Put it in your dialer for detailed info. It used to be able to show real signal levels instead of bars once activated but now this is where we are. Need a little test kit to get the full info. May need to re-enter or reboot to exit the mode. Depends on the phone.
I’ve been in a lot of bad signal areas proposing repeaters or diagnosing issues and used it.
Yes, have a look at ISPC - it's amazing. I especially like that it can generate code for multiple architectures and then select the best implementation at runtime for the CPU it's running on.
Would it be possible to build a web-hosted database of encountered shader configs against a game id, and have Dolphin fetch that list when a game launches and start doing async compilation?
When Dolphin encounters a new shader that wasn't in the db, it phones home to request it to be added it to the list.
I feel an automated sharing solution would build up coverage pretty quickly, and finding a stutter would eventually be considered an achievement - "no-one's been here before!"
Every shader depends on both the driver version and the model of your GPU itself. Which means a lot of shaders. I think Valve had a version of it though but not without issues (GBs of shaders to be downloaded)
The Steamdeck does this thats why it doesn't suffer from stutters.
For normal PC's, realistically Valve/Steam are the only people who could solve or implement this for PC games as they have the tech and platform to distribute it all. Even with all that its a crazy task to try and solve due to all of the variations and new patches for games that require the shaders to be recompiled again.
The idea here wasn’t to share the compiled shader, but to share the shader configurations that each game uses — the ones that are used to then compile the actual shader. So you would compile them all at game start from the configurations you downloaded
To my knowledge, the massive size isn't from the drivers, but because transcoded video files are also slipped in with the shaders. Proton struggles with things like Media Foundation, so Valve transcodes videos on their end.
I haven't had any problems with it yet and I've sent enough abroad now that someone would have complained by now if there were issues (I hope!). I'm just using the basic Royal Mail international postage option which is DDU (delivery duty unpaid - something else I learned through doing this!) so tax is the responsibility of the buyer.
Customs is the part I found most stressful trying to work out. I have to attach a declaration which has an HS code[0] on it. Working out the 'correct' code was a bit of a guessing game. I've gone with '853120' which is for 'Indicator panels incorporating liquid crystal devices (LCD) or light-emitting diodes (LED)' and that seems to do the job!
Having said that, I may pay to send a couple of international orders tracked just so I can see how long it takes and if there are any hold-ups I should be aware of.
I found the same with this library. I'm not sure if it's missing documentation, unintuitive design or both, but I always found it a bit of a struggle to use beyond simple cases.
> 2. Store metadata about the current a* search in the graph nodes themselves so you don't have to maintain in a separate associative array.
This might be suitable in some circumstances, but it mixes your hot & cold data, prevents concurrent searches from being performed. Personally I'd steer away from this without an extremely good reason.
Correct, but it was still way faster that way. Pathfinding was already asynchronous (queries happened on another thread so they didn't block any game update loops) and queries were infrequent enough that doing one at a time was fine.
Most software installers on Windows offer the user a "Install for this user"/"Install for all users" option, or will just install to the current user's appdata, which doesn't require admin rights.
Not the case for ImageMagick, there are some things that cannot be installed for current user, like Windows services or specific kinds of shell extensions.
It's definitely not "most". It does happen, but it's actually very rare. Most people nowadays who go to the trouble of making a native installer do so because they want some kind of OS integration, so it's a nonstarter anyway.
For portable SIMD, have a look at ISPC. It allows you to write a function once, compile it for multiple instruction sets, and then automatically select the best one to use at runtime. You don't get the precision of hand-crafted SIMD, but it can grant some easy wins!
