(11-11-2015, 06:25 AM)wildgoosespeeder Wrote: The impression that I am getting so far is that the ultimate goal of Dolphin will run all games on default settings in the most optimal way possible without accuracy loss and without deviation into settings that impact performance.
That would be nice, but computers are not magic. Some games simply require things like EFB2RAM, period. It can't be fixed (other than getting rid of the more inaccurate options).
(11-11-2015, 06:25 AM)wildgoosespeeder Wrote: Revision 4.0-7664 fixes the need to use EFB2RAM for F-Zero GX as EFB2Texture is a more optimized mode (I read the blog about garbage collecting GPU RAM).
Yes, there are some EFB2Texture issues that are valid on the bug tracker, like the fix for palettes. Most aren't. I am not going to support the bug tracker being full of useless reports for the sake of possibly catching some rare valid issue that looks identical to the useless reports. Telling them apart requires debugging the game and knowing if Dolphin is doing something wrong, and I don't think any developer is going to bother doing that for a significant amount of issues that are likely to be irrelevant.
(11-11-2015, 06:25 AM)wildgoosespeeder Wrote: Also Game Boy Player has a report because of missing accessory support:
https://dolp.in/i2163
Okay. What does that have to do with anything?
(11-11-2015, 06:25 AM)wildgoosespeeder Wrote: Instead of reading text only, colors are an easier to understand and more direct way to assess how problematic the issue is and conveys how deviating from the highest accuracy settings would impact your ability to play the game.
So you want to provide a good overview of how seriously different settings affect the game, but the overview mentions nothing about which settings affect which issue or even which issues are affected by settings at all?
(11-11-2015, 06:25 AM)wildgoosespeeder Wrote: As for maintenance, the idea is to reduce it by flagging when something is missing.
That's nice, but it doesn't get rid of the need to actually do work, and there's still the problem that the templates will make things harder for first-time editors. It could be worth it if the system has enough advantages, but I don't think it does.
(11-11-2015, 06:25 AM)wildgoosespeeder Wrote: I am also trying to correct years of increasing trouble to keep things up-to-date.
I guess putting pages that lack bug report links or issue ratings in special categories might help with fixing the lack of bug report links and issue ratings, but in what way does that improve the wiki? The real problem is many games lack issues or have outdated issue descriptions, which only can be fixed by people actually going out of their way to test games and write about issues. If you want to have a template like on https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Schlag_den_Raab/sandbox that says "this is out of date" and puts the page in a category of outdated pages, then I guess that's cool. What I don't see the point of is the issue ratings.