Linux mesa Gallium3D driver #2 : Crysis 2

Just a quick test of Crysis 2 running under Gentoo linux using only open source software, including drivers - like graphics driver, libraries - wine. The game works not bad, with about ~20 fps. The graphics settings are set at "gamer".

Software:
- Gentoo Linux
- Kernel 3.0.4
- OpenGL Mesa 7.12-dev (Gallium 0.4) the latest git (git-faf5d65)
- resolution 1440x900
- wine 1.3.27
Hardware:
- AMD Athlon X2 4200 - 2633 MHz,
- 3 GB RAM
- AMD/ATI Radeon HD 4850 512 MB

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[bayenne5b]

Interesting! Are you involved in programming gallium3d? And I read on the Freedesktop website the drivers for DX10/11 for the nvc0 generation of videocards (that are GeForce 400, GeForce 500 series) are DONE. I own such card and would like to see DX11 natively in action. Do you know whether wine supports the dx1x drivers of gallium3d yet? That should be really awesome (and especially to see a video of it running Crysis 2 or BF3)!

[neatnoise]

@bayenne5b, I'm not a programmer. Gallium3D DX10/11 support is not fully implemented (many things are missing, I would call it an initial implementation), so modern games like Crysis 2 or BF3 rather won't run in DX10/11 modes. Anyway, you could give it a try and test DX 10/11 games with the latest Wine version + Gallium3D git with compiled DX11 module. I would be interested if it runs with nouveau Gallium3D implementation. If I remember correctly I haven't had DX10 option active in Crysis 2.

[sbbgnew]

It look so great! But I have to wait until the power management of open source driver to be good enough before I switch driver for my laptop.

Thanks for sharing.

[autobot021]

Maybe if you reduced the res, it'll run much better.