Radeon HD 6900 Performance Issues

English Hardware
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I just recently moved from Windows to OpenSUSE and so everything is going along swimmingly. The only issue I’m having is that my graphical performance (especially in games) seems to be dreadful. I installed the proprietary drivers for my card from http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:AMD_fglrx. I’m not sure if the system is using my integrated graphics (2500k) or my Radeon card and if it’s using my Radeon card why my performance is so poor.

The fgl_glrxgears command runs without any issues and the Catalyst Control panel opens without any issue. I suppose I’m wondering if anyone has any suggestions to determine if there is a problem and what a possible solution might be. If more information is required from me please let me know, fairly new to the Linux world here.

  • Greg
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Can you disable the Intel GPU from the BIOS?? You could force the ATI GPU in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d But having two dissimilar GPU’s confuses the system

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Sorry to take so long in responding. I have disabled the on-board card but have seen no increase in performance. To give it some perspective, on my Windows machine I could run any game in my steam library no problem whatsoever but on openSUSE I can’t run any games without massive screen lag / stuttering. I was hoping someone could give me a little more guidance; I’ve scoured the forums but can’t seem to find anything to give me any direction on this issue.

  • Greg

Here is my Xorg log. If any other logs would be useful I’d be more than happy to post them: http://paste.ubuntu.com/8168108/

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What desktop environment are you using?

If KDE, try to disable desktop effects (press Shift+Alt+F12). Is it better then?
In that case you should enable the option “Suspend Desktop Effects for fullscreen windows” in “Configure Desktop”->“Desktop Effects”->“Advanced”.
Also, the compositing type/graphics system settings in there should say “OpenGL” and “Raster” respectively.

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What desktop environment are you using?

Hey there, sorry for not being more specific. The video problems were so bad that I actually switched to XFCE. So, I’m running XFCE on openSUSE 13.1. Sorry for not clarifying this earlier.

  • Greg
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Well, you did mention this in another thread (where I also replied). Sorry for not noticing that.

According to your Xorg.0.log the fglrx driver is working and in use.
It shows that you are using an /etc/X11/xorg.conf though. Did you create this yourself, or was it created automatically by the fglrx installer?
Try to rename it, maybe it contains some suboptimal options…

Install the package “Mesa-demo-x” and post the output of this run as user:

glxinfo | grep render

I don’t have any experience with the fglrx driver, so cannot really give you advise for possibly improving your situation.
Maybe changing some settings might help but I have no idea where/what/which.

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Still having performance issues. I figured I’d post the output anyhow in case someone has an ideas.

Output of “glxinfo | grep render” :

direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series 
    GL_KTX_buffer_region, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_conditional_render, 
    GL_KTX_buffer_region, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_conditional_render,

Contents of “xorg.conf”:

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "aticonfig Layout"
        Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Module"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
        Option      "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
        Option      "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
        Option      "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
        Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
        Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

On the plus side, since I’ve not been able to play any games I find I’m getting a lot more work done.