Martin Gerhardy
just for easier debugging issues in the own code...
SDL_CreateRenderer should maybe also use this macro
Ryan C. Gordon
I'll go one better: it should have an SDL_assert().
UX-admin
I am compiling with the Sun Studio 12 u2 compiler. There are multiple issues with the build, but this particular issue appears to be that it is illegal to declare a union of a struct of floats and a float. While GCC 4.8.1 does not flag this as an error, Sun Studio is much more standards compliant and strict, halting further compilation with an error.
Simon Hug
The bug is in the GL_ResetState and GLES_ResetState functions which get called after a new GL context is created. These functions set the cached current color to transparent black, but the GL specification says the initial color is opaque white.
The attached patch changes the values to 0xffffffff to reflect the initial state of the current color. Should the ResetState functions get called anywhere else in the future, this probably has to call the GL functions itself to ensure that the colors match.
Littlefighter19
When trying to mirror something on the PSP, I've stumbled upon the problem,
that using SDL_RenderCopyEx with SDL_FLIP_HORIZONTAL flips the image vertically, vise-versa SDL_FLIP_VERTICAL flips the image horizontally.
Proposed patch would be swapping the check in line 944 with the one in line 948 in SDL_render_psp.c
Daniel
SDL_RenderReadPixels with SDL_RENDERER_SOFTWARE reads pixels from wrong coordinates.
SW_RenderReadPixels adjusts the rect coordinates according to the viewport. But since this is already done by SDL_RenderReadPixels, the final rect has x2 bigger X and Y.
Eric wing
Hi, I think I found a bug when using SDL_WINDOW_ALLOW_HIGHDPI with SDL_RenderSetLogicalSize on iOS. I use SDL_RenderSetLogicalSize for all my stuff. I just tried turning on SDL_WINDOW_ALLOW_HIGHDPI on iOS and suddenly all my touch/mouse positions are really broken/far-off-the-mark.
I actually don't have a real retina device (still) so I'm seeing this using the iOS simulator with a 6plus template.
Attached is a simple test program that can reproduce the problem. It uses RenderSetLogicalSize and draws some moving happy faces (to show the boundaries/space of the LogicalSize and that it is working correctly for that part).
When you click/touch, it will draw one more happy face where your button point is.
If you comment out SDL_WINDOW_ALLOW_HIGHDPI, everything works as expected. But if you compile with it in, the mouse coordinates seem really far off the mark. (Face appears far up and to the left.)
Alex Szpakowski on the mailing list suggests the problem is
"I believe this is a bug in SDL_Render?s platform-agnostic mouse coordinate scaling code. It assumes the units of the mouse coordinates are always in pixels, which isn?t the case where high-DPI is involved (regardless of whether iOS is used) ? they?re actually in ?DPI independent? coordinates (which matches the window size, but not the renderer output size)."
Additionally, if this is correct, the Mac under Retina is also probably affected too and "as well as any other platform SDL adds high-dpi support for in the future".
felix
The functions in src/render/SDL_yuv_mmx.c contain the following inline assembly snippet:
/* tap dance to workaround the inability to use %%ebx at will... */
/* move one thing to the stack... */
"pushl $0\n" /* save a slot on the stack. */
"pushl %%ebx\n" /* save %%ebx. */
"movl %0, %%ebx\n" /* put the thing in ebx. */
"movl %%ebx,4(%%esp)\n" /* put the thing in the stack slot. */
"popl %%ebx\n" /* get back %%ebx (the PIC register). */
Here's how it ended up in a binary on my old laptop:
0xb5c17dbd <ColorRGBDitherYV12MMX1X+93>: push $0x0
0xb5c17dbf <ColorRGBDitherYV12MMX1X+95>: push %ebx
0xb5c17dc0 <ColorRGBDitherYV12MMX1X+96>: mov 0xc(%esp),%ebx
0xb5c17dc4 <ColorRGBDitherYV12MMX1X+100>: mov %ebx,0x4(%esp)
0xb5c17dc8 <ColorRGBDitherYV12MMX1X+104>: pop %ebx
Apparently the compiler, oblivious to the fact that the assembly snippet manipulates the %esp register, decided to refer to the operand via that same register instead of via %ebp (I believe -fomit-frame-pointer enables this). This causes %ebx to be loaded with the wrong value, which later leads to a null pointer dereference.
Recent GCC can use the %ebx register normally: <https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47602#c16>. There is even an explicit constraint "b" for allocating it.
Tom Seddon
GL_ActivateRenderer may call GL_UpdateViewport, which leaves the GL_PROJECTION matrix selected. But after GL_ResetState, the GL_MODELVIEW matrix is selected, suggesting that's the intended default state.
It seems at least like these should be consistent. Presumably GL_UpdateViewport should be doing a glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW) before it finishes.
Richard Russell
Resuming from a suspended state results in a black screen. This only happens when using GLES 1.1 (GLES 2 resumes correctly) and when the render target has been changed using SDL_SetRenderTarget. This problem is new in 2.0.4.
The attached test case demonstrates the issue.
Sylvain Becker has apparently found a fix as follows:
"In the opengles leaf function (in 'src/render/opengles/SDL_render_gles.c'), it appears there is a call to 'GLES_ActivateRenderer' in 'GLES_SetRenderTarget', which is not present in opengles2. When commenting out this 'GLES_ActivateRenderer', it seems to resume fine".
This appears to fix the testcase perfectly, but I don't know whether it could have any undesirable side-effects.
felix
Here's a snippet of SDL_DestroyRenderer from hg revision 10746:7540ff5d0e0e:
SDL_Texture *texture = NULL;
SDL_Texture *nexttexture = NULL;
/* ... */
for (texture = renderer->textures; texture; texture = nexttexture) {
nexttexture = texture->next;
SDL_DestroyTexture(texture);
}
SDL_DestroyTexture removes the texture from the linked list pointed to by the renderer and ends up calling SDL_DestroyTextureInternal, which contains this:
if (texture->native) {
SDL_DestroyTexture(texture->native);
}
If it happens that texture->native is an alias of nexttexture two stack frames up, SDL_DestroyRenderer will end up trying to destroy an already freed texture. I've had this very situation happen in dosemu2.
Bug introduced in revision 10650:a8253d439914, which has a somewhat ironic description of "Fixed all known static analysis bugs"...
Simon Hug
The software renderer produces incorrect results when blending textures at an angle with certain blend modes. It seems that there were some edge cases that weren't considered when the SW_RenderCopyEx function was last changed. Or another bug possibly covered up the problem. (More on that in another bug report.)
Most of the issues come from the fact that the rotating function sets a black colorkey. This is problematic because black is most likely appearing in the surface and the final blit will ignore these pixels. Unless a colorkey is already set (the software renderer currently never sets one), it's very hard to find a free color. Of course it could scan over the whole image until one is found, but that seems inefficient.
The following blend modes have issues when drawn at an angle.
NONE: The black pixels get ignored, making them essentially transparent. This breaks the 'dstRGBA = srcRGBA' definition of the NONE blend mode.
MOD: Again, the black pixels get ignored. This also breaks the 'dstRGB = dstRGB * srcRGB' definition of the MOD blend mode, where black pixels would make the destination black as well. A white colorkey will work though, with some preparations.
BLEND: There are some issues when blending a texture with a translucent RGBA target texture. I - uh - forgot what the problem here exactly is.
This patch fixes the issues mentioned above. It mainly changes the code so it tries to do things without the colorkey and removes the automatic format conversion part from the SDLgfx_rotateSurface function. Getting the format right is something the caller has to do now and the required code has been added to the SW_RenderCopyEx function.
There's a small change to the SW_CreateTexture function. RLE encoding a surface with an alpha mask can be a lossy process. Depending on how the user uses the RGBA channels, this may be undesired. The change that surfaces with an alpha mask don't get encoded makes the software renderer consistent with the other renderers.
The SW_RenderCopyEx function now does these steps: Lock the source surface if necessary. Create a clone of the source by using the pixel buffer directly. Check the format and set a flag if a conversion is necessary. Check if scaling or cropping is necessary and set the flag for that as well. Check if color and alpha modulation has to be done before the rotate. Check if the source is an opaque surface. If not, it creates a mask surface that is necessary for the NONE blend mode. If any of the flags were set, a new surface is created and the source will be converted, scaled, cropped, and modulated. The rest of the function stays somewhat the same. The mask also needs to be rotated of course and then there is the NONE blend mode...
It's surprisingly hard to get the pixel from a rotated surface to the destination buffer without affecting the pixel outside the rotated area. I found a way to do this with three blits which is pretty hard on the performance. Perhaps someone has an idea how to do this faster?
As mentioned above, the SDLgfx_rotateSurface now only takes 8-bit paletted or 32-bit with alpha mask surfaces. It additionally sets the new surfaces up for the MOD blend mode.
I shortly tested the 8-bit path of SDLgfx_rotateSurface and it seemed to work so far. This path is not used by the software renderer anyway.
Sylvain 2016-11-07 08:49:34 UTC
when rotated +90 or -90, some transparent lines appears, though there is no Alpha or ColorKey.
if you set a dummy colorkey, it will remove the line ...
if you set a some alpha mod, the +90/-90 get transparent but not the 0/180 ...
Call SDL_GL_GetDrawableSize() directly because we may be in the initialization path and SDL_GetRendererOutputSize() will fail because the renderer magic isn't set up yet.
Daniel Gibson
Ok, I followed the simple approach of just making SDL_PIXELFORMAT_RGBA32 an alias of SDL_PIXELFORMAT_RGBA8888/SDL_PIXELFORMAT_ABGR8888, depending on endianess. And I did the same for SDL_PIXELFORMAT_ARGB32, .._BGRA, .._ABGR.
SDL_GetPixelFormatName() will of course return SDL_PIXELFORMAT_RGBA8888 (or SDL_PIXELFORMAT_ABGR8888) instead of SDL_PIXELFORMAT_RGBA32, but as long as that's mentioned in the docs it shouldn't be a problem.
D39 does not support negative viewport values which the current implementation relies on.
D3D11 does support negative viewport values so that will continue working.
Refer to Bug 2799.
Adam M.
When doing a rotated texture copy with the software renderer, where the angle is a multiple of 90 degrees, one or two edges of the image get cut off. This is because of the following line in sw_rotate.c:
if ((unsigned)dx < (unsigned)sw && (unsigned)dy < (unsigned)sh) {
which is effectively saying:
if (dx >= 0 && dx < src->w-1 && dy >= 0 && dy < src->h-1) {
As a result, it doesn't process pixels in the right column or bottom row of the source image (except when they're accessed as part of the bilinear filtering for nearby pixels). This causes it to look like the edges are cut off, and it's especially obvious with an exact multiple of 90 degrees.
Nitz
In function SDLgfx_rotateSurface:
rz_dst =
SDL_CreateRGBSurface(SDL_SWSURFACE, dstwidth, dstheight + GUARD_ROWS,
rz_src->format->Rmask, rz_src->format->Gmask,
rz_src->format->Bmask, rz_src->format->Amask);
Here rz_src get De-referenced without NULL check, which is risky.
Daniel
Seems like check of the visibility of renderer (renderer->hidden) is missing in SDL_RenderCopyEx.
In SDL_RenderCopy it should be done much earlier (after checking support for RenderCopyEx, line 1750).
Yann Dirson
When attempting to force use of opengles2 renderer with:
int wanted_renderer = -1;
for (int i = 0; i < numrenderers; i++) {
SDL_RendererInfo renderer_info;
if (SDL_GetRenderDriverInfo(i, &renderer_info) != 0) {
SDL_LogError(SDL_LOG_CATEGORY_APPLICATION, "Couldn't get renderer driver info: %s\n",
SDL_GetError());
quit(2);
}
std::cerr << "Renderer " << i << " '" << renderer_info.name << "': flags=0x"
<< std::hex << renderer_info.flags << std::dec
<< ", " << renderer_info.num_texture_formats << " texture formats, max="
<< renderer_info.max_texture_width << "x"
<< renderer_info.max_texture_height << "\n";
if (!strcmp(renderer_info.name, "opengles2")) {
std::cerr << " selecting!\n";
wanted_renderer = i;
}
}
renderer = SDL_CreateRenderer(window, wanted_renderer, 0);
... on banana pi or raspberry pi I get an error like the following (the actual
context profile value varies, being used uninitialized)
ERROR: Couldn't create renderer: Unknown OpenGL context profile 900
With this patch I get the following, which should help more pointing to a real problem:
ERROR: Couldn't create renderer: Failed getting OpenGL glGetString entry point
I pushed a patch (based on master branch of unofficial git mirror):
550389c89f
I'll be opening a different bug for the underlying issue.
ny00
Using the OpenGL ES 1.1 renderer, after updating a texture with SDL_UpdateTexture (or SDL_UnlockTexture), a following call to SDL_RenderFillRect draws a rectangle with the wrong color (which appears to be the same as the texture's top-left pixel).
Comparing SDL_render_gles.c:GLES_UpdateTexture to SDL_render_gl.c:GL_UpdateTexture, a missing call to glDisable appears to be the cause. After adding it back, the bug is resolved.
Simon Hug
The description of the SDL_RenderClear function in the SDL_render.h header says the following:
"This function clears the entire rendering target, ignoring the viewport."
The word "entire" implies that the clipping rectangle set with SDL_RenderSetClipRect also gets ignored. This is left somewhat ambiguous if only the viewport is mentioned. Minor thing, but let's see what the implementations actually do.
The software renderer ignores the clipping rectangle when clearing. It even has a comment on this: /* By definition the clear ignores the clip rect */
Most other render drivers (opengl, opengles, opengles2, direct3d, and psp [I assume. Can't test it.]) use the scissor test for the ClipRect and don't disable it when clearing. Clearing will only happen within the clipping rectangle for these drivers.
An exception is direct3d11 which uses a clear function that ignores the scissor test.
Simon Hug
When updating the viewport in GLES_UpdateViewport, the OpenGL ES renderer doesn't flip the projection matrix for target textures. The lines, rectangles and textures (if drawn with glDrawArrays) are upside down when drawing to target textures.
Simon Hug
The OpenGL ES 2 renderer does not check the target texture format when using SDL_RenderReadPixels and just always uses ABGR8888. This can result in swapped or wrong colors.
The attached patch adds a check and selects the target texture format, if a texture is set as the target.
Simon Hug
All OpenGL renderers always flip the rows of the pixels that come from glReadPixels. This is unnecessary for target textures since these are already top down.
Also, the rect->y value can be used directly for target textures for the same reason. I don't see any code that would handle the logical render size for target textures. Or am I missing something?
The attached patch makes the renderers only the flip rows if the data comes from the default framebuffer.
Simon Hug
The GL_SetBlendMode and GLES_SetBlendMode functions of the opengl and opengles renderers call the glTexEnvf to set the texture env mode to either GL_MODULATE (the default) or GL_REPLACE for the NONE blend mode. Using GL_REPLACE disables color and alpha modulation for textures.
These glTexEnv calls were put in the SetBlendMode function back in 2006 [1], but there the NONE code still used the GL_DECAL mode. The GL_REPLACE mode came in 2008 [2]. I'm a bit confused why that wasn't always GL_MODULATE and a bit surprised nobody reported that yet (unless I missed it). I guess only a few use the gles renderer and the newish shaders mask the issue.
Simon Hug
The GL_CreateTexture function doesn't have any checks for the case where the driver doesn't support the framebuffer object extension. It will call into GL_GetFBO which will call the non-existent glGenFramebuffersEXT.
Also, for some reason GL_CreateContext always sets the SDL_RENDERER_TARGETTEXTURE info flag, even if it is not supported. Changeset cc226dce7536 [1] makes this change, but doesn't explain why. It seems to me like the code would already have taken care of this [2].
The attached patch adds some checks and stops SDL from reporting render target support if there is none. The application can then properly inform the user instead of just crashing.
Simon Hug
It seems not everyone implemented glDrawTexfOES the same. Intel and Mesa ignore the viewport entirely, whereas the Raspberry Pi implementation offsets the coordinates and does viewport clipping.
The glDrawTexfOES extension text [1] for the function says "Xs and Ys are given directly in window (viewport) coordinates." I guess this wasn't clear enough.
Alex Szpakowski
Honestly I'd probably remove that codepath from SDL_Render entirely. It's an OpenGL ES 1-specific extension that isn't likely to give huge performance gains and adds additional maintenance overhead to SDL_Render while also having bugs in some drivers (as seen here).
Kai Sterker
There are already patches available from mingw64 that fix the issue
https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-SDL2
With those applied, I could compile SDL2 without problems. But of course, it would be preferable if SDL built cleanly from source.
The Apple TV remote is currently exposed as a joystick with its touch surface treated as two axes. Key presses are also generated when its buttons and touch surface are used.
A new hint has been added to help deal with deciding whether to background the app when the remote's menu button is pressed: SDL_HINT_APPLE_TV_CONTROLLER_UI_EVENTS.
Adam M.
When setting a texture alpha mod other than 255 and also specifying a flip mode in the software renderer, the rendering fails. When the texture has an alpha channel, it becomes invisible when flipped. When the texture does not have an alpha channel, it is flipped but the colors are wrong: the alpha mod makes the texture darker rather than more translucent.
0) Initialize a software renderer.
1) Load 16-bit 565 or 32-bit texture.
2) Set texture blend mode to BLEND.
3) Set texture alpha mod to 150.
4) Draw the texture flipped horizontally and/or vertically.
Adam M.
There are three problems in the code that I see.
1. SW_RenderCopyEx enables a color key on surface_scaled even if the source surface didn't have a color key.
2. SW_RenderCopyEx doesn't copy blend mode, color mod, or alpha mod from src to surface_scaled.
3. When SDL_BlitScaled(src, srcrect, surface_scaled, &tmp_rect) is called, it blends the src pixels into surface_scaled instead of overwriting them (if src has blending, etc. enabled).
I've attached a patch that 1) fixes the three problems that I mentioned, 2) adds the requested performance improvement of using the regular blit function if no rotation or flipping is needed, 3) avoids cloning the source surface if no stretching is required, and simplifies the rotation code slightly.
Simon Deschenes
My build system still shows warning as errors.
The first warning says that the member named instances can never be false (or NULL) as it is a static array, and we should check for instances[index] which we do anyway.
Roberto
I have debugged the code checking the function calls when Direct3D is the renderer, remember that with software and OpenGL renderers, this issue is not happening.
- Create the texture:
SDL_Texture *pTex = SDL_CreateTexture(pRenderer, iFormat, SDL_TEXTUREACCESS_TARGET, pSurf->w, pSurf->h);
- Update the texture:
SDL_UpdateTexture(pTex, NULL, pSurf->pixels, pSurf->pitch);
SDL_render.c, SDL_UpdateTexture(): return renderer->UpdateTexture(renderer, texture, rect, pixels, pitch);
SDL_render_d3d.c, D3D_UpdateTexture(): if (D3D_UpdateTextureRep(data->device, &texturedata->texture, texture->format, rect->x, rect->y, rect->w, rect->h, pixels, pitch) < 0) {
SDL_render_d3d.c, D3D_UpdateTextureRep(): if (D3D_CreateStagingTexture(device, texture) < 0) {
SDL_render_d3d.c, D3D_CreateStagingTexture(): result = IDirect3DDevice9_CreateTexture(..., D3DPOOL_SYSTEMMEM, ...) --> FAIL! with INVALIDCALL code
After checking a bit the Microsoft documentation, I found this:
D3DUSAGE_RENDERTARGET can only be used with D3DPOOL_DEFAULT. (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb172625%28v=vs.85%29.aspx)
The call that fails, is using D3DUSAGE_RENDERTARGET with D3DPOOL_SYSTEMMEM which is unsupported, hence the INVALIDCALL return code.
Andreas Ragnerstam
I have two windows where one has a renderer where the logical size has been changed with SDL_RenderSetLogicalSize. When I get SDL_MOUSEMOTION events belonging to the non-scaled window these will have been scaled with the factor of the scaled window, which is not expected.
Adding some printf debugging to SDL_RendererEventWatch of SDL_render.c, where (event->type == SDL_MOUSEMOTION), I found that for every mouse motion SDL_RendererEventWatch is called twice and the event->motion.x and event.motion.y are set twice for the event, once for each renderer where only the last one set will be saved to the event struct. This will work fine if both renderers have the same scale, but otherwise the motion coordinates will be scaled for the renderer belonging to another window than the mouse was moved in.
I guess one solution would be to check that window == renderer->window for SDL_MOUSEMOTION events, similar to what is done for when SDL_WINDOWEVENT events.
I get the same error on both X11 and Windows.
The same problem also exists for SDL_MOUSEBUTTONDOWN and SDL_MOUSEBUTTONUP events.
"UWP" appears to be Microsoft's new name for WinRT/Windows-Store APIs.
This set of changes updates SDL's WinRT backends to support the Win10 flavor
of WinRT. It has been tested on Win10 on a desktop. In theory, it should
also support Win10 on other devices (phone, Xbox One, etc.), however further
patches may be necessary.
This adds:
- a set of MSVC 2015 project files, for use in creating UWP apps
- modifications to various pieces of SDL, in order to compile via MSVC 2015 +
the Win10 API set
- enables SDL_Window resizing and programmatic-fullscreen toggling, when using
the WinRT backend
- WinRT README updates
This change-set fixes a lot of windowing related bugs, especially with
regards to Windows 8.x apps running on Windows 10 (which was the driver for
this work). The primary fixes include:
* listed display modes were wrong, especially when launching apps into a
non-fullscreen space
* reported window flags were often wrong, especially on Windows 10
* fullscreen/windowed mode switches weren't failing (they are not
programmatically possible in Win 8.x apps).
The internal function SDL_EGL_LoadLibrary() did not delete and remove a mostly
uninitialized data structure if loading the library first failed. A later try to
use EGL then skipped initialization and assumed it was previously successful
because the data structure now already existed. This led to at least one crash
in the internal function SDL_EGL_ChooseConfig() because a NULL pointer was
dereferenced to make a call to eglBindAPI().
Windows Phone does not appear to allow VSync to be turned off. Doing so appears
to either result in content not getting drawn (when the D3D debug runtime is
turned off), or forcing VSync back on and logging an error (when the D3D debug
runtime is turned on).
VSync had been getting turned on anyways, this change just notes such:
- via the WinRT README
- by always setting the SDL_RENDERER_PRESENTVSYNC flag when creating an
SDL_Renderer on Windows Phone
Jonas Kulla
The configure script didn't differentiate between Linux and Android, unconditionally compiling in the unix implementation of SDL_sysfilesystem.c.
I'm probably one of the very few people building SDL for android using classic configure + standalone toolchain, so this has gone undetected all along.
With this commit, you can compile SDL2 with Emscripten
( http://emscripten.org/ ), and make your SDL-based C/C++ program
into a web app.
This port was due to the efforts of several people, including: Charlie Birks,
Sathyanarayanan Gunasekaran, Jukka Jyl?nki, Alon Zakai, Edward Rudd,
Bruce Mitchener, and Martin Gerhardy. (Thanks, everyone!)
The expected use case is for games that are designed with multiple aspect ratios already in mind and leave optional margins on the edges of the game which won't hurt if they are cut off.
An example use case is a game is designed for wide-screen/16:9, but then wants to deploy on an iPad which is 4:3. Normally, SDL will letterbox, which will shrink things and result in wasted space. But the designer already thought about 4:3 and designed the edges of the game so they could be cut off without any functional loss. So rather than wasting space with letterboxing, "overscan" mode will zoom the rendering to fill up the entire screen. Parts on the edges will be drawn offscreen, but since the game was already designed with this in mind, it is fine. The end result is the iPad (4:3) experience is much better since it feels like a game designed for that screen aspect ratio.
This patch introduces a new SDL_hint: SDL_HINT_RENDER_LOGICAL_SIZE_MODE.
Valid values are "letterbox" or "0" for letterboxing and "overscan" or "1" for overscan.
The default mode is letterbox to preserve existing behavior.
// Example usage:
SDL_SetHint(SDL_HINT_RENDER_LOGICAL_SIZE_MODE, "overscan");
SDL_RenderSetLogicalSize(renderer, SCREEN_WIDTH, SCREEN_HEIGHT);
WinRT apps can set a default, preferred orientation via a .appxmanifest file.
SDL was overriding this on app startup, and making the app use all possible
orientations (landscape and portrait).
Thanks to Eric Wing for the heads up on this!
Attributes on the host device's rotation were getting applied to offscreen
textures in an invalid manner. This was causing some apps to look different,
depending on how the device was rotated.
since the window system doesn't do it for us like other platforms.
This prevents sticky keys and missed keys when going in and out
of focus, for example Alt would appear to stick if switching away
from an SDL app with Alt-Tab and had to be pressed again.
CR: Sam
An existing hint lets apps that don't need the timer resolution changed avoid
this, to save battery, etc, but this fixes several problems in timing, audio
callbacks not firing fast enough, etc.
Fixes Bugzilla #2944.
Ozkan Sezer
Sam Lantinga
Philipp Wiesemann
Ryan C. Gordon
David Ludwig
Steffen Pankratz
Eric Wing
Alex Szpakowski
Ethan Lee
Pierre-Loup A. Griffais