[Mesa-dev] [Bug 93352] GRID Autosport crashes on start of race

[Ilia Mirkin]

Hi Edwin,

Thanks for reaching out to the mesa community! See my comments inline.

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 5:13 AM,  <bugzilla-daemon at freedesktop.org> wrote:
> Comment # 20 on bug 93352 from Edwin Smith
> My name is Edwin Smith and I work for Feral Interactive who make the Linux
> version of the game. Thank you for fixing the issue in the latest drivers, I
> am
> sure people playing the game on AMD machines will be very happy!
>
> We tested the game using 11.0.2 and apart from missing features for the
> higher
> end effects meaning they had to be disabled we did not see any major
> rendering
> issues.

Odd... this bug should have been visible with radeonsi and nouveau
when enabling tessellation. Perhaps only on debug builds though (on
opt builds it would still have been an issue, just no crash).

> Please let us know if we can assist by providing people working on driver
> issues a copy of the title or other information to help with your driver
> work.

The most straight-forward way would be to do the same thing Valve did
-- basically they provide a (free) package on Steam that includes all
of their games to people who are active mesa contributors. You can see
the details of their program here:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2015-April/081045.html
.

Cheers,

  -ilia