These games seem to constantly have unused vertices, and this is worst shown in the Shadow Pokemon purification cutscene. The Shadow Pokemon purification cutscene is even worse on XD with forced single core mode, as instead of having FPS dropping with VPS staying 60ish, it will drop both, resulting in audio stuttering. Turning on CPUCall seems to have a 7/8 reduction of draw calls for that cutscene (~800 -> ~100), doubling performance. Many other areas of the game seem to benefit from this setting too, having some kind of performance boost.
See https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/13248. This is needed for the menus to work properly (not run at 1FPS and render incorrectly). Additionally, immediate XFB causes flickering.
Fixes dynamically changing dpi scaling.
Load resources from svg if possible.
Currently svg support is not in Qt build in Externals,
and image files need to be added later.
This extension is currently required to get good performance.
So instead of maybe triggering a GPU hang, let's just disable the shader and show a warning instead.
Sadly our postprocessing framework does not support reporting a warning, so the way to display the warning is a bit hacky.
But this is an ascii-art shader, we already have a font in the shader, so let's use it.
Dolphin had a nice but horrible slow asci art shader.
Beside being slow, it used the font from dolphin's old OSD implementation.
So it was also broken after the VideoCommon redesign.
This patch reintroduces the (almost) identical method for the asci art generation.
However with many improvements:
* Inline definition of the font, so no external dependency any more
* Optimized performance by partial unrolling with CSE'ing some memory loads
* Shader subgroup instructions, so 32 times faster on desktop CPUs on Vulkan + OGL (no D3D support)
* Option to select character size by internal or window resultion
* Dropped the last row of pixels of each character (only modification of the outcome)
Cubivore had an old issue before Hybrid XFB was merged involving the screen shifting left. Immediate XFB actually brings the issue back. It should be disabled for this title.
These games greatly benefit from CPU Culling, and there isn't much reason
not to just blanket enable it for all users. There is no case where you'd
want it disabled.
A call to GXCopyDisp(), made once before the title screen for no
apparent purpose, is causing heap corruption, but it isn't observed on
real hardware thanks to the data cache. Skipping the call works too,
preventing a crash on the main menu.
This patch substitutes field rendering with full frame rendering in the
NTSC and NTSC-J versions of Eggmania. This allows Dolphin's
"Force Progressive" hack to work with this title.
Codes originally from Swiss, written by Extrems.
This game follows the anti-pattern of calling memset on a buffer in the
midst of being DMA copied to ARAM, then calling a DVD read function that
effectively cancels the memset with dcbi instructions. Dolphin does not
emulate dcache for performance reasons, so this patch removes the
offending memset call.
Patches are included for two regions and are enabled by default.
https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/12759
- Given proper credits for the NTSC-U "Bypass Metafortress" patch (SUKE01.ini)
- Ported the "Bypass Metafortress" patch to the PAL version (SUKP01.ini)
This game has stale icache values in the logs during certain
loadscreens, and after disabling them I was able to play through the
entire game, with one crash that may have been related to savestates and
memory cards since during that loadscreen it said the memory card did
not match.
This does cause invalid reads to be spit out during parts of the game,
but you can safely skip them. Enabling MMU seems to surpress the
invalid reads without side-effects, but the aforementioned
memcard/savestate crash was with MMU on.
For unknown reasons, a Gecko Code on the Wiki for Rayman Arena that was
meant to help with widescreen patches. This doesn't actually change
anything about the game unless you enable Dolphin's built-in widescreen
hack, where it will cause enemies and whatnot to render on the edges of
the screen. This is because it patches out the culling function in the
game, which coincidentally is also the cause of the hang in Dolphin.
With "Store EFB Copies to Texture Only" set to True (the default setting), areas of Excite Truck appear darker than on console. For example, in Sylvan Glen under the Bronze cup, all of the trees appear very dark, nearly black. On console, this does not occur.
Start of the race on Dolphin: https://youtu.be/KjJ-55lwFkE?t=817
Start of the race on Console: https://youtu.be/0W9blwA8AG4?t=699
Setting EFBToTextureEnable = False fixes this issue and does not appear to introduce any performance impacts, so I am recommending that this be disabled by default for this game.
Filippo Tarpini