c.f. H'uru commits:
> commit e4e718e243
> Author: Adam Johnson <AdamJohnso@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri Feb 1 17:19:50 2013 -0500
>
> Bypass ATI Generic fudging with Radeon HD cards
> commit bbae6a76d7
> Author: Adam Johnson <AdamJohnso@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat Nov 30 20:02:08 2013 -0500
>
> We don't support 3dfx cards...
>
> Come on, man... They made some good cards, but they went out of business
> in 1999! Ain't nobody got time fo' dat.
> commit a30a326d17
> Author: Adam Johnson <AdamJohnso@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat Nov 30 20:06:19 2013 -0500
>
> We only support DirectX 9...
>
> If you have less than 11MB VRAM or need to use the ref implementation,
> then you are using a dinosaur and have no business even attempting to play
> this game.
> commit 544abef39e
> Author: Adam Johnson <AdamJohnso@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat Nov 30 20:41:56 2013 -0500
>
> Wow, those cards are old...
>
> Remove detection for cards that are don't support at LEAST DirectX 8.
> There's no way they would even be able to get past Direct3DCreate9, so we
> shouldn't need to worry about them... I hope.
> commit 9070d70e50
> Author: Branan Purvine-Riley <branan@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat Jul 27 14:50:20 2013 -0700
>
> Lots of cleanups to hsG3DeviceDelector
> commit ac23835384
> Author: Branan Purvine-Riley <branan@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat Jul 27 15:09:24 2013 -0700
>
> Get rid of obsolete readers/writes for device info
> commit fc67738ee8
> Author: Branan Purvine-Riley <branan@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat Jul 27 15:50:10 2013 -0700
>
> Remove some obviously obsolete caps
> commit 60c544e1ff
> Author: Adam Johnson <AdamJohnso@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri Nov 29 23:42:20 2013 -0500
>
> Don't lazy-load D3D9.dll
>
> We already link against it, so that's just a waste of time. Also, cleanup
> some unneeded ddraw includes. Remember that in Direct3D9, all devices can
> render in windowed mode.
The "wait for server response" return value was short-circuiting the
"already done" value. The previous commit fixed always needing a new
instance, exposing this problem.
H'Uru PR #719 commit log:
commit 5f53b86494605c484c0b304e0a5ab15a07929106
Author: Adam Johnson <AdamJohnso@gmail.com>
Date: Fri Sep 4 07:38:15 2020 -0400
Fix an infinite loop in plDXPipeline.
This was observed in a 2x2 DXT1 mipmap produced by Korman. While Korman
should probably force such a thing to be uncompressed, the pipeline
should also not be able to enter such an obviously invalid state.
M Sources/Plasma/PubUtilLib/plPipeline/DX/plDXPipeline.cpp
Per testing on Minkata, suppressing callbacks during all vault downloads
has a deleterious effect on imagers. While my high level assumption is
correct, vault downloads can encompass situations where we want
notifications (eg re-downloading imager inbox folders, new age info
vault fragments). Whoops!
On MOULa, there have been complaints about linking to some Neighborhoods
and activating some players taking a very long time. One of these
Neighborhoods in particular is the "DRC(67) Bevin". When I attempted to
link to this Age, I found the link took approximately 85 seconds each
time. On profiling, I discovered that for every node downloaded during
the initialization phase, we were calling into Python at least once.
Suppressing vault callbacks during times when they are obviously going
to storm and be useless decreases the link time to 7 seconds.
H-uru:
From f45679a54f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Johnson <AdamJohnso@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:35:05 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Make pyVault::AddChronicleEntry a blocking operation to avoid
a race condition
