Modern LCD displays often haven't itegral refresh rates like 60hz but
fractional ones like 59.95hz. SDL communicates the refresh rate as
integer. On X11 the rate is rounded up or down with round(), but on
Windows it's (at least on my system with an AMD Radeon) truncated...
So on an 59.95hz display it's just 59hz, Quake II renders 0.95 frames
too few and the user sees microstutters.
And return the actual / requested display frame rate increased by one
to work around inaccuracies in Quake IIs internal timing. It should be
a problem if we're running a little bit too fast.
This is belived to fix at least a part of issue #277.
Refreshrate 2
We can't rely on the game.dll being unicode conformant. Work around
that by changing the current working directory before calling into
the game.dll, pass a non unicode string to it and chang back after
we return.
To be able to pass UTF-8 encoded pathes through cvars both the cvar
subsystem and the command parser would need a fair amount of UTF-8
understanding. And I'm not the poor soul that's going to implement
that. Therefor pass the datadir trough a global variable.
On Unix platforms unicode is implemented through UTF-8 which is
transparent for applications. But on Windows a UTF-16 dialect is
used which needs alteration at application side. This wrapper is
another step to unicode support on Windows, now we can replace
fopen() by a function that converts our internal UTF-8 pathes to
Windows UTF-16 dialect.
This is a noop for Unix platforms. The Windows build is broken,
the compiler errors out in shared.h. This will be fixed in a
later commit.
Caveats:
* fopen() calls in 3rd party code (std_* and unzip) are not replaced.
This may become a problem. We need to check that.
* In the Unix specific code fopen() isn't replaced since it's not
necessayry.
With this commit YQ2 is able to start and run on ReFS volumes. :) At
least as long as neither the binary path, the game data path nor the
path to the users home directory contain anything but ASCII characters.
Please note: This make break some corner cases with hore directories
containting unicode characters. They worked until now by pure luck.
A better solution providing full unicode support will be committed
in the next few days.
This brings at least two big advantages:
* No more 8.3 filename fuckups. Until know base0.pak and base0.pak_bak
was the same file for Quake II because only the first 3 characters of
the file extension were taken into account.
* Search pathes can contain any Unicode character.
There's no need to exclude directories from search by flags. In fact
the Unix backend has worked nicely for years without it... Sadly we
can't remove the now superfluous 'canhave' and 'musthave' attributes
from Sys_FindFirst() and Sys_FindNext() since they're defined in
shared.h and may be used from custom game DLLs.
* Remove a bunch of unnecessary functions.
* Reorder functions into logical groups. The orderig is now the same
on Unix and Windows.
While at it add several TODOs to the code. There's not need for special
library loading functions for the game, the Windows backend still uses
a lot of old and fishy DOS functions, etc. All this will be done at a
later time.
There's no need to duplicate machine independent parts of the client
initialization and the main loop for every platform.
While at it remove the nearly empty unix.h header and move Windows
main() into an own file. Not both platform have the same basic layout.
libSDLmain.a has to be linked and must run anyways. So there's no need
for us to reinvent the wheel, just rely on SDLs process setup, argument
parsing, message handling and so on. As a nice side effect this may fix
some strange bugs related to message handling and argument parsing...
My modifications (jpeg writing and supplying zlib compressor for better
PNG compression) have been merged upstream, so from now on updates
should be easy and painless.
(Sean renamed my stbi_png_level to stbi_write_png_compression_level)
Until now we had 3 modes:
0 -> never grab the mouse.
1 -> always grab the mouse
2 -> ungrab the mouse if the game is windowed and the console or the
menu is opened or a cinematic is playing.
The 3rd mode is the same as the 2nd one, but without the "game is
windowed" constrained. Please note that release the mouse grab in
fullscreen may have side effects like the game loosing focus and being
unable to regain it. Especially under X11.
This was requested by @prg318 in issue #271.
turns out clock_get_time() uses mach_timespec_t which is very similar
to POSIX timespec_t so we're back to just one Sys_Microseconds() function
with an #ifdef __APPLE__ for the (relatively small) differences
Older versions of OS X don't implement clock_gettime() and no(?) version
seems to implement CLOCK_MONOTONIC. Work around this by implementing an
OS X specific variant of Sys_Microseconds() that relies on Mach APIs
provided by all OS X versions...
While at it alter the generic variant so that CLOCK_MONOTONIC is used
only if it's available. CLOCK_REALTIME as a fallback should be good
enough in most cases.
This is believed to fix issue #239.
Returning 'microseconds / 1000ll' at the first call is wrong, the game
would thing that the first frame too way too much time. For some reason
this wirks in (my) Win10, but breaks on (my) Win7...
The original client used single precision mode on Windows and the
default mode on all other platforms. Most platform (at least OS X,
FreeBSD, NetBSD up to 6.0, OpenBSD and Solaris) set double precision
as default, Linux sets extended double precision... When playing a
network game there're several possibilities:
* Same precision on both sides: This one is okay, of course.
* single precision <-> double precision: This one is okay, too. I guess
this is because the code allows a small deviation between client and
server to work around imprecisions introduced be the network protocol.
* double precision <-> extended double precision: This one is okay,
likely for the same reasons given above.
* single precision <-> extended double precision: This one gives a lot
of misspredictions at client side.
All of these are more or less academic these days. Yamagi Quake II used
the platforms default mode for ages. And both gcc and clang default to
SSE2 math (with double precision as default on all platforms) when
compiling for amd64. So the only reasonable case is Linux/i386 on one
side and the original client or another source port on Windows/i386 at
the other side.
Work around this by forcing the x87 to double precision mode.
Until now the curtime variable was set at every call Sys_*seconds().
That's a little bit unfortunate because calls to that functions are
scattered around the code. Instead set it once every frame in
Qcommon_Frame().
The dedicated server runs at cl_maxfps frames per second. Een with very
large values one server frame can never be shorter than 1 milliseconds.
And the timing doesn't need to be very precise since the network
latency adds a lot of more jitter.
This shouldn't have any noteable impact on timing (besides the machine
is way too slow for Quake II) and saves a lot of CPU cycles. 100% load
vs. 17% load on my desktop.
This allows us to implement the global timing without an artificial
brake slowing the game unnecessary down. This is only partial working,
more changes and fixes are coming.
This is a no-op for now. We need this to get a much higher precision
when calculating the frame times. This changes the fixedtime cvar from
milli- to microseconds.
This is the same as the well known Sys_Milliseconds() but like the name
suggests with microsecond precision. To be used in the upcoming new
framecounter.
For some fucking reason, if you set an unsupported
SDL_GL_MULTISAMPLESAMPLES value on Windows (at least Win10 with Intel GPU
drivers, there 16 is unsupported), creating the Window and OpenGL context
will succeed, but you'll get Microsofts stupid GDI OpenGL software
implementation that only supports OpenGL 1.1.
Before these fixes, the GL3 renderer would just crash and the GL1 renderer
would fail to load, which caused the game to run in the background:
No Window, no Input, but sound was playing..
Now this problem should be handled properly and if initialization fails,
the rendering backend will be considered not working, and it will
try the gl1 backend next, and if that also fails it'll give up and exit
the game.
SDL_WINDOW_FULLSCREEN changes the display resolution if the requested
resolution is different to the actual resultion. SDL_WINDOW_FULLSCREEN_
DESKTOP doesn't do that, it places a smaller or bigger render area
somewhere inside the fullscreen area. This is somewhat nicer with modern
high resolution flatscreens.
This commit changes vid_fullscreen 1 from SDL_WINDOW_FULLSCREEN to
SDL_WINDOW_FULLSCREEN_DESKTOP. Additional vid_fullscreen 2 is
implemented, it uses SDL_WINDOW_FULLSCREEN to create the fullscreen
area.
TL;DR: Use vid_fullscreen 1 to keep the current resolution or use
vid_fullscreen 2 to switch the resolution.
Implementation details: The whole fullscreen stuff is a horrible mess.
Like generations of hackers before me I'm not desperated enough to clean
it up. GLimp_InitGraphics() is modified to take the fullscreen mode as
an integer and not as a boolean. That's a change to the renderer API.
In GLimp_InitGraphics() the needed SDL fullscreen mode flag is
determined once at the top and just used further down below. That saves
dome SDL1 <-> SDL2 compatibility cruft. IsFullscreen() was modified to
return the actual fullscreen mode and not just if fullscreen is enabled.
Several platforms - OpenBSD being a prominent example - don't provide a
way to get the executable path. Don't abort, just return the current
dir ./ executable dir. This is just a work around, of course. The user
needs to supply a script that calls ./quake2 in the correct directory.
The big problem with the old implementation was that stdout.txt and
stderr.txt on Windows became available when nearly all the low level
initialization was already done. Regardless if the client was in
normal or in portable mode.
Solve this by scanning the command line for the string '-portable'. If
it's not found, stdout and stderr are redirected as early as possible.
If found the global variable (*sigh*) is_portable is set to true. It's
evaluated later on to set the cvar 'portable', which in turn is used
be the filesystem to decide if the home directory should be added to
the search path.
Maybe we should remove the cvar and stick to the global variable.
While at it change the maximum path length for qconsole.log from
MAX_QPATH to MAX_OSPATH. At least on my Linux laptop MAX_QPATH is
too short.
This commit is still untested on Windows!
This prevents Windows from scaling our (fullscreen) window to crap if
the whole desktop is scaled and we're rendering more than 1080p. This is
believed to fix#208.
Sometimes cinematics are skipped after the first frame even if the
player didn't press any key. I'm unable to reliable reproduce that,
so my educated guess is that one or more events are still waiting in
SDLs event queue.
For example, during intermission IN_Update() is not called for 5
seconds, key presses by impatient players are just added to the queue
and not processed. The first event is used to skip leave the
intermission, the second event skips the cinematic...
Fix this by implementing a new function IN_FlushQueue() to flush SDLs
event queue and calling it when starting cinematic playback. Yes, this
is just another layer violation. :(
For some reasons setting the MSAA fails at window creation and not at
GL context creation. And of course SDL is unable to detect before, that
the requested number of MSAA samples is invalid... Implement a work
around: Fall back to gl_msaa_samples == 0 if the window cannot be
created.
Resurrect support for render / refresher loadable libraries and use them to implement an experimental OpenGL 3.2 renderer. Please note that the new renderer interface is somewhat different from the original one, old render libraries will NOT work!
- Bump vid_gamma to 1.2 in both GL1 and GL3. A default value of 1.0 is
too dark.
- Lower gl3_overbrightbits to 1.3, the previous value of 1.5 was too
bright. This can be seen in later units, for example on mine1 some
textures blended into white.
- Lower gl3_particle_size to 40. A value of 60 may be okay, but with
gl3_particle_fade_factor 1.2 the particles take up too much screen
estate in close range combat.
With this changes GL3 looks (at least for me) nearly the same as GL1
rendered through the removed multitexturing path.
To be able to test if the game is running portable all checks of the
portable cvar must be done after Cvar_Init(). Instead of redirecting
stdout and stderr as early as possible, delay the redirection right
after Cvar_Init(). After this change the printf() in WinMain() aren't
printed into stdout.txt, but I guess that it isn't a big problem. All
interessting stuff like the search pathes is still there.
Rename fs_portable to portable. It's no longer filesystem specific.
Some people complained about the usage of non busy waits:
* I was told that there's an input lag with nanosleep(). I still doubt
that, but since the problem is easy to solve...
* Some Intel CPUs throttle the GPU if the selected CPU pstate is too
low. This is especially a problem on Haswell mobile CPUs. Keeping
a core busy works around that.
the screenshot command now supports the filetype as optional argument
(just "screenshot" will use tga like before):
"screenshot png" will save the screenshot as PNG, same with jpg, png
and tga.
For jpg, you can even specify the quality, like "screenshot jpg 90"
(the Quality is between 1 and 100, like with libjpeg).
To reduce duplicated code, I addeed Vid_WriteScreenshot() to refimport_t
and implement most of it in the client (vid.c).
The renderer still fetches the raw image data from OpenGL or whatever
and then calls re.VidWriteScreenshot() which will write it to disk in
the format requested by the user.
the arguments were not used anyway, and returning true/false is clearer
than returning -1 (for error) or sth else (which has no deeper meaning
anyway).
Also:
* PrepareForWindow() can now return -1 if there's an error
* suppress some warnings in Makefile
* fix error for building ref_gl.dylib on OSX
So in all code in the reflib (ref_gl.dll/.so/.dylib) calls to
ri.Con_Printf(print_level, fmt, ...) have been replaced by calls to
R_Printf(print_level, fmt, ...) which uses ri.Com_VPrintf().
Otherwise at least one key may be still marked as down causing an
immediate abort of playback. While here be a little bit paranoid
and clean up key states when focus is gained. In theory that's a
no-op.
The old implementation had two problems:
* OSTYPE and ARCH are systemwide defines, overriding them may break
the global libc headers. This is a theoretical problem, I've never
seen it in praxis.
* Not all system set ARCH correctly when building in a chroot env.
For example on Linux ARCH is set to x86_64 when building in an
i386 chroot. Now the user can do something like "make YQ2ARCH=i386"
to get things right.
With vsync enabled the render times of consecutive frames can diverge.
The first frame arrives right at the next display frame and is rendered
without waiting time. The next frame has to wait 20ms. The leads to some
problems with the move prediction if the client is asynchronous. Fix
this by capping the desired frame rate at the display refresh rate. Also
make sure that the network framerate is never higher then the renderer
framerate.
With the commit the timing is always correct:
* With no limit as much frames as possible are rendered. In this case
rfps > nfps and everything's good.
* With vsync enabled rfps > nfps or rfps == nfps is given. Also rfps
will never exceed the display refresh rate.
* On slow hardware either rfps > nfps or an implicit rfpc == nfps is
given.
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.
In Linux distributions, having the executable depend on the right
libraries and arrange for them to be installed is straightforward,
and there's a lot of infrastructure for tracking which library
version a particular executable needs, including making sure we have
a version that contains all of the symbols that were used. Loading
libopenal at runtime defeats that infrastructure.
The ability to substitute a different-but-compatible libopenal,
or operate with reduced functionality without libopenal, might
still be desirable for generic/portable binary releases.
The CMake build system already linked the executable to
${OPENAL_LIBRARY} anyway, so it is already a hard dependency in that
build system.
The old whitelist was a leftover from the early days of YQ2. It should
run on most / all architectures, as long SDL supports them. As suggested
by smcv in issue #138 generate the OSTYPE and ARCH defines by the build
system instead of hardcoding it.
Savegame compatibility is provided by bumping the savegame version. Old
savegames are compared against the old OSTYPE and ARCH defined, new ones
against the new defines. This compatibility code should be removed
somewhere in the distant future.
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.
Con_DrawConsole() assumed that the version string was always 21chars
long, we changed it to allow longer strings with other lenghts.
In Unix main() we changed the code for underlining
"Yamagi Quake II $version" with === so the underlining is as long
as the underlined string.
This should have been done years ago, .dynlib is the canocial extension
for libraries on OS X. In a broader sense this simplifies the CMake
build system a little bit, since CMake enforces .dynlib for OS X
libraries.
Daniel is more or less sure that a stuck Alt key can occure if the user
switches through several windows by Alt-Tab. That sounds resonable,
because the keyup event for Alt may happen when the focus is not on
Quake II. In that case SDL2 misses it and for Quake II the key stays
down. Solve this by capturing the focus loss event and mark all keys
as up.
It's apparently not enough to clear key repeats, we'll need to clear
the down states too. Without this Alt stays pressed after toggeling
fullscreen trhough Alt-Enter.
Switching to fullscreen through a SDL2 call is nice, but the renderer
needs to be reinitialized. Without it some things will break, for
example the gamma setting.
No, this is not a rage quit but the result of a long discussion. There
are several reasons for us to drop OS X support:
- OS X support was always more or less hacky. For example is was never
really integrated into the build system and some features like the
OpenAL sound backend never worked well.
- The OS X support never grew into the new world based upon SDL2.
- It was broken since at least Lion which was released 4 years ago.
- None of the developers has a Mac or plans to buy one. Supporting
a software for a platform not used by the developers is more or
less impossible.
- And despite several appeals no one from the OS X community ever
stept up and send patches.
Removed are:
- Makefile support
- The OpenAL quirks
- The Cocoa bindings
- The framworks
Not removed is:
- Savegame support
- Memory management support
- Platform detection
- OpenGL and SDL includes
So, if someone steps up and does a modern, fully integrated port based
upon SDL2 we're happy to merge it back. The requirements are:
- It must be a clean port, without any hacks
- Full build system integration must be provided
- The port must be maintained even after it was merged. At every release
binaries must be build, API / ABI changes with new OS X versions must
be tracked.
This is a less intrusive variant of the old Key_ClearState() function.
When the refresher is restarted or the menu is left, this function is
called to mark all keys as "up". That works around some corner cases
where a key is still marked "down" and thus the first stroke is detected
as a repetition.
This works around a bug in SDL 1.2 were the SDL_EnableUNICODE() state is
reset to false after the window is reacreated. Setting it in the render
backend ensures that no keystrokes are lost. This fixes#56.
- Handling of key combinations like Alt + Return or Shift + Escape
clearly belong into the frontend. Now that the client won't clear
the keystates any more it's save to handle them there.
- The 'force_centerview' command belongs into the client move stuff.
I guess it was part of the backend sinces it messes with mouse
handling. Since the renderer is now part of the client that's not
necessary anymore.
- One can argue that +mlook and -mlook belong into client move stuff,
too. But since we need there calculations in the backend anyway,
leave things like they are.
Until now Quake 2 used keysyms aka key events for everything, including
the console and the chat window. Since key events don't reflect if the
shift key is pressed, Quake 2 needed to convert the lower case chars to
upper case char through a hardcoded table. That lead to the problem that
the keyboard layout was utilised for lower case characters only.
Solve this long standing problem by refactoring both the input backend
and the frontends Key_Event() funktion to use character events for most
input subsystem. Character events are generated by SDL and send the
real character.
An example:
- On german keyboards shift and . is : but Quake 2 generated <.
- Now a character event with : is generated and used.
There are at least 3 disadvantes by this approach:
- The backend needs to tell the frontend if a normal character (ASCII
32 to 126) or a special character is send. Only normal characters can
be treated as character events.
- There may be some differences between the binding of a key seen
through the console and seen by the game. If you have a german
keyboard and bind :, the game may not react to :. This can be worked
around by editing the config file.
- Users may need to rebind some keys.
Please note that Quake 2 can handle ASCII characters only!
In the old times the refresher was a stand alone DLL. For performance
reasons and to avoid laggy input parts of the input system were
implemented in this DLL. Now that the renfresher is part of the main
binary and initialized at client startup we can remove most of the
abstractions between input system, refresher and client. Also the
input system can be treated as a normal subsystem.
Changes:
- Untangle the VID_* stuff and the IN_* stuff. The functions
called by function pointers in in_state are now called directly
and 'struct in_state' was removed.
- Remove input.h and rename the appropriate backend functions.
There's no longer a need for an abstraction layer between the
input backend and the input frontend.
- Move input initialization and shutdown into CL_Init(), like it's
already done for all other subsystems.
- Remove Key_ClearStates(). I'm pretty sure that's a left over from
the old Win 9x backends and unnecessary.
- General cleanup.
This reverts commit 70eef55ab5.
It was premature to merge this commit into HEAD. Maybe we'll try again
one day, but only if a complete and fully working patch with build
system integartion is provided.
This integrates the backends for the pandora, gcw and gph written by
Scott "Pickle" Smith. Only the code itself is supplied, but no build
system integration.
