Poor GPU performance on Linux

[Scoopta]

I got an R9 Fury the day after launch with the intention of being able to max out basically every game at 1080p but I'm getting really poor performance in most games and I'm not sure why. Dying Light I average around 20 FPS on the Performance preset. Ark Survival I average around 40 FPS on the Medium preset with Epic render distance(actually improves FPS). And there are others where my performance is console grade or worse. I have the latest 15.7 drivers from AMD and I'm running the 3.19 kernel. In synthetic benchmarks like Unigine Heaven and Valley I get scores of 1187 and 2404 respectively while they were on the highest possible settings with Ultra quality 8xAA and in Heaven Extreme Tessellation so I don't think it's a driver issue but it may be. Can anyone offer any assistance?

Note: I'm pretty sure it's not a CPU bottleneck. I have an FX-9590 and according to my hardware monitor on my secondary display my GPU is generally pinned at around 100% use during play.

 

[Scoopta]

you know I don't see it as bad with heaven or tropics , but that valley sure sucks in opengl windows .. that's why I reloaded things to see what the deal was with it ??

oh well I guess its just one of them things

tropics runs great and looks good on Linux but I see enigine don't have it for download anymore I guess I better burn the ones I got saved in file to a disk ??

http://unigine.com/en_us/products/benchmarks/tropics

Nvm...it's legacy XD

 

[Scoopta]

The 'stat' command will output information about access times (and other stuff too). You've got a ton of processes going on, which is kind of odd. Steam also seems to be eating up a lot of the CPU. This might make sense if you're updating things, but if it isn't the case then you need to check what's going on under the hood. On another note, did you Mint's package manager or did you use 'dpkg -i' to install the drivers manually?

Steam is reinstalling all of my games since I accidentally fucked up my FS. So it is updating stuff. Also I used the .run file and ran the installer I did not install it via a package.

 

[junkeymonkey]

they just had removed it was there a few weeks ago -- then what cant they archive it ?? I sure it don't take up that much server space ? funny thig is what do they mean by '' legacy '' ??? runs on xp vista and 7 its not like were talking something from windows 98 days ?? so I guess 7 is now legacy ?
also there were the Linux client as well is Linux legacy ?? that just don't add up to me at all removing them

I think windows 10 goes into full swing all this stuff will disappear and everything will be ''live'' programs [hide and watch]

 

[Scoopta]

they just had removed it was there a few weeks ago -- then what cant they archive it ?? I sure it don't take up that much server space ? funny thig is what do they mean by '' legacy '' ??? runs on xp vista and 7 its not like were talking something from windows 98 days ?? so I guess 7 is now legacy ?
also there were the Linux client as well is Linux legacy ?? that just don't add up to me at all removing them

I think windows 10 goes into full swing all this stuff will disappear and everything will be ''live'' programs [hide and watch]

I think it's legacy because it's not demanding enough for modern systems but that's just my guess.

 

[junkeymonkey]

'' I think it's legacy because it's not demanding enough for modern systems but that's just my guess. ''

maybe but why remove them so you cant get them ?? demanding or not and if you look at there dates there not that old

http://www.techspot.com/downloads/5802-unigine-tropics-benchmark.html

http://www.techspot.com/downloads/5803-unigine-sanctuary-benchmark.html

you can get the Linux ones for places like here -- like said it maybe worth getting the windows and Linux and save them for your self before there 100% gone for good

oh well, that's what you got to work with now and its something that yop can get to run on Linux with out jumping through hoops that works and looks good on it

 

[Scoopta]

'' I think it's legacy because it's not demanding enough for modern systems but that's just my guess. ''

maybe but why remove them so you cant get them ?? demanding or not and if you look at there dates there not that old

http://www.techspot.com/downloads/5802-unigine-tropics-benchmark.html

http://www.techspot.com/downloads/5803-unigine-sanctuary-benchmark.html

you can get the Linux ones for places like here -- like said it maybe worth getting the windows and Linux and save them for your self before there 100% gone for good

oh well, that's what you got to work with now and its something that yop can get to run on Linux with out jumping through hoops that works and looks good on it

Yea...I'm still annoyed that there's just a massive difference between the OpenGL and DirectX performance. On Windows it's acceptable because the only halfway mainstream game that uses OpenGL on Windows is Minecraft but the fact that OpenGL on Linux is so far behind DirectX on Windows really isn't ok.

 

[junkeymonkey]

I guess these days it all sucks .. all you can do is the best you can with whats offered at the time you need something

and its not going to get any better . except the price . there going to get a better price for it from you

 

[Scoopta]

I guess these days it all sucks .. all you can do is the best you can with whats offered at the time you need something

and its not going to get any better . except the price . there going to get a better price for it from you

Yea. I just want good Linux performance. I'm hoping that AMD's GLSL compiler is the bottleneck in their driver. If that's the case praise Vulkan which will address that but I want good AMD Linux performance. I'd switch to Windows on my gaming PC but I have Linux on my laptop and it'd be weird to cross them. I'm used to Linux. But I can't afford to switch to nVidia so that's not an option.

 

[junkeymonkey]

like me I got one hard drive with Linux mint on it and one hard drive with windows 7

I fire up and choose what drive I want to run on depending on what I want to do - sad thing is if you want to do near hassle gaming on demand its just windows .. that's all there is to it

 

[Scoopta]

like me I got one hard drive with Linux mint on it and one hard drive with windows 7

I fire up and choose what drive I want to run on depending on what I want to do - sad thing is if you want to do near hassle gaming on demand its just windows .. that's all there is to it

Well I have two drives. An SSD and an HDD used for storage. So I can't really do that. I guess I could install Linux Mint to my SSD which is what I have now and then instead of putting ext4 on my storage drive I install Windows and then just use it cross platform since Linux can read and write to NTFS. That would allow me to dual boot without the mess of partitioning and I could use my UEFI and select the drive to boot from but Idk. Normally when I dual boot I find myself using one or the other and the I never bother to actually switch. Which defeats the point of a dual boot.

 

[junkeymonkey]

I just prefer to have my OS's on there own drives that way if something goes wrong I only loose one os or drive , but that's just me

 

[Scoopta]

I just prefer to have my OS's on there own drives that way if something goes wrong I only loose one os or drive , but that's just me

Yea that makes sense. Either way partitioning my drive is a bitch. I'm using ext4 under lvm under luks. Soooooo I have like 4 things the LV, PV, crypt, and partition that I have to re-size just to partition my drive. So using multiple drives probably is easier XD.