AMD Catalyst Linux Driver Performs Wildly Different Based On Program's Name

Posted by Soulskill on Monday July 20, 2015 @12:57AM from the a-rose-by-any-other-name-would-still-render-as-fast dept.

An anonymous reader writes: In past years the AMD Catalyst Linux driver has yielded better performance if naming the executable "doom3.x86" or "compiz" (among other choices), but these days this application profile concept is made more absurd with more games coming to Linux but AMD not maintaining well their Linux application profile database. The latest example is by getting ~40% better performance by renaming Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on Linux. If renaming the "csgo_linux" binary to "hl2_linux" for Half-Life 2 within Steam, the frame-rates suddenly increase across the board, this is with the latest Catalyst 15.7 Linux driver while CS:GO has been on Linux for nearly one year. Should driver developers re-evaluate their optimization practices for Linux?

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Re:First post by JoeCommodore · 2015-07-20 01:07 · Score: 5, Funny

Too slow, you should have titled you first post Global Strike: Counter Offensive.

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Re:what happens when by Anonymous Coward · 2015-07-20 01:48 · Score: 4, Funny

you change it to HL3?
It gives an outdated error message stating that Duke Nukem Forever requires Perl 6.