https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109331
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 --> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=143078&action=edit 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/0/1319962244123571976/
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="UsePBOSurfaces" type="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 those.