The New Era of Video Backends - The Unification of VideoCommon

[linkdude64]

Stunning, as usual. Stenzek, you are the man!!! Just incredible how much this emulator continues to impress and continuously evolve!!

[jimbo1qaz]

Quote: Written by JMC47, MayImilae on Feb. 26, 2019 / Last update on April 1, 2019

Does this indicate article creation date and not publish date?

Also clicking the D3D12 logo links to https://dolphin-emu.org/m/user/blog/d3d12logo.jpg , which fails. The image loads from https://dolphin-emu.org/m/user/blog/videocommon/d3d12logo_thumb.jpg, and the logo is actually located at https://dolphin-emu.org/m/user/blog/videocommon/d3d12logo.jpg .

[PawsofHorror]

I can't eait to try dis Directs 12 thing in Android dolphin guys

[JosJuice]

(04-02-2019, 06:12 PM)PawsofHorror Wrote: I can't eait to try dis Directs 12 thing in Android dolphin guys

It only works on Windows.

[PawsofHorror]

(04-02-2019, 06:16 PM)JosJuice Wrote: It only works on Windows.

Yeah right I used Android for a drcadd and I know that Directs 12 is working

Edit: aww april fool's is over?

[themanuel]

Amazing work by stenzek and awesome article! Best progress reports in the world of emulation, bar none.

I am benchmarking a few "stress test" cases that I use to keep track of my system's performance in Dolphin. I'm comparing each back-end on each of these scenarios, before and after the VideoCommon rewrite. I'll post the results tonight or tomorrow on a new thread. I've noticed some back-ends have gotten better on some situations while others have gotten worse, but it's really dependent on the game.

[JMC47]

Keep in mind there are some new options for some silly EFB peek things games do.

[themanuel]

(04-03-2019, 02:14 AM)JMC47 Wrote: Keep in mind there are some new options for some silly EFB peek things games do.

Are you referring to new Deferred EFB Peek Cache Invalidation option?
So far I have run all my tests with it disabled.  Perhaps I should go back and re-test with this enabled as well.

[themanuel]

Last night I re-ran the few benchmarks I had previously run but did not see a difference with EFB Peek Cache Invalidation enabled. I'll post what I have so far tonight and then keep adding as I test more.

[themanuel]

Added results here.