RadeonProgram

Supported Program List for Free Radeon Drivers

This page is only for the open source Xorg Radeon drivers. radeon or radeonhd for 2D; the r300 (r100-r500) and r600/r700 Mesa3D DRI drivers and the new r300, r600/r700 Gallium3D drivers only. THIS PAGE IS NOT FOR THE CLOSED-SOURCE FGLRX/CATALYST DRIVER PROVIDED BY AMD/ATI.

Also check out the RadeonFeature page.

This list works on the same principle as the Wine game list, but there are some important differences.

The biggest difference is that we are tracking driver capabilities, not performance. It doesn't matter if your game runs at 1680x1050 with everything cranked up, what matters is whether or not it is rendering properly.

The entries in the table are "STATUS (N.N)", where N.N is the latest version / stable branch of Mesa on which the application was tested, and STATUS is one of the following:

• "PLATINUM" means that it works without any graphical bugs or problems, with all features enabled.

• "G0LD" means that it works well, but not every little eye-candy feature works. For some chipsets, this might be due to hardware limitations.

• "SILVER" means that it works. Ish.

• "GARBAGE" means that it just doesn't work, due to driver problems.

• "TOO OLD" means that it just doesn't work, due to hardware limitations.

• "UNKNOWN" means that the current status of this item isn't know. Please update it if you know.

Note that the level of support for R300-R500 is roughly on the same level because those chips all use the same driver. This means that if the status is known for e.g. R300, then it is likely that the status for R500 is the same or at least similar, but please refrain from changing this in the table unless you really did test the application using that chip. A similar thing is true for R600-R700.

Here are some guidelines for this page:

• We do not distinguish between different versions of a stable branch of Mesa. So Mesa 7.n, 7.n.1, 7.n.2, etc. all count as 7.n.
• If this page claims that an application works in Mesa 7.n, and you tested it using stable Mesa release 7.(n+1) and it still works, please update the table accordingly.
• If this page claims that an application works in Mesa 7.n, but you experience problems in stable Mesa release 7.(n+1), please notify the developers before changing the table. If we do not fix the problem within a reasonable time frame, feel free to change the corresponding entry in the table.
• If this page claims that an application fails in Mesa 7.n, but you have tested it using stable Mesa release 7.(n+1) and it works fine, please update the table accordingly.

• If the page makes claim about how well an application works in Mesa 7.n and you disagree about it, please discuss it in the community (see information on the Radeon 3D portal page).

• Note on bugs: please prefers opening a new bug on freedesktop bugzilla and link it here rather than reporting directly the bug here.

• If an application is not platinum, or only works under certain configurations, please add a small note detailing exactly what isn't working. Make sure you qualify the footnote with the time it was written, so that we may in the future more easily decide whether the footnote is out of date.

• Mesa version numbers do not apply to UNKNOWN or TOO OLD

• Development (git) versions: When running Mesa from a git checkout, use the following format for version numbering: X.Y-dev. You can obtain the version number by running glxinfo | grep version and examining the OpenGL version string; it will say something like "1.5 Mesa 7.7-devel".

• Comments and changelogs: When editing this page, please add an explanatory note to the Comment field! We need to know what changed and why with a quick glance, to keep up with the driver progress.

¹ Quits with "Sys_Error: Texture compression unavailable" if libtxc_dxtn.so is missing. Otherwise unplayable with software fallback for two-sided stencils. This is a known issue.

² On non-TCL HW like RS4xx and RS6xx it should be run with shaders disabled, otherwise it results in massive slowdowns. When run with shaders disabled also make sure to disable water refraction/reflection to make it faster. On TCL HW it can run with shaders enabled, but this has some minor corruptions, bug #25710. When run with shaders enabled make sure to disable water/waterfalls refraction (to avoid bad water rendering, bug #25709), set dynamic lights to medium quality (to avoid software fallback with explosions, see comment #3 on bug 22741), set soft explosion to low quality and disable water/waterfalls reflection, soft shadows and glare (to avoid slowdowns) and set textures to low quality (to avoid slowdowns and flashing textures in some maps, e.g. thor, bug #23545).

³ Pete's MesaGL GPU plugin works fine. The XGL2 plugin requires FBOs or similar, and probably won't work until OpenGL 2.0 is supported. Some games, like Chrono Cross, will run much faster in the software renderer due to game-specific, non-Radeon issues.

⁴ It runs very slow (~1fps). It requires libtxc_dxtn.so or else you'll get a black screen.

⁵ It runs very slow (~1-10fps). Shows a Leaking dma buffer object! WARN_ONCE, bug #25179.

⁶ Crashes, bug #24131.

⁷ Seems to render correct but the demo runs much to fast (might be SMP related)

⁸ Needs the tiling patches from freedesktop bugzilla to get compressed textures working. Direct3D 7 only due to [9].

⁹ Wine will translate shaders to ARB_vertex_program / ARB_fragment_program programs, so Portal & HL-2 in DX-8 mode ought to work, but either wine's fragment program translation or the r300 support for said extensions is broken, so Portal doesn't run at all & HL-2 will only run in DirectX 7 mode.

¹⁰ Exits with error message : "ERROR: The current video card / driver combination does not support the necessary features: GL_ARB_occlusion_query"

¹¹ It requires libtxc_dxtn.so or else you'll get a black screen. However, it crashes when starting a game, bug #25588.

¹³ Too slow (10FPS on R300) and transparency issues.

¹⁵ Rendering is good on rV280; water reflection need to be turned off due performance reason (just like as in other Cube engine games)

¹⁶ Impossible to start a match, the mouse in the menu is too slow / lag. Config : Nexuiz 2.5 - R350 - ati 6.12.2 - Fedora 11

¹⁷ Low framerate (15-30) in big areas, small tunnels work well with capped 100fps. Tested with X1950 Pro.

¹⁸ (Blender) 2.49 requires low impact fallbacks to draw all interface symbols (stipple lines for lamp types, etc), but that affects speed. 2.50 requiries changing triple buffer mode to something else, or unusable (app problem, it seems to happen with other brands and operating systems too).

¹⁹ World of Warcraft:

• (23 Oct 2009) [mesa-git, wine-1.1.31] Game starts (with -opengl), screen is initialized, but most textures are missing (screen mainly black), and all others are distorted (buttons, text).
• (15 Dec 2009) [mesa-git (7.7 with GLSL), wine-1.1.34] Less black in the background, more distortion visible (looks like texture + geometric distortion). Text/buttons still unreadable.

²⁰ (20 Oct 2009) D3D Mode: Playable though slow. Large black area on the right on my wide-screen monitor (looks like forced 4:3 for the visible area; dual screen setup might also have to do with that). OpenGL Mode: Small portion of the lower left corner of the should-be-screen visible in the top left corner of the screen (menu/drop-downs not visible).

²¹ (24 Oct 2009) [mesa-git, wine-1.1.32] Portal: Game starts and after a while (grey screen) the initial chamber can be seen, but textures are distorted. Menu font is not visible, fonts are also not visible in any windows.

²² (25 Oct 2009) [mesa-20090101, wine-1.1.31, R480 (X850 XT PCI-E)] WarCraft 3: the rendering is fine, but is so painfully slow that it seems a slide show

²³ (26 Oct 2009) [mesa-git] Crashes on many operations and does not update it's interface correctly.

²⁴ (30 Oct 2009) [mesa-git] No DXT1 and DXT3 support.

²⁵ (8 Dec 2009) [mesa-git, Cube 2: Sauerbraten] See #2,30.

²⁶ (14 Dec 2009) [mesa-git] Launches, but full of screen corruption. Abysmal performance, as if everything's being rendered in software. Too slow and corrupted to do more than drag the mouse to the "Quit" button. Tested on RadeonHD 4550 (R700).

²⁷ (14 Nov 2009) KWin supports compositing using both Xrender and OpenGL. The information in this table refers to the OpenGL mode. Basic compositing and most of the optional effect plugins require OpenGL 1.5. Some of the optional effects need shaders and FBO's.

²⁸ (14 Nov 2009) The desktop window is rendered as a black rectangle. Other windows and window decorations render without visual glitches, but with a low framerate due to software fallbacks.

²⁹ World of Warcraft:

• (22 Nov 2009) [wine 1.1.33] Login and character selection screens all render correctly. However, the game crashes almost instantly when you enter Azeroth. Many icons on the toolbars are corrupted. But at least the graphics card doesn't lock up.

• (19 Dec 2009) [mesa-git (7.7 with GLSL), Mesa DRI R600, Radeon HD 3300, wine-1.1.31] Results similar to above, but with no icon corruption. World seems to render correctly, but crashes a few seconds in.

³⁰ (18 Dec 2009) [Radeon 6.12.99, Mesa 7.7, WINE 1.1.35, ATI Radeon HD 4870] No major lockups. For R600/R700 driver, OpenGL 2.1/GLSL 1.20.8 compliance required for recent versions of legacy games and apps. Texture Compression (like EXT_texture_compression_S3TC) library support needed. Users should test if Mesa 3D software rasterizer shows "2.1 (2.1 Mesa 7.7)". Some rendering issues are mainly WINE-based versus R600 driver (DirectX 9.0c HLSL->GLSL 1.20.8 compliant). Added 3DMark Vantage and Unigine Tropics/Heaven benchmarking. [2.1 Mesa 7.8-devel, OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R600 (RV770 9442) 20090101 x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL DRI2, OpenGL shading language version string: 1.10].

³¹ (13 Dec 2009) Turn off s3tc in driconf, runs smooth in 1280x960 on a Radeon HD 4670. OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R600 (RV730 9490) 20090101 x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE2 TCL DRI2. Turn off s3tc in driconf, runs smooth in 1920x1200 on a 4670, all s3tc textures broken (white terrain, half the units), turn off advanced unit shading to fix menu and smoke corruption, water shader works and looks awesome. (tested with GPLed Complete Annihilation.)

³² (14 Dec 2009) Tested with a handful of titles using the Glide64 and Rice plugins. I could detect no issues with Glide64, but the Rice plugin has varying levels of rendering problems, from minor to severe, with the default options.

³³ (19 Dec 2009) GL_EXT_framebuffer_object not supported. Disable 'Extension limit' in Nvidia Control panel. OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R600 (RV770 9442) 20090101 TCL OpenGL version string: 2.0 Mesa 7.7-devel OpenGL shading language version string: 1.10

³⁴ (22 Jan 2010) Menus (including 3D background) render correctly and game can be started, however after the "Monday" splash everything turns black with messages like: bo(0x1aef4a10, 778240) is mapped (-1) can't valide it. invalid bo(0x1aef4a10) [0xE04A8000, 0xE04E7000].

RadeonProgram (last edited 2010-01-24 14:49:57 by bcmpinc)

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