the problem is one strange behavior i found, in opengl when xfb is enable, frame limit causes the frame rate to be limited exact half the correct speed, so if you choose auto and the game uses 30 fps you get 15 fps
so in opengl, you have to limit to the exact double of the game speed, 100 to pal games and 120 to ntsc.
in d3d this not happened every time, it just happen when you change some time consuming setting like changing the ssaa or resizing the window, in that case you have to disable and re enable frame limit to get the correct fps
to all the devs please if you can help me debug this, will give you a lot of thanks as i'm short in time to debug this error and is driving me crazy not to find the source of the problem.
git-svn-id: https://dolphin-emu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@5249 8ced0084-cf51-0410-be5f-012b33b47a6e
applied mlkbouba patch to make Mario Strikers Charged Football work (i do not own the game so please test).
some minor tweaks to the plugins to improve performance. for game that do not use xfb the best settings are dual core enabled, audio throtle disabled, frame limit set to the desired value, and xfb off.
change the frameskip calculations to use fps instead of vps as in dual core vps != fps caused by unresolved sync problems, till this problems are fixed the best for game play is calculate times in base of fps.
please test and let me know the results
git-svn-id: https://dolphin-emu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@5239 8ced0084-cf51-0410-be5f-012b33b47a6e
implemented donko's xfb in D3D:
the bad things:
*is solower in some cases, slower as opengl
*it do not work in dual core mode, it seems direct3d has serious synchronization problems, to the other devs please if you can take a look and help me :)
*real xfb still not working i have to give it more time to make it work.
the good:
*games that uses multiples xfbs will work now using the virtual XFB.
*implemented a more hardware like approach to scaling, now to calculate the pixel scaling i use the xfb size not the efb so the screen pixels relation is more correct now.
*simplified a little donko's virtual xfb to make it less memory consuming as xfb textures are the exact size of the scaled xfb and not full target width.
* when it works even real xfb will let us use super sampling.
I repeat this commit is totally unstable and in dual core mode it will for sure hang the emulator or at best give totally incorrect results.
Other devs please help as thread sync is not one of my strong points :)
i'll keep waiting for the comments an the -1 :)
git-svn-id: https://dolphin-emu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@5195 8ced0084-cf51-0410-be5f-012b33b47a6e
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.
git-svn-id: https://dolphin-emu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@5116 8ced0084-cf51-0410-be5f-012b33b47a6e
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
implement proper window handling (d3d/sw) which i believe fixes a hang that occurs when a game is stopped (plz test this :)) + some minor stuff
git-svn-id: https://dolphin-emu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@5030 8ced0084-cf51-0410-be5f-012b33b47a6e
reverted a tiny leftover of my safe texture cache commit
D3D
renamed the SSAA modes to use samples as MSAA now they are 2,25x and 4x.
OpenGL:
fixed a nasty logical bug introduced in 4984 that causes efb corruption when efb to texture is used
re enabled shader caching as it was not producing errors.
fixed efb misalignment caused by integer rounding still a bit misaligned but many games will look better now
git-svn-id: https://dolphin-emu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@5020 8ced0084-cf51-0410-be5f-012b33b47a6e
there are only to SSAA modes 1.5x and 2x as they give the best result.
please test and let me know the results
git-svn-id: https://dolphin-emu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@5017 8ced0084-cf51-0410-be5f-012b33b47a6e
improve speed a little in games that have large viewports.
please test and let me know the results
git-svn-id: https://dolphin-emu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@5009 8ced0084-cf51-0410-be5f-012b33b47a6e
true antialiasing using supersampling:
3 modes implemented:
2x = is a one and a half samples supersampled buffer with a linear texture fetch, this produce a similar result of a 2x MSAA
4x = four samples with a aligned texture fetch in the center of the 4 samples, this produce a little best effect that the first mode.
8x = is a four samples with a rotated grid fetching producing a nicer (really nicer in some cases) antialiasing.
please test an let me know if you like this :)
i remember to everyone that supersampling is expensive so don't complain in speed drops :)
git-svn-id: https://dolphin-emu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@5006 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.
git-svn-id: https://dolphin-emu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@4994 8ced0084-cf51-0410-be5f-012b33b47a6e
rewrite frame dumping and screen shots to make them more stable and correct
enable viewport resizing for all cards, the emulation is more correct in this way
test this a lot please.
git-svn-id: https://dolphin-emu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@4971 8ced0084-cf51-0410-be5f-012b33b47a6e
if a degenerated primitive is passed to the VertexManager treat it as a compatible primitive, for example if a 5 vertex quad is passed treat it as a triangle fan.
as crazy at this seems it fix the sun glare in ZWW, please test an d let me know if it make a difference in other games
git-svn-id: https://dolphin-emu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@4931 8ced0084-cf51-0410-be5f-012b33b47a6e
Center DX9 window
Bring Wiimote reconnect confirm dialog to topmost, now only works with OpenGL.
(It seems DX9 in full screen doesn't like other windows overlapped upon it.)
git-svn-id: https://dolphin-emu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@4895 8ced0084-cf51-0410-be5f-012b33b47a6e
in opengl correct an error introduced by mi in efb to ram alignment, it's seems to fix SMS but it missalign a lot of other games, so revert to the default. must solve truncated coins in NSMB.
revert alpha testing values to the values in rev 4812 as they fix some games.
in d3d dynamized the Render target size so it will change at runtime when viewport exceed it size, in the worse case it will cause a missing frame when resizing but in the games I tested is not noticeable at all
This must solve all the remaining viewports problems in nvidia cards, in ati this is not needed.
git-svn-id: https://dolphin-emu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@4888 8ced0084-cf51-0410-be5f-012b33b47a6e
