To further increase the accuracy of the post process phase, I've added (scRGB) HDR support, which is necessary
to fully display the PAL and NTSC-J color spaces, and also to improve the quality of post process texture samplings and
do them in linear space instead of gamma space (which is very important when playing at low resolutions).
For SDR, the quality is also slightly increased, at least if any post process runs, as the buffer is now
R10G10B10A2 (on Vulkan, DX11 and DX12) if supported; previously it was R8G8B8A8 but the alpha bits were wasted.
Gamma correction is arguably the most important thing as Dolphin on Windows outputted in "sRGB" (implicitly)
as that's what Windows expects by default, though sRGB gamma is very different from the gamma commonly used
by video standards dating to the pre HDR era (roughly gamma 2.35).
Additionally, the addition of HDR support (which is pretty straight forward and minimal), added support for
our own custom AutoHDR shaders, which would allow us to achieve decent looking HDR in Dolphin games without
having to use SpecialK or Windows 11 AutoHDR. Both of which don't necessarily play nice with older games
with strongly different and simpler lighting. HDR should also be supported in Linux.
Development of my own AutoHDR shader is almost complete and will come next.
This has been carefully tested and there should be no regression in any of the different features that Dolphin
offers, like multisampling, stereo rendering, other post processes, etc etc.
Fixes: https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/8941
Co-authored-by: EndlesslyFlowering <EndlesslyFlowering@protonmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Dogway <lin_ares@hotmail.com>
Replace the bool parameter force5bytes in J, JMP, and J_CC with an enum
class Jump::Short/Near. Many callers set that parameter to the literal
'true', which was unclear if you didn't already know what it did.
-An assert would be erroneously thrown when shaders declared an array of 4 int or float options, despite 4 being the max supported (a simple <= / < mistake)
-When changing the type of a shader option (e.g. from bool to float), the serialization would be stuck appending the value from the previous option type, making the shader fail to build permanently until the cache were cleaned
To maintain compatibility with some video encoders, the whole output buffer was scaled to be a multiple of 4.
This change makes it so that that rule only applies while actively recording (or taking screenshots, even if it might not be necessary for that case).
Enable through command line options:
-C Graphics.Settings.TexturePNGCompressionLevel=[0-9]
Or from GFX.ini:
[Settings]
TexturePNGCompressionLevel=[0-9]
@see #10792
When that setting is enabled, m_xfb_entry is initially not present (during the phase where a shader compilation progress bar would be shown). The main path checks for m_xfb_entry, but the software renderer fallback path didn't.
Fixes another aspect of https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/13172.
Before, it used a fallback where it returned a default object, where the width and height were set to 0. Presenter::Initialize() used GetSurfaceInfo to set the backbuffer size, then used that size when initializing the on-screen UI (even for the software renderer, where the on-screen UI isn't currently present), which meant that ImGui got a window size of 0 and thus resulted in a failed assertion.
Although BindBackbuffer checks for size changes, it doesn't help because ImGui has already been initialized, and the size hasn't actually changed since initialization occured.
Fixes one aspect of https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/13172.
The HLSL compiler incorrectly decides isnan can't be true, so this
workaround was originally added in 52c82733 but lost during the
conversion to SPIR-V.
When faced with this error, users often don't try disabling dual core,
even though the error message suggests it. Perhaps the message is just
too long and lists too many things?
To try to improve the situation, I'm rewording the message and making it
say different things depending on what settings you are using.
This works around an Intel driver bug where, on D3D12 only, dual-source blending behaves incorrectly if the second source is unused on. This bug is visible in skyboxes in Super Mario Sunshine, which first draw clouds and sun flare in greyscale and then draw the sky afterwards with a source factor of 1 and a dest factor of 1-src_color (this results in the clouds being tinted blue). This process is done on an RGB888 framebuffer, so alpha update is disabled. (Color update is enabled; note that if you look at this in Dolphin's fifo analyzer, it won't be enabled because they use the BP mask functionality to only change the blending functions and not alpha/color update, for whatever reason.)
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