Screen flickers when running game Sins of a Solar Empire

Bug #1322589 reported by Carl Englund
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
mesa (Ubuntu)
Expired
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Problem appeared after update from Ubuntu 13.10 to 14.04. Game worked fine in Saucy with both radeon and fglrx. Now in Trusty only works with fglrx. Using radeon driver gives heavy flickering (about 0,5s intervals) when running the game (through PlayOnLinux/WINE). I expect some other games of other users will have the same problem.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: libegl1-mesa 10.1.0-4ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.47-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,regex,animation,workarounds,vpswitch,move,imgpng,expo,compiztoolbox,snap,unitymtgrabhandles,mousepoll,resize,grid,wall,fade,gnomecompat,place,ezoom,session,scale,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri May 23 14:36:12 2014
DistUpgraded: 2014-04-19 17:11:14,002 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistroCodename: trusty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
 fwts-efi-runtime-dkms, 14.03.01, 3.11.0-19-generic, x86_64: installed
 fwts-efi-runtime-dkms, 14.03.01, 3.13.0-24-generic, x86_64: installed
 vboxhost, 4.3.12, 3.13.0-24-generic, x86_64: installed
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
GraphicsCard:
 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Madison [Mobility Radeon HD 5650/5750 / 6530M/6550M] [1002:68c1] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Mobility Radeon HD 5650 [1025:0364]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-06-07 (1445 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427.1)
MachineType: Acer Aspire 3820
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-24-generic root=UUID=8b7cae99-dae3-4d14-bbd3-24f82a9e0b57 ro quiet splash rootflags=data=writeback acpi_osi=Linux vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: mesa
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-19 (33 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 10/27/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
dmi.bios.version: V1.19
dmi.board.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: JM31_CP
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.board.version: V1.19
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.version: V1.19
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLTD:bvrV1.19:bd10/27/2010:svnAcer:pnAspire3820:pvrV1.19:rvnAcer:rnJM31_CP:rvrV1.19:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrV1.19:
dmi.product.name: Aspire 3820
dmi.product.version: V1.19
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.11+14.04.20140423-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.52-1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.1.0-4ubuntu5
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.1.0-4ubuntu5
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.8.2-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.3.0-1ubuntu3.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.10-1ubuntu2
xserver.bootTime: Fri May 23 13:44:19 2014
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:

xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.version: 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2
xserver.video_driver: radeon

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Carl Englund (englundc) wrote :
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Carl Englund (englundc) wrote :

Tried running with Intel IGP instead of radeon - no flickering!

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Carl Englund (englundc) wrote :

Tried with

Option "SwapbuffersWait" "off"

(using radeon) just for the heck of it, made no difference.

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Carl Englund (englundc) wrote :

Tried Mesa 10.1.3 from Proposed but the problem remains.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in mesa (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Carl Englund (englundc) wrote :

Updated to Ubuntu 14.10 but problem remains.

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Carl Englund (englundc) wrote :

Installing and using Wine 1.7.41-staging under PlayOnLinux (still in Ubuntu 14.10) seems to resolve this problem for me. As this is not the default Wine in Ubuntu, I guess this is still a bug..

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penalvch (penalvch) wrote :

Carl Englund, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.

To see if this is resolved, could you please test http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ and advise to the results?

tags: added: latest-bios-1.19
tags: added: utopic
Changed in mesa (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for mesa (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in mesa (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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