This is a slighty revised version of id Software original code. Icculus
code may have some advantages on broken drivers or underpowered GPUs.
Today it's just a performance hook. This is a first step in fixing #147.
This is more than enough for everyone and prevents wasting CPU time.
Without this change as many client frames as possible are rendered,
Quake II uses a complete core.
This is based on work submitted by Scott "pickle" Smith. It's said that
vertex arrays are somewhat faster and more compatible than the old way.
This may remove support of some very, very old GPUs like the Riva128.
This is more less cosmetics since gl_tex_solid_format == GL_RGB and
GL_LIGHTMAP_FORMAT == GL_RGBA. No measurable FPS change on Nvidia and
Intel. Based upon the OpenGL ES patch by Scott "pickle" Smith.
This is based upon the original OpenGL ES patch by Scott "pickle"
Smith. This change gives about the same frame rate on an 750TI but
about 3% more frames on an Ivy Bridge IGP with Mesa3D...
This is largely based upon the cl_async 1 mode from KMQuake2, which in
turn is based upon r1q2. The origins of this code may be even older...
Different to KMQuake2 the asynchonous mode is not optional, the client
is always asynchonous. Since we're mainly integrating this rather
fundamental change to simplify the complex internal timing between
client, server and refresh, there's no point in keeping it optional.
The old cl_maxfps cvar controls the network frames. 30 frames should be
enough, even Q3A hasn't more. The new gl_maxfps cvar controls the render
frames. It's set to 95 fps by default to avoid possible remnant of the
famous 125hz bug.
I'm not quite sure if this really makes a difference. But it's the only
idea I have regarding several "Quake II hangs at shutdown when OpenAL is
run with Pulseaudio backend" bugs.
Hardware gamma is broken, especially in fullscreen, and a Mac user told me
that setting HW/screen gamma on OSX is a bad idea anyway, because it resets
the monitor calibration.
The game /should/ look ok with vid_gamma 1 (if your display is configured
properly), but if you think it's too dark set it a bit higher and do
vid_restart.
Multitexturing was enabled by default in 0f7b422. It gives a small but
on todays hardware neglectable performance boost, but caused several
problems over the years. For example gl_showtris doesn't work with it
and there's at least one render glitch in city3.bsp.
turns out the if the console is opened while no game is currently
running, cls.key_dest is not key_console but still key_game.
Changing it to key_console in those cases blows up in interesting ways.
So in Char_Event() we send events to the console in those cases.
This clamps the UI scale, limiting the relative size of the UI
elements to what they would be at scale 1 in a 320x240 resolution.
Allowing bigger scales is not useful, and would make it possible
for the user to shoot him-/herself in the foot by setting a
"too big" UI scale value in the menu. (Since this would mess up
the menu, it could be hard te recover from for a casual user.)
