New ati driver problems

[Stefan Dösinger]

Hello,

I've updated my fglrx driver yesterday, and I am seeing some weird problems 
with Direct3D. I don't know if this is a driver bug or regression at all.

With battlefield 1942 and the old d3d8 engine, some in-game textures are 
white[1] or completely missing[2].  The menu and the HUD work fine.

With Battlefield 1942 and the WineD3D patch there's no difference: The Menu 
and the HUD display fine, but the game graphics are completely white[3].

In Warcraft III, some textures are missing(Old D3D8 and new WineD3D).

I don't know if this is a regression at all, the new fglrx version added some 
new functionality, namely VBOs. Maybe some new functionality is used, and it 
doesn't work correctly yet.

Is anyone experiancing similar issues?

All OpenGL games I've tried work fine, except of the Steam version of 
half-life, where GDI fonts are missing on buttons and in the main menu(The 
in-game graphics are fine). The new driver brought quite an performance 
improvement in some games(gl117 is faster), some games feel faster, like 
Warcraft III in OpenGL mode(I haven't checked the fps).

Stefan

Screenshots:
[1]: http://doesi.gmxhome.de/ScreenShot2.jpg
[2]: http://doesi.gmxhome.de/ScreenShot3.jpg
[3]: http://doesi.gmxhome.de/ScreenShot5.jpg
[4]: http://doesi.gmxhome.de/wc3.jpeg

[Evil]

I upgraded too, but don't see any problem with CounterStrike, HL2, or
anything else I have.

If you suspect it's driver related, how about quickly backing down to
8.18 again and re-testing?  Are you still using the same xorg.conf file,
or did you go through fglrxconfig again?

-Jesse

Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've updated my fglrx driver yesterday, and I am seeing some weird problems 
> with Direct3D. I don't know if this is a driver bug or regression at all...

[Oliver Stieber]

--- Stefan Dösinger  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've updated my fglrx driver yesterday, and I am seeing some weird problems 
> with Direct3D. I don't know if this is a driver bug or regression at all.
>
> With battlefield 1942 and the old d3d8 engine, some in-game textures are 
> white[1] or completely missing[2].  The menu and the HUD work fine.
>
> With Battlefield 1942 and the WineD3D patch there's no difference: The Menu 
> and the HUD display fine, but the game graphics are completely white[3].
>
> In Warcraft III, some textures are missing(Old D3D8 and new WineD3D).
>
> I don't know if this is a regression at all, the new fglrx version added some 
> new functionality, namely VBOs. Maybe some new functionality is used, and it 
> doesn't work correctly yet.

ATI drivers have some odd problems with mipmaps that could appear as missing textures, and last
week I had a 'new' problem crop up that caused the driver to hang the system, even with old
drivers on code that had been in wined3d for months so I'd wouldn't expect any kind of stability
with ATI's drivers.
> Is anyone experiancing similar issues?

Yes, I've had some similar reports e.g. http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3779
> All OpenGL games I've tried work fine, except of the Steam version of 
> half-life, where GDI fonts are missing on buttons and in the main menu(The 
> in-game graphics are fine). The new driver brought quite an performance 
> improvement in some games(gl117 is faster), some games feel faster, like 
> Warcraft III in OpenGL mode(I haven't checked the fps).

Performance increases are nice so long as they don't break things.

Oliver.
> Stefan
>
> Screenshots:
> [1]: http://doesi.gmxhome.de/ScreenShot2.jpg
> [2]: http://doesi.gmxhome.de/ScreenShot3.jpg
> [3]: http://doesi.gmxhome.de/ScreenShot5.jpg
> [4]: http://doesi.gmxhome.de/wc3.jpeg

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[Stefan Dösinger]

Hello,
> ATI drivers have some odd problems with mipmaps that could appear as
> missing textures, and last week I had a 'new' problem crop up that caused
> the driver to hang the system, even with old drivers on code that had been
> in wined3d for months so I'd wouldn't expect any kind of stability with
> ATI's drivers.

I've sent a bug report to ATI, and I hope that they look at it and fix the 
issue. I think the chances are quite good, the Linux support has really 
improved over the last months, and they have added support for many things 
now(Like suspend functionality, which came with the new 8.19.10 driver)

Otherwise, I'll try the newest development version of X.org 7.0 ;)

Stefan