Ambient occlusion is broken in The Chronicles of Riddick - Assault on Dark Athena
The game The Chronicles of Riddick - Assault on Dark Athena (OpenGL game) has graphical glitch when ambient occlusion is enabled in the in-game graphics setting. The game works fine on proprietary NVIDIA driver. The game is easy to run in Wine just launch DarkAthena.exe file from the System/Win32_x86 folder of the game folder.
When Ambient occlusion is enabled the game scene areas becomes dark and darkest when Ambient occlusion is High in the graphics setting. Please, see screenshot below.
Ambient occlusion is High (different scene parts became black):
Ambient occlusion is off (no graphics glitch) :
The game can be downloaded from the following site for free (abandon ware):
https://oldgamesdownload.com/the-chronicles-of-riddick-assault-on-dark-athena/
PC:
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor @ 3.7GHz
16 GB RAM
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT 8GB
System:
Manjaro Linux
Linux kernel 6.1.84-1-MANJARO
Mesa AMD driver 24.0.2
inxi -GSC -xx output:
System:
Host: thinkcentreM Kernel: 6.1.84-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64
compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.11 tk: Qt v: 5.15.12 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
CPU:
Info: 6-core model: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3+
rev: 0 cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 3 MiB L3: 32 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2388 high: 3700 min/max: 2200/4650 boost: disabled
cores: 1: 2200 2: 2200 3: 2200 4: 2200 5: 3700 6: 2200 7: 2200 8: 2200
9: 2200 10: 2200 11: 2200 12: 2956 bogomips: 88836
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Navi 23 [Radeon RX 6600/6600 XT/6600M] vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-2 pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
active: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2,DP-3 bus-ID: 0b:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:73ff
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.12 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.5
compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting,radeon
alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-A-0 model: Dell P2717H res: 1920x1080
dpi: 82 diag: 686mm (27")
API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi device: 1 drv: swrast
gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi x11: drv: radeonsi
inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 24.0.2-manjaro1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT (radeonsi
navi23 LLVM 16.0.6 DRM 3.49 6.1.84-1-MANJARO) device-ID: 1002:73ff
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.279 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 0 type: discrete-gpu
driver: amd device-ID: 1002:73ff