Also slightly modify the textual description of the other underclock items.
All previous values available at the slider are still there, but since
the new value is now the mildest (slider == -1), it "pushes" the previous
-1 and -2 values one notch down.
This restores the mildest value to be identical to how it behaved before
90b11b2f , which is measured as about 75% speed.
Because the "balanced" preset uses the -1 slider value, it means this
restored mild value is now also used by the balanced preset.
As a note, while the message for the mildest value was always "reduce by
about 33%", before 90b11b2f it was actually about 25% reduction (75% speed,
like with this commit now), and after that commit it was about 40% reduction
(60% speed).
Also, since we add new value to the slider only on one side, the "0"
(default) slider position is now not at the exact middle. That's fine,
but maybe we could also add a milder overclock value on the other side
to have that symetric again.
The ee cyclerate percentage values at the slider text were inaccurate,
and sometimes wildely so.
Add some code to measure the actual speed at runtime (disabled by default)
and update the (static) slider text values according to the measurements.
Also change the description from increase/reduce "by AA %" to "to BB %".
This makes it slightly easier to grasp. E.g. "reduce speed to 10%" is
easier to grasp than "reduce speed by 90%", and similarly, "increase
speed to 300%" is easier to grasp than "increase speed by 200%".
While c782b62 added much more reliable game game startup detection, the
settings system did not yet gain that knowledge, but typically that's OK.
Typically the settings (and patches) are loaded according to the current
CRC, which happens once on bios boot (with general settings) and then again
when the game starts, which includes game-specific fixes, patches, etc.
However, if the setting are changed (and therefore also applied) after
the game CRC is known but before the game starts, such as if the user
presses Tab to change framelimiter while at the bios, then until now it
was accidentally applying the game's settings while still at the bios.
This commit makes the settings routine know whether or not the game actually
started, and apply the generic/game settings accordingly.
Commit 330704a added code which applies the patches before recompiling the
elf entry block, but because at that stage the patches for the current
CRC were not yet loaded, effectively it did nothing.
Now it actually loads the patches before applying them.
As a result, it should now be possible for patches (with place=0) to be
effective before the elf is executed.
This is a hack, because the emulation loads the patches while it's not
paused. It works, but it's not great. A better way would be to pause the
emulation once the entry point is detected, then make the setting get
applied normally (which also loads the patches normally), and then resume
the emulation.
This _should_ properly fix#627 (the test case works as expected now).
vector push_back causes a SIGILL signal on a Nehalem (SSE4.2) QEMU VM
when compiled with GCC 6.1.1.
However, an empty constructor causes illegal instruction exceptions to be
generated on a Windows VM.
So here's an inbetween that looks stupid but works on what I've tested.
patches and cheats are exactly the same (pnach style patch line) but we
stored two sets of them depending on their source: "patches" for
GameIndex.dbf patches, and "cheats" for all the rest (cheats, widescreen,
etc).
Unify patches and cheats and keep only "patches", cleanup and rename the
public API at Patch.h, and add documentation.
Also: add some console messages on invalid "place" value, and when we skip
searching cheats_ws.zip because a pnach file was found at cheats_ws dir.
Also: removed checks before applying different kinds of patches/cheats
because we don't need them (we didn't have disabled patches loaded anyway).
The checks removal _shouldn't_ have any effect, except that the checks were
wrong and accidentally prevented loading widescreen hacks which have a place
value of 0. No one probably noticed it since all the widescreen patches
which I looked at have a place value of 1. So now ws patches with place=0
would load correctly too. If we'll ever have such.
This commit doesn't change any behavior, but documents the "places" value
of the patch structure ("place" is 1 in patch=1,... and 0 in patch=0,...)
and also uses an enum to make its use explicit.
If cheats are enabled and loaded (pnatch files from the cheats folder, or
from the cheats_ws folder, or from cheats_ws.zip), then they were still
applied for some time while rebooting the emulation after a game is already
loaded (e.g. start pcsx2, boot fast, play, boot full). This could cause
the reboot to fail if some patches were applied (e.g. widescreen patches).
It seems that the offending application of the cheats happens at
SysCoreThread::VsyncInThread(), which possibly runs before the config
change event is handled (and re-load the cheats for the current crc).
So reset/invalidate the cheats when the VM is reset.
This should improve issue #851, but ultimately not fully fix it, since
the patches (from games db) are not reset yet with this commit, and we
don't have a function to do so. For now the non-cheats patches are only
reset/reloaded when a configuration change is being handled.
It would probably be a good thing if we can unify patches/cheats.
Not tested
* rumble
Save/load state will be implemented in the next commit
v2:
* Print current deteced pad mode
* fix dpad button tranmission
close#366
Avi Halachmi (:avih)