PCSP v0.4.0 - vsync limiter on may freeze some games
Hlide here again !

Ok, Evangelion doesn´t run anymore. I guess the addition of Audio and the changes in threadman are probably for something. In fact, I suspect some games were able to run in a very hacky way because the thread scheduler wasn´t playing its role properly and so some waiting threads were awaked even if their waiting condition wasn´t met. And it could also explain why this game was so slow.

A new vsync limiter was coded using a time critical thread to wakeup any psp threads waiting for a VSYNC event. It is a cleaner way to limit FPS to 60. A change in threadman was necessary to make it work.

An audio implementation based on PortAudio with its own time critical threads to play audio samples also needed a change in threadman.

As a result, you may really need a multi-core to keep a smooth running pcsp.

Beware, this version is very experimental : if you have some games which ran fine and have a freeze ingame with this release, try to disable vsync limiter and relaunch pcsp to check if it occurs again. There are probably issues with inter-thread synchronisations and they are very hard to spot. A new minor release will be out as soon as a fix is found.
· hlide on November 28 2010 17:30:53 · 0 Comments · 32 Reads · Print
PCSP v0.4.0 released!
And here we are! I new release of pcsp is here and as always new features! . PCSP v0.4.0 supports OSK keyboard , MessageDialogs , complete new Save system that works with many games anddddd partial implementation of sound :)

Here is the complete changelog:

General
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- Fixed a bug in PSF reading.
- Fixed refer ms free size command in sceIoDevctl and implemented a basic Memory Stick manager
- OSK implementation
- sceMsgDialog implementation
- Total rewrite on save system. Now it supports save modes 1,2,3,4,5,8,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,22. List Save and List Load dialogs are working too as well.
- Loader now loads ms0 device in UMD mode
- IoFileMgrForUser getStat now scans for files and dirs as well before return an error
- memstick statfile can now fill scePSPDateTime struct with proper values
- Memory: pcsp was crashing when accessing the end of psp vram

GE
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- NREV implementation was missing for OpenGL version w/ shader
- GE - vertex shader : attempted to get a more accurate shade mapping
- Fixed lighting in many games
- sceDisplay/sceAudio: a new vsync thread which allows to limit fps to 60. No more need for the hacky opengl vsync anymore.

Audio
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- Implemented most of sceAudio functions.
- Implemented partial scelibSasCore. Some games now have sound effects some others get bad sound
- Implemented sound output using portaudio API.

You can d/l pcsp from our download section or from the following link:
http://www.filesonic.com/file/36569781/pcsp v0.4.0.zip

http://www.filesonic.com/file/36529005/pcsp v0.4.0+udb.rar

Remember to post your screenshots on pcsp forum at :

http://www.emunewz.net/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=48

Enjoy
The PCSP team