| Bug ID | 109331 |
|---|---|
| Summary | Empire Total War - Graphical Corruption |
| Product | Mesa |
| Version | 18.3 |
| Hardware | x86-64 (AMD64) |
| OS | Linux (All) |
| Status | NEW |
| Severity | normal |
| Priority | medium |
| Component | Drivers/Gallium/radeonsi |
| Assignee | dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org |
| Reporter | andrew.m.mcmahon@gmail.com |
| QA Contact | dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org |
Created attachment 143078= [details] glxinfo | grep strings 4.20.0-arch1-1-ARCH mesa 18.3.1-1 steam 1.0.0.59-1 R9 285 (Tonga) In game menus and other game play elements aren't rendered correctly by default: https://imgur.com/a/AvclRkS There are no special steps required to replicate the issue. Affects other Linux distributions and other cards: https://steamcommunity.com/app/10500/discussions/0/131996224412357= 1976/ A known workaround for the problem is to edit: ~/.local/share/feral-interactive/Empire/preferences Changing the value of the following line to zero: <value name=3D"UsePBOSurfaces" type=3D"integer">1= </value> There doesn't appear to be any downside to this. Medieval 2 Total War doesn't appear to be affected on my setup. Unable to test Shogun 2 or Fall of the Samurai as I don't have access to th= ose.
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I've used apitrace (DEBUGGER=3D"apitrace32 trace" st= eam steam://rungameid/10500) to capture some trace files.=20 I'm able to replay them using apitrace replay [file] so I hope others are t= oo.=20 I've uploaded a 7z archive containing a "bugged" trace and a &quo= t;workaround" trace with their corresponding terminal output: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BAQFnrJqujU7dYGQTfhe= ABTRjj-_a8Ys/view?usp=3Dsharing By complete coincidence the archive happens to be 666MB. The bugged trace is several gigabytes in size whilst the workaround is a me= re 90MB so there must be something funny happening there...
One last comment before I leave it to the experts. Another bug report with Unity 18.04: https://steamcommunity.com/app/10500/discussions/0/344121422146052= 4307/ If anyone wants to go above and beyond the call of duty then I've uploaded = some traces for Medieval 2 here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=3D17LUb2EsS3oqYjEyZ-yxIB_C_DBnS0Wz8<= /a> I've used the same trick of disabling/enabling PBO surfaces. Finally what exactly are PBO surfaces? Do I need them? What's the penalty f= or not using them? The game seems to trace faster with them off than on. Are the Linux ports by Feral a bit wonky and/or prone to strange behaviour = - or are they generally decent?
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Unfortunately the issue still occurs.
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My system has changed somewhat since writing this bug report.= =20 As all Feral games on STEAM officially support either STEAMOS or Ubuntu; I thought I'd check out xubuntu 18.04 LTS - specifically: https://pastebin.com/f8cTGLSY The same glitch appears with the current Mesa drivers provided by the distribution (18.2.8) But using oibaf's ppa: h= ttps://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/ubuntu/graphics-drivers Mesa related packages are updated to: Mesa 19.1.0-devel (git-54522d0 2019-03-06 bionic-oibaf-ppa) And I can no longer reproduce the issue! https://i.imgur.com/VhIylSp.jpg As I've made no other changes other than switching Mesa packages I can only assume that this has been fixed by an update/commit recently. Many thanks to everyone who works on Mesa. In just a few years (since I last tried Debian) my R9 285 has gone from hav= ing no support whatever in Linux to being very capable indeed to the point wher= e I no longer require Windows: https://= imgur.com/a/keUM4VS https://imgur.com/a/awddkUg