593600 - D3D9 bugs - rendering corruption

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[IU]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b6pre) Gecko/20100904 Firefox/4.0b6pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b6pre) Gecko/20100904 Firefox/4.0b6pre ID:20100904041009

Rendering corruption with layers.accelerate-all set to true.

As a aside: NOTICE THE TYPO in the Error Console message: "Direct3D 9 DeviceManager Initialized Succesfully." <--- s/Succesfully


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Issue 1: Garbage rending or IE9 Fish Tank demo
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1. Create a new profile
2. Open about:config and set layers.accelerate-all to true
3. Check Error Console to make sure you see:
"Direct3D 9 DeviceManager Initialized Succesfully."
NOTE: There's also "CoCreateInstance() FAILED." in Error Console -- just above
4. Restart the browser
5. Visit: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/performance/fishIE%20tank/default.html
6. Notice the corruption (see screenshot #1).

Issue 2: Garbage during tab opening animation
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7. Close the FishIE Tank tab
8. Click the "Open a new tab" tab bar button.
9. Notice the garbage text during tab opening animation.

Issue 3: Garbage in TabCandy/TabView/Panorama :-)
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10. Make sure you have two tabs open, with at least one of the tabs having a web page loaded, such as the "Minefield Start Page."
11. Click the "Group Your Tabs" tab bar button.
12. Notice the corruption (see screenshot #2).

Comment 1

[IU]

Attachment: Screenshot #1: Corruption in IE FishTank Demo

Comment 2

[IU]

Attachment: Screenshot #2: Corruption in Group Your Tabs view

Comment 3

[IU]

My Hardware, based on Error Console:

Direct3D 9 DeviceManager Initialized Succesfully.
Driver: ati2dvag.dll
Description: ATI Radeon HD 4290
Version: 6.14.10.7111

Comment 4

[IU]

Missed one:

Issue 4: Scrolling a textbox with text results in smearing (until the region is updated about 2-3 seconds later).

Comment 5

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

How recent is your video driver?  ATI unfortunately uses different version numbering for their Catalyst packages and the version files (e.g. you have 6.14.10.7111, and the latest catalyst package seems to be "10.8")

Comment 6

[IU]

(In reply to comment #5)
> How recent is your video driver?

Catalyst 10.8
Asus M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 (AMD 890GX integrated graphics)

If someone can get their hands on a board with the same chipset, should be pretty easy to reproduce.

Comment 7

[IU]

Catalyst driver details: http://developer.amd.com/drivers/ccc/Pages/default.aspx

Comment 8

[IU]

Attachment: Video #1: rendering artifacts durring text transition

I see this on the following website: http://lazarus.interclue.com/download.html

Comment 9

[IU]

Attachment: Video #2: rendering artifacts durring sliding animation

Reproduced at this link: https://bug583548.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=461865

Comment 10

[IU]

Interestingly, I don't get these issue if I run these with Window XP in a VirtualBox VM.  There, everything is fine.  So there's a problem in the way Firefox is interacting with real hardware.

This leads me to wonder if some of you are writing the hardware acceleration code against virtual hardware and not testing it on real hardware.

Comment 11

[IU]

It looks like Issues 1, 3, and 4 were resolved in the intervening period.

What remain are: Issue 2 and those represented in the videos (and of course, the typo).

If no one else sees otherwise, I will later dupe this to bug 593888 and attach the videos there.

Comment 12

[Bas Schouten (:bas.schouten)]

That's interesting. I wonder what we did to fix them.

Comment 13

[CruNcher]

It was also affecting https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589357 :) but now everything is fine

Comment 14

[CruNcher]

Though there are still some rendering bugs with Image animations temporal truncations and also Grafx Bot shows many failing reftests but non of those seems as hurting as this problem was :)

Comment 15

[CruNcher]

also experiencing currently the same text transition and image rendering problems (though im not sure if it's only for sliding images seems more a overall problem for changing images (javascript driven) :) also happens here http://www.arcinspirations.com/kobe/ if you move over the animated sections on top

Comment 16

[Bas Schouten (:bas.schouten)]

(In reply to comment #15)
> also experiencing currently the same text transition and image rendering
> problems (though im not sure if it's only for sliding images seems more a
> overall problem for changing images (javascript driven) :) also happens here
> http://www.arcinspirations.com/kobe/ if you move over the animated sections on
> top

Hrm, those are looking pretty good for me. Could you add a screenshot of what you're seeing on this page?

Comment 17

[CruNcher]

(In reply to comment #16)
> (In reply to comment #15)
> > also experiencing currently the same text transition and image rendering
> > problems (though im not sure if it's only for sliding images seems more a
> > overall problem for changing images (javascript driven) :) also happens here
> > http://www.arcinspirations.com/kobe/ if you move over the animated sections on
> > top
> 
> Hrm, those are looking pretty good for me. Could you add a screenshot of what
> you're seeing on this page?

Sure here

Moving mouse from Drinking (highlighted) over to Gallery

http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/8066/transitioncorrupt.png

Moving mouse fast between all sections

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/9421/transitioncorruptextrem.png

The Changing text on the Lazarus page (effect looks familiar ;))

http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/7690/transitioncorruptlazaru.png

here also my latest Grafx Bot reftest 

http://brasstacks.mozilla.com/resultserv/data/results/6e95cc55-8613-41f9-bbe8-97bf1c6f6f22

Comment 19

[CruNcher]

Ehmm above Rendering Problems are gone in latest nightly on XP :)

Comment 20

[IU]

(In reply to comment #19)
> Ehmm above Rendering Problems are gone in latest nightly on XP :)

I don't think the fixed the underlying bugs.  It seems they merely blacklisted the GPU, as hw acceleration doesn't appear to be enabled.  Will have to double-check when I get home.

Comment 21

[Bas Schouten (:bas.schouten)]

(In reply to comment #20)
> (In reply to comment #19)
> > Ehmm above Rendering Problems are gone in latest nightly on XP :)
> 
> I don't think the fixed the underlying bugs.  It seems they merely blacklisted
> the GPU, as hw acceleration doesn't appear to be enabled.  Will have to
> double-check when I get home.

We should be blacklisting less than we used to.. or should be. Do double check.

I suspect this was fixed by fixing of bug 596152.

Comment 22

[CruNcher]

@Bas Shouten 
What is blocking D3D9 on XP showing some actuall speedup in all the tests that get accellerated well under D2D and Win7. Chromes new GPU rendering http://blog.chromium.org/2010/09/unleashing-gpu-acceleration-on-web.html allready works under XP quite well even on your own http://demos.hacks.mozilla.org/openweb/HWACCEL/ test :) i get 66 fps with Chromes Hardware accelleration on XP and 11 either with layers on or of in Firefox :(

Comment 23

[IU]

(In reply to comment #21)
> We should be blacklisting less than we used to.. or should be. Do double check.
> 
> I suspect this was fixed by fixing of bug 596152.

Confirming this fixed.

And yes, like CruNcher pointed out, Chrome 7's D3D9 acceleration on my XP system is almost twice the speed of Firefox, so something's wrong with the Firefox implementation.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b7pre) Gecko/20100916 Firefox/4.0b7pre ID:20100916041016

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/f38ef1080bfe