OSG port roadmap and design plans

[Lagahan]

Any updates on this over the past month or so?

[DanielCoffey]

Yes - the update in the News thread is that we are all waiting for the update.

It appears that scrawl has been suffering PC downtime - issues with his watercooling - and this is holding up the next OSG release.

[Lagahan]

Got my hands on a prebuild of the OSG port - holy balls it performs so much better, while looking much more accurate to boot. Crushing Balmora now

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The much improved framerate has had a side effect though, I noticed it on the Ogre port as well when inside but its really noticeable now that the game runs so smooth in general - everything judders/double images/vibrates very slightly while moving.
Would it be possible to interpolate the animations/movement between physics updates for very high framerates?

Its a very edge case issue, only made noticeable by the low persistence mode on my 144Hz monitor (happens on all games when they drop below 90 or so) but it would be a large blocker if Rift support were to be introduced down the line as it uses the same display tech to eliminate motion blur between frames and has the same judder/double imaging when framerates or physics updates are below refresh rate in games.

[jirka642]

@Lagahan do you think it's the same bug as https://bugs.openmw.org/issues/2737 ?

[Lagahan]

@Lagahan do you think it's the same bug as https://bugs.openmw.org/issues/2737 ?

Ah didn't know it was on the bugtracker already! Yeah that's the one, doesn't look quite as bad on my machine but its the same issue alright! Scrawls describing it as physics frame drops but when you're getting a minimum of 90fps, average of 120 you see it all the time since the camera position updates every frame but the physics only updates every 2 or so frames. Might try to catch it in some 120fps video if I can get it to record, then slow it down to half speed to show it.

Something to note is that it affects the player movement physics as well so the entire game world is vibrating slightly while moving, very off-putting. Elite Dangerous has the same issue funny enough, camera movement is smooth but the physics is only 60fps.
Definitely doesn't happen on vanilla Morrowind whenever I manage 120fps inside.

[Lagahan]

Got it recorded at 120fps and slowed part of the video down to half speed to show the jittering better - the physics will be at 30fps but the camera movement will be 60fps.
Have to watch on Chrome to get 1080p60 video: https://youtu.be/2J2hKuq-Q8A
Posted to the bugtracker bug #2737 as well.

[DestinedToDie]

Bumping because I keep going back to this thread for the initial post. It's a little outdated, but that shows all the more how far the OSG port has progressed.