improving usability of the fullscreen-mode (suggestions are welcome) about punes HOT 14 CLOSED

HI Eugene, another retro-laptop??? 😄

Or maybe, instead of RMB, show the menu only when the mouse cursor is at the top of the screen?
[mesen-like behavior, work only at non-exclusive fullscreen on current build]
This way user can operate settings/rom loading/etc much more faster/more comfortable, i guess.

I really like this idea. Do you have a chance to test this patch? Or do you prefer a compiled version for windows?
punes_open_menubar_with_mouse.patch

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Change "Toggle the Menu Bar in fullscreen" shortcut from default "Alt+M" to something like "Esc"

I like this too.

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Yep, i have an acer-1830t now for a very low-price, and it good enough for "shit-testing" (performance drops/old OSes/еtс).
It can run even winXP if needed, but i installed win7 and will install linux also. Right now, it doesn't have MSVC/MinGW but i will do it soon.
If you can do d3d9-x64 build i can test it right now

Another good stuff, i added custom refresh rate support using CRU-1.5.2 (display EDID override editor) so it have full 50Hz support now. So, PAL is smooth too, as well, as NTSC. puNES refresh rate switcher works good.

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Also i've found a small bug, and can replicate it on win7 and win10, both intel and nvidia, different hardware.

• set FPS-meter OSD (or lag counter, or something like this at bottom) visible
• run game, set fullscreen
• being fullscreen, load another game via menubar.
• you'll see OSD display moved-off under the bottom of the screen
• hide menubar.
• you'll see slightly distorted game picture. The OSD display still moved-off under the bottom of the screen.
• press your shortcut to enter windowed mode, then go fullscreen again -> bug is gone.

Can you reproduce it?

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punes D3D9 32bit.

As for the bug, I can reproduce it (except for the slightly distorted image), I noticed that it only happens under windows. I'll try to understand why.

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Ok, I've updated the punes D3D9 32bit, I think I've fixed the bug.

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Change "Toggle the Menu Bar in fullscreen" shortcut from default "Alt+M" to something like "Esc"

Updated again punes D3D9 32bit.

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Thank you. It works like a charm (i5-2500s/intelHD/win10). Much more comfortable now. I will test it on all my machines too

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How to know maximum puNES FPS unthrottled?
(it' useful thing for testing performance between machines, or speed regressions between builds)

I see strange FPS-meter behavior (maybe bug, maybe not):

• set FPS-meter ON
• set NTSC
• press toggle fast forward (or hold it manually)
• FPS-meter still shows 60 FPS and no more.
• set PAL or Dendy
• press toggle fast forward (or hold it manually)
• FPS-meter shows 32 FPS. Also strange.

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Re-tested lastest commit on Nvidia modern machine. All works good too. Thank you!

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I see strange FPS-meter behavior (maybe bug, maybe not):

It's not a bug, the fps you see indicates the graphic frames (which are not the emulator frames), which I also need in the debug environment but it is right to show the PPU frames.

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Try with d27fefc.

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Works very well and stable, it's much clearer now.
Thank you Fabio. That was really interesting.
It's nice to reminisce about the old days of intensive emulator testing.

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We were both younger 👦

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