To the Screen with Hybrid XFB

[JMC47]

Hybrid XFB doesn't affect Super Mario Sunshine. It's probably some other change.

[mbc07]

Well, ubershaders, 99% complete IOS emulation, hybrid XFB, Vulkan support... When is Dolphin 6.0 coming?

[Helios]

Whenever somebody wants to handle release management for it and kill dev motivation by going into feature freeze

[hyperspeed]

With this merged the only issues that annoy me now are:
Arc Rise Fantasia: various Bloom effects are messed up when playing at High Resolution, for some reason this issue is not listed on the Wiki yet, I wonder why. 
more info here

SoulCalibur 2: Missing Fade Effects, Fade-in effects for the game's title screen, as well as fade-in, fade-out transitions between matches in arcade mode, are missing, it is interesting that PCSX2 can render those effects correctly while Dolphin and RPCS3 can't.

Hopefully 6.0 don't come until this Bloom issue from Arc Rise gets fixed. 

[Shadorino]

Hybrid XFB doesn't affect Super Mario Sunshine.  It's probably some other change.

Interesting. I'll do some testing to see which build changed this.

[mbc07]

Arc Rise Fantasia: various Bloom effects are messed up when playing at High Resolution, for some reason this issue is not listed on the Wiki yet, I wonder why. 
more info here

If this particular issue occurs only at higher IRs (e.g. the game renders fine in native resolution) then it's very unlikely it'll be listed on the wiki as a "Problem". It should be fine putting it in "Enhancements" section, though, as per our current conventions, issues that occurs only when using higher than native resolutions are listed there so they don't affect the rating of the game...

I would say you could edit the wiki yourself but... the problem where some users (all new accounts and some old accounts) can't edit anything on the wiki isn't fixed yet =/

[Shadorino]

With this merged the only issues that annoy me now are:
Arc Rise Fantasia: various Bloom effects are messed up when playing at High Resolution, for some reason this issue is not listed on the Wiki yet, I wonder why. 
more info here

SoulCalibur 2: Missing Fade Effects, Fade-in effects for the game's title screen, as well as fade-in, fade-out transitions between matches in arcade mode, are missing, it is interesting that PCSX2 can render those effects correctly while Dolphin and RPCS3 can't.

Hopefully 6.0 don't come until this Bloom issue from Arc Rise gets fixed. 

The wiki has been locked since August due to a spam attack. Don't have any more info ATM.

[cammelspit]

My God, I am so happy I could cry! The frame pacing issues I had with the Vulkan backend are COMPLETELY gone with hybrid XFB. Plus, being an AMD card user Vulkan just screams. I have been using the Hybrid XFB build since it was usable several months ago and I could not be happier that it has been merged. If I had more than two thumbs, they would all be up for you guys right now. Stellar work to all involved.

[Silanda]

On on another note, I've fired up Mario Sunshine to see if something changed about the pixelated goo/depth of field problem.
Before Hybrid XFB, disabling Scaled EFB Copy made the goo render correctly, but the depth of filed at 1x IR, as explained here : https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?t...o_Sunshine
So we had to choose to either have pixelated goo and high IR everywhere, or normal looking goo and about half the screen running in locked 1x IR.
Now disabling Scaled EFB Copy renders everything at 1x IR. We can't have normal looking goo anymore. Which can be a problem for some people, but personally, I preferred playing in high IR and have pixelated goo than the depth of field rendered at 1x and the rest at high IR. This gives an opportunity to look into this issue, which is I believe the last one for this game.

FWIW, I'm seeing the same thing with Sonic Heroes in 5.0-5907 compared to 5.0-5800, although the problem is pretty benign there. I used to be able to avoid the texture glitches by disabling Scaled EFB Copy rather than using the Vertex Rounding hack, but if I do that now the entire game is rendered at 1x IR.

My God, I am so happy I could cry! The frame pacing issues I had with the Vulkan backend are COMPLETELY gone with hybrid XFB.

Same on Nvidia hardware; I used to get frame pacing issues on some games with XFB set to Virtual, but these are now completely gone. Excellent work Dolphin developers!

[e2zippo]

As always, phenomenal work! Great article once again, very interesting read!