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Marat-Tanalin / bsnes-mt

bsnes-based SNES emulator featuring integer (pixel-perfect) scaling, PNG screenshots, multi­language user interface, built-in hotkeys, bug fixes, etc.
http://tanalin.com/en/projects/bsnes-mt/
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Suggestion: Update Drivers #4

Closed IPeluchito closed 4 years ago

IPeluchito commented 4 years ago

Is it possible that drivers could be updated to DirectX 11 / Vulkan, update XAudio and full Xinput support? This in order to improve performance and compatibility with modern platforms, hopefully it could be possible ...

Marat-Tanalin commented 4 years ago

Technically possible, though unlikely to happen. Aside from that I’m not experienced enough in graphics and audio programming, it’s not quite clear what benefits this would bring.

Could you provide specific cases (except for shaders’ post-processing) where GPU (graphics card), not CPU (central processor), is a bottleneck in terms of performance?

What would be exact advantages of updating XAudio?

How exactly non-full is the XInput support in its current state?

IPeluchito commented 4 years ago

A new generation of emulators is emerging that not only emulates real hardware but also improves it with modern and advanced techniques, it is not surprising that in a short time we will see emulators with AI scaling, HDR, Raytracing, AI sound, etc. that is why that it is necessary to update libraries like Vulkan, which opens up many more possibilities in that sense, in addition to improving performance since it works at a low level, it is multi-core and it is multiplatform ...

Xaudio has better sound quality and effects than the other drivers integrated in Bsnes but it is outdated (2.1) ... DIRECTX 9 JUN 2010 includes version 2.7 !!!

Xinput automatically recognizes all the controls and configures the buttons automatically, there is no need to do anything else ...

Well that's my opinion, thanks for your time and effort ...

Marat-Tanalin commented 4 years ago

Thanks. Sounds somewhat theoretical. ;-) HDR, Ray Tracing and probably AI scaling are unlikely applicable to SNES games. Not sure what AI sound is supposed to mean.

Newer version of XAudio does not necessarily mean it has improvements in sound quality in the way it’s used in this emulator.

Automatic controller configuration sounds rather interesting, though it’s not something I would be willing to spend time on.

For now I’m not interested in any of these, but keeping this proposal open as a potential way for further improvements.