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andmars

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Registered: 2012-03-13

Posts: 701

Poor 2D-Performance in Angband with X11 and radeon [SOLVED]

Hello,

I switched from catalyst to the open source radeon driver with kernel 3.11 the first time, having an HD 6950. When I tryed to play Angband (which I really like) the performance was very poor and laggy. So I edited my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-radeon.conf just like it says in the wiki using glamor:

Section "Module"
	Load "dri2"
	Load "glamor-egl" 
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Radeon"
    Driver "radeon"
    Option "AccelMethod" "glamor"
EndSection

That did the trick. But now that I did a fresh install of Arch it's not working anymore. Even with the glamor settings the game is slow and laggy. I've also tried EXA making it look like this:

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Radeon"
    Driver "radeon"
    Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
    Option "EXAVSync" "on"
EndSection

Using EXA doesn't change anything either. The game runs fine in text-mode but with X11 it's laggy.
What I've tried however is this (without any luck):
- mesa-git 10.1 from AUR
- glamor-egl-git from AUR

Am I missing something here? I'd really appreciate it if you have an idea as to why these settings don't seem to take an effect on Angband anymore.

Greets
A

Last edited by andmars (2013-12-05 07:37:13)

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Poor 2D-Performance in Angband with X11 and radeon [SOLVED]

Did you enable dpm? If not, do so. Explanation in the wiki.

andmars

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Registered: 2012-03-13

Posts: 701

Re: Poor 2D-Performance in Angband with X11 and radeon [SOLVED]

Hi,

it looks like there has been a change in the naming convention. In order to have the glamor module loaded correctly you must not write:

Load "glamor-egl"

but

Load "glamoregl"

The Wiki entry has been changed accordingly. Now it's happily playing Angband for me :-)

Greets
A

Last edited by andmars (2013-12-05 08:05:14)