Hi, I’m having multiple issues under Linux and I was wondering if anyone could help…
I need OpenCL for Blender so I went with amdgpu-pro. However, some games fails to load. They freeze the system and I can’t even change the tty. When using the experimental features in Blender, it crashes instantly during a render, after having loaded the render kernels.
I then installed only the OpenCL part, while using the opensource amdgpu driver. Games work perfectly, but Blender still crashes the same way.
Is anyone in the same situation and has found how to solve this? Everything works fine under Windows, even the experimental features of Blender.
My setup:
Ryzen 1600X
Vega 64
Ubuntu 18.04
kernel: Linux 4.15.0-38-generic
glxinfo | grep OpenGL outputs:
With amdgpu-pro:
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6.13540 Core Profile Context 18.40.2.15
I had the same problem (as you can see in my past posts). using the $ ./amdgpu-pro-install -y --opencl=pal,legacy caused a lot of issues specifically with OpenCL.
So I installed via ./amdgpu-pro-install -y
then installed OpenCL packages. Blender works fine and games are happy.
Hey!
I tried your method, even with just ./amdgpu-pro-install -y my games crash
But just to clarify, this issue is about a few games only (and they work with Mesa)
Blender still crashes.
Btw I’ve reported it as a bug here https://developer.blender.org/T57832
There are more info on the link. Could you try to render the test file I’ve submitted over there? Just need to press F12 after opening it.
which games are you running? I might have a couple of them to try out.
I’m running a vega 64/1950x
Rendering a scene works with me! Although I didn’t see the GPU render for Blender so not sure what that is about.
Dirt Rally and Rust are crashing when installing both with the second command. Dirt crashes only in ultra graphics setting tho. They work fine with mesa.
I’d be really thankful if you could install OpenCL , try this .blend file (press F12, make sure it’s GPU) and report your results!
Rendered with me!
the following commands give me this:
glxinfo | grep ‘version’
server glx version string: 1.4
client glx version string: 1.4
GLX version: 1.4
Max core profile version: 4.5
Max compat profile version: 3.1
Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.1
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 18.1.0-rc4
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.50
OpenGL version string: 3.1 Mesa 18.1.0-rc4
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.40
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.1 Mesa 18.1.0-rc4
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.10
clinfo
Number of platforms 1
Platform Name AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
Platform Vendor Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Platform Version OpenCL 2.1 AMD-APP (2686.5)
Platform Profile FULL_PROFILE
Platform Extensions cl_khr_icd cl_amd_event_callback cl_amd_offline_devices
Platform Host timer resolution 1ns
Platform Extensions function suffix AMD
Platform Name AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
Number of devices 1
Device Name gfx900
Device Vendor Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Device OpenCL C Version OpenCL C 2.0
I run a pretty the same setup here, albeit for gaming.
And i had problems with the amd driver as well, i installed the newest mesa driver and that really seemed to do the trick, dunno if it is the same for blender, but for gaming it did magic.
try this, it might help. http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2018/05/install-mesa-18-0-4-ubuntu-18-04-lts/
Problems i had with the amd driver was some wierd problem where steam got all wierd on me and wouldn’t launch if i installed it complaining about opengl as well i believe.
Holy crap I tried the experimental 2.79 build from today and it fixed everything, the viewport GPU rendering is at least 10 times faster, the 32 samples are rendered almost instantly…
Even the final render is faster
I guess it wasn’t because of the drivers after all !
