How I got Team Fortress 2 running well on open source Radeon drivers.

Gumboherpy · 10-27-2013, 06:24 PM

My oh my how open source drivers have come a long way. From only 2d support to full fledged 3d support that runs well enough for me at least. Anyways, I'm gonna explain how I got TF2 to run perfectly on steam using the open source Radeon drivers. I'm in Slackware Current.

First off, the graphics card I used was an AMD Radeon HD 6670.
As for Mesa. IT's the latest one in current.

First off, install steam. Thanks AlienBob!

http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slac...s/steamclient/

Now you need the library libtxc_dxtn which is in this slackbuild. Or search it via SBOPKG.

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14...s/libtxc_dxtn/

This provides Texture compression needed. Also to help with the Frame rate you may want to look at DX9Frames which Linux Game Cast made a great tutorial on how to get that to work.

http://linuxgamecast.com/2012/11/l-g...ith-dx9frames/

I get around 40 at the lowest and 100 at the highest! It stays around the 60 range the majority of the time. I would love someone to reply to test how well the Nouveau and Intel Open source drivers work.

Happy gaming fellow Slackers!

andrewthomas · 10-27-2013, 07:12 PM

So you are using the r600g driver?

Code:

OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RV630
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.1 (Core Profile) Mesa 9.2.1

Gumboherpy · 10-27-2013, 07:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrewthomas

So you are using the r600g driver?

Code:

OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RV630
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.1 (Core Profile) Mesa 9.2.1

Correct.

andrewthomas · 10-28-2013, 08:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gumboherpy

Correct.

Well, let us see your OpenGL string.

All you did was copy the OpenGL string from my Gentoo install.

Let me see the output of

Code:

lspci | grep -i VGA

and

Code:

glxinfo |grep OpenGL

Here are mine for a 6770

Code:

gentoo-asus ~ # lspci | grep -i VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Juniper XT [Radeon HD 6770]
gentoo-asus ~ # glxinfo |grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD JUNIPER
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.1 (Core Profile) Mesa 9.2.1
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 1.40
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.1
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions: