TextureCacheGLES passed a hardcoded 0.0f instead of key.aniso, so the
Anisotropic Filtering setting did nothing at all on the OpenGL backend, even
though GPU_USE_ANISOTROPY was advertised and D3D11/Vulkan both honor it. Looks
like it was left behind by the 2017 render manager refactor.
The queue runner now clamps to the device maximum it already queried into
maxAnisotropyLevel_ (until now unused), and only touches the parameter when the
extension is actually supported - the anisotropy branch there has been dead
since every caller passed 0.0f, so this is the first time it runs.
0.0f keeps its meaning of "don't care" for the CLUT/fragment-test/thin3d
callers; the texture cache now passes 1.0f when the setting is off, so turning
it off takes effect on already-uploaded textures instead of only new ones.
TexCache: Never use anisotropic filtering for CLUT8-indexed textures
What gets sampled for those is palette indices, depalettized by the shader
afterwards - averaging indices across an anisotropic footprint produces garbage
colors. Affects all backends, not just the GL one that just started honoring
key.aniso.
TexCache: Clear key.aniso wherever filtering is forced to nearest
It was only cleared in the two places inside the AUTO_MAX_QUALITY branch, so the
TEX_FILTER_AUTO path (pixel-mapped textures, the ugly color test heuristic), the
FORCE_NEAREST setting and the replacement-texture override could all end up
requesting nearest filtering with anisotropy still on.
Doing it in the switch that applies forceFiltering covers every path, so it
can't drift apart again.
GLES: Only record the applied anisotropy, and log skipped draws
The queue runner updated tex->anisotropy even when it skipped the call because
the value was 0.0f ("don't care") - harmless while nothing ever set anisotropy,
but now it would make the tracked state disagree with GL, so a later request for
the value it thinks is set would be wrongly skipped.
Also log when a draw is skipped for a missing vertex shader. The failure is
cached per shader ID, so without it geometry silently disappears for the rest of
the session after the one-shot OSD message.
ApplyVertexShader can return null - if the requested shader fails to compile it
retries with a software transform ID, and if that fails too it returns (and
caches) null. We then called UseHWTransform() on it.
ApplyFragmentShader can likewise return null, and the hardware path ignored it,
unlike the software path. Without a linked shader nothing binds a program for
this render pass, so the draw would have gone through with whatever program a
previous pass left bound.
Previously, "Smart 2D texture filtering" was limited to through-mode
draws, but many games use fully transformed draws to do 2D elements.
An example of this is Outrun in the menus, and it's always been plagued by
horrible filtering artifacts.
With the improved Smart 2D texture filtering, the artifacts are gone!
Of course, instead of glitchy bilinear you instead get point sampled
texturing so it looks more pixellated, but no more ugly borders between letters
in the game.
Reported by Joseph on Discord.
Sometimes, things could align perfectly so allocations happend exactly
at the end of a pushbuffer. At the same time, we allow our vertex decoder to write an extra few
bytes if it needs to for speed. Unfortunately I missed this interaction,
resulting in some uncommon crashes that were especially common with
heavy-geometry things like modified GTA LCS with PS2 assets, for
example.
The problem was reported with Vulkan, but our OpenGL backend had the
same issue too.
Henrik Rydgård