Many Android users want to disable SyncOnSkipIdle as a performance
hack, to the point where it's often suggested as something to
paste into Dolphin.ini (if not to use a fork). If adding it as
a setting in the GUI gives us an opportunity to explain what the
setting actually does and stops people from pasting stuff they
don't understand into INI files, I think it can be worth adding
despite how it can make games unstable. It not being in the GUI
doesn't seem to be stopping people from disabling it anyway.
The added setting in the GUI is a three-way setting called
"Synchronize GPU Thread" with the following alternatives:
"Never": SyncGPU = False, SyncOnIdleSkip = False
"On Idle Skipping": SyncGPU = False, SyncOnIdleSkip = True
"Always": SyncGPU = True, SyncOnIdleSkip = True
See PR 8203 for background on the game INI deletion prompt.
It's been almost two years since PR 8203 was merged, so you
would think that people are no longer creating game INIs that
contain a copy of every global setting, right? Unfortunately,
MMJ was forked not too long before that and never backported the
change, so right now there's a not insignificant number of people
online posting game INIs full of this garbage for others to use.
One thing that's been missing from the game INI deletion prompt
is a description of what the problem with having tons of extra
lines in a game INI actually is. This change adds that, in the
the hope that it will make people ignore the warning less often.
This option does in fact not enable and disable logging as a whole.
You can get logs through logcat regardless of this setting.
Also taking the opportunity to remove the reference to
the "dolphin-emu" folder name since we will no longer be
using that folder once scoped storage is applied to Dolphin.
This commit adds a new "discarded" state for registers.
Discarding a register is like flushing it, but without
actually writing its value back to memory. We can discard
a register only when it is guaranteed that no instruction
will read from the register before it is next written to.
Discarding reduces the register pressure a little, and can
also let us skip a few flushes on interpreter fallbacks.
The output of instructions like fabsx and ps_sel is store-safe
if and only if the relevant inputs are. The old code was always
marking the output as store-safe if the output was a single,
and never otherwise.
Also, the old code was treating the output of psq_l/psq_lu as
store-safe, which seems incorrect (if dequantization is disabled).
This improves the speed of verifying Wii WIA/RVZ files.
For me, the verification speed for LZMA2-compressed files
has gone from 11-12 MiB/s to 13-14 MiB/s.
One thing VolumeVerifier does to achieve parallelism is to
compute hashes for one chunk of data while reading the next
chunk of data. In master, when reading data from a Wii
partition, each such chunk is 32 KiB. This is normally fine,
but with WIA and RVZ it leads to rather lopsided read times
(without the compute times being lopsided): The first 32 KiB
of each 2 MiB takes a long time to read, and the remaining
part of the 2 MiB can be read nearly instantly. (The WIA/RVZ
code has to read the entire 2 MiB in order to compute hashes
which appear at the beginning of the 2 MiB, and then caches
the result afterwards.) This leads to us at times not doing
much reading and at other times not doing much computation.
To improve this, this change makes us use 2 MiB chunks
instead of 32 KiB chunks when reading from Wii partitions.
(block = 32 KiB, group = 2 MiB)
This can't actually happen in practice due to how WAD files work,
but it's very easy to add support for thanks to the last commit,
so we might as well add support for it.
The performance gains of doing this aren't too important since you
normally wouldn't run into any disc image that has overlapping blocks
(which by extension means overlapping partitions), but this change also
lets us get rid of things like VolumeVerifier's mutex that used to
exist just for the sake of handling overlapping blocks.
Panic alerts in DiscIO can potentially be very annoying since
large amounts of them can pop up when loading the game list
if you have some particularly weird files in your game list.
This was a much bigger problem back in 5.0 with its
"Tried to decrypt data from a non-Wii volume" panic alert, but
I figured I would take it all the way and remove the remaining
panic alerts that can show up when loading the game list.
I have exempted uses of ASSERT/ASSERT_MSG since they indicate
a bug in Dolphin rather than a malformed file.
If we know at compile time that the PPC carry flag definitely
has a certain value, we can bake that value into the emitted code
and skip having to read from PPCState.
GameFileCacheService.startRescan (in MainPresenter.onResume)
does nothing if called before GameFileCacheService.startLoad.
Fixes a 3f71c36 regression where already added games would not
show up after app launch under specific circumstances.
Unfortunately the loading indicator still doesn't show up
during a rescan initiated by app launch, but that would
be more annoying to fix, so I will leave it for now.
When a save state is loaded, the IOS device serving bluetooth
is cast as BluetoothEmuDevice. If, however, a real Wiimote
with BT passthrough is used, this caused the game to crash.
Now the proper device class is used.
At a first glance it may look like a part of the code I added to
srawx in efeda3b has a bug when a == s. The code actually happens
to work correctly, but in the interest of making the code easier
to reason about, I'd like to change the way it's implemented. This
change should improve the pipelining a little in the a == s case too.
Fix Gamelist context menu item 'Open Containing Folder' opening wrong
target on Windows when game parent folder is [foobar] and grandparent
folder contains file [foobar].bat or [foobar].exe
Add trailing directory separator to parent folder path to force Windows
to interpret path as directory.
Fixes https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/12411
21c152f added a small hack to DVDInterface to keep WBFS and CISO
files working with Nintendo's "Error #001" anti-piracy check.
Unfortunately I don't think it's possible to support WBFS and
CISO without any kind of hack or heuristic, but what we can do
is replace the 21c152f hack (which applies regardless of file
format) with a hack that only is active when using WBFS or CISO.
This change is similar to 2a5a399, but the disc size is
calculated in a different way.
Add ! before unused variables to 'use' them.
Ubuntu-x64 emits warnings for unused variables because gcc decides
it should ignore the void cast around them. See thread for discussion:
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66425
Loop index int i was being compared against GetControllerCount() which
returned a size_t. This was the only place GetControllerCount() was
called from so the change of return type doesn't disturb anything else.
Changing the loop index to size_t wouldn't work as well since it's
passed into GetController(), which takes an int and is called from many
places, so it would need a cast anyway on an already busy line.
...and let's optimize a divisor of 2 ever so slightly for good measure.
I wouldn't have bothered, but most GameCube games seem to hit this on
launch.
- Division by 2
Before:
41 BE 02 00 00 00 mov r14d,2
41 8B C2 mov eax,r10d
45 85 F6 test r14d,r14d
74 0D je overflow
3D 00 00 00 80 cmp eax,80000000h
75 0E jne normal_path
41 83 FE FF cmp r14d,0FFFFFFFFh
75 08 jne normal_path
overflow:
C1 F8 1F sar eax,1Fh
44 8B F0 mov r14d,eax
EB 07 jmp done
normal_path:
99 cdq
41 F7 FE idiv eax,r14d
44 8B F0 mov r14d,eax
done:
After:
45 8B F2 mov r14d,r10d
41 C1 EE 1F shr r14d,1Fh
45 03 F2 add r14d,r10d
41 D1 FE sar r14d,1
