Disable cap_sys_nice which causes amd gpu crash for some people. Do glFlush instead of swapBuffers, which allows it to run at high fps anyways. Downside is that some games on kde plasma can start to stutter. Kde plasma issue?

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 27 deletions

diff --git a/src/egl.c b/src/egl.c
index 2c7f7be..8d37986 100644
--- a/src/egl.c
+++ b/src/egl.c
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 #include <dlfcn.h>
 #include <assert.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
-#include <sys/capability.h>
 
 // TODO: rename gsr_egl to something else since this includes both egl and glx and in the future maybe vulkan too
 
@@ -29,29 +28,6 @@
 #define GLX_DEPTH_SIZE                     12
 #define GLX_RGBA_TYPE                      0x8014
 
-#define GLX_CONTEXT_PRIORITY_LEVEL_EXT    0x3100
-#define GLX_CONTEXT_PRIORITY_HIGH_EXT     0x3101
-#define GLX_CONTEXT_PRIORITY_MEDIUM_EXT   0x3102
-#define GLX_CONTEXT_PRIORITY_LOW_EXT      0x3103
-
-static void reset_cap_nice(void) {
-    cap_t caps = cap_get_proc();
-    if(!caps)
-        return;
-
-    cap_flag_value_t cap_sys_nice_value = CAP_CLEAR;
-    cap_get_flag(caps, CAP_SYS_NICE, CAP_EFFECTIVE, &cap_sys_nice_value);
-    if(cap_sys_nice_value == CAP_CLEAR) {
-        fprintf(stderr, "gsr warning: cap_sys_nice capability is missing on the gpu-screen-recorder binary, performance might be affected. If you are using the flatpak version of gpu-screen-recorder then the only fix is to use a non-flatpak version of gpu-screen-recorder. Make sure you install gpu-screen-recorder, don't run it from the build directory\n");
-    }
-
-    const cap_value_t cap_to_remove = CAP_SYS_NICE;
-    cap_set_flag(caps, CAP_EFFECTIVE, 1, &cap_to_remove, CAP_CLEAR);
-    cap_set_flag(caps, CAP_PERMITTED, 1, &cap_to_remove, CAP_CLEAR);
-    cap_set_proc(caps);
-    cap_free(caps);
-}
-
 // TODO: Create egl context without surface (in other words, x11/wayland agnostic, doesn't require x11/wayland dependency)
 static bool gsr_egl_create_window(gsr_egl *self) {
     EGLConfig  ecfg;
@@ -66,7 +42,6 @@ static bool gsr_egl_create_window(gsr_egl *self) {
 
     const int32_t ctxattr[] = {
         EGL_CONTEXT_CLIENT_VERSION, 2,
-        EGL_CONTEXT_PRIORITY_LEVEL_IMG, EGL_CONTEXT_PRIORITY_HIGH_IMG, /* requires cap_sys_nice, ignored otherwise */
         EGL_NONE, EGL_NONE
     };
 
@@ -106,11 +81,9 @@ static bool gsr_egl_create_window(gsr_egl *self) {
         goto fail;
     }
 
-    reset_cap_nice();
     return true;
 
     fail:
-    reset_cap_nice();
     gsr_egl_unload(self);
     return false;
 }