Remove Cardboard stereo rendering

[hrydgard]

Is anyone actually using this, or is it just something somebody implemented for fun?

I don't really see much point to be honest, especially since we're not doing real stereo rendering anyway...

[marosis]

No i don't.

[JimsAlliance]

Where can I enable this?

[unknownbrackets]

I wouldn't miss it.

It's under graphics settings, and causes a "silver screen" effect where there's a projected 2d screen where the game is rendered.

-[Unknown]

[JimsAlliance]

It's under graphics settings, and causes a "silver screen" effect where there's a projected 2d screen where the game is rendered.

That is the best way to support it without an actual VR mode. I don't game much on mobile because my gamepads are incompatible, but I would definitely use it otherwise. I wouldn't remove it as I'm sure there are VR gamers out there who use it regularly.

[mygizli04]

I mean this is great for people who want to experience PSP games in VR but don't wanna spend too much money... And no reason for removing it right?

[weihuoya]

I think play psp game with this "fake" VR mode is a bad experience. these settings are not useful in my opinion.

[LunaMoo]

Playing with "real VR" would be even worse as PSP games were not designed with VR in mind, that feature wasn't either.

The point was to use tiny screen placed in front of the eyes to simulate big screen. For such use separate image for each eye is pretty neat doesn't matter if they are exactly same, but if it's super rare it could be degraded to ini-only setting as the clutter in UI it causes is pretty serious, even people who could use it regularly, shouldn't have need to switch it's settings all the time.

[hrydgard]

Unlike some of the other settings I want to remove at least this one doesn't cause compatibility problems, so it's not as big of a win to remove it, just getting rid of a little bit of code and UI clutter.

I'll leave this issue around for comments for a while longer before making a decision.

@hrydgard Sir what the use of "Rewind Snapshot Frequency (mem hog) in system?

*Sorry for asking Im just curious

[unknownbrackets]

It basically makes PPSSPP create an internal save state every so often (e.g. every second or every minute.) Then you can press a button to rewind backwards. Let's say you were platforming and you fell off a cliff - you press rewind and try the cliff again.

-[Unknown]

@unknownbrackets thanks for info about that 👍

The hack setting "Lower Resolution For Effects (Reduce Artifacts)" should also be removed I didn't use that and no performance improvement :/ (imo)

[hrydgard]

@Emulatorer That hack setting fixes bloom effect in a few games (they use bilinear filter to blur, which doesn't work if the resolution is too high).

Although, it could be argued that we should just force it on where needed using compat.ini.

[hrydgard]

Got another confused email where a user accidentally enabled it.

I think this feature does more harm than good at this point, and I am going to kill it off.