The finding was that 99% of the time, textures are static in memory. However, Dolphin would pessimistically continue to decode and copy the same texture every time. The optimisation is to check if the texture matches what is in the cache, and if it does, Dolphin should early exit.
The result is the speed in New Super Mario Bros Wii increased 35% with spinning coins. Still not as fast as EFB copy to texture though.
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I am officially killing the local/global build crap. The "local" build thing should never have existed. There is now only one build that is essentially what the "global" build was before. This is the way a proper build system should work. I will soon write a wiki page to describe how to properly use the cmake build system, and how you can still set things up to get the "local" build from before. However, that type of build should be considered a developer tool, and not the way that dolphin-emu should be built.
Briefly, to use cmake now do the following from the toplevel of dolphin's source:
mkdir Builddir
cd Builddir
cmake ..
make
make install (you may need superuser privileges)
Note that the scons build is still building dolphin in the old way.
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Explanation of this commit: We only have to care about four BP registers in ClearScreen, the remaining API state should be reset. The colorEnable and alphaEnable parameters are obsolete, for some reason directly using them caused the SMS glitch with DX11 (because of that bpmem.zcontrol.pixel_format == PIXELFMT_RGBA6_Z24 check in BPFunctions.cpp, is this one actually correct?)
The comment in BPFunctions.cpp was at least misleading (if not even wrong), so I removed it.
For what it's worth, someone needs to port this to the OpenGL and Software plugins (unless they're doing this properly already)
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Some notes about this:
- config.h doesn't get written yet, so you'll have to use one generated by SCons
- dependency checking isn't really implemented, yet. Just some basic checks for OpenGL or ALSA, we need something more sophisticated though.
- the OpenGL plugin fails to load for some reason which I can't debug right now due to the libc debuginfo package version in openSUSE not matching the runtime packages
- there's even some support for generating install packages (rpm/deb/.. packages, NSIS installer, etc). It doesn't work properly right now though, since some paths seem to be hardcoded into Dolphin's source
- probably lots of other stuff I forgot... Just take a look at all the TODOs in the CMakeLists.txt files for more information ;P
Additionally, I added various files to the svn:ignore list.
tl;dr: Unless you are a dev or you're building binary packages, this commit shouldn't bother you :P
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Games affected by this change: Mario Smash Football, Mario Strikers Charged Football, Monster Hunter Tri.
Other games possibly affected: Shaun White Snowboarding, Resident Evil Code: Veronica, Baten Kaitos.
This implementation will decrease performance if the game uses this feature, but the glitches will be gone. I'll add an option for this in a later commit. EFB pokes are somewhat slow in DX11 right now, speed should be okayish in DX9 though.
Other changes:
- SOMEWHAT cleaned up the EFB access code in DX9
- Fixed incompatible parameter list of AccessEFB and TVideo_AccessEFB.
- Fixed a theoretical bug in ReplaceRGBATexture2D, add support for STAGING textures
- Removed unused parameters in various DX9 functions
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The "Enable Progressive Scan" option in the Wii menu now controls whether the Wii/GC will detect a progressive scan display. This affects the timing of some games (both GC and Wii). Usually, the checkbox should be unticked as progressive scan displays require higher bandwidth.
This fixes the slow speed in NBA JAM. This also fixes the hang in Megaman Network Transmission. This should fix Deadly Creatures (turn off progressive scan).
Fixes issue 3314.
Fixes issue 3066.
Fixes issue 2571.
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Now, there are two:
Real dimensions: Width and height of the original GameCube texture
Virtual dimensions: Width and height of the texture used by dolphin-emu's renderer
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patch/hack to make dolphin work under virtual box using Linux guest
tested under gentoo and virtualbox 3.2.8 with 3d acceleration on
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- Add a sanity check in CRenderFrame::MSWWindowProc. Possibly reduces the risk of a crash when starting a game and immediately closing the emulation window when using the DX9 plugin.
- DX11: Add the resource usage as a parameter to CreateQuadVertexBuffer, possibly to be used in the future.
- reduce the size of the EFB access buffers from 4x4 to 1x1 since they needn't be bigger anymore
- some fixes to the recent hires commit.
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Renamed EFB Scale to Internal Resolution.
Removed Auto Scale option (it is now always on).
Added on-the-fly changing of the Internal Resolution in the OpenGL and Direct3D9 plug-ins.
Further consolidated the code in the video plug-ins.
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First step to bring a level of consistency between the video plug-ins - variable names, spacing, function names, function order, comments, file names. This will help us identify common code for VideoMerge.
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for all the plugins implemented per pixel lighting, this will make games that uses lighting a lot nice. (just look at mario sunshine and compare :))
for dx9: implemented temporal anaglyph stereo: just grab your red-cyan glasses and enjoy.
stereo calibration: use stereo separation ( distance of the point from you are looking) and Focal Angle: the angle necessary to focus in one particular object.
this settings are different in every games as they use different depth ranges.
please for any regression and bug introduced by this commit.
if you ask why i did not implement stereo in dx11 and opengl the reason is one: they don't work right when i have more time will try to find a way to make them work.
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eating each others events.
Manifests itself in GPU thread waiting forever for a reply in GL library code(and thus
a frozen emulation). Most of the time, this can be resolved by creating more events
(clicking, changing focus), but sometimes it stays stuck.
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The theoretical result is slightly different to the original shader because the
final adjustment is to the range [0/255..255/255] instead of
[0/16777215..16777215/16777215].
The real result is vastly different on some gpus that were giving incorrect results
of bits 23..16 (y-component) wrapping around while bits 31..24 (z-component)
stayed the same, and bits 31..24 changing while in the middle of the value range
for bits 23..16 for large depth values.
This should fix issue #3123.
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include referenced array data in the hash to avoid problems in some games.
this version is a slower than the last version but is more stable, still much work to do but so little time to do it :)
Added Dlist Caching Option to the plugin configuration so anyone can compare the performance change.
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still experimental, not totally optimized but must bring a nice speed up
please test for regressions an error. an please Linux people fix scons :)
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It no longer uses the TEXTURE_RECTANGLE extension for GameCube textures. Since GameCube always uses normalized texture coordinates, it's an unnecessary burden.
Please test hi-res textures.
Wow, it's been a while.
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use plain vertex arrays instead of VBOs to render in Opengl plugin as the nature of the data make VBOs slower. This must bring, depending on the implementation, a good speedup in opengl.
in my system now opengl and d3d9 have a difference of 1 to 5 fps depending of the game.
some cleanup and a little work pointing to future improvements in the way of rendering.
please test and check for any errors.
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Use the debug option for conf.CheckWXConfig on OS X as on Unix.
Take care of a few compiler warnings.
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Really that happens because the fifo.CPReadWriteDistance is negative.
Example: CPReadWriteDistance: -864 CPEnd: 10092672 fifo.CPBase: 9568416
In SMG this is because PI_FIFO_RESET is writing and after fifo.CPReadWriteDistance will be setted to 0.
To Prevent that, I've Implemented AbortFrame function in the CommmandProcessor. It should fix overflown because of that.
Note: There is other issue (Issue 2846) where the fifo.CPReadWriteDistance is negative too but the effect is different.
I'm working to solve this.
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Clean up of the input selected for the opengl x window in linux.
Fix a potential segfault when taking a screenshot (happens consistently when using "Save Targets" from the video debugger window).
Fix a memory corruption error that results from the wrong image size being passed when dumping textures.
Make the screenshot hotkey configurable.
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Remove a member variable which I introduced in r5907 although it never actually got used. Restores binary compatibility (at least in that regard) to pre-r5907 video plugins, but breaks any binaries after that :P
Update FIFO watermark tightness recommendations. 1000 is quite a high value I guess, but some people seem to need it.
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The code changes disable the usual pipeline flush for certain BP Writes that occur while the minimap is being drawn in Zelda: twilight princess. This significantly increases speed while in hyrule field. The way this is accomplished is described more in depth on page 42 of Xtreme's thread. Big thanks to Xtreme for doing a great job hosting that thread, and Kiesel-stein for initial work on the hack
Also, I used the resource editor in Visual studio to generate the GUI code for the DX11 plugin, and some code appeared to be removed, although the behavior of the GUI did not seem to change. Hopefully someone more experienced with resource files (forms?) can double check that no code was damaged
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(those originating from a thread other than the gpu thread)
glxMakeCurrent is supposed to error out when the context is
still current in another thread. NVIDIA handles that, but mesa3d errors.
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Glenn Rice