Threading VU1 took a lot of rewrites and new code to make possible (MTGS, microVU, gifUnit...), but we finally got to the point where it was feasible, and now we've done it! (so now everyone can stop complaining that pcsx2 only takes advantages of 2 cores :p).
The speedups in the games that benefit from it are great if you have a cpu with 3+ cores (generally a 10~45% speedup), however games that are GS limited can be a slowdown (especially on dual core cpu's).
The option can be found in the speedhacks section as "MTVU (Multi-Threaded microVU1)". And when enabled it should should show the VU thread-time percentage on the title bar window (Like we currently do for EE/GS/UI threads).
It is listed as a speedhack because in order for threading VU1 to have been a speedup, we need to assume that games will not send gif packets containing Signal/Finish/Label commands from path 1 (vu1's xgkick). The good news is very-few games ever do this, so the compatibility of MTVU is very high (a game that does do this will likely hang).
Note: vs2010 builds and Linux builds need to be updated to include "MTVU.h" and "MTVU.cpp".
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Pcsx2 now has a gifUnit class which acts like the ps2's gif and executes a single gif transfer at a time (and performs path arbitration according to priority and path3 slicing).
This new code is generally a speedup for most games. Particularly VU heavy games like GoW.
This revision breaks old saved state compatibility so don't update if you wish to keep playing with your old saved states.
Leave comments if this revision fixes or breaks anything...
Message to GS Plugin authors:
This new code now uses only 1 gif callback to transfer data to the gs plugin (GSgifTransfer).
pcsx2 also is garaunteed to send full GS primitives to the plugin. So you don't have to account for partial-transfers anymore.
Thanks goes out to shadowlady who tested around 500 games for me :D
Note 1: The old gif code is still in this revision, and can be enabled by the USE_OLD_GIF macro. The old code will be deleted soon.
Note 2: This revision also enables assertion dialogs in devel builds, and changed a lot of assume cases into assertions.
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* Gsopen2 support for GS plugins => Support of the PCSX2 GS window configuration panel. Support of all PCSX2 shortcut.
* new shortcut: shift-f12 to stole the input. ZZogl shortcut must be prefixed with ctrl
* onepad: Support/fix/improve of configuration gui, multiple key, mouse/wiimote for analog joystick, dualshock3/sixaxis (basic), dual pad and experimental forcefeedback
Note: it is advices to delete OnePAD.ini
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- Reimplemented mini/max opcodes using integer comparison operations instead of double comparison. This results in a bit less code and integer operations tend to be faster than double ops (especially on AMD cpus). Thanks to pseudonym for the idea!
- Fixed some minor bugs in mVU dev builds.
pcsx2:
- Added __fc as a shorthand macro for __fastcall since we already have __ri and __fi macros.
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cmake:
* disable fomit-frame-pointer which cause crash with gcc-4.6 (it was not enabled by default but now I'm sure people will not enable it ;) )
* Try harder to pick the 32bits configuration for wx in a 64bits environment (opensuse/fedora).
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[0]: it needs gold linker, tuning parameter large-function-growth to 5000 and gcc-4.6.
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Details:
The major differences between install and portable modes should now be:
1. Portable mode doesn't use the registry at all.
2. Portable mode uses the folders inside pcsx2 folder as default (install mode has some default at "my documents").
3. Portable mode tries to save relative paths at the ini file where possible*.
Specifically, portable mode now allows to select custom folders for plugins, bios, etc via the standard UI, which allows using several portable pcsx2 folder sharing the same resources (bios, iso, memcards, etc).
* Relative paths where possible = the following sequence (thanks to pseudonym for the brilliant idea):
1. If the file/folder is inside pcsx2 folder, it's saved as completely relative (to pcsx2.exe)
2. Else, if the file/folder is at the same drive as pcsx2.exe, it's saved as absolute path without the drive letter (e.g. /ISO/...)
3. Else, saved as absolute path, including the drive letter (for linux, without drive letter naturally).
This allows to create a removable drive with (one or more) pcsx2 folder on it, configure all the files/folders to point to the same drive (ISOs, save states, etc), and then take this drive, plug it into another computer (where it will be assigned with a different drive letter), and everything will continue working.
Please test it if you can. Bugs here can be inconvenient...
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* Translate more stuff in various place
* Fix issue with pot generation on linux namely empty string & quote in asm comment
* add missing key on generate_pot script. Note: it also updates the po files with latest pot modification
* regenerate new pot & po files.
Translator note: previous Tertiary pot miss half of the strings.
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* add/update various translation
* add a patch of Weimingzhi to fix wrapping issue on asian languages.
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* PCSX2 now splits settings into two files: pcsx2-ui.ini and pcsx2-vm.ini. The former is user interface clutter (window positions, confirmation dialogs, etc). The latter is virtual machine settings, speed hacks, game fixes, etc.
* Added support for PORTABLE INSTALLS!! Portable install is currently manually enabled by adding an empty "pcsx2-portable.ini" to the install location of PCSX2. Portable installs should run seamlessly from any flash drive, etc. (and will usually need Admin rights)
* PCSX2 install location and plugins folders are stored in the registry now (unless portable install is enabled, in which case no registry is used).
Notes:
* A button to enable portable installs from within PCSX2 is planned.
* NSIS installer will hopefully be upgraded to allow for a portable install option as well.
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* Moved VIF dynamic recompiler buffers to the recompilers section of PCSX2.
* Using RecompiledCodeReserve for the VIF SSE functions.
* Minor bugfixes to VirtualMemory class implementations.
* Improved error handling and error message display.
* [TODO] : implement a call to cpuShutdown() to clean up VIF unpack/SSE reserves.
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* A couple i18n fixes listed in Issue 915, relating to dialog message formatting for a couple specific messages.
DevNote:
* Added some missing operator+() stuff for the pxsFmt string formatter.
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* Simplified and improved (slightly) the savestate memory cleanup on error/cancellation.
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* resolve a namespace conflict between std::count (due to a 'using namespatce std;' directive) [debug builds only]
* switch all MSW-specific code to be unicode compliant so that unicode-only Utilities lib can be used under Windows. [should work, but needs proper testing]
* fix some properties sheets so that windows-specific DLL dependencies (common controls and UUID stuff provided by Windows) are linked automatically into wx/utils based plugins.
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* Finished up zipfile-style savestate implementation
* Simplified BaseSaveState class, and removed lots of now-unneeded code.
* Prepared the i18n stuff for a pcsx2_Dev.pot file (WIP), and sorted more stuff to pcsx2_Tertiary.pot.
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* "Browse" option in recent iso menu should translate now.
* Dialogs and config panels remember their positions more reliably (when using X or alt-F4 to close PCSX2, for example).
* Preliminary language selector dialog (available in debug builds only). Will finish it up later.
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* fixed a bug that caused certain confirmation dialogs to not remember their choices, when user had non-english language.
* Added wxWidgets-provided strings for a few things, such as Next, Back, and OK / Apply / Cancel.
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* PCSX2: Added GSgetTileinfo2 and deprecated=removed GSgetTitleInfo
* GSdx: moved to the new GSgetTitleInfo2
* New PCSX2 with new GSdx will have the new functionality, all other combos remain with old functionality.
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* Added logging of host operating system and physical ram to startup.
* Removed "PhysicalCores" stuff from both x86emitter and startup logs -- physical cores is losing its relevance with all the new AMD and Intel chip designs.
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* Basic savestate loading/saving working now (needs testing).
* No support for screenshots embedded into the savestate (yet).
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* PCSX2 uses significantly less memory when starting.
* Overall memory use reduced (mildly for some games, significantly for most).
* EE and IOP main memory are now fixed at 0x20000000 and 0x24000000 -- useful when using external cheat apps.
* Properly implemented the 'Shutdown' menu option -- Shutdown now unloads the entire PS2 virtual machine and reduced PCSX2's memory footprint to bare minimums.
* Some more meaningful errors for when memory is a problem (out of memory, low virtual memory, etc).
* Bugfix for pxsFmt when formatting long/large strings (over 1k)
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* Removed some missing / obsolete files from codeblocks projects.
* Fixed a segfault on exit
* Implemented a platform-consistent pointer value string formatter (%p has no defined standard)
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* Applied the new RecompiledCodeReserve to the VIF recompilers (saves another 4-8mb of memory, depending on game).
* Fixed a bug in pxsFmt / FastFormatUnicode (string formatting).
* Final round of error handling cleanups.
(branch is basically ready for re-integration -- needs some testin for obvious/show stopping bugs, thanks!)
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