https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36918
Summary: ETQW: Enabling "Soft Particles" causes major performance issue Product: Mesa Version: git Platform: Other OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: medium Component: Drivers/Gallium/r600 AssignedTo: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org ReportedBy: sa@whiz.se
Enabling the option "Soft Particles" in the game Enemy Territory Quake Wars causes a major performance drop to ~ 1 fps, CPU goes to 100% so I'm guessing some sort of software fallback is hit?
Options → Settings → Advanced → Soft Particles
I'll see if r300g has the same problem, if so it's probably a more general problem.
System environment: -- system architecture: 32-bit -- Linux distribution: Debian unstable -- GPU: REDWOOD -- Model: XFX Radeon HD 5670 1GB -- Display connector: DVI -- xf86-video-ati: 6.14.1 -- xserver: 1.10.1 -- mesa: 27d3e0b25cc3f2bd9f72778f0c9f54cb90c48622 -- drm: 2.4.25 -- kernel: 2.6.39-rc5
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36918
--- Comment #1 from almos aaalmosss@gmail.com 2011-05-07 09:19:49 PDT --- It does the same with r300g on rv350. I found that this feature is blacklisted on ATI cards (the option is grayed out on windows), but Mesa rX00g is not detected as an ATI card.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36918
--- Comment #2 from Sven Arvidsson sa@whiz.se 2011-05-07 13:23:15 PDT --- That's good to know, I guess this can be closed as NOTOURBUG unless somebody thinks otherwise.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36918
Sven Arvidsson sa@whiz.se changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |NOTOURBUG
--- Comment #3 from Sven Arvidsson sa@whiz.se 2011-06-11 09:54:26 PDT --- I don't think there's much reason to keep this open.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36918
--- Comment #4 from almos aaalmosss@gmail.com 2012-01-15 12:53:47 PST --- Now I tried it with mesa master on a barts pro, and soft particles don't cause any noticeable slowdown.
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