This shader has been rendered nonfunctional due to the removal of the function SampleFontLocation, which was never implemented in VideoCommon. The last reference to SampleFontLocation was located in the OGL video backend. It was removed in this commit: f039149198 (diff-24125a6c968a8aca9cadd977d4b9d68f), where many functions were moved to video common, among other things.
This shader should be removed so it does not confuse users with the error that it causes. Alternatively, it could be rewritten so it is compatible with modern versions of Dolphin. I am not familiar with GLSL, so this is currently beyond my skill set.
Unlike Super Paper Mario, this game doesn't crash as soon as you
try to start it, but rather if you try to skip a certain cutscene.
Thanks to JMC for letting me know about this.
For the non-packed variant of this instruction, a MOVSD instruction was
generated to copy only the lower 64 bits of XMM1 to the destination
register. This was done in order to keep the destination register's
upper half intact.
However, when register c and the destination register are the same,
there is no need for this copy. Because the registers match and due to
the way the mask is generated, BLENDVPD will end up taking the upper
half from the destination register, as intended.
Additionally, the MOVAPS to copy Rc into XMM1 can also be skipped.
Before:
66 0F 57 C0 xorpd xmm0,xmm0
F2 41 0F C2 C6 06 cmpnlesd xmm0,xmm14
41 0F 28 CE movaps xmm1,xmm14
66 41 0F 38 15 CA blendvpd xmm1,xmm10,xmm0
F2 44 0F 10 F1 movsd xmm14,xmm1
After:
66 0F 57 C0 xorpd xmm0,xmm0
F2 41 0F C2 C6 06 cmpnlesd xmm0,xmm14
66 45 0F 38 15 F2 blendvpd xmm14,xmm10,xmm0
For the non-packed variant of this instruction, a MOVSD instruction was
generated to copy only the lower 64 bits of XMM1 to the destination
register. This was done in order to keep the destination register's
upper half intact.
However, when register c and the destination register are the same,
there is no need for this copy. Because the registers match and due to
the way the mask is generated, VBLENDVPD will end up taking the upper
half from the destination register, as intended.
Before:
66 0F 57 C0 xorpd xmm0,xmm0
F2 41 0F C2 C6 06 cmpnlesd xmm0,xmm14
C4 C3 09 4B CA 00 vblendvpd xmm1,xmm14,xmm10,xmm0
F2 44 0F 10 F1 movsd xmm14,xmm1
After:
66 0F 57 C0 xorpd xmm0,xmm0
F2 41 0F C2 C6 06 cmpnlesd xmm0,xmm14
C4 43 09 4B F2 00 vblendvpd xmm14,xmm14,xmm10,xmm0
