[SOLVED] ATI (open source) Graphics Issue due to Upgrade

Question

Shadowrun Returns finally loaded (after ages) but performance was abysmal whereas I was playing it with the same settings flawlessly yesterday. L4D2 was "laggy" while clicking in the interface and on the opening video, and then I got sound with a black screen and had to kill the process.
I believe it is related to a recent update in one of the following packages (at least I did not have this problem yesterday, and I updated first thing this morning):
[2014-05-06 08:32] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2014-05-06 08:32] [PACMAN] upgraded mesa (10.1.1-2 -> 10.1.2-1)
[2014-05-06 08:32] [PACMAN] upgraded mesa-libgl (10.1.1-2 -> 10.1.2-1)
[2014-05-06 08:32] [PACMAN] upgraded ati-dri (10.1.1-2 -> 10.1.2-1)
[2014-05-06 08:32] [PACMAN] upgraded x265 (0.9-1 -> 1.0-1)
[2014-05-06 08:32] [PACMAN] upgraded ffmpeg (1:2.2.1-1 -> 1:2.2.2-1)
[2014-05-06 08:32] [PACMAN] upgraded lib32-mesa (10.1.1-1 -> 10.1.2-1)
[2014-05-06 08:32] [PACMAN] upgraded lib32-mesa-libgl (10.1.1-1 -> 10.1.2-1)
[2014-05-06 08:32] [PACMAN] upgraded lib32-ati-dri (10.1.1-1 -> 10.1.2-1)
There doesn't seem to be much useful output when starting Steam from the command line here's the beginning output:
Running Steam on arch rolling 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1398287272_client)
libGL error: dlopen /usr/lib32/xorg/modules/dri/r600_dri.so failed (/home/username/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.20' not found (required by /usr/lib32/xorg/modules/dri/r600_dri.so))
libGL error: unable to load driver: r600_dri.so
libGL error: driver pointer missing
libGL error: failed to load driver: r600
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1398287272_client)
(steam:1501): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",
(steam:1501): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",
/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:1137: error: unexpected identifier `direction', expected character `}'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 70: non-double matrix element
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 70: non-double matrix element
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 78: saw unknown, expected number
My card shouldn't be using the r600 driver (mine is a Radeon HD 5770) and it's quite possible those errors have always been there.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Last edited by cyrxi (2014-05-06 15:03:55)

Answer 1

I have similar problem. I have removed steam-runtime libstdc++ libraries (I could not start game with them), but performance is very low. I use open source ati drivers (lib32-ati-dri also installed) and have Radeon 7770. Some time ago I could play Super Meat Boy with good performance, but now even intro is like 5 FPS which is obviously now what I expected. I am rather casual player so I can't say when (after which update as I presume) performance were redused. System is up-to-date.
I noticed that if I use AccelMethod "EXA" hardware acceleration do not work, with "GLAMOR" I have artefacts (e.g. with title bar and context menu) in KDE, but it run at normal SMB at normal speed. According to Arch Wiki there is a bug in X11 related to GLAMOR.
Last edited by fenuks (2014-05-10 21:27:11)