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Re:Cryengine 3.8.1 Adds Support for Linux, OpenGL and Oculus... by madez on Monday June 22, 2015 @09:25AM (#9758091)
I can't play The Witcher 2, at all. It literally kills my computer, both on Jessie and Sid. After a few seconds in the game my GPU crashes or the kernel panics. It's most likely because of radeonsi.
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Re:Cryengine 3.8.1 Adds Support for Linux, OpenGL and Oculus... by ekianjo on Monday June 22, 2015 @09:30AM (#9758123)
Yeah, as I hinted in another comment, the games using eON technology for porting do not work so well with AMD yet.
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Re:Cryengine 3.8.1 Adds Support for Linux, OpenGL and Oculus... by madez on Monday June 22, 2015 @10:07AM (#9758384)
All I found is that games ported with eON technology only work with the binary nvidia driver. Do you have more information about this?

What I find strange is that the game starts and seems to render fine, and then crashes the whole machine[1].

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=788779

Edit: fixed the link

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Re:Cryengine 3.8.1 Adds Support for Linux, OpenGL and Oculus... by ekianjo on Monday June 22, 2015 @10:11AM (#9758404)
No, I think they work with the AMD binary blob driver as well, but they have some display/compatibility issues with the drivers on those. You should check the official GIthub trackers for Witcher 2 and Bioshock Infinite, some issues are reported there.
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