Hi, I'm a developer of the dolphin emulator. We have asked for EXT_buffer_storage support for over three years now, and we were told that you are working on it: https://community.arm.com/graphics/f/discussions/4645/gl_ext_buffer_storage-support/16161
As you still don't support *any* way to stream dynamic content, the performance is still terrible and we're discourage everyone to buy a Mali product: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/6403
Meanwhile, as we doubt that you ever wanted to implement this extension, we started to get more noisy and to make the blame more clear: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/commit/d4449971c949ddd988a0d615b42e17ff2f6202ef
Here, we are going to show a big warning on every boot on every Mali device: "Your OpenGL driver does not support EXT_buffer_storage. This device's performance will be terrible. Please ask your device vendor for an updated OpenGL driver."
So, can you recormend us a way to continue? You may of course repeat yourself like in https://community.arm.com/graphics/f/discussions/6365/buffer_storage-implementation and https://community.arm.com/graphics/f/discussions/8020/what-is-the-status-of-buffer_storage (2 and 1 years ago), but this won't help. Or do you want us to add an overlay like "You've bought this ***, your fault." ? I just ran out of ideas :/
I'm sorry for whoever is reading this text, I know it isn't your fault. But might you ask two levels higher if they are actually working on buffer_storage?
Thanks, degasus
I feel your pain ... I asked the driver team, and some good news, it was actually implemented a month or so ago in the driver. Not sure when that driver will ship in actual devices, but something has happened at least. :(
For working unsync streaming to GPU memory right now, it might be worthwhile to test your Vulkan backend.
Is there any further update to this, as per your message this was implemented almost 7 months ago.
Could you please also advise when existing device users will have access to the new driver that addresses the buffer storage issue?
Thank you
Driver updates for specific chipsets and/or consumer devices are out of our control. Update information will need to come from the device manufacturer.
Cheers, Pete