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Emulator Issues #7000

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Cache Display Lists is completely incompatible with NVIDIA Buffer Storage

Added by JMC4789 over 10 years ago.

Status:
Fixed
Priority:
High
Assignee:
-
% Done:

0%

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

Description

This affects all games. Any modern NVIDIA card will produce garbled, destroyed graphics when using cache display lists alongside Buffer Storage.

Previously with the Vertex Streaming Hack, this was not an issue.

I'm not entirely sure what should be done with the option. It does provide a small boost to some games, but considering it completely breaks pretty much every game on modern NVIDIA cards, there needs to be some way to help users not trigger this. I accidentally did and spent a while figuring out. Options are:

  1. Figure out a way to disable Cache Display Lists when Buffer Storage is used
  2. Remove the Cache Display List option because it has minimal effects at best + it's a hack and neobrain hates those.
  3. Do nothing and torment the forum mods as they answer a bevy of questions from frustrated users
  4. Add a warning to the tooltip

I'm sure there are other options, I just wanted to provide mine.

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