Can we kill the "Disable stencil test" option?

[hrydgard]

Now that Star Ocean has been fixed with @unknownbrackets clever stencil tricks, does anyone still have any use for these hacks?

[brujo5]

saint seiya omega still needed Always depth write for opengl 2.0 devices,no?

[hrydgard]

Ah right, forgot about that one. How about stencil?

[brujo5]

in my iphone 5S didn't use Disable stencil test for any game.

[psennermann]

I've never had a benefit of using it (Android and Windows)

[thedax]

I've never seen any speed improvements nor other improvements from them, with neither my Tegra 2 tablet, nor my desktop PC.

[hrydgard]

These two are not for speed, they're just very specific game workarounds.

I think Stencil only ever helped Star Ocean so that one should be completely obsolete now.

[unknownbrackets]

Well, a super long time ago it helped FF4 also I think. Anyway, we've largely solved most stencil issues by now.

-[Unknown]

[thedax]

Hence why I said "nor other improvements". Anyway, I'd say give this about 24-48 hours for people to reply, perhaps?

[daniel229]

Disable stencil test helps this one.
#5278

[thedax]

Since we've only received one reply with one game that it helps, I think it's safe to kill the Stencil option, and try to resolve the issue that #5278 has. Opinions?

[kliniki-online]

There is also #6265

[unknownbrackets]

Note: depth write option is gone now.

-[Unknown]

[hrydgard]

Thanks. 5278 mentioned above is solve, so only #6265 remains?

[unknownbrackets]

I think so. IIRC it's either a mixed fb format issue or a rgb bitmasking issue or something...

-[Unknown]

[gahu777]

i used it for silent hillon android. With disabled stencil test game runs with 60 fps, when i switch to newest ppsspp version i cant get silent hill player flashlight

[spinktvis]

+1
Silent Hill flashlight bugged.
See from page 9 and towards:
http://forums.ppsspp.org/showthread.php?tid=1127

[adventureFAN]

+1
Please activate this option or fix the flashlight bug in Silent Hill Origins.