This commit mainly elaborates on some messages a little more. Also fixes some typos that slipped through the last commit.
A large change in text can be seen in EXI_DeviceMemoryCard.cpp. I added more info as to why a write to a memory card may fail. (This actually was a reason I was unable to write to a memcard recently).
Elaborations can be seen in WGL.cpp
I did change some comments in some files that I was correcting logging messages in, however this is only if I spot a typo or if an abbreviation is lower-cased. Even in that case, the amount of changes done to comments is very minimal.
Sorry for a direct commit to the main branch but i need fast feedback, and i don't want to leave problematic code in the main branch for a long time.
if this approach does not work for the drivers with problems will transform dual source blend to an option in the D3D9 backend.
I appreciate the help of the people that tested my last commit and thanks to neobrain for pointing this solution.
Convert all quads+triangles into trangle_strip and uses primitive restart to split them.
Speed up triangle_strip, but slows down all others primitive formats.
Only implemented in ogl.
this implementation does not work in windows xp (sorry no support for dual source blending there).
this should improve speed on older hardware or in newer hardware using super sampling.
disable partial fix for 4x supersampling as I'm interested in knowing the original issue with the implementation to fix it correctly.
remove the deprecation label from the plugin while I'm working on it.
* Fast-EE:
Forced the exception check only for ARAM DMA transfers. Removed the Eternal Darkness boot hack and replaced it with an exception check.
Reverted rd76ca5783743 as it was made obsolete by r1d550f4496e4.
Removed the tracking of the FIFO Writes as it was made obsolete by r1d550f4496e4.
Forced the external exception check to occur sooner by changing the downcount.
# By skidau (30) and Pierre Bourdon (1)
* FIFO-BP: (31 commits)
Set g_bSignalTokenInterrupt on the main thread. Fixes the random hang in Harry Potter: Prisoner of Azkaban.
Used a scheduled event to generate the ARAM DMA interrupt if the DMA is greater than a certain size. Fixes NFS:HP2 GC.
Bumped up the disc transfer speed enough to prevent audio stuttering in Gauntlet: Dark Legacy.
Enabled Synchronise GPU on "SPEED CHALLENGE - Jacques Villeneuve's Racing Vision". Required to go in-game.
Added direct GameCube controller commands to the Serial Interface emulation. Fixes the controls in MaxPlay Classic Games Volume 1 and the Action Replay disc.
Increased the FIFO buffer size to 2MB from 1MB. Fixes Killer 7's Angel boss.
Used an immediate GenerateDSPInterrupt when transferring data from ARAM to MRAM and a scheduled DSP interrupt when transferring data from MRAM to ARAM.
Fixes the audio cutting in and out in the Resident Evil GC games using DSP HLE. Triggered the ARAM interrupt by the scheduler instead of directly in function.
Implemented proper timing for the sample counter in the AudioInterface, removing the previous hack. Cleaned up some of the audio streaming code.
Skipped the EE check if there is a CP interrupt pending.
Disabled "Speed up disc transfer" from the ZTP GC game ini.
Removed the disc seek times for GC games and removed the disc speed option on Wii games. Checked for external exceptions only in mtmsr.
Delayed the interrupts in the EXI Channel.
Merge aram-dma-fixes (r76a13604ef49b522281af75675f044d59a74e871)
Added a patch that bypasses the FIFO reset code in Wallace and Gromit: Project Zoo, allowing it to go in-game.
Made vertex loading take constant time.
Increased the cycle time of the vertex command. Fixes "Speed Challenge: Jacques Villeneuve's Racing Vision".
Moved the setting of the Finish interrupt signal back to the main thread as it was causing Wii games like Resident Evil 4 (Wii) to hang.
Profile stores, fp stores and ps stores only to the fifo write addresses list. This should make the JIT a little faster as it will not be checking for external exceptions unnecessarily.
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Conflicts:
Source/Core/VideoCommon/Src/PixelEngine.cpp
Adds support for PE performance metrics.
Used in Super Mario Sunshine's "Scrubbing Sirena Beach" level to determine when enough goop has been cleaned up to finish the level.
Also used in TimeSplitters: Future Perfect to determine the appearance of flares around light sources (e.g. sun).
OpenGL and D3D11 only. D3D9 support unlikely to be added unless anyone bothers to do the work.
Initial work and D3D11 support by me. Kudos go to Billiard for adding the OpenGL support and reviving development of this branch that way :D
Slightly (~7%) decreases performance when performance metrics are used (and only then).
Fixes issue 1498.
Fixes issue 5368.
# By Jordan Woyak (46) and others
# Via Jordan Woyak (2) and others
* master: (70 commits)
Fixes two memory leaks, one is pretty bad for OSX. Yell at pauldachz if this doesn't work. Or... say thanks.
Added a BluetoothEnumerateInstalledServices call so that the wiimote remembers the pairing.
Make ARMJit core default CPU core on ARM architecture
Fix a StringUtil regression from the arm-noglsl merge
Small improvement to cmpli/cmpi in ARMJit.
Merge latest ArmEmitter changes from ppsspp while we're at it.
Ah. I blame vim on this typo entirely.
Add disabled code for authenticating wiimotes on Windows.
Add the missing FPR cache
Buildfix.
Yell at the user if they change window size while dumping frames, and some other avi dumping stuff.
Not sure if this is the right way to handle this, but it makes the save states perfectly stable. That's all that really matters, right?
Abort loading states from incompatible graphics backends.
ARM Support without GLSL
Improve VideoSoftware save states. They are fairly stable, but not perfect. OpcodeDecoder::DoState() needs to be fixed.
Begin implementing save states to video software. Kind of works, sometimes.
Make error message for loading save state with wrong dsp engine shorter.
Abort load state if it uses a different dsp engine, instead of crashing.
Update the gameini of F-zero. Efb to Ram is no longer the default choice.
fix last commit by neobrain
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Conflicts:
Source/Core/VideoCommon/Src/Fifo.cpp
This reverts commit 4653adecf1.
Also dx9 isn't able to hanlde more than 11 varying registers.
More frustrating is the lightning issue by this commit. I don't know why it happens...
# By Jordan Woyak (9) and others
* master:
Fixed a buffer overflow in the OpenAL buffer.
TextureCache: Fix D3D backends crashing when a game uses multiple 1x1-sized LODs.
WII_IPC_HLE_Device_FileIO: don't rebuild the filename on every operation.
Some cleanup of CWII_IPC_HLE_Device_FileIO: The real file was never kept open for longer than a single operation so there was no point in dealing with it in DoState. Saving the real path in the savestate was also probably a bad idea. Savestates should be a bit more portable now.
Removing destination on rename when source isn't present doesn't make sense. IOCTL_RENAME_FILE still might not be totally correct.
Change some CNANDContentLoader logic to what was probably intended. Kills some warn logs when opening Dolphin.
Let's not CreateDir an empty string every time CreateFullPath is used, logging an error every time.
Fix a memleak. Probably/maybe improve USBGecko performance.
Remove the core count from the cpu info OSD message. It was often wrong and not rather important.
Use omp_get_num_procs to set the number of OpenMP threads rather than our core count detection.
Bulk send TCP data to the client with the emulated USB Gecko.
Added the ability to reverse the direction of the force feedback by allowing negative range values.
Changes/cleanup to TextureCache::Load and other mipmap related code. The significant change is what is now line 520 of TextureCacheBase.cpp: ((std::max(mipWidth, bsw) * std::max(mipHeight, bsh) * bsdepth) >> 1) to TexDecoder_GetTextureSizeInBytes(expanded_mip_width, expanded_mip_height, texformat);
The significant change is what is now line 520 of TextureCacheBase.cpp:
((std::max(mipWidth, bsw) * std::max(mipHeight, bsh) * bsdepth) >> 1)
to
TexDecoder_GetTextureSizeInBytes(expanded_mip_width, expanded_mip_height, texformat);
Fixes issue 5328.
Fixes issue 5461.
# By Jordan Woyak (24) and others
# Via Jordan Woyak (3) and others
* master: (66 commits)
Reduce some DI command delays. Fix DKCR hanging with DSP HLE. My other games continue to work.
Video_Software: Fix ZComploc option breaking stuff.
Video_Software: Fix the ZFreeze option doing nothing.
Video_Software: Toggable zfreeze and early_z support for testing.
Fix header guard and definitions not being set to 1
Add the option to turn on only the EGL interface to use desktop OpenGL with it.
Change the ugly "no banner" banner to the sexy "X" from the website.
Fix a crash in the FifoPlayer dialog.
Use different reply delays for various DI commands. Fixes issue 5983.
Revert "[bugfix] DX9::TextureCache: Use max_lod instead of min_lod where necessary."
Fix some potential issues when blending on EFB formats without alpha. Clean up state transition tables.
Disable play and record buttons if an iso was selected, but is later deselected.
Disable start/play recording buttons when no iso is selected.
Only delay DI and fs IPC replies. Fixes issue 5982.
Fix compilation with SDL2. (based on a patch from matthewharveys) Fixes issue 5971.
"Fix" using SDL from externals.
Clean up SDL includes a bit. Maybe fix an SDL2 problem.
Number "unknown" axes in OSX rather than call them all "unk".
Revert "Only delay DI command replies." Fix "Wii Party" again.
Hopefully make wiimote speaker less crappy.
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Conflicts:
Source/Core/VideoCommon/Src/PixelShaderGen.cpp
Source/Plugins/Plugin_VideoSoftware/Src/SWRenderer.cpp
immediate-removal is a new created branch seperated from master but reverted the revert of immediate-removal
so we get less conflicts by merging
Depth calculations are always done in the pixel shader now.
Due to the unpredictability of our zcomploc hacks this commit probably changes the behavior of some games which use zcomploc.
That's what would've been done in the next TCB::Load() call, anyway.
Fixes issue 5742.
Additionally, change efb copies to specify 1 as the number of mipmaps because that makes more sense than anything else.
change naming in all the backends vertex managers to make more easy to continue with the merge an some future improvements.
please test this as i'm interested in knowing the performance in linux and windows with the different hardware platforms.
So to compensate lets bring back some speed to the emulation.
change a little the way the vertex are send to the gpu,
This first implementation changes dx9 a lot and dx11 a little to increase the parallelism between the cpu and gpu.
ogl: is my next step in ogl is a little more trickier so i have to take a little more time.
the original concept is Marcos idea, with my little touch to make it even more faster.
what to look for: SPEEEEEDDD :).
please test it a lot and let me know if you see any problem.
in dx9 the code is prepared to fall back to the previous implementation if your card does not support the amount of buffers needed.
So if you did not experience any speed gains you know where is the problem :).
for the ones with more experience and compression of the code please test changing the amount and size of the buffers to tune this for your specific machine.
The current values are the sweet spot for my machine.
All must Thanks Marcos, I hate him for giving good ideas when I'm full of work.
Rachel Bryk