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This Version complements Official Dolphin-Master giving support for legacy devices, and reducing cpu usage on the graphic thread.
The focus is the gaming experience and speed.

Please test the new versions will be appreciated, and not forget comment if Ishiiruka was usefull for you.
Thank you. Have Happy Gamming and Enjoy!.

[color=#1D2654]Tino[/color]

[color=#FF0000]LAST UPDATE 2020-08-23[/color]

[color=#1D2654]Important Features[/color]

• Async shader compilation (Avoiding shader compilation time)
  
• Galop's DX11 Texture Encoder/Decoder (Improve Texture decoding specially EFB TO RAM)
  
• Pre compiled Vertex loader & Optimized vertex decoding using SSSE3 and SSE4
  
• Dolpby Pro Logic II support for xaudio and openal
  
• Larger internal resolutions (IRx6) to allow 4k gaming
  
• Custom Texture improvements to allow direct compressed texture loading including mipmaps
  
• DSP - Time Streching Option (Improve sound output to avoid sound skipping on slow machines)
  
• DX9 support for old machines
  
• Modified Post Procesing interface to support:
  
• -Multiple Stages allowing more complex effects.
  
• -Depth and native gamma as inputs.
  
• -DX11/DX12.
  
• -Custom version of DolphinFX that work under dx11 and ogl
  
• -SSAO and DOF.
  
• -Texure Scaling Support
  
• -Bump Mapping with advanced material properties (1)
  
• -Phong Specular reflection to improve ligthing quality(1)
  
• -Tessellation and Displacement Mapping(1)
  
• -Rim Lighting(1)
  
• -Bump auto generation to improve ligthingwith support for env cubemaps
  
• -Shader uid cache:
  

((1)For more info see post #3)

[color=#1D2654]Other Features[/color]

• Multithreaded Shader Compilation
  
• Early depth test implementation to correct related issues and increase performance
  
• Fast-Depth option now control the use or not of the accurate early z emulation so enabling fast depth will give a speed boos in some systems
  
• Fast EFB Access. Implement global EFB Access Cache to reduce GPU stalls caused by CPU access to the efb (This option is Hack Tab in Gfx Options)
  
• Shader generation Path reorganization to improve performance
  
• Implemented 3d support for Side by side/TopBottom 3d rendering
  
• Many DX9 old bugs fixes (ZComploc, Tev emulation, etc)
  
• Others fixes and little improves.
  

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Downloads
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1117(f0dd960b5):

• Merge support for multiple texture folders from master.
  

Fedora 24, Fedora 25, openSUSE Leap, and Tumbleweed:

https://software.opensuse.org/package/is...n-unstable

Source code is available on GitHub
https://github.com/Tinob/Ishiiruka

Configuration

[*]Full Async Shader = No slowdowns caused by shaders compilation . -> Requeriments: Low CPU (Possibles Glitches)

DSP Options - Time streching
Enable sound streching to avoid crackling because of slow VPS in the emulation.
It will introduce some latency.

Async Shader Compilation Demos


Credits

Marcosvitali for the hard work on the predictive FIFO and for new ordered main post
JMC47 for sufering testing my code and producing videos
Galop for GPU texture Encoder/Decoder implementation from his DX11 improve branch.
Xnessax for ishiiruka art
hdcmeta for dx12 backend
stenzek for new post processing shaders
gamax92 nice fixes to issues in the code.
Hyllian Excelent screen scaling shaders and work on the texture scaler.
KAMiKAZOW linux packages
Official Dolphin Developers

I will use it and report any issues I might happen to find. The x86 build is working, right? Could you please provide the changelog for this build and for the subsequent builds? Thank you.

[color=#FF0000]LAST UPDATE 2018-03-22[/color]

Since Ishiiiruka 436 support for normal mapping and phong lighting has been added.
To Support this additional textures are required:

• Depth Texture: deviation distance from the plane. Values greater than 127 (byte) are above the surface. required for displacement mapping.
  
• -Name = <TextureID>.bump.extension
  
• Normal Texture: normal map. Optional, if not present will be calculated from the bump texture.
  
• -Name = <TextureID>.nrm.extension
  
• Specular Texture : maps how polished is the surface of the material. A black (0) Texture will give as a result a opaque paper like material. White (255) will give a polished metallic like surface.
  
• -Name = <TextureID>.spec.extension
  
• Emissive Texture : maps the color of the light emitted by a material on every pixel on light emitting materials.
  
• -Name = <TextureID>.lum.extension
  

But adding all this textures will take a huge hit in memory usage so I pack them in a single texture with the following format:

• Red Channel: Specular data 0-255 0=opaque 255=fully reflective specular exponent 64
  
• Green Channel: Normal Y component unsigned (reduced from [-1.0 1.0] to [0.0 1.0])
  
• Blue Channel: Bump map depth (reduced from [-1.0 1.0] to [0.0 1.0])
  
• Alpha Channel: Normal X component unsigned (reduced from [-1.0 1.0] to [0.0 1.0])
  

This file has the .nrm sufix to make them compatible with raw normals to make testing easy.

But to make modders life a lot easy I developed a small tool you can get it here:

Texture Encoder 0.9.9 beta:
fix for luma encoding
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1TTwix3...ciukDpuKp4

This tool will read all the required textures from the source folder (including color textures that are required to test for size, format compatibility) and the output color/material texture will be stored with the same folder structure inside the destination folder.
Please don't set source and destination to the same folder or your original textures will be destroyed.
The tool is still an early beta so error reports and feature request are welcome.
As a Plus the tool will automatically generate mips for textures that don't have them, and even can output compiled textures to reduce memory usage.

Enjoy and please make the games look amazing

Thank you. You can keep this post updated when you release a new build.

I just tried the x86 build and found 2 issues:
- Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn After loading the game, it displays the Nintendo screen then the screen goes black. The Nintendo screen appears again shortly but the screen goes black again. The game doesn't respond to input. This doesn't occur in 4.0-127.
- Super Smash Bros. Melee On the menu screen, the FPS is only about 62%. It's fine when playing. The FPS on the menu screen is 100% when using 4.0-127.

Note: 4.0-127 is the latest working build for x86 before d3d9-removal.

yes it seems that the lastest changes in the core really destroy x86 build i will see if i can revert the commits that brings problems

Added unofficial tag. You're welcome to do whatever you want, but D3D9 was removed for a reason.

Out of curiousity... Tino, are you rodolfo?

You mean you don't know?

yes I'am rodolfo

Technically, since rodolfo is a developer, and since DX9-Final is a valid Dolphin branch (albeit, very unlikely to ever be merged into master) this should be one of those green dev topics. Just note that since these builds aren't based on master, support is essentially limited to this thread and rodolfo (people can/probably will ask for help else where like Support, but those questions will basically end up redirected here anyway).

(10-18-2013, 11:28 AM)Shonumi Wrote: [ -> ]Technically, since rodolfo is a developer, and since DX9-Final is a valid Dolphin branch (albeit, very unlikely to ever be merged into master) this should be one of those green dev topics. Just note that since these builds aren't based on master, support is essentially limited to this thread and rodolfo (people can/probably will ask for help else where like Support, but those questions will basically end up redirected here anyway).

Let's just say I don't agree for various reasons, so I re-added the UNOFFICIAL flag and removed the "development topic" status. Discuss in PM if you see a need for that.