https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104744
Bug ID: 104744 Summary: [r600] Total War: Warhammer black textures and flickering. Product: Mesa Version: git Hardware: Other OS: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: medium Component: Drivers/Gallium/r600 Assignee: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Reporter: freedesktop@lanig.email QA Contact: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
A friend of mine installed Ubuntu to play the non-cross-platform game Total War: Warhammer with me. Unfortunately he had issues with black empty spaces where textures should be. But it worked for me without any issues with RadeonSI(RX 480). Then I recommended adding the Padoka PPA and to update the system.
That was a big fail. As a reward he also got heavy flickering additionally. He also mentioned weird colors where the black missing textures were before with activated graphics options. So I would like to report mainly that the current version seems to be worse than the one delivered with Ubuntu, at least for this particular game.
He can't really provide further help and I can't access the system in any way. But I hope that an r600 developer who owns such GPU could hopefully have a look in the issue.
His System: Ubuntu 17.10 Intel Core i5 2500 AMD Radeon HD 6950 2GiB 16 GiB RAM
Thanks anyway to whoever reads this - these GPUs might be old but such occurrences don't make a good impression at all to people who are trying out Linux.