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Graphical corruption on pl_barnblitz

steamclosed MOVED: Team Fortress 2AMD driversreviewed
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#508 · opened 2013-01-02 by MaxSpain · updated 2013-02-15 · 12 comments · github
MMaxSpain 2013-01-02 github

Using ATI beta drivers, pl_barnblitz exhibits poor performance, which is expected, and graphical corruption which is not. Several pieces of terrain are transparent, and some areas were garbled. I rejoined the game and the garbling was much rarer, but transparent textures persisted. I have not played much TF2, but I fired up another map and this was not present. I also changed some video settings in the game to no effect.

Processor Information: Vendor: GenuineIntel Speed: 3500 Mhz 4 logical processors 4 physical processors HyperThreading: Unsupported FCMOV: Supported SSE2: Supported SSE3: Supported SSSE3: Supported SSE4a: Unsupported SSE41: Supported SSE42: Supported

Network Information:
Network Speed:

Operating System Version:
Linux Mint 14 Nadia (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.5.0-19-generic
X Server vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server release: 11300000

Video Card:
Driver: ATI Technologies Inc. AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series

Driver Version:  4.2.11995 Compatibility Profile Context
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 99 Hz
VendorID:  0x1002
DeviceID:  0x6818
Number of Monitors:  1
Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
Primary Display Resolution:  1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 20.08" x 11.30"  (23.03" diag)
                                        51.0cm x 28.7cm  (58.5cm diag)
Primary VRAM Not Detected

Sound card:
Audio device: Realtek ALC889

Memory:
RAM: 7963 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
Microphone: Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 563197 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 419999 Mb

Installed software:

Recent Failure Reports:
Wed Jan 2 06:00:43 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20130101220042_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-b3b19fb4-ef60-484f-b934-3ba942130101''
Wed Jan 2 06:00:43 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20130101220043_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-418343fa-0463-4783-bf99-7c76b2130101''
Wed Jan 2 06:00:44 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20130101220043_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-4f2fe8e6-acbc-441f-9596-9bcd22130101''
MMrSchism 2013-01-02 github

After switching to a map where it didn't happen, did you try going back to pl_barnblitz?

MMaxSpain 2013-01-03 github

I tried it again today. I created a new game on pl_barnblitz and experienced graphical corruption. I quit that game and made one on pl_badwater. There were no problems apart from low performance. I tried barnblitz again. It was slightly better, but it was still not rendering correctly.

Here are some screenshots from barnblitz. The first one just shows an area of ground that looks garbled. The second was something I had just noticed for the first time. When looking to the right, that glitch would appear. Noclipping through the map showed several other areas like this.
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MMrSchism 2013-01-03 github

I'm unable to replicate this issue myself. Anyone else?

Ttherealpxc 2013-01-03 github

I get this too with the Catalyst 12.11 Beta 11 drivers. This is my system info according to Steam (the graphics card is specifically an AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHZ Edition).

Processor Information:
Vendor: AuthenticAMD
Speed: 3113 Mhz
4 logical processors
4 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Supported
SSE41: Unsupported
SSE42: Unsupported

Network Information:
Network Speed:

Operating System Version:
"Gentoo Base System release 2.2" (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.6.0-sabayon
X Server vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server release: 11204000

Video Card:
Driver: ATI Technologies Inc. AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series

Driver Version:  4.2.11995 Compatibility Profile Context
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz
VendorID Not Detected
DeviceID Not Detected
Number of Monitors:  2
Number of Video Cards Not Detected
Primary Display Resolution:  1920 x 1200
Desktop Resolution: 3600 x 1200
Primary Display Size: 23.35" x 14.61"  (27.52" diag)
                                        59.3cm x 37.1cm  (69.9cm diag)
Primary VRAM Not Detected

Sound card:
Audio device: Realtek ALC892

Memory:
RAM: 12013 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
Microphone: Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 1877792 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 632364 Mb

Installed software:

Recent Failure Reports:
Thu Jan 3 21:33:54 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20130103143343_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-aab2f36e-052e-42ab-abda-43db92130103''

MMrSchism 2013-01-04 github

I'm wondering if it's an issue with one of the textures and AMD/ATI drivers....

MMaxSpain 2013-01-04 github

I was also running this on a 7870 like therealpxc. Is there any additional troubleshooting that would help narrow down the cause.

Ttherealpxc 2013-01-04 github

Hmm... the graphical corruption does not occur for me with the 12.10 Linux Catalyst drivers. It seems to be not only an AMD-specific issue, but an issue introduced by the current beta drivers (or their interaction with the game, although issues like this are likely on AMD to fix rather than Valve).

Mmeklu 2013-01-04 github

I had similar issues with my 5770 and 12.11 beta 11, but they seemed to stem from fglrx's application-specific optimizations. Try disabling Catalyst A.I. in the Catalyst Control Center.

MMaxSpain 2013-01-04 github

I tried disabling Catalyst AI (it was at standard) and that helped a lot. There is still missing terrain and now I noticed a bar across the sky. It doesn't change anymore though. I made a screen shot and I saved some stuff from the console that might be useful. I only included stuff that looked like something had gone wrong.

The screen shot shows two areas of terrain (on the left and right of the tracks) that are missing (transparent) and the garbled bar that goes across the sky.
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Error: Material "debug/debugluxels" uses unknown shader "DebugLuxels" Error: Material "___fillrate_0" uses unknown shader "FillRate" Error: Material "___debugnormalmap_1" uses unknown shader "DebugNormalMap" Error: Material "___debugdrawenvmapmask_2" uses unknown shader "DebugDrawEnvmapMask" Error: Material "___debugdepth_3" uses unknown shader "DebugDepth" Error: Material "___debugdepth_4" uses unknown shader "DebugDepth"

Can't use cheat cvar fog_start in multiplayer, unless the server has sv_cheats set to 1.
Can't use cheat cvar fog_end in multiplayer, unless the server has sv_cheats set to 1.
Can't use cheat cvar fog_startskybox in multiplayer, unless the server has sv_cheats set to 1.
Can't use cheat cvar fog_endskybox in multiplayer, unless the server has sv_cheats set to 1.
Can't use cheat cvar r_farz in multiplayer, unless the server has sv_cheats set to 1.

Error: Material "___fillrate_0" uses unknown shader "FillRate"
Error: Material "___debugnormalmap_1" uses unknown shader "DebugNormalMap"
Error: Material "___debugdrawenvmapmask_2" uses unknown shader "DebugDrawEnvmapMask"
Error: Material "___debugdepth_3" uses unknown shader "DebugDepth"
Error: Material "___debugdepth_4" uses unknown shader "DebugDepth"
Error: Material "debug/debugluxels" uses unknown shader "DebugLuxels"
env_cubemap used on world geometry without rebuilding map. . ignoring: maps/pl_barnblitz/pl_barnblitz/blendsnowtodirt001_wvt_patch

Requesting texture value from var "$basetexture" which is not a texture value (material: dev/halo_add_to_screen)
Requesting texture value from var "$texture1" which is not a texture value (material: dev/halo_add_to_screen)
Requesting texture value from var "$texture2" which is not a texture value (material: dev/halo_add_to_screen)
Requesting texture value from var "$texture3" which is not a texture value (material: dev/halo_add_to_screen)
Requesting texture value from var "$basetexture" which is not a texture value (material: dev/bloomadd)
Requesting texture value from var "$basetexture" which is not a texture value (material: dev/no_pixel_write)
Requesting texture value from var "$basetexture" which is not a texture value (material: dev/lumcompare)

No such variable "$C0_X" for material "dev/lumcompare"
No such variable "$bloomamount" for material "dev/blurfiltery_nohdr"
No such variable "$C0_X" for material "dev/lumcompare"
No such variable "$C0_X" for material "dev/lumcompare"

Hhyoioyh 2013-01-10 github

I have the same card and driver version as MaxSpain and therealpxc. I've played quite a bit of TF2 on linux recently, and have seen the same issue as described appear on multiple different maps. It only appears to happen approximately every one in six joins for me, and rejoining the server almost always seems to fix it.

I'll disable Catalyst AI and report back with pictures if I see it again.

Processor Information:
Vendor: AuthenticAMD
Speed: 3100 Mhz
4 logical processors
4 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Supported
SSE41: Unsupported
SSE42: Unsupported

Network Information:
Network Speed:

Operating System Version:
"Mageia 3" (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.7.1-desktop-1.mga3
X Server vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server release: 11301901

Video Card:
Driver: ATI Technologies Inc. AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series

Driver Version:  4.2.11995 Compatibility Profile Context
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
VendorID:  0x1002
DeviceID:  0x6818
Number of Monitors:  1
Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
Primary Display Resolution:  1280 x 1024
Desktop Resolution: 1280 x 1024
Primary Display Size: 13.31" x 10.63"  (17.01" diag)
                                        33.8cm x 27.0cm  (43.2cm diag)
Primary VRAM Not Detected

Sound card:
Audio device: Realtek ALC662 rev1

Memory:
RAM: 3957 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
Microphone: Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 213881 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 182859 Mb

Installed software:

Recent Failure Reports:

MMaxSpain 2013-01-22 github

AMD Catalyst 13.1 drivers fixed the graphical corruption issue and provided significantly better performance for me.

Jjorgenpt 2013-02-15 github

Issue transferred to ValveSoftware/Source-1-Games#61.

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