[Suggestion] Post game.ini optimal configuration on the games wiki

[Asmial]

So, I've came up with an idea of posting the ini file of an specific game on the wiki of each game so to make a game work better on the emulator, it would just be Ctrl+C -> Ctrl+V and the game would work flawlessly without tinkering the main settings. For example, if the game is eternal Darkness, it would be like this:



instead of this:



I thought in posting this on games that need extra settings, not for optimizing them to work on low end computers or setting the settings to the max on high end ones just becouse every comuter is different.

And also with this method, hidden settings can also be enabled and if you don't want to add all the custom settings shown, you can delete the ones you don't want and if you are a non-native english speaker (like me) and you've got dolphin in a different language, you don't have to bother to translate every config setting to your language to optiize the game.

What do you think, should we do this with all the games? And if you are a Dolphin admin, I would love that you would read this thread and push this to be an stable thing on the dolphin wiki so it will be easier to cofigure easily every game. I've already posted the modification on the Eternal Darkness Wiki page (Here) so you can appreciate the changes.

Any kind of feedback is appreciated.

[color=#ff3333]EDIT:[/color] If you want to know how to make your own INIs, here is a thread where Link_to_the_past shows how to do it: Thread.

(BTW, sorry for my bad english)

[Aleron Ives]

Uh, the point of the Game INIs is that they already do this behind the scenes. You only override the special settings if you open the graphics options while the game is running. Considering the INIs get updated as Dolphin gets new features that change which settings need to be applied for each game, this seems like a maintenance nightmare that would just cause extra work of updating the INIs on the wiki as well as in Dolphin itself. Besides, as the thread title states, modifying INIs yourself is unofficial, and the wiki is supposed to contain official information only.

[MayImilae]

Wiki admin here!

Well, wiki changes really should be discussed On-Wiki, but I can address this. The wiki doesn't have any control over the gameini's, and we already have our system for displaying configuration options. The problems with the arrangement are that when one changes the other doesn't change, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing! The wiki recommendations go into things we wouldn't want in the gameini exactly, since the gameini is enforced and wiki recommendations are not.

Still, it would be really nice to have some sort of tie in or way for them to work together better, but, it is important to avoid redundant information. Showing both the wiki system and the config values would be very redundant. :/ Also, there isn't really a way to sync them easily. Manual editing like what you did on the Eternal Darkness page would be mindbogglingly difficult, and old information would creep in and things desync and well, it isn't much different from what we have now! So a duplicate setup like what you did is not really a good idea...

Personally, I've been thinking of some sort of system where a bot adds GameINI settings as they change to the wiki's existing configuration template, but with a change made to that config template so that it is easy to tell when a value is from the GameINI. That way we can have the best of every world! Sadly that would be fairly difficult to set up, though, and we don't have anyone that enjoys infrastructure coding for things like this.

[Helios]

Because PHP is gross

[Asmial]

Wiki admin here!

Well, wiki changes really should be discussed On-Wiki, but I can address this. The wiki doesn't have any control over the gameini's, and we already have our system for displaying configuration options. The problems with the arrangement are that when one changes the other doesn't change, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing! The wiki recommendations go into things we wouldn't want in the gameini exactly, since the gameini is enforced and wiki recommendations are not.

Still, it would be really nice to have some sort of tie in or way for them to work together better, but, it is important to avoid redundant information. Showing both the wiki system and the config values would be very redundant. :/ Also, there isn't really a way to sync them easily. Manual editing like what you did on the Eternal Darkness page would be mindbogglingly difficult, and old information would creep in and things desync and well, it isn't much different from what we have now! So a duplicate setup like what you did is not really a good idea...

Personally, I've been thinking of some sort of system where a bot adds GameINI settings as they change to the wiki's existing configuration template, but with a change made to that config template so that it is easy to tell when a value is from the GameINI. That way we can have the best of every world! Sadly that would be fairly difficult to set up, though, and we don't have anyone that enjoys infrastructure coding for things like this.

Yep, I also thought in a system quite like this, but it appears to be very difficult beaouse every computer would need a different config for every file to run smoothly on every PC because there are some settings like real external frame buffer which improves on gzme emulation but drops down performance and its not compatible with every graphics card.