The crosshair turns red, and lock-on works, when stencil bit 3 is set at
the centre of the frame, which the game tests by reading the pixel from
VRAM with the CPU (#17936). Hook that and read back the stencil of that
row into the alpha bytes in RAM. The alpha the hardware backends keep
doesn't follow stencil everywhere, so reading color isn't enough.
Adds PerformReadbackStencilToMemory for this (8888 only for now).
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Buzz! Master Quiz converts its question videos (sceMpegBaseCscAvcRange)
straight into the middle of the frame it has drawn, at 84,69. The
framebuffer upload only matched writes starting at a framebuffer's
address, so the hardware backends never showed the video. Pass the
written width along and draw just that rectangle into the framebuffer.
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God of War draws thousands of short strips per frame, each continuing
the previous one's vertices with nothing changed in between. At the
first draw of such a run, SoftGPU now looks ahead in the display list
for the draws that follow it, past only commands that can't change
anything (NOPs, unchanged state, VADDR to where the vertices continue),
and the transform unit decodes the whole run at once and then skins and
transforms it in chunks that two helper threads take alongside the
emulation thread. The draws then read their vertices from that, and the
UV and normal they carry to the next draw are updated as reading their
last vertex would.
The helpers wait a moment for the next run before their tasks end, as
the drawing threads do: waking them costs the emulation thread a system
call. The thresholds were picked under WSL2, where that costs more than
on bare metal, so they're worth measuring again there.
God of War takes 4.2 s for five emulated seconds (from 4.5 s).
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The C++ paths draw and sample four pixels at a time in vector lanes,
while a JIT function only does one, and with a JIT function in use the
span and quad paths were skipped. On x86 the JITs had become slower:
Wipeout took 13% more wall time and 25% more CPU with them, God of War
3% more. They were also a second implementation of every GE rule, and
ARM never had them.
The SoftwareRendererJit setting goes with them. RasterizerRegCache.h
keeps only the types the pixel and sampler functions take, as
RasterizerTypes.h.
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The position is read once as (x, y, z, 1) for the clip, fog, texgen and
light vector rows, and lighting works on Vec4F32 throughout, without
going through arrays. Each light's constant term, its position minus
the world translation, is computed once per state instead of per
vertex. The texture matrix rows are now prepared with the transform
state, so loading that matrix dirties it.
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With the software renderer, which now stores depth as the GE does, a
16-bit read or write at VRAM's 0x04200000 or 0x04600000 mirror goes to
where the GE's 16-bit or 32-bit color layout puts that depth pixel
(ppsspp-re geprobe exp88: the mirrors are the layout's exact inverse).
Games access depth there with nothing else, so other widths stay plain.
The accessors check the address, then whether the GPU core is the
software renderer (CoreParameter); the hardware renderers keep depth plain
and handle the layout their own way. The renderer keeps the layouts up to
date with the EDRAM address translation. With it, the JITs send 16-bit
loads and stores to the interpreter, and the IR passes don't change a
load's width to or from 16 bits.
The pspautotests that read depth through the mirrors now do so 16 bits
at a time, re-recorded on hardware unchanged.
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The software renderer kept depth linear in VRAM, where the GE stores it
in the layout GPU/Common/DepthSwizzle.h describes, from the EDRAM address
translation and the color format. So a texture or anything else sharing
VRAM with a depth buffer saw depth land in the wrong places (the player's
shadow in Silent Hill: Origins, #22415). Now every depth access goes
through the layout: the generic pixel functions, the 2x2 depth test, the
depth clear in 16-pixel runs, and the x86 pixel JIT, whose IDs carry the
translation so the layout's constants are compiled in. It changes with
the color format and sceGeEdramSetAddrTranslation, after a flush.
Reading VRAM through its 0x04200000 and 0x04600000 mirrors undoes the
layout, as the GE does: texturing from them (drawn from a linear copy
made after a flush), and block transfers from or to them (Hayate no
Gotoku restores its depth buffer through 0x04600000, #17878). Saved and
debugger depth buffers read through the layout, so they're linear.
Socom's lens flare dump now matches a PSP replay where it changes. About
2-3% more cycles in God of War, Tekken 6, Wipeout and Burnout.
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Returning to the CPU flushed all queued drawing, also when a list only reached its stall address.
Wipeout Pure builds its lists as it goes and stalls about a hundred times a frame, so the main thread
spent a third of its time finishing the drawing at those flushes. A stalled list isn't done, so now
only a finished one flushes there, which makes Wipeout Pure 15% faster.
What relied on that flush now flushes itself: memory copies, sets, readbacks and uploads that overlap
the queued drawing, and save states, before memory is saved or loaded (FlushPendingDrawing). Syncs and
the display already did. Queued drawing still reads textures from PSP memory when it runs, so a game
that rewrites a texture between stalls without syncing would see the new one; on hardware the GE has
usually drawn with the old one by then.
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A texture that fits in the GE's 8 KB texture cache keeps what was first
read until TEXFLUSH, across primitives and draws, so a later self-textured
draw doesn't see an earlier one's writes (gpu/probe exp174: three passes
over a 16x16 4444 buffer differ in 177 pixels with and without a flush
between them, both now exact). FF Type-0's (NPJH50443) blur; two of its
PSP replays become exact.
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De Boor at t = k/256 with the Bezier path's lerps. Each blending factor
(t - knot) / span is quantized in 1/256 from the nearer of its two knots,
and a segment's last point is evaluated as the next one's first. Colors,
texture coordinates, generated UVs and normals work as for Bezier
patches. Bit exact on gpu/probe exp144-146; software renderer only.
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Columns before rows, de Casteljau at t = k/256 (rounded toward the patch
middle). Positions and UVs lerp in 16-bit fixed point at the larger
operand's exponent; colors in 15-bit fixed point. Generated UVs are k/256.
Bit exact on gpu/probe exp48-51 and exp139-140. Software renderer only,
since it's about 15x slower than the float weights.
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In UV gen mode 0 the software renderer now decodes UVs without the prescale
and applies u * scale + offset itself: the product as a float24, then the
GE's guard-bit-less add. Bit exact on gpu/probe exp66 for float, 16-bit and
8-bit UVs (which are unsigned).
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The hack skips the game's stretch blit, so the display framebuffer stays
black and savestate thumbnails and screenshots came out empty. Do the
stretch from the source image when reading back the display framebuffer.
AGENTS.md: Commit finished work without asking, push only when asked
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Environment map S and T are (N.L + 1) / 2 with L the light's vector as
lighting uses it: from the vertex to the light for point and spot lights,
a zero vector staying zero, and the half vector for a light that does
specular. Whether lighting or the light is enabled still doesn't matter
(gpu/lighting/shademap).
The vertex shader ID now carries the type and computation of the shade
mapping lights (the ubershader reads them from u_lightControl), so both
shader caches get a new version.
Fixes the hair shine in iDOLM@STER SP (#12376).
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- The block transfer overlap check passed the stride in pixels where bytes
are expected, so it only covered part of the rectangle.
- A selfrender/selfdepth flush in UpdateState dropped the current draw's
pending writes and reads, so later transfers didn't wait for it.
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Full-screen clears measured on a PSP (pspautotests gpu/timing/blittiming):
0.49ms on a 16-bit framebuffer whatever is cleared, 0.69ms on 8888, 1.02ms on
8888 with depth. Charging them may help games that spin hard on an empty
screen, but it's off (chargeClearTime) until tried on some. The video blit
cost moves into the same function, now EstimateFillCycles.
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The blit cost remembered only the last buffer a decoder wrote into, forever.
Move the texture cache's video list (with its ageing out a few flips after
the last write) into GPUCommon, so the texture cache, the blit cost and
SoftGPU all share one. That also counts both of a double-buffered player's
frames, which exposed that a clear drawn with texturing still enabled was
being charged as a blit - skip clears and draws without texture coordinates.
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Movie players like the one in Star Wars: Lethal Alliance present every decoded
frame after a single vblank wait, with no clock or timestamp check, so the
frame rate depends on decode, CSC, ATRAC decode and the GE blit adding up to
more than a vblank. We charged nearly nothing for any of them, so such movies
ran at 60 fps until the ringbuffer's slack ran out.
Costs measured on a PSP with a copy of that player (pspautotests
video/mpeg/playertiming), for a 480x272 frame:
- sceVideocodecDecode: 3.4ms (sceMpegAvcDecode 5.8ms less sceMpegAvcCsc 2.4ms)
- sceMpegBaseCscAvc: 2.4ms, was a flat 4ms
- sceAudiocodecDecode, ATRAC3+ only: 2.5ms per frame
- GE: 9.7ms for a through-mode rectangle blit from a decoded video frame,
charged by area, only for textures in the buffer a decoder last wrote.
GE time also now carries across stall address updates. Before, a list sent
in stalled chunks only had its last chunk's time counted, so sceGeDrawSync
returned 39us after a blit that takes 9.7ms. This affects every game that
builds its lists incrementally, so GE-timing-sensitive games need checking.
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