[android, tu] Adjusted PoD of Vertex/ Buffers for older turnip drivers (#3621)

This PR aims to return an older way to bind and host vertex/ buffers (via toggle), which had a bunch of indirection and added unnecessary overhead during the drawing phase; current new approach adds just PoD for this operations, which seems to not be acceptable for older turnip drivers.

Meanwhile the performance improvements are gonna be enabled only if the toggle is turned on, it will be required to use newer turnip drivers to make it work (26.0+), default behavior will allow older drivers work as intended.

Reviewed-on: https://git.eden-emu.dev/eden-emu/eden/pulls/3621
Reviewed-by: CamilleLaVey <camillelavey99@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: PavelBARABANOV <pavelbarabanov94@gmail.com>
Co-committed-by: PavelBARABANOV <pavelbarabanov94@gmail.com>

4 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/android/app/src/main/java/org/yuzu/yuzu_emu/features/settings/model/BooleanSetting.kt b/src/android/app/src/main/java/org/yuzu/yuzu_emu/features/settings/model/BooleanSetting.kt
index 744c8acae9..2418003904 100644
--- a/src/android/app/src/main/java/org/yuzu/yuzu_emu/features/settings/model/BooleanSetting.kt
+++ b/src/android/app/src/main/java/org/yuzu/yuzu_emu/features/settings/model/BooleanSetting.kt
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ enum class BooleanSetting(override val key: String) : AbstractBooleanSetting {
     RENDERER_ASYNCHRONOUS_SHADERS("use_asynchronous_shaders"),
     RENDERER_REACTIVE_FLUSHING("use_reactive_flushing"),
     ENABLE_BUFFER_HISTORY("enable_buffer_history"),
+    USE_OPTIMIZED_VERTEX_BUFFERS("use_optimized_vertex_buffers"),
     SYNC_MEMORY_OPERATIONS("sync_memory_operations"),
     BUFFER_REORDER_DISABLE("disable_buffer_reorder"),
     RENDERER_DEBUG("debug"),
diff --git a/src/android/app/src/main/java/org/yuzu/yuzu_emu/features/settings/model/view/SettingsItem.kt b/src/android/app/src/main/java/org/yuzu/yuzu_emu/features/settings/model/view/SettingsItem.kt
index 7f212e2cca..a8bd44983b 100644
--- a/src/android/app/src/main/java/org/yuzu/yuzu_emu/features/settings/model/view/SettingsItem.kt
+++ b/src/android/app/src/main/java/org/yuzu/yuzu_emu/features/settings/model/view/SettingsItem.kt
@@ -797,6 +797,13 @@ abstract class SettingsItem(
             )
             put(
                 SwitchSetting(
+                    BooleanSetting.USE_OPTIMIZED_VERTEX_BUFFERS,
+                    titleId = R.string.use_optimized_vertex_buffers,
+                    descriptionId = R.string.use_optimized_vertex_buffers_description
+                )
+            )
+            put(
+                SwitchSetting(
                     BooleanSetting.SYNC_MEMORY_OPERATIONS,
                     titleId = R.string.sync_memory_operations,
                     descriptionId = R.string.sync_memory_operations_description
diff --git a/src/android/app/src/main/java/org/yuzu/yuzu_emu/features/settings/ui/SettingsFragmentPresenter.kt b/src/android/app/src/main/java/org/yuzu/yuzu_emu/features/settings/ui/SettingsFragmentPresenter.kt
index 8f3c28c7a8..332617804e 100644
--- a/src/android/app/src/main/java/org/yuzu/yuzu_emu/features/settings/ui/SettingsFragmentPresenter.kt
+++ b/src/android/app/src/main/java/org/yuzu/yuzu_emu/features/settings/ui/SettingsFragmentPresenter.kt
@@ -278,6 +278,7 @@ class SettingsFragmentPresenter(
             add(BooleanSetting.RENDERER_FORCE_MAX_CLOCK.key)
             add(BooleanSetting.RENDERER_REACTIVE_FLUSHING.key)
             add(BooleanSetting.ENABLE_BUFFER_HISTORY.key)
+            add(BooleanSetting.USE_OPTIMIZED_VERTEX_BUFFERS.key)
 
             add(HeaderSetting(R.string.hacks))
 
diff --git a/src/android/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml b/src/android/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml
index a34d75d7cb..fc1334863d 100644
--- a/src/android/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml
+++ b/src/android/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml
@@ -500,7 +500,8 @@
     <string name="renderer_reactive_flushing_description">Improves rendering accuracy in some games at the cost of performance.</string>
     <string name="enable_buffer_history">Enable buffer history</string>
     <string name="enable_buffer_history_description">Enables access to previous buffer states. This option may improve rendering quality and performance consistency in some games.</string>
-
+    <string name="use_optimized_vertex_buffers">Optimized Vertex Buffers</string>
+    <string name="use_optimized_vertex_buffers_description">Enables optimized vertex buffer binding for improved performance. Requires Mesa 26.0+ Turnip drivers. Will crash on older drivers.</string>
 
     <string name="hacks">Hacks</string>