It's been over two years since we merged it into the master. @0lvin has
done a wonderfull job in maintaining it, he fixed a lot of bugs, did a
fair amount of enhancement, etc. There weren't any bug reports for the
last 6 month, it looks like that it's more or less stable right now. So
don't scare the users by calling it experimental.
cvar operations are special commands that allow the programmatic
manipulation of cvar values. 'reset' resets a given cvar to it's
default value, e.g. `reset r_mode' would reset `r_mode` to `4`.
'resetall' resets all known cvar with the exception of `game`.
The code is based upon q2pro.
This is part of issue #414.
At least with MinGW on Windows vsnprintf() treats buffer < size as an
error, returning -1 instead of the number of characters that would have
been printed without size restrictions. Therefor msgLen may be wrong,
leading to all kind of funny mistakes further down below... Buffer
overflow included. Work around this by handling the msgLen < 0 case and
adding an explicit terminating \0.
This is another case of "I wonder why nobody has never noticed this",
the GL1 renderers extension string triggered the buffer overflow each
time the game started.
If the vsync is enabled missuse it to slow the client down, e.g.
calculate the target framerate, add an security margin of 20% and
let the vsync handle the rest. This hopefully solves some problems
with frametime spikes. This is an idea by @DanielGibson.
If the vsync is disabled use a simple 1s / fps calculation.
introduced FS_GetFilenameForHandle(fileHandle_t) for this
this helps if a map has been started with "wrong" case, which doesn't
immediately fail if it has been loaded from a pack, but will result
in invalid savegame names that (with case-sensitive FSs) will fail to
load (when going back to a formerly played level)
Until now the UDP download code prohibited downloading of maps from all
pak files. That was some kind of copy protection, without the limitation
demo users could download assets from the full version. Don't apply that
protection for all paks, but only for numbered .pak files.
This could be enhanced by limiting the protection to pak0 to pak2 for
baseq2 and pak0 for both xatrix and rogue.
The signal handler was always fishy since it modified the global process
state but worked on all common platforms. libcurl turns the process into
a multithreaded environment, thus breaking that fragile construction.
After the signal handler was called the global state is inconsistent and
there's a high chance of things going wrong. For example at the net curl
download or when setjmp() is called in Qcommon_Frame().
These are:
- CL_ResetPrecacheCheck(): Resets the precacher, forces it to reevaluate
which assets are available and what needs to be downloaded.
- FS_FileInGamedir(): Checks if a file (and only a real file, not
somthing in a pak) is available in fs_gamedir.
- FS_AddPAKFromGamedir(): Adds a pak in fs_gamedir to the search path.
Lost time is time that we spend but didn't account. So the lost time
doesn't shorten a second (in fact that would mean that we'll lose the
time twice), it lengthen a second. Since has a small but noticeable
impact on timing when running with vsync enabled.
With this change the code matches the comment. While most packet frames
are renderer frames, we must not take the render frame time into account
when calculating the average time spend processing the packet frames. I
dont's think that this change makes any measureable difference since the
packet frame time is just a very small fraction of the renderer frame
time.
We need to reset the avgrenderframetime and avgpacketframetime variables
when we recalculate the average times spend rendering frame and / or
processing package frames. Otherwise the result will be much too high,
leading to lost frames down below. I wonder why nobody complained about
this until now.
While at it lower the security margin from 2% to just 1%. On the one
hand we need a small security margin, because Quake II is not that
precise and out average times spend may be too low. On the other hand
the margin must not be too large, because the bigger the margin is the
bigger is the risk of missing frames... Both 2% and 1% is very small,
in fact often they don't even make a difference because of float ->
int conversations. For example 16 * 0,02 = 0,32 -> cut to 0. But there
are some extrem cases were it matters and my empirical testing showed
that 1% is slighty better then 2%. At least on my system. An it's
better to f*ck up the timing for a small number of frames than missing
a frame. A broken timing is hard to recognize, a missed frame is much
more annoying.
1) Do not increment the frame rate returned by SDL by 1. Incrementing
is unnessecary, more or less up to date versions on Nvidias, AMDs
and Intels GPU driver on relevant platform return an value that's
either correct or rounded up to next integer. And SDL itself also
rounds up to the next integer. At least in current versions. In fact,
incrementing the value by one is harmfull, it messes our internal
timing up and leads to subtile miss predictions. Working around that
in frame.c would add another bunch of fragile magic... So just do
it correctly. If someone still has broken GPU drivers or SDL versions
that are rounding down the could set vid_displayrefreshrate.
2) The calculation of the 5% security margin to pfps in frame.c was
wrong. It didn't take into account that rfps can be slightly wrong
in the first place, e.g. 60 on an 59.95hz display. Correct it by
comparing against rfps including the margin and not the plain value.
Until now the server just called remove() to delete the servers state
from the HDD. That was fine on Linux were UTF-8 is used but failed
silently on Windows in case that the working dir path had some Unicode
characters. Replace remove() by Sys_Remove(), on Linux it's just a
wrapper around remove() on Windows it does a UTF8->UTF-16 conversion
and calls _wremove(). This fixes issue 318.
