RTSS on Android problems

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RTSS on Android problems

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Hi,

After digging around with my 8 android devices i can say that RTSS wont work well on these and i blame the driver writers of course! When i use the glsles optimizer from arasp it runs on almost all devices without it you get rendering glitches/black screen or at worst device freezes or reboots. The downside with the optimizer is that Compositor/Cubemapping demo freeze on all devices now (due cubemap sampling).

So i wrote the sdktray shaders by hand for all platforms (DX11 do not render correctly so i do not push it) but the handwritten stuff just work as excepted - what i saw is that most problems are due the subfunctions which the compilers due not handle correctly (the optimizer does inlining so we have only a main function).

I do not know how to proceed - if we rely on RTSS it looks like ogre crash on many devices but thats not true our component does the crash not the core.

Any thoughts?
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Re: RTSS on Android problems

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What does it actually do, the optimizer?
Can we enable it by default?

I'm not a huge fan of RTSS myself, as it rips apart the shader, which makes writing and debugging them much harder. I prefer single files with one shader inside, which also has the huge benefit that you do not need to recompile if you fiddle around with the shaders. Understanding a shader that consists of 2 files and some materials is also much easier than scanning multiple c++ files for code and material snippets.
But I know that many people actually prefer RTSS, so if there is a way to keep it, we should do that, IMO.
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The optimizer optimize the sub-functions (inlining) away + dead code removal which makes a huge difference on android.
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Hmm, doesn't sound like it could be harmful. So why not use it by default?
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Yeah but whe. I enable it 2-3 samples make the app freeze (i am not sure which instructions make the driver hang but it happens on all devices)
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Ah, yeah, forgot that, sorry.
Hmm...

So it's either debugging the optimizer or RTSS itself.
The first one does sound simpler to me, if there is a way to show (and debug) what the optimizer produces. Of course, if we cannot change what the optimizer produces, it wouldn't make any sense.
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