The recently released Blender 2.79 doesn't work with Blender 2.79 at all, I'm getting super heavy flickering inside the viewport, where it looks like it's swapping between old contents previously rendered, and the "current" content (i.e. for instance the rendering view sometimes jumps between now and 1 second ago.) This makes Blender 2.79 unusable, 2.78 is working fine. I'm using Kubuntu 17.04, RX 480, with the Padoka Stable Mesa, so Mesa 17.2.
Should be of course "... the recently released Blender 2.79 doesn't work with Mesa 17.2 at all ...", a kingdom for an edit button :)
I think it's related to bug #98784, try starting blender with LIBGL_DRI3_DISABLE=1
Indeed, that solves the issue. I guess this needs to be filed with Blender then?
Turn on triple buffering, this is an old issue that's been reported before.
It can't be old because Blender 2.79 is brand-new (released last week) and Blender 2.78 didn't suffer from this issue.
Maybe overwritten 'new' defaults (on your side/distro), then? Simple fix is proposed, here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97059#c9 The old Blender bug should be fixed in Blender 2.8 (hopefully). NO change for Blender master planed, like in this post: https://developer.blender.org/T49945 Proposed fix for Blender master was: https://developer.blender.org/D2342 Anyway, try bisecting Blender, Mesa if you think it is a new regression.
(In reply to freedesktop from comment #5) > It can't be old because Blender 2.79 is brand-new (released last week) and > Blender 2.78 didn't suffer from this issue. It is and it did. I had to turn it on for 2.78 and then turn it back on for 2.79 because it decided to overwrite the settings. e.g. from 2016 https://developer.blender.org/T49537
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 97059 ***
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