[regression] Upgrade from 18.0.4 to 18.1.0 causes severe stuttering in games

Submitted by Stan Staykov

Assigned to Default DRI bug account

Description

After upgrading from mesa 18.0.4 to 18.1.0 severe stuttering occurs in games like Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition and System Shock, and renders them unplayable. Downgrading back to 18.0.4 fixed the issue. As of writing this post, the latest mesa version does not fix this issue.

OS: Arch Linux GPU: Ati Radeon HD3000 CPU: AMD Athlon II X2 215

Version: 18.0

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