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Emulator Issues #6899

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Spyro: A Hero's Tail has problems with shimmering on EFB2Tex, EFB2Ram

Added by JMC4789 over 10 years ago. Updated over 6 years ago.

Status:
Fixed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
GFX
% Done:

0%

Operating system:
N/A
Issue type:
Bug
Milestone:
Regression:
No
Relates to usability:
No
Relates to performance:
No
Easy:
No
Relates to maintainability:
No
Regression start:
Fixed in:
5.0-4703

Description

Game Name?

Spyro: A Hero's Tail

Game ID?

G5SE7D

What's the problem? Describe what went wrong in few words.

Shimmering effects, such as fairies wings and some enemies, draw improperly sometimes below the target (EFB2Tex) or everywhere (EFB2Ram)

What did you expect to happen instead?

Perfection.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
[Don't assume we have ever played the game and know any level names. Be as
specific as possible.]

  1. Start up the game and play through the opening.
  2. When the cutscene about saving happens, note the broken shimmering on the fairy
  3. Find other examples, such as enemies, that share this problem.

Dolphin 3.5 and 3.5-367 are old versions of Dolphin that have
known issues and bugs, so don't report issues about them and test the
latest Dolphin version first.
Which versions of Dolphin did you test on?

4.0, 4.0-553, and the entirety of the Tev_Fixes_New branch.

Does using an older version of Dolphin solve your issue? If yes, which
versions of Dolphin used to work?

No.

What are your PC specifications? (including, but not limited to: Operating
System, CPU and GPU)

Core i5 3570K, GTX 760, Windows 7

Are you using the 32 or the 64 bit version of Dolphin?

64bit.

Is there any other relevant information? (e.g. logs, screenshots,
configuration files)

Fifo-log: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/484730/SpyroBrokenHighlights.7z

-Screenshots-

EFB2Ram: http://imgur.com/ZqFkaRe
EFB2Tex: http://imgur.com/GbfC7HR


Related issues 1 (0 open1 closed)

Has duplicate Emulator - Emulator Issues #8317: Bloom/HDR smears and artefacts (Spyro: A Hero's Tail)Duplicate

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Actions #1

Updated by JMC4789 about 10 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Accepted

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/484730/SpyroBrokenHighlights2.7z

Degasus fixed the original EFB2Tex corruption, now there's new EFB2Tex corruption!

On OGL, EFB2Ram and EFB2Tex behave oppositely. The shimmering breaks upward in EFB2Ram, and it breaks downward in EFB2Tex. Or sometimes the opposite of that even.

D3D still reacts like the original issue.

Actions #2

Updated by magumagu9 about 9 years ago

Issue 8317 has been merged into this issue.

Actions #3

Updated by phire over 8 years ago

I tracked the EFB2Ram issue down.

This requires a working texture cache to be fixed. The game uses a texture (automatically placing it in the texture cache) then overwrites it and uses the same texture again (fetched from texture cache this time).

The game finally invalidates texture cache and uses the new texture that it overwrote.

For EFB2Tex, since the bug report EFB2Tex is now completely bloom-free. It looks like the game needs more advanced partialTextureUpdate code, the game overcopies textures (off the bottom of the efb) and then copies the second half to the bottom of the first texture. We need to be able to invalidate only half an efb copy. (I've CCed mimimi into this)

Actions #4

Updated by JMC4789 over 6 years ago

  • Status changed from Accepted to Fixed
  • Fixed in set to 5.0-4703

Fixed by 5.0-4703

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