Emulator Issues #11672
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The Sims 2 glitchy top/right borders ingame
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Description
Game Name?
The Sims 2
Game ID?
G4ZE69
MD5 Hash?
dc5038fa00bcf4a7c507cd6a92fb3429
What's the problem? Describe what went wrong.
During the story mode intro cutscene and ingame, the top and right borders of the screen have a pixel or two thick line that displays improperly. Fifolog attached. When recording a fifolog during this section, the fifoplayer also gives the error "FifoRecorder: Expected command to be 4953 bytes long, we were given 6603 bytes".
What steps will reproduce the problem?
Start the game in story mode, create a sim, and complete sim creation to start the story mode. It's visible in the first cutscene.
Is the issue present in the latest development version? For future reference, please also write down the version number of the latest development version.
Yes, 9.0-9954.
Is the issue present in the latest stable version?
I'm retarded and I can't figure out how to uninstall dolphin when built from source to install 5.0 from the ubuntu repositories. I tried switching branches to tags/5.0 and compiling it instead but I had the compiler throw an error and quit (it's building in home, I just removed my name):
/dolphin-emu/Source/Core/Common/x64CPUDetect.cpp:45:12: error: ambiguating new declaration of ‘u64 _xgetbv(u32)’
static u64 _xgetbv(u32 index)
^~~~~~~
In file included from /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8/include/x86intrin.h:74,
from /dolphin-emu/Source/Core/Common/Intrinsics.h:12,
from /dolphin-emu/Source/Core/Common/x64CPUDetect.cpp:10:
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8/include/xsaveintrin.h:60:1: note: old declaration ‘long long int _xgetbv(unsigned int)’
_xgetbv (unsigned int __A)
^~~~~~~
/dolphin-emu/Source/Core/Common/x64CPUDetect.cpp:45:12: warning: ‘u64 _xgetbv(u32)’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
static u64 _xgetbv(u32 index)
^~~~~~~
make[2]: *** [Source/Core/Common/CMakeFiles/common.dir/build.make:596: Source/Core/Common/CMakeFiles/common.dir/x64CPUDetect.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:549: Source/Core/Common/CMakeFiles/common.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:163: all] Error 2
If the issue isn't present in the latest stable version, which is the first broken version?
Will check later as soon as I figure out how to get 5.0, assuming builds don't fail :<.
If your issue is a graphical issue, please attach screenshots and record a three frame fifolog of the issue if possible. Screenshots showing what it is supposed to look like from either console or older builds of Dolphin will help too. For more information on how to use the fifoplayer, please check here: https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=FifoPlayer
Attached a fifolog and screenshot of how it looks for me.
What are your PC specifications?
Intel Core i3-3220 @ 3.3GHz, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB with nvidia-driver-390 drivers (390.116), Lubuntu 18.10
Files
Updated by JMC4789 over 5 years ago
Does this happen at 1x internal resolution? Does it happen with the Vertex Offset Hack enabled?
Updated by xerxes over 5 years ago
Yes I always play in 1x internal res. If you mean vertex rounding, no it doesn't change it. Is there an INI setting for the vertex offset hack I can try if it's different?
Updated by JMC4789 over 5 years ago
How does the fifolog play in the software renderer? Does turning on "crop" in the advanced fix it? Sometimes games will be lazy off the edges of the T.V. and result in artifacts.
Updated by xerxes over 5 years ago
- File screenshot.png screenshot.png added
It looks fine in software renderer in the fifolog, here's a screenshot. It's visible on the right but not the top with crop.
Updated by xerxes over 5 years ago
- File screenshot2.png screenshot2.png added
Oops sorry about the window in the way, here's another screenshot of the software renderer that's better.
Updated by ZephyrSurfer over 3 years ago
Also worth noting there is an issue with the sky in the Software Renderer, with a square repeating pattern. There is no such such issue in the hardware renderers.
Updated by pokechu22 over 2 years ago
- File 1_y0_x0.png 1_y0_x0.png added
- Status changed from New to Questionable
The game configures the scissor rectangle to have its right corner at x=638, when it should be at x=639, and the bottom corner at y=449, when it should be at y=447 (for a 640 by 448 image). I can no longer reproduce an issue with the top border, but the right border still renders like that in Dolphin 5.0-16091. However, this is because the software renderer is handling things incorrectly (it applies the scissor in groups of 2x2 pixels); this will be fixed by PR 10251. I don't own a copy of the game, so I can't say with complete certainty that this happens on real hardware, but it seems quite likely that the right border does behave this way.
I'm not sure what is being referred to by the "repeating square pattern" in the sky. It might be dithering, but I see that on all backends (and on real hardware).