Wolfgang Steiner

@Mikalai the last time I worked with AMD GPUs on Linux there were two different kinds of drivers, the open-source driver and the proprietary "ROCm" driver. Which one of these...

@Mikalai To me this looks like the [Mesa RADV Vulkan Driver](https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/radv.html) ... i.e. this is not the driver developed by AMD, but a driver that is developed by the Linux...

@robertosfield > Do any of the standard VSG example exhibit the same performance issue? I am in the process of setting up a more complete repro-case, and now I also...

I now created a self-contained Github repo that contains the same code for headless/offscreen VSG rendering that I already posted above. https://github.com/drywolf/vsg_amd_perf (this is using vcpkg to fetch VSG, so...

> Another thing you could look at is whether the windowing system is doing compositing I disabled all Windows 11 advanced compositing options ([following this guide](https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/127411-desktop-composition-enable-disable.html)) and ran the app...

Yeah that's a good idea 👍 I already did this yesterday with `VK_FORMAT_R8_UNORM` ... it was giving me the same results as for the default `VK_FORMAT_R8G8B8A8_UNORM` But I will try...

I now tried a couple more VkFormats, and none of them showed any significant difference in performance.

@robertosfield Do you think it would be save to just remove the `VK_COMMAND_POOL_RESET_RELEASE_RESOURCES_BIT` flag from the `vsg::CommandPool::reset()` parameters? I don't know enough about [VkCommandPoolResetFlagBits](https://registry.khronos.org/vulkan/specs/1.3-extensions/man/html/VkCommandPoolResetFlagBits.html) and what effect this would have...