Started on 2 of those back 10-odd years ago. Still, if you are having fun with such an old-style wheel, rest assured I won't discourage you from using it. Tyre-model and physics are still better than the rest in the rally-genre, just not quite there yet when compared to the current crop of track-day titles (Assetto Corsa, rFactor 2, AMS, iRacing). Sadly none of the more worthy wheels that provide you with a 1:1 steering-ratio in proper sims (and Dirt Rally sort-of does qualify for being called a proper sim, if it were not for some funny-sauce found in the gravity-, tarmac- and aero-physics) would work, yet. Even some of the older 270°-ish Thrustmasters do enjoy working support. if it is one of those limited to about 270° of rotaion then I can see you having better luck. It is a cheap plastic wheel, but it works. I actually found an old racing whell with official support for Windows XP only and I managed to get that working in DiRT Rally. Originally posted by Chauncey von Snuffles III: means we Linux-users are limited to Logitech G25, G27, G29 at this point in time. Sucks as I upgraded to a "superior" T300 about a year ago - which sadly limits me to Windows (7 ultimate in my case). Sadly this means we Linux-users are limited to Logitech G25, G27, G29 at this point in time. With a polaris-based card you would get the benefit of the amdgpu kernel-module out of the box, which has proven to provide reasonably-good support for everything that it was made for, for the last year or so that I have been monitoring reports and such.Īs a personal note: With racing-sims you do not WANT 60fps as a minimum-fps, you really NEED 60 fps minimum plus a ffb-wheel. It just might get there later or not at all. That is not to say that radeonsi might be able to achieve good performance at a later time with the card you have now. So might be a valid value-proposition to upgrade to something more current, now. Which is not an option for your older architecture/hardware. regarding 50fps, my benchmark-run finally achieved ~70fps (minumum-fps, mind you) after upgrading to 4.11 / amdgpu. Sucks having to go to such lengths just "to make sure" - but that is the other side of the coin of rolling-release and free software development and -pace. you could try out a separate install with an older set of base-components, then. My card is indeed old, but the game runs at ~50fps on low serttings, so the menus should not lag behind. I am using Arch with mesa-git, xf86-video-ati-git and all the other mesa git components. Originally posted by Chauncey von Snuffles III: Have you tried updating mesa to rule out the other known performance-regression being mesa 17.0 and llvm version 4? I would suggest you try looking at the mesa-package first. So yeah: in this current transitional phase (looking at AMD), the future is looking quite bright, while the present is a bit messy and proving complicated-ish. It actually "worked" after a bit of fiddling, yet the most recent update to mesa 17.2-GIT (padoka unstable archive following the development-version) did brake compatibility with this game, unfortunately (it worked well for about a week and a half before that, so I could actually run the benchmark at good performance). That card is part of the newer "GCN 1.1" architecture which allowed me to try the newer "amdgpu" kernel-driver as a drop-in replacement of "radeon". I personally just upgraded to the mainline-Kernel 4.11 (final) on my 16.04-based neon-distro as to combat the "radeon"-regression on my "r9 390". Havce you tried updating mesa to rule out the other known performance-regression being mesa 17.0 and llvm version 4? I would suggest you try looking at the mesa-package first. Originally posted by Chauncey von Snuffles III:I am experiencing the exact same issue.ĪMD Radeon HD 6970 that card is of 2010-vintage and tops out at OpenGL-level 4.4 (which probably means nothing for this game, but still, it is an indicator that you should not expect everything new to run well any longer, especially if it is built around OGl 4.5 or Vulkan)īut my suspicion in this case has to do with a known/observed performance-regression in the "radeon" kernel-module in the more recent kernel-versions.
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