SWTOR on Mac 0.0.6-dev.3 (development build)

SWTOR on Mac 0.0.6-dev.3 (development build)

A test build of the next version, for measuring before a release. It is not offered as an
update; install it by hand. The next public version (0.0.6) is offered over it as usual.

What's fixed since 0.0.6-dev.2 (d9mt 9d23889, branch dev):

• SWTOR no longer hangs at a black screen at startup with Debug Logging on. dev.2's new
  re-clear attribution (the RESTORE lines) had d9mt record a command each time the game
  locked a texture. SWTOR does that from its texture streaming threads as well, at the same
  time as it renders, so two threads wrote into d9mt's command queue at once. A d9mt thread
  then crashed, and the game sat at a black screen. With Debug Logging off, that code never
  ran. d9mt now records nothing for those locks. A new test that streams textures from a second
  thread while presenting frames, with Debug Logging's settings, hung dev.2 every time and
  passes with this build.

What's new:

• With Debug Logging, the once-a-second STATS line also has attMs (the render thread's CPU
  time in the attachment load/store optimization, ms per second), clrFold and clrPass
  (clears per frame that were folded into the next pass, or needed a pass of their own).
  session-report.sh sums them up. Together with the compile waits, they show whether stutter
  comes from that optimization or from shaders being compiled (a cold shader cache).
• To compare with the optimization off, put no_attach_opt on its own line in
  ~/Library/Application Support/SWTOR on Mac/prefix/drive_c/d9mt/flags.txt while the game
  runs (Debug Logging on), and remove the line to turn it back on.

The rest is as in 0.0.6-dev.2. The shader cache stays warm: the winemetal bridge is the same
as in 0.0.5.

Development build:

• A Development build badge in the window and in About.

• Debug Logging is on by default. It costs a little performance; turn it off in Settings if
  you like.

• No automatic update checks. Check for Updates… works.

• session-report.sh (in the app's Resources, also in Collect Logs) sums up a session and
  compares two:

  R="/Applications/SWTOR on Mac.app/Contents/Resources"
  "$R/session-report.sh" --keep              # the last session, and keep a copy of its log
  "$R/session-report.sh" --compare A.log B.log
  

To install: quit SWTOR, copy the app from the DMG over the one in Applications, open it, and
click Update to 0.0.6-dev.3 (Reinstall).

Support

SWTOR on Mac is an unofficial project, not made, endorsed or supported by Broadsword Games, EA,
Lucasfilm or Disney, and you use it at your own risk. Please send questions and bug reports to
Pharaphobia on Discord or as a GitHub issue,
never to Broadsword or SWTOR customer support.