Yes, reverting the commit should be enough. Marek
On Thu, Jan 10, 2019, 5:02 PM Tom Butler <t...@r.je wrote: > Thanks Marek, what would need to happen to get this enabled again? Will > simply reverting the commit that took it out work? If so is there any > chance of getting this put back officially or would I have to manually > compile the driver each release? > > In particular I'm looking to get FSAA working in older games via wine, > mostly they don't support antialiasing which is a shame because there's > plenty of GPU power going to waste which could be fixing the jaggles. On > nvidia __GL_FSAA_MODE works as intended provided you set wine's > OffScreenRenderingMode to "backbuffer" which slightly impacts performance > but doesn't matter for older games. I'd love to see the functionality > return for AMD GPUs. > > Kind Regards, > > Tom > On 27/11/2018 22:30, Marek Olšák wrote: > > Yes, it could be added back. > > Marek > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 3:15 AM Tom Butler <t...@r.je> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I realise this was removed for a reason ( >> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2014-September/067864.html >> ) but there are cases where it is useful. In older games that do not >> support native FSAA being able to force it in the driver is the only way >> to enable it. >> >> >> A quick google search for AMD linux force msaa shows that I'm not the >> only one who would like to see this feature return: >> >> >> https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-drivers/open-source-amd-linux/1024166-radeon-eqaa-anti-aliasing-support-merged-to-mesa-18-2?p=1024185#post1024185 >> >> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=225425 >> >> >> https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/671yzm/forcing_antialiasing_with_mesa_radeon_driver/ >> >> https://github.com/dscharrer/void/blob/master/hacks/forcemsaa.c >> >> I understand it does cause issues in some cases but there are times when >> it is useful. Could it be reintroduced with a more relevant name that >> implies it shouldn't be used? E.g. GALLIUM_LEGACY_MSAA or >> GALLIUM_FORCE_MSAA_EXPERIMENTAL. That way it would lower users >> expectations while still making the option available to try. >> >> >> Kind Regards, >> >> Tom Butler >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> mesa-dev mailing list >> mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org >> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev >> >
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