Important 4.0 dates

• Feature freeze: 2013-08-15
• String freeze: 2013-09-01
• Release: 2013-09-22
  • Repository freeze: 2013-09-21

TODO

• [] zero warning compilation of dolphin code
  • [del] what about externals? we get a lot of warnings because of WX stupidity
  • [nbx] what about soundtouch? can we fix those warnings?
  • [degasus] I don't want to fork our external just to fix warnings
• [nbx] Add an option to disable perf queries
• [nbx] texcache: Force invalidation on config changes (tex dumping/loading)
  • need to make sure not to invalidate redundantly
• [nbx] shader-uids-awesome
  • needs documentation
  • should dump UIDs on uid mismatch
  • merge master
• [nbx] tev-fixes
  • remove parts which are "too accurate" - e.g. 16 bit overflow emulation followed by 8 bit OF emulation
    • they most likely don't fix anything; I had just added them for testing
  • testing (esp. D3D9?)
  • clean up
• [degasus] Finish GLSL integration.
• [degasus] GLSL 120 compat
  • glsl120 is like dx9, old and doesn't support many functions
    • unsupported, but nice:
      • texelFetch: get texel by integer index, useful for format convertation shaders
      • dualSourceBlend: need bindable output
      • centroid: needed for useful msaa (to hide polygon edge lines)
  • it's only needed by one GPU: Intel HD Graphic - Ironlake (first generation)
    • They support dx10 but not ogl3 (ogl3 requires msaa), so they are too lazy to implement all other ogl3 features like glsl130 :-(
  • STATUS: Fixed, but there is a huge performance drop. Should be checked, maybe it's easy to fix
• [degasus] create per pixel depth option again
  • should call the option "fast depth calculation" instead or sth like that
  • ask in forum which gpus are affected, calculation formular didn't changed, it's just because some gpus lack accurateness on perspective division
    • if it's that, maybe the precise qualifier might help? It's only supported in Shader Model 5 though, I think
    • or at least we could enable it for affected gpus
• [degasus] flush on type changes (triangles, lines, points)
  • will slow down ztp, but should be more accurate
• [degasus] change vertexloader to be able to stream vertices
• [degasus] fix avi framedump support and move it to videocommon (merge avi and screenshots)
• [degasus] implement an additional texcache for unused texture objects
• [degasus] remove GL_TEXTURE_RECT usage (replace it with GL_TEXTURE_2D)
  • moved to post 4.0 as copy shaders have to be updated and glsl120 lacks too many texture texture functions (eg texelFetch)
    • needed for gles3
  • try it with texture_rect for glsl120 and texture_2d+texelFetch else, so it won't be such a big hack
• [degasus] implement glsl efb conversion shaders
  • glsl130+ because of texelFetch, ironlake just won't get this new feature on 4.0
• [Sonic] ARM & GLES3 support
  • [degaus] maybe also a better basevertex workaround (should be done after streaming vertices)
• [del] take your time to organize the french national programming contest and don't start with the next one before this isn't done :-P
  • [del] WONTFIX
• [] Wii network: replace OpenSSL
• [] Wii network: IOS certs extraction tool
• [] Port the Zelda UCode to be synced with the CPU thread (while keeping voice processing, maybe)
• [] Windows installer which automatically dls+installs msvcrt + dxrt
• [] Improve release management stuff (4.0 should not be 4.0-0+hacks)
• [] Track performance regressions from 3.0 to 4.0 and see if there are low hanging fruits
  • smg (VertexManager): http://markus.members.selfnet.de/dolphin/smg_performance_test.png (nvidia)
  • smg: http://markus.members.selfnet.de/dolphin/smg_performance_test3.png (nvidia, hacked buffer, threaded)
  • nsmbw (EFB Copys): http://markus.members.selfnet.de/dolphin/nsmbw_performance_check.png (nvidia, hacked buffer, threaded, efb2tex)
  • ztp ()
  • ?? (CPU)
    • maybe create a null video backend?
• [] MTXPerspective HLE for better widescreen hack
• Get a Dolphin timeline (past releases, old screenshots, etc)
• Win back delroth's heart ;_; Done! I think.