diff --git a/docs/architecture.md b/docs/architecture.md
index ca2dccdd..c3ce1c96 100644
--- a/docs/architecture.md
+++ b/docs/architecture.md
@@ -380,8 +380,8 @@ keeps per-core data without locks and relies on that, so the host models it (`ru
   while (`vk_dlaa.c` `idle_release`, `vk_fsr.c` `idle_note`, `vk_aa.c` `work_idle`). What DLSS or FSR lets go of at
   a change of size or mode (a network, an FSR context, a work image) goes once the GPU is past the last submission that
   used it, and an image frame generation reads at a present some presents later, without a wait for the device on the
-  replaying thread (`vk_dlaa.c` "what the upscalers let go of", `vk_up_defer.h`; `upscaler_idle_wait = 1` waits as
-  before).
+  replaying thread (`vk_dlaa.c` "what the upscalers let go of", `vk_up_defer.h`; `upscaler_idle_wait = 1` waits for
+  the device at each such change as before, and the freeing keeps these gates).
 - Translated shaders at rest: the shader memory cache keeps every shader for the whole session, but a shader's SPIR-V
   is read only while modules are made of it. A background thread compresses (zstd, checked by decoding it) the SPIR-V
   of each shader no reader used for `shader_compress_idle_s` seconds (30) and frees the plain copy; a reader pins it
diff --git a/nx2navi.ini.example b/nx2navi.ini.example
index 43497e14..3316dd6c 100644
--- a/nx2navi.ini.example
+++ b/nx2navi.ini.example
@@ -717,8 +717,9 @@
 # dlss_idle_free = 1
 # When DLSS or FSR lets go of a network, an FSR context or a picture (a new picture size, the pause screen, a mode
 # change). 0: it is freed once the graphics card has finished the frames that used it, and the game does not wait.
-# 1: the game waits for the graphics card to finish all its work first, as up to 0.10.1: a hitch of a frame or more
-# at each such change. For comparison, or if 0 shows a fault. Read at start.
+# 1: the game waits for the graphics card to finish all its work at each such change, as up to 0.10.1 (what was let
+# go of still goes once the card is past it): a hitch of a frame or more at each change. For comparison, or if 0 shows
+# a fault. Read at start.
 # upscaler_idle_wait = 0
 # One DLSS network for the render sizes of a DLSS mode. 1: the network made for the mode's own render size also takes
 # the smaller render sizes DLSS allows on it (dynamic resolution's steps with dyn_res = 1, a screen that renders
diff --git a/runtime/cfg.c b/runtime/cfg.c
index 1f08b1b8..292043e8 100644
--- a/runtime/cfg.c
+++ b/runtime/cfg.c
@@ -217,7 +217,8 @@ static const CfgMeta metas[] = {
     {"SCENE_SHARE", "0.75", "0..1", LIVE},
     {"DLAA", "0", "0|1", LIVE}, {"DLSS", "dlaa", "dlaa|quality|balanced|performance|ultra_performance", LIVE},
     {"DLSS_PRESET", "default", "default|k|j", LIVE}, {"DLSS_IDLE_FREE", "1", "0|1|2", RESTART}, {"TAA", "dlss", "dlss|fsr3", LIVE},   // vk_dlaa.c fsr3
-    // vk_dlaa.c vk_upscaler_idle_wait: 1 waits for the device to be idle before an upscaler frees anything, as up to 0.10.1
+    // vk_dlaa.c vk_upscaler_idle_wait: 1 waits for the device to be idle wherever an upscaler lets go of something, as up
+    // to 0.10.1 (what was let go of still goes once the GPU is past it, behind its present gate)
     {"UPSCALER_IDLE_WAIT", "0", "0|1", RESTART},
     {"DLSS_RANGE", "0", "0|1", RESTART},   // vk_dlaa.c range_on: one DLSS feature for the render sizes of a mode
     {"DLSS_PREBLOOM", "0", "0|1", LIVE},   // vk_dlaa.c prebloom_run: DLSS or FSR 3.1 before the bloom, not after the tonemap
diff --git a/runtime/vk_dlaa.c b/runtime/vk_dlaa.c
index a4e78873..9c5ca9c5 100644
--- a/runtime/vk_dlaa.c
+++ b/runtime/vk_dlaa.c
@@ -764,7 +764,10 @@ static void feat_release(NgxHandle *f) {
 // The lists are taken at every evaluation (evaluate), at every pass while none runs (retire_idle), and where something
 // is let go of (vk_upscaler_let_go). What still waits: a feature or context creation refused while ones let go of are
 // in flight waits for the GPU to pass those (vk_upscaler_gpu_wait), and a full list for the device (vk_upscaler_settle).
-// NX2NAVI_UPSCALER_IDLE_WAIT=1 waits for the device wherever something is let go of, as up to 0.10.1.
+// NX2NAVI_UPSCALER_IDLE_WAIT=1 waits for the device wherever something is let go of, as up to 0.10.1, but does not
+// bring 0.10.1 back exactly: what was let go of still goes through these lists and the deferred destruction, an image a
+// present reads keeps its present gate, what the submission being recorded names stays until it is done, and a refused
+// DLSS creation with features let go of still listed waits and tries again, where 0.10.1 turned DLAA off.
 enum { UPD_FEAT = 1, UPD_IMG, UPD_VIEW };   // dead's kinds: a DLSS feature, an image with its allocation (aux), a view
 static UpdList dead;   // DLAA's hook thread only (vk_dlaa_pass and what it runs), as evaluate's state
 // A vk_dlaa.c image frame generation can read at a present goes this many presents after it was let go of. present_image