[OpenGL/fglrx-13.1] Strage problems / freeze when playing games in WINDOWED MODE

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The Story:
I had installed openSUSE 12.2, everything worked like a charm, fglrx-12 or 11 or whatever was installed, forgot it. vaapi+xvba worked like a charm
I could play games in windowed mode normally.

I upgraded my system to openSUSE 12.3 = epic fail (Graphic Driver)
I completely reinstalled openSUE 12.2 (with formatting the drive, so everything is being deleted)

Now I have openSUSE 12.2 again with the latest fglrx-legacy from AMD website (I’m not going to use the repositories)
vaapi+xvba (Hardware Acceleration 100% works, better that with the old one :))
Now I’m no longer able to use OpenGL Applications in WINDOWED MODE, only Full Screen works, why?? :’(
I prefer to play games in windowed mode (say what you want, i like windowed mode)

What happens exactly?

  • Open game (native linux - steam or open source games; or windows games - wine-1.6rc3)
  • Still standing picture - no kind of animation (frozen screen in other words)
  • Click another window, click back the game window (10 frames or whatever continues, than freeze again)
  • Last step again and again
  • The game itself keeps running, only the graphics hangs until i select another window and back again than for 0.5 seconds the graphic buffer continues (10 frames or whatever)

In full screen mode there are no problems works like a charm and better than with the old fglrx driver

I probably can live with the behavior of full screen
but i want to know what could be the problem
is it driver specific or Linux specific - my old installation was a bit dependency broken - the new one is fresh and good going

sorry for my bad and broken english :stuck_out_tongue: I’m Austrian

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On 06/25/2013 10:26 PM, SoftHacker wrote:
> I upgraded my system to openSUSE 12.3 = epic fail (Graphic Driver)
> I completely reinstalled openSUE 12.2 (with formatting the drive, so
> everything is being deleted)

for next time (i don’t have a good idea how to rescue this time) you
should have just restored 12.2 from your pre-upgrade backup…

all three supported upgrade paths include warning that any upgrade
may fail and the importance in backing up, before you begin the upgrade:
http://tinyurl.com/35p966c
http://tinyurl.com/93uemsr
http://tinyurl.com/7l4m2td

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http://tinyurl.com/DD-Caveat

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for next time i will dd my whole drive to my external 4TB HDD :shame: (enough space for a backup, but still forgotten, WHAT A SHAME) before updating
as is know fglrx will support the new X.org 1.13 in 6 month or so? right? Than I will update to openSUSE 12.3 or 13.1 if it is released :stuck_out_tongue:

But as I said, in FULL SCREEN MODE there are no problems, so this is the EOL of windowed gaming for me :’(

thanks anyway

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> as is know fglrx will support the new X.org 1.13 in 6 month or so?
> right?

i can’t answer, i do not know…sorry, i can’t help more…but, maybe
someone else has more help…so, hang around and see…

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:open_mouth: Finally I found the problem why OpenGL in KWin Windows is standing still (stuck on the same frame until i change focus)

You need to change the Compositing type of KWin from XRender to OpenGL, that is what I had before the reinstall lol!
The XRender probably won’t run well with OpenGL-based stuff, but I don’t know

btw I keep the XRender because of better performance actually lower CPU usage :wink: ] and the effects looks better for me