Dual Core is primarily known as one of the first troubleshooting steps when emulation or NetPlay misbehave.
I believe(?) the original intent with having it on by default was likely to support users with weaker machines. However, I believe it would be a lot more reasonable for users to manually enable dual core if they really need the performance boost, rather than it is for them to have come ask us in support channel why their cleanly-installed Dolphin is not emulating their games properly.
Instead, this creates a fragile first impression where a clean install of Dolphin is already set up in a way that leads to inexplicable crashes, subtle timing bugs, and NetPlay desyncs.
Note: This changes only applies to the Desktop application, since mobile devices *do* really need the performance boost.
Remove window hints clearing the flag Qt::WindowContextHelpButtonHint,
which is already off by default in Qt 6.
In Qt 5 this flag was set by default for QDialogs, and on Windows put a
? button in the corner of the title bar allowing users to activate Qt's
QWhatsThis help system for a given widget. Since we don't set that text
the ? button was useless and so we hid it manually.
This feature allows overriding the frequency of the Vertical Blank Interrupt. For many games, this means that their gameplay speed will change without affecting audio, which would be useful by itself (e.g. grinding in RPGs).
However, there are games that use delta time for their game logic, which allows them to be played at >60 FPS at the same gameplay speed!
Some games aren't dynamic though, and require a patch to adjust their game speed variable.
Removed VolumeChanged signal, as ConfigChanged will trigger what is needed.
Only applies UpdateSoundStream to things that can change during emulation.
Settings::SetVolume might no longer be used, but left it in.
Introduce a new "Enable Time Tracking" checkbox in the InterfacePane UI. The checkbox is dynamically enabled or disabled based on the emulation state, preventing changes while emulation is active.
In WiimoteReal.cpp, JitRegCache.cpp, lambda predicates were replaced by pointers to member functions because ranges algorithms are able invoke those.
In ConvertDialog.cpp, the `std::mem_fn` helper was removed because ranges algorithms are able to handle pointers to member functions as predicates.
In DITSpecification.cpp, MaterialAsset.cpp, and ShaderAsset.cpp, lambda predicates were replaced by pointers to member functions because ranges algorithms are able invoke those.
In NetPlayClient.cpp, the non-trivial `NetPlay::Player` elements were being passed by value in `NetPlayClient::DoAllPlayersHaveGame()`. This has been fixed.
In WIABlob.cpp, the second example's predicate was returning the `std::optional` by value instead of implicitly converting it to a bool. This has been fixed.
Now that patches and codes are enabled on a case by case basis, remove patcher code blocking codes entirely in hardcore mode, and reword the warning to be more accurate.
In StringUtil.h, the lambdas wrapping `Common::ToLower(char)` and `Common::ToUpper(char)` were only necessary due to the function names being overloaded.
This reverts the revert commit bc67fc97c3,
except for the changes in BaseConfigLoader.cpp, which caused the bug
that made us revert 72cf2bdb87. PR 12917
contains an improved change to BaseConfigLoader.cpp, which can be merged
(or rejected) independently.
A few changes have also been made based on review comments.
The description of the Speed Limit setting currently uses a lot of
complicated terms, like "emulated time" (known to many Dolphin
developers, but in my experience not known by even advanced emulator
users) and "maximum time scale" (I have never heard it before). The
meaning of "sustainable" is also unclear in context.
This commit rewords the description to be easier to understand.
