Counter Strike Global Offensive: radeonsi is on par with Catalyst

AMD Radeon HD 7950 using kernel 3.17-rc5-drm-next-3.18-wip + hyperz (R600_DEBUG=hyperz). I’m also using libdrm git, xf86-video-ati git, llvm 3.6 git, mesa git and xorg-server 1.17.0 RC 1. Catalyst version is 14.6 beta2 (kernel 3.14.3, xorg-server 1.15.2).

You can find all the info on my system here: http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1409232-DARK-140923107

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wine: vanilla vs CSMT (d3dstream) vs Gallium nine vs Catalyst

How to achieve the best possible performance with wine? I compared vanilla wine using latest radeonsi open source drivers, wine with the CSMT (d3dstream) patchset and wine with the Gallium nine patchset. I also compared the results to latest Catalyst drivers using wine patched with CSMT (d3dstream). Surprisingly radeonsi + gallium nine beats Catalyst + […]

A new linuxsystems overlay: wine-nine

This overlay allows you to build latest git version of mesa and wine with the gallium nine patches. Wine has to translate DirectX => OpenGL => Gallium, which add complications and brings inefficiency. Thanks to the gallium nine state tracker we simply skip the OpenGL translation. More info here: http://ixit.cz/faster-wine-games-with-open-source-drivers-d3d9-aka-gallium-nine/

This patchset is maintained by […]

New ebuild: app-emulation/wine-1.7.24 CSMT (d3dstream)

You can find it in the wine-d3dstream overlay: http://www.linuxsystems.it/overlay/

A new linuxsystems overlay: wine

Latest wine version is currently 1.7.26 while latest version available in gentoo repositories is only 1.7.21. This overlay allows you to build latest version of wine with pulseaudio, pipelight (compholio) and gstreamer support.

You can find my app-emulation/wine-1.7.26 ebuild in the new wine overlay: http://www.linuxsystems.it/overlay/