Choosing one of them while a temporal upscaler was set turned the upscaler off, and the picture fell back to bilinear scaling. vk_aa.c no longer keeps the game's SMAA while DLSS or FSR runs. The chosen pass replaces the game's composition as without them: in the native modes after the upscaler, and in the scaling modes before it. In the menu, a choice leaves the upscaler and frame generation alone, and the row notes that the upscaler's TAA runs too. Picking DLSS or FSR under Upscaling keeps the Anti-aliasing choice. The TAA entry, listed while no temporal mode is set, now sets FSR 4 Native AA where FSR 4 runs instead of forcing FSR 3.1. The overlay gets an Anti-aliasing line under Upscaling, for example "TAA + SMAA (Ultra)".
Checked on an RX 7900 XT in Hyrule Field with FSR 4.1 Native AA and Quality, and with FSR 3.1. The log has "the game's SMAA replaced by" smaa, off and fxaa while FSR 4.1.2 upscales, and the pictures are right.
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A draw whose shader or pipeline is still building is left out of its frame, and the frame was shown without it: a black or unlit picture with the interface intact when it was a lighting pass, a light going out, or ground missing for a frame. In a player's session a full-screen draw was skipped after its 50 ms and the frame came out black as a boulder hit.
The frame's present is now left out when draws were skipped (vk_backend.c frame_hold, NX2NAVI_FRAME_HOLD_MS, 120 by default, 0 off). The game runs on, so nothing waits. The hold comes from an allowance that fills again at an eighth of the clock's rate, so a long build or a run of them shows its frames as before and does not freeze the picture; a full-screen draw that would be skipped with the allowance spent waits on instead, 500 ms at most. Not with DLSS Frame Generation.
On a first walk through a village with no pipeline recorded, 21 of the 23 frames with skipped draws were held back; in the Lost Woods, 7 of 8.
The performance overlay: the VRAM line is the card's dedicated memory in use, which counts every program on it: a player read 14.5 GB as the game's while the game held 7.3 GB. The line's third cell now gives what this process holds on the device-local heaps (the driver's budget figure), in place of the GPU clock, which stays where the driver gives no budget.
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The foliage's sun shadows took most of the GPU time: one mesh draw shaded about 1,000 million fragments in the far cascade. The far cascade now shades them at a 2x2 rate, and the two far cascades drop one side of the double-sided cards. At the forest entrance the frame rate went from 18 to about 43 fps on an RX 7900 XT.
FSR 3.1, its frame generation and the console mode now take effect without a restart. The full performance overlay lists the settings shown in the options menu.
NX2NAVI_GPU_PASSES times each pass and counts its fragments, and NX2NAVI_SET_AT changes settings at a given frame for test runs. Both are off by default.
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In-game menu: the settings window, its tabs, rows, buttons and cursor, the performance overlay and the Preparing
shaders box are drawn with the game's interface textures where the RomFS holds them (runtime/ui/menu_skin.cpp,
perf_panel.cpp; plain shapes until they are decoded). Restart joins Continue and Quit, each behind a confirmation;
VSync is an on/off switch; DLSS is listed only on NVIDIA GPUs; the menu sounds are quieter; Picture shape is gone and
the setting descriptions are shorter; edge cases of input, layout and fonts are fixed. tools/menu_preview.py draws the
menu without the game.
Launcher: Import Saves takes a save from the game folder's saves/ folder or one the player picks; downloads fall back
to Windows' own certificate check when Python's refuses a server; updates are faster; the title bar is drawn in the
window and Navi is every icon. tools/make_game.py builds with CLANG64's clang where the launcher installed it, packs
the RomFS beside the lift and the compile, takes a prebuilt runtime, and compiles the game's resources without cmd.exe,
so a user folder with a space in its name builds.
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