Split GPU upload batches at 128 MiB and retire overflow and CPU staging when the upload completes, rather than retaining it until the main rendering fence. Scope weak-reference diagnostics to avoid temporary staging retention.
Add a real-Metal regression covering memory bounds, upload pixels and an open render pass in direct and deferred encoding modes. Both modes pass 261 checks; documentation checks and the TotK host build pass.
Refs #147. Reporter-device validation and the full-device reboot investigation remain open.
Apply the generalized image-atomic bounds and backing checks from PR #178.
Also reject unsupported descriptor formats before integer fallback and fail
unresolved bindless atomics instead of silently deleting them. Rebuild the
translator and record chain 467efdfd0b62, with regression tests and findings.
Validation: compiler/helper and sanitizer tests, 96 Metal compile/link checks,
ten GPU probes, all 28,603 Z-A shaders for Mac and iPhone, and a 240-second
Mac station-area run reaching 6,987 frames without a freeze or GPU fault.
Reported iPhone cases and the station-to-world transition remain unverified.
Co-authored-by: b4f8abbb24dbf56a7d0280f296e16eeb <51352400+b4f8abbb24dbf56a7d0280f296e16eeb@users.noreply.github.com>
Support PKZ v1 archives and advertise the translator's GPU-code range independently of SDK version. Register the 1.0.1 profile, shader tables, regression checks and Mac bring-up findings. Retain 30 fps; document the unshipped 60 fps experiment and outstanding iPhone validation.
Integrate the present snapshots and frame-step work from #87 together with
the encode-thread support and wait ledger from #157. Keep snapshots off
by default on both platforms pending wider device validation.
Offer Frame buffering in the iOS launcher for NVN builds. The existing
launcher remembers the choice and preserves env.txt overrides. Pass the
packer's detected graphics API to the settings generator.
Wait for snapshot capacity at acquire; a present reaching a busy slot
falls back to its original texture ticket. Drain snapshot commits and GPU
completion during suspend even when display tickets were discarded.
Regression tests cover both waits, fallback tickets and copied pixels.
Validated on M4 Pro: full gfx run list, 38 snapshot lifecycle checks,
219 checks with encoding and snapshots enabled, Mac host build, 133-file
iOS compile check, and eight launcher/docs/packing tests. The host unit
suite cannot link t_heap_size because dm_ue_heap_owns is missing, reproduced
on unchanged main cbbb600. No iPhone runtime performance claim.
Co-authored-by: v0lumehi <aljic.zijad@gmail.com>
The profile is the NSP script's provisional one with tex_flush_upload and tex_dirty_upload: RE Engine writes its UI textures (ASTC) into CPU-visible pools in place, as Monster Hunter Rise does, and without both keys the language screen's background and buttons were magenta (with tex_flush_upload alone they still were). 7,744 shaders from the PAK's SDF definitions and main; 7,739 build. The other 5 are compute shaders with atomics on a 3D image, which SPIRV-Cross indexes with an int3, as Octopath Traveler 0's 16; none was requested on the routes below. PR #138 (Nishikori-Yui) built them by flattening the coordinate in dmsh_build.py, a chain change that would rebuild every game's libraries, so it is left out until a run requests one (the game note). PR #138's profile is the same as this one (the same keys and shader tables).
Host fix: the memory line's "freed but alive" count only grew in most games (Animal Crossing: New Horizons 3,113 after 27,900 frames, Pokémon Sword 2,050, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 1,279; Ghost Trick 125 to 146 buffers, 6.6 to 8.7 GB of zero-copy buffers, so GPU allocated read 9.9 to 11.7 GB against 2.2 GB resident). A temporary census of every host table that can hold a texture over a pool buffer found no holder: mtl_pool_del runs on the guest thread that finalizes the pool, whose implicit autorelease pool never drains, and adding the buffer to the weak table g_dead_pools left it autoreleased there. containsObject: / removeObject: on a weak NSHashTable do the same (a standalone test), and res_add / res_remove call them on guest threads too. mtl_pool_del, res_add_at and res_remove now have their own @autoreleasepool. Ghost Trick: 0 freed but alive, GPU allocated 1.7 GB instead of 8.3 GB 300 frames into the boot and 2.9 GB in Chapter 1, resident memory, frame times and pictures unchanged; Pokémon Sword: 8 to 0 at the title after 90 s, the same frame pacing.
On the Mac: the opening movies, the language screen, the first-boot notices, save creation, the Bonus Content notices and Chapter 1's opening in the junkyard (the Ghost World, the first trick), and a second boot that loads the save, at 60 fps (frame interval p99 about 17 to 19 ms), about 2.3 GB resident, no red line; the Wwise sound plays (a muted run with DM_AUDIO_DUMP). Checked: the tool tests (57, the docs check among them), t_nvn (124 checks), a boot of the rebased host. README (games gallery, a Mac picture of the junkyard), AGENTS.md's count (sixty-two: the gallery's cells), the game note, the games table, docs/reference/nvn-objects.md and the symptom index say so
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