SuperTuxKart 0.8.2 beta2 was released last week. I tested it with my Mac Pro 2009 yesterday. It requires a very powerful computer. It works without any problems with an AMD Radeon HD 5870 PCI express 2.0 x16 graphics card on ubuntu MATE 14.04 LTS x86-64. STK told me the driver is too old but I have an AMD Catalyst driver installed. I installed the latest AMD Catalyst driver 14.12 and the message about too old graphics driver was gone. I'm very impressed about the new STK. The graphics are fantastic. There are a lot of animated things in the tracks. I love it.
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I also tested STK 0.8.2 beta 2 with the open source Mesa graphics driver on the same computer yesterday. There wasn't a message about an old graphics driver but at the begin the race, my system hanged and there wasn't any screen output. STK didn't respond to the keyboard. My system was froze and I couldn't reboot it.
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OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD CYPRESS
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 10.1.3
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 3.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.3
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:
STK 0.8.2 has following Linux system requirements:
- Mesa 10.3.X OpenGL 3.1 or a new AMD Catalyst driver
- Unfortunately a powerful computer
I compiled the latest Mesa 10.4.3 on my AMIGA one X1000 last week. Unfortunately STK 0.8.1 is slower with the new Mesa. At least 15% slower. 3D acceleration works but slower on Debian Sid. Mesa 10.4.3 is definitely slower than Mesa 10.0.4.
I will compile a Mesa version 10.3.X next week. But before, I'd like to know if it makes any sense to release the new STK for our AMIGA ones.
Could you run glxgears with vblank_mode=0 glxgears on your AMIGA one X5000, please? I'd like to know how is the 3D performance of the Cyrus boards. Could you also test STK 0.8.1 on your Cyrus board too, please? Please enable all graphics effects and drive all tracks with 8 karts. Please send me the results via PM because of the NDA.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Christian