[Scummvm-devel] Bitdepth/pixel format API concerns

[Marcus Comstedt]

Bertrand Augereau <bertrand_augereau at yahoo.fr> writes:

> I don't know the details of DC rendering, I was doing PS2 rendering at the time the Dreamwast was alive and kicking, but surely the backend has to update texture memory with the content of the gfx frame, with a format supported by the PowerVR. 

Yes.  And it's pretty cheap for me to do format conversions on the
fly while I upload the data, since there are no extra memory cycles
involved.  Currently I convert CLUT8 to RGB565 this way, and that
even involves memory reads for each pixel.


  // Marcus