Dual Core sync fix.
When the FIFO is processing data we must not advance the cpu cycles in CoreTiming because in this way the VI will be desynchronized. So, We are waiting until the FIFO finish and while we process only the events required by the FIFO.
This should fix Issue 2072 .
This affect to all games in dual core mode.
Please, You can test all games with VPS limiter auto, 60, 50 depending of the game and compare with prev revision.
For example now NSMB in the video Intro has 60 fps (prev 30 fps) :D or SMG does't need anymore FPS Limitter Hack to get 55-60 fps
Beside the slowdowns now are more softly and the fps more stables because the VI sync is almost perfect.
The Core Timing and Fifo modifications are delicated. Please report if this hang any game. Don't forget check with prev revision.
Enjoy it! Thanks to Rodolfo for teach me all about dolphin.
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Fix the decoder codepath when OpenCL is enabled and the DX11 plugin is used.
Added the DX11 plugin to the Dolphin project dependencies.
git-svn-id: https://dolphin-emu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@5764 8ced0084-cf51-0410-be5f-012b33b47a6e
By now I'm pretty sure some games are written in multi-thread, and they depend on Watermark to suspend/resume their threads.
So without Watermark, they will never work.
git-svn-id: https://dolphin-emu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@5709 8ced0084-cf51-0410-be5f-012b33b47a6e
modify shader generator to produce native sm 4.0 code.
eliminate compatibility mode in dx11 so now all shader must work much better.
please test.
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I have no idea how all this stuff works, but this fixes at least some (if not all) games which worked before r5681.
git-svn-id: https://dolphin-emu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@5689 8ced0084-cf51-0410-be5f-012b33b47a6e
Improved dual core mode for "Metroid Prime 2", "Star Fox Adventures", etc.
I should have committed this long time ago, but I don't have every game to test compatibility... Any way, better late than never.
PS: If any regression observed, feel free to revert this rev.
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Might or might not work for you, yet.
Anyway, read the soon to be created forum thread on this plugin before asking any questions.
Huge thanks to rodolfoosvaldobogado for helping me out in various areas.
Also, thanks to everyone on IRC who supported me during development ;)
git-svn-id: https://dolphin-emu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@5680 8ced0084-cf51-0410-be5f-012b33b47a6e
- be more strict with the input signature of generated pixel shaders
- replace the D3D parameter with an API_TYPE one, so that we can further distinguish between DX9 and DX11
- for what it's worth dx11 (using vs_4_0) doesn't support D3DCOLORtoUBYTE4; added a workaround for this
- add a "dx9-" prefix to the shader cache files to avoid conflicts with dx11 shaders
Apart from that we're calling CommandProcessor::Shutdown() in main.cpp,Shutdown() now.
Delete all files in User/ShaderCache if you want to save a few KB disk space :P
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Fix: fix for lighting equations , that must improve lighting in a lot of games ( test smg :) )
experimental speedup: implemented alpha pass using stencil buffer instead of a duplicate shader. i recommend to test this well as i dono if will work the same way in all the systems. i my system it gives a nice 2-5 fps improvement. if it brings problems in any system or game will revert asap.
enjoy
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efb scale :
auto fractional: the original scaling way, will grant a 1:1 pixel mapping between efb and screen giving the best image quality even in non standard resolutions
at the cost of glitches in some games.
auto integral: automatic but only int values for the scale, no glitches but only the correct pixel scaling when using some resolutions.
the rest are the fixed scales.
enjoy.
git-svn-id: https://dolphin-emu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@5639 8ced0084-cf51-0410-be5f-012b33b47a6e
enable newline normalization
get revision number via `hg svn info` for svnrev.h
ignore incremental/generated binary files (windows/VS at least)
leave a comment if some files need native eol set in svnprops
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in general cleanup and bugfix disable pierre patch for the moment as it causes problem in some games and hopefully fix the remaining missing textures for nvidia users in opengl.
make the code in pixelshadergen looks nice and readable.
D3D: this is a ultra experimental commit please check for regressions or error.
make the efb Scale / super sampling level customizable to improve the output quality and let the user configure quality according to his hardware.
is everyone likes this change will translate it to opengl
please test
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Not only does it change tons of files to switch to a new and non-working (it doesn't parse my ini files, at least) ini parser, it also reshuffles a lot of code and removes a plugin. The latter part is fine, but doing these two major switches in one revision, one of which is broken, is completely unacceptable. I said to merge tiny changes, not massive reworkings.
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variables, writeable strings and dangerously shadowed variables.
index(), gamma(), exp() and y0() are POSIX functions and using those
names can cause namespace confusion.
A number of C files were missing the final newline required by ANSI C
and some versions of GCC are pedantic enough to complain about this.
These changes simply the scons build, allowing us to get rid of
filterWarnings which is simply more trouble than it's worth.
git-svn-id: https://dolphin-emu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@5574 8ced0084-cf51-0410-be5f-012b33b47a6e
Using Unix tools to operate on a tree containing filename with spaces in them
is really annoying, so rename the handful of instances where there were spaces.
Host.cpp has never been used.
Games tend to lookup the following directories that we don't yet have anything
to put in, so prepopulate them in Data/User/Wii:
title/00010001
title/00010002
title/00010003
title/00010004
title/00010005
title/00010006
title/00010007
meta
shared2/title
Set eol-style native on a number of text files which didn't already have it.
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* optimize may last commit to make it faster
* reorder the code to make it more readable
please test and enjoy
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This should give the exact same shader code except for the cases of
SELA == SELB and SELC == 1, the latter only for the color combinder.
In these two cases the results of the shader should not change in any way.
It would have been possible to optimize the SELC == HALF case too, if
the actual factor had been 0.5f instead of 0.4980392f.
git-svn-id: https://dolphin-emu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@5472 8ced0084-cf51-0410-be5f-012b33b47a6e
almost fixed real xfb in d3d, i say almost because there are some minor scalling problems. hope will fix them soon.
implemented a more intelligent index generator to emulate more accurately the behavior of the gc.
please give me feedback on this changes.
enjoy :)
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The real hardware probably always sends the result of its computations
to the alpha test/fog units, in parallel to its registers, but those
only take the result of the last texenv stage.
This makes grass show up in ZTP, where the last texenv stage oddly writes to
reg #3 instead of #0.
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implemented fixed efb scale to improve alignment and discard some error caused by incorrect scale.
make both plugins work similar. this must improve opengl image quality a lot.
also implemented dynamic resizing in opengl, this way the resolution math the windows resolution on resize.
this is highly experimental so please test a lot.
implemented shader dumping on error thinking in future experiments with shaders.
enjoy :)
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a MAYORRRRRR change in pixel shader generation, please review all games you can and leave comments this must improve accuracy in graphic emulation a lot.
for example: mario eyes in super mario galaxy, water pod transparency an water transparency on game intro in super mario sunshine, etc.
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make native mips loading an option to prevent performance lost in game that not need this functionality.( thanks to dorian.fevrier for point the performance lost.)
added a patch from pierre@pirsoft.de to avoid vertex drops when index array is full in opengl implementation that do not support large index arrays
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Also added a window size setting for windowed mode.
Also pulled some X11 specific code out into a separate file.
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These codes don't work unless "_M_SSE=0x301", for SSSE3, or "_M_SSE=0x401", for SSE4.1, is defined as a preprocessor definition.
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fixed fps display in the top bar, now it shows the real fps of the game.
some code clean up and some corrections to make everything work right in the reference renderer.
multiples xfb now is broken even in single core as is was not an error caused by dual core, i really dono where the error is,everything looks correct but if you test a game with multiples xfb or the ipl you will see the error.
ector if you can take a look at he code and throw me some ideas i'll thank you.
please test.
git-svn-id: https://dolphin-emu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@5272 8ced0084-cf51-0410-be5f-012b33b47a6e
Removed the obsolete projection hacks:
* Final Fantasy CC Echo of Time
* Harvest Moon Magical Melody
* Baten Kaitos
* Baten Kaitos Origin
* Skies of Arcadia
git-svn-id: https://dolphin-emu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@5271 8ced0084-cf51-0410-be5f-012b33b47a6e
If you are having trouble with segmentation faults in linux try "shared_soil=true". That seems to fix the problem. How do we fix this for the static build?
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after some test the more relevant parameters were the color samples and the tlut max size.
so delete the rest of the parameters and define 3 modes:
Safe : the two values are set to 0 meaning all the texture data and all the tlut data are hashed this is the most correct and slowwwwwwwwwww way
Normal: 37 samples are taken from the color textures an the firs 4096 bytes of the tlut are hashed, is a lot faster than safe mode but in some games i observe small glitches.
Fast: 8 samples are taken from the color textures an the first 1024 bytes are hashed from the tlut, is a little slower than the unsafe cache but at least all the games i tested have correct text output and fast frame rate. the glitches in dinamyc color textures are more noticeable in this mode
this values could be improved, if you find a better combination please post it and the game it fixes and i will update the source.
for the moment, as my time is limited by a lot of work, only implemented the d3d gui, if someone can implement the opengl gui will be a lot of help for me.
please test a lot and let me know the results.
git-svn-id: https://dolphin-emu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@5135 8ced0084-cf51-0410-be5f-012b33b47a6e
fixed a misbehavior in the clear code that causes depth clear problems in reference hardware (Intel as example).
add 6 parameters to optimize Safe Texture Cache:
SafeTextureCacheColorSamples, SafeTextureCacheIndexedSamples, SafeTextureCacheTlutSamples:
this 3 parameters gives the number of samples taken to calculate the final hash value, less samples = more speed, more samples = more accuracy
if 0 is specified the hash is calculated using all the data in the texture.
SafeTextureCacheColorMaxSize, SafeTextureCacheIndexedMaxSize, SafeTextureCacheTlutMaxSize:
this parameters limits the amount of data used for the hash calculation, it could appear as redundant but in some games is better to make a full hash of the first bytes instead of some samples of all the texture.
color, indexed, tlut : define the texture type, full color data, indexed, and the tlut memory.
the parameters are available in the config , no GUI at this time, if the test are OK will add it to the GUI.
if someone needs it will give more examples on how to configure the values for specific games.
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sorry to tell but this will bring a speed drop, so let you decide if this change stay or not.( used the fastest open source hash algorithm i know)
do not apply full hashing to other format because it kills the performance.
for popular request added 9x SSAA believe me will kill your graphic card even if is the best but the image quality is exceptional.
as always please test and let me know the results.
git-svn-id: https://dolphin-emu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@5034 8ced0084-cf51-0410-be5f-012b33b47a6e
chage the global format of the screenshots to bmp, is correctly supported by both plugins and is faster.
reverted the changes in safe texture cache, will try to make them more stable then commit them, this should fix compilation in linux and macand error introduced in MP games
corrected all the issues commented by ector, thanks for the comments alway is good that the code is revised by others to find missed spots.
please report any remaining issue to solve them.
git-svn-id: https://dolphin-emu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@5001 8ced0084-cf51-0410-be5f-012b33b47a6e
first fixed scaling when updating backbuffer to make it friendly with encoders, now frame dumping must work without errors in any codec.
clean screenshot and frame dumping code now is more correct, faster and stable.
improve safe texture cache, improving the distribution of the hash algorithm, including tlut hash in the final hash of the texture, and making use of a 64 bit hash to make it more accurate.
clean a lot of code and corrected some missused vertex formats when drawing full screen quads.
and biggest change last:
implemented pseudo antialiasing: a image post-process algorithm that mimics antialiazing and is fare more easier to implement in this scenario.
you can change the intensity of the effect changing the values of the antialiasing combo. the right value depends on the game.
for example mkwii looks awesome with 8x.
please try all the changes and let me know the results.
if something is broken, please let me know and will fix it asap.
git-svn-id: https://dolphin-emu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@5000 8ced0084-cf51-0410-be5f-012b33b47a6e
Basic usage: "sudo scons install=global install"
Hopefully this doesn't break builds on Macs. I have tested this on linux and windows.
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Enable the thread by adding this line to the video plugin ini files, "User\Config\gfx_dx9.ini" and "User\Config\gfx_opengl.ini":
UseFIFOThread = True
The line should be added under the UseXFB line.
To disable the FIFO thread, use this line:
UseFIFOThread = False
If the line is not in the ini file, the default is disabled (i.e. False).
The FIFO thread causes an error when the OpenGL plugin is used. The D3D plugin works.
Only top left quarter of the screen can be seen when rendering to main window. The entire screen can be viewed when running in a window.
git-svn-id: https://dolphin-emu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@4930 8ced0084-cf51-0410-be5f-012b33b47a6e
Marcos Vitali