What I would like to see next are optimizations in the soft driver. This could also improve performance with Full VRAM Primitives that we're finding increasingly necessary for some games even when in 3D optimization.
questions/ideas/conversation for Pete...
Just had some thoughts about Pete's plugins that I wanted to share, so here goes...
On the spu plugin:
Does the spu plugin output all sound at the same sampling rate or does it output the XA seporate from the synth sound etc.?
Specifically, is the XA output at 44800 khz or at the native 37100 khz (those numbers are off the top of my head, so they may not be accurate, but you know what I mean)?
It sounds like they are output at 44800khz. Is there any chance that a future version will have the option to output all of the psx sounds at there native sampling rates? I know sound card compatability is an issue, but an sbLive! supports at least the 37100 rate and I think it supports other odd rates as well. I used to play psx movies using one of the movie players that output only at the native sampling rate. On my old SB 32 it didn't output anything, but on my sbLive! it sounds great, with no hollow distortion.
On the GPU plugins:
In the software plugin it has an option to change the stretching mode with three settings
1. Scale to full window size
2. 1:1 (faster with some cards)
3. Scale to window size, keep aspect ratio
Would it be possible to see these modes added to the hardware excellerated plugins?
Here is my reasoning for this. When you enable sprite filtering in games like the Final Fantasy games or Chrono Cross etc. you get cracks in between the tiles on the backgrounds. If you stretch it in a perfect ratio (1 pixel becomes 2 pixels, 1:3,) would that help with the lines?
Also, when you strech the game to the full window and walk up and down the screen (causing scrolling) you sometimes get a window blinds looking effect (although some credit must be given, because it is hardly noticable).
Finally, I noticed that when square ported FFVII and VIII to PC they used proportional scaling, and I figure there may have been a reason (I could be wrong
).
Anyway, thanks for all the hard work. The playstation emu's and plugins are amazing.
Thanks for reading. I look forward to any replys.
On the spu plugin:
Does the spu plugin output all sound at the same sampling rate or does it output the XA seporate from the synth sound etc.?
Specifically, is the XA output at 44800 khz or at the native 37100 khz (those numbers are off the top of my head, so they may not be accurate, but you know what I mean)?
It sounds like they are output at 44800khz. Is there any chance that a future version will have the option to output all of the psx sounds at there native sampling rates? I know sound card compatability is an issue, but an sbLive! supports at least the 37100 rate and I think it supports other odd rates as well. I used to play psx movies using one of the movie players that output only at the native sampling rate. On my old SB 32 it didn't output anything, but on my sbLive! it sounds great, with no hollow distortion.
On the GPU plugins:
In the software plugin it has an option to change the stretching mode with three settings
1. Scale to full window size
2. 1:1 (faster with some cards)
3. Scale to window size, keep aspect ratio
Would it be possible to see these modes added to the hardware excellerated plugins?
Here is my reasoning for this. When you enable sprite filtering in games like the Final Fantasy games or Chrono Cross etc. you get cracks in between the tiles on the backgrounds. If you stretch it in a perfect ratio (1 pixel becomes 2 pixels, 1:3,) would that help with the lines?
Also, when you strech the game to the full window and walk up and down the screen (causing scrolling) you sometimes get a window blinds looking effect (although some credit must be given, because it is hardly noticable).
Finally, I noticed that when square ported FFVII and VIII to PC they used proportional scaling, and I figure there may have been a reason (I could be wrong
).Anyway, thanks for all the hard work. The playstation emu's and plugins are amazing.
Thanks for reading. I look forward to any replys.
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I'll see how much I can answer here
- SOFT plugin: a new stretch option: "scale to window, keep
aspect ratio". That one will keep the original psx
screen proportions, of course you will get black screen
borders, if the aspect ratio doesn't match your window
size. That option is much harder to do on the OGL/D3D
gpus (because many of my funcs are relying on a fully
rendered window), but maybe I will do that in a later
version... we will see
Just to clear it up *most* XA is in 37800hz! and the common frequencies are 11025, 22050, 32000, 44100, 48000hz! Anyway Pete just mixes it in with the normal sounds and passes it to the mix buffer as 44100hz! not sure why it wouldn't output on a SB 32, would have thought it'd still be able to handle it!
Pete has said in his readme...
- SOFT plugin: a new stretch option: "scale to window, keep
aspect ratio". That one will keep the original psx
screen proportions, of course you will get black screen
borders, if the aspect ratio doesn't match your window
size. That option is much harder to do on the OGL/D3D
gpus (because many of my funcs are relying on a fully
rendered window), but maybe I will do that in a later
version... we will see
There is a way to get this working to a semi acceptable level, run in Window mode, and have the Window almost square (e.g. 800x750) This will reduce the errors! No full-screen workaround tho!
The thing is, Full Screen, you are limited to the resolution sizes that the Video Card can handle! For example you cant do 320x224 (which is a PSX res) Closest is 320x240, 16 pixels out!
You can use linuzappz's D3D GPU to find out the PSX resolution! then run each game at it's size in a window! Problem is, alot of games do use more than 1 res for different parts of the game!
You can use linuzappz's D3D GPU to find out the PSX resolution! then run each game at it's size in a window! Problem is, alot of games do use more than 1 res for different parts of the game!
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