dolphin/Source
Techjar b267f54259 VideoCommon: Only include centered pixels in bounding box
At higher resolutions, our bounding box dimensions end up being
slightly larger than original hardware in some cases. This is not
necessarily wrong, it's just an artifact of rendering at a higher
resolution, due to bringing out detail that wouldn't have appeared on
original hardware. It causes a texel to fall partially on what would
have been a single pixel at native resolution, resulting in the
coordinates getting bumped up to the next valid value. In many cases,
these slightly larger bounding boxes are perfectly fine, as games don't
hard-code expected dimensions. It is problematic in Paper Mario TTYD
though, for a somewhat complicated reason.

Paper Mario TTYD frequently uses EFB copies to pre-render a bunch of
animation frames for a character sprite (especially in Chapter 2), so
that it can then render 100 or more of them without bringing the
GameCube to its knees. Based on my observation, the game seems to set
aside a region of memory to store these EFB copies. This region is
obviously fairly small, as the GameCube only has 24MB of RAM. There are
2 rooms in Chapter 2 where you fight a horde of as many as 100 Jabbies,
which are also rendered using EFB copies, so in this room the game ends
up making 130(!) EFB copies just for Puni and Jabbi sprites. This seems
to nearly fill the region of memory it set aside for them.
Unfortunately, our slightly larger bounding boxes at higher resolutions
results in overflowing this memory, causing very strange behavior. Some
EFB copies partially overlap game state, resulting in reading it as a
garbage RGB5A3 texture that constantly changes. Others apparently
somehow trigger a corner case in our persistent buffer mapping, causing
them to partially overwrite earlier EFB copies.

What this change does is only include the screen coordinates that align
with the equivalent native resolution pixel centers, which generally
results in the bounding boxes being more in line with original
hardware. It isn't perfect, but it's enough to fix Paper Mario TTYD's
Jabbi rooms by avoiding the buffer overflow. Notably, it is more
accurate at odd resolutions than at even resolutions. Native resolution
is completely unaffected by this change, as should be the case. This
change may also have a small positive impact on shader performance at
higher resolutions, as there will be less atomic operations performed.
2021-06-10 21:49:52 -04:00
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Android Android: Fix WAD import crashing 2021-06-07 23:09:29 +02:00
Core VideoCommon: Only include centered pixels in bounding box 2021-06-10 21:49:52 -04:00
DSPSpy DSPSpy: sync Makefile with current devkitPro template 2020-06-08 04:21:41 +01:00
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PCH msvc: use external header feature solution-wide 2021-06-03 15:42:23 -07:00
UnitTests Updater: Escape HTML characters in commit descriptions 2021-06-01 17:22:19 -07:00
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.clang-format Require clang-format 9 and reformat source code 2020-01-08 22:18:15 +01:00
CMakeLists.txt CMake: Build with -std:c++latest for MSVC 2021-03-03 23:44:35 +01:00
dolphin-emu.sln msbuild: bundle all dolphin "core" code into single library 2021-01-27 14:29:49 -08:00