ 9:38pm

Steam linux, heavy input lag, sluttering, frame drop, choppy and etc

I am still strugling with all this issues which mess my gameplay expiriance under linux.

AMD FX8320, 16gb ddr3 ram, 120gb ssd, radeon hd7870
archlinux cinnamon.
Ideas?!

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Bobtail Squid has Steam for Linux

Apr 13, 2017 @ 9:52pm

is it choppy whan you run the glxgears command? in terminal

Last edited by Bobtail Squid; Apr 13, 2017 @ 9:53pm

x_wing

Apr 13, 2017 @ 9:56pm

Are you using AMD-GPU Pro drivers or Mesa drivers?

[Retired]Rosen has Steam for Linux

Apr 13, 2017 @ 10:16pm

mesa driver
and no it's smooth on glxgears -fullscreen

x_wing

Apr 13, 2017 @ 10:30pm

¿What version?

[Retired]Rosen has Steam for Linux

Apr 13, 2017 @ 10:38pm

all games.
version of what ?!!?

x_wing

Apr 13, 2017 @ 10:59pm

Originally posted by ROKO__:
all games.
version of what ?!!?

Of mesa drivers. If you have a version that is under mesa-17, most of your problems may be resolved updating the driver. Other option would be to try the AMDGPU-PRO driver, but from my experience they aren't very stable (good performance, but they like to crash from time to time -- at least with my R9 380)

Gaming with an AMD GPU in Linux requieres of lot of patience...

[Retired]Rosen has Steam for Linux

Apr 13, 2017 @ 11:11pm

GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD PITCAIRN (DRM 3.9.0 / 4.10.10-ARCH, LLVM 3.9.1)
GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 17.0.3

bug siins

Apr 14, 2017 @ 3:55am

stupid arch pleb
ubuntu doesnt have this problem out of the box ;)

[Retired]Rosen has Steam for Linux

Apr 14, 2017 @ 4:00am

it have.
If you think that it haven't please show me smooth gameplay with same like my graphics card

x_wing

Apr 14, 2017 @ 7:43am

Originally posted by fingers:
stupid arch pleb
ubuntu doesnt have this problem out of the box ;)

That's not true. Try Ubuntu 16.04 out of the box without using a PPA to update Mesa drivers. With 16.04 LTS you'll be stuck with the Mesa 12.0.4 and way many games will work with artifacts and slow performance.

Originally posted by ROKO__:
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD PITCAIRN (DRM 3.9.0 / 4.10.10-ARCH, LLVM 3.9.1)
GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 17.0.3

Ok, you're with the latest stable Mesa. Do you have problems with all the games? I only discovered problems of input loss with Tomb Raider. But well, unfortunately I have a more modern version of the AMD GCN arch, maybe the yours gives more problems.

If your problem is with all the games, I'm afraid that your only option will be to try AMDGPU-PRO or wait for Mesa 17.1

Last edited by x_wing; Apr 14, 2017 @ 7:47am

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