PPSSPP 1.9

[Henrik]

Another half-year, another release!


What's new in 1.9.0
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* Flicker fixed in God of War that appeared with newer drivers for Mali GPUs (#12224)
* Improve performance of God of War on Vulkan (#12242), implement built-in GPU profiler (#12262, #12266)
* Vertex range culling fixed on ARM Mali (#12227)
* Started to improve VFPU precision, resulting so far in a fix for the long standing Tekken 6 leg shaking problem (#12217)
* Fixed a VFPU precision snafu on ARM64, fixing disappearing officers in Warriors Orochi (#11299) and some problems in Tomb Raider (#11179).
* Vulkan is the default again on Android versions newer than Pie
* Fix various homebrew store issues
* GPU pause signal handling fixed, fixing some hangs in Bleach and Armored Core games (#12160)
* Audio sample rate conversion handling fixes (#12147)
* Some Vulkan optimizations (pre-rotation (#12216), perf fix in Metal Gear Acid, etc)
* Multiple fixes for the UWP build (#12036, others)
* MP3 playback fixes (#12005)
* Audio in Motorstorm: Arctic Edge fixed by returning errors correctly (#12121)
* Audio glitches in Final Fantasy Tactics fixed (#9956)
* Camera display in Invizimals fixed (#12278, #8521)
* Added hotkeys for texture dump and replace (#11938)
* Added Visual Studio 2019 support. Windows XP is no longer supported (#11995, others)
* Fixes for video capture (#12069)
* Added a separate sound volume for alternative speed (#12124)
* Improved mouse control (Windows only) (#12173, #12176)
* Support for installing texture packs and ISOs from zips (#12175)
* Right analog support for touch controls (only used by patched games and some HD remasters) (#12182)
* Android: Fix OpenSL initialization, possibly helps audio crackle a little. (#12333).
* Fix graphics on Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K
* Fixed strange vehicle behavior in MGSW (somehow) (#12342)

[LG Fanatic]

Nice! The Tekken 6 bug fix works great! Thanks for all of your hardwork Henrik and the reast of the PPSSPP dev team!

[Dipen]

I am unable to download 1.9 gold from play store - it still shows 1.8 nad no update option. please help - i have auto update - on. please help I am a gold user and will continue to support. please

[LG Fanatic]

You can download the update manually in the "downloads" area of the site.

[relu419]

Some fixes, but a lot improvement for multiplatform emulator. Good to see something, but a lot fixes are open. I saw a lot Atrac3+ problem which need some fix, instead of API work on some platform/mobile. This needs more and more work, fixes need investigation and acknowledge to fix. Years and years waiting for sync audio, v-sync and Atrac3+ fixes and more and more works on a lot platforms intead of important fixes.

My dream and investigation with this started with Rondo of Blood (Dracula X Chronicles) Atrac3+ Fix.

[olddos25]

Nice! Cannot wait for 2.0 now.

[Rekrul]

(09-25-2019 06:50 PM)Henrik Wrote:  Another half-year, another release!

I know I'm way behind the times, and I already know what the answer probably is, but I figured it couldn't hurt to ask;

Has Windows XP support officially been dropped? 1.9.0 doesn't run on my old system and I'd just like to verify if this is intentional or an oversight.

[LunaMoo]

As you can read in the release notes dropping support for Win XP was intentional.

From quite a few years XP support required additional compatibility libraries and hacks that annoyed many people, it was kept for so long pretty much only because XP was popular in China much longer than in rest of the world. So we have 2019 now, XP isn't soo popular even in China anymore and MS no longer supports XP in VS 2019 so yeah, PPSSPP no longer compiles for that outdated platform. It might still be relatively easy to build PPSSPP for XP, but any changes that would not work on XP will no longer include hacks to support it.

[Rekrul]

(10-06-2019 04:32 AM)LunaMoo Wrote:  As you can read in the release notes dropping support for Win XP was intentional.

OK.

[Henrik]

1.9.3 has been released with minor fixes primarily for a few Android issues (inaccurate touch buttons, a few crashes).