The user asked for it: the mode no longer gains frame rate, and the mesh shader fallback covers the cards it was written for. Its switch in the settings menu's Game tab is gone with the rows under it, and so are their 57 text ids and strings.
low_end_gpu itself does nothing any more. It is still a known key, so an older nx2navi.ini gives no unknown-key warning, and while it is on the log says once that the mode was removed in 0.10.2. The preset that gave nine keys other defaults is gone, and so is the rule that read the mode's keys only while it was on: each of them (mesh_emulation, tex_clobber, foliage, vram_heap_limit, vram_reserve_mb, upload_batch_mb, mirror_stage, mirror_hot, submit_finish_gpu and the others) is an ordinary setting with the default of its row or of its reader, so a line a player wrote by hand keeps counting and a file with only the switch runs the game as it runs for everyone else. guest_opt in nx2navi.ini counts for the next rebuild without the switch too (tools/make_game.py).
The recorder thread read the switch itself: on an AMD card without mesh shaders the mode turned it on. It is off on every AMD card now unless vk_recorder = 1 is set.
nx2navi.ini.example lists the former mode's settings as single settings, the 0.10.2 notes have a Removed entry and name the foliage fix of the commit before this one, and the comments that said what the mode sets say so in the past tense. tests/cfg_parse_check has the new reading of the switch and of the keys without it; the test matrix is at 90 ok with the same two not ok as before (installer_test, worktree_test), and a clean build compiles 169 runtime files and links. Not run in the game.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A // on a metas[] line hides the rows after it on that line, and the game then ends at start with "FATAL: cfg:
NX2NAVI_<X> has no row in the settings table"; that shipped in two test builds and nothing caught it before a
start. And 15 names the runtime reads were not in known[], so setting any of them in nx2navi.ini logged "unknown
key" and put it in the menu's list of unknown keys although it took effect: AUDIO_DUMP, DEFER_STAMP, DEPTH_TWIN,
DLAA_ZFIT, DUMP_SKIP_RUNS, DUMP_TEX, DUMP_UBO, EVENT_ORDER, GATHER_BIAS, PIN_SWEEP, REC_CHECK, REC_DELAY_US,
REG_ORDER, SHADOW and ZERO_LOCALS (GATHER_BIAS and ZERO_LOCALS through vk_caps.c env_u32).
tests/cfg_rows_check.py (standard library only) parses known[], metas[], sections[], DECK[] and LOWEND[] by
brace matching that skips string and character literals and comments (an apostrophe in a comment inside a table
would otherwise open a character literal and run the table on past its end), line by line with the first // outside
a string split off, and the first #if branch standing for the table. It fails on a row or name after //, a /* in a table, a name twice in known[], two metas[] rows for a
key, a metas[] row not in known[], a cfg_value/cfg_int/cfg_bool/cfg_double read (directly or through one level of
wrapper) with no row and no cfg_get, cfg_is_set or cfg_meta guard earlier in the same function (kernel.c SPIN and
SVC_WAITS, vk_headroom.c VRAM_HEADROOM pass that way), and a name read through cfg_get, cfg_is_set, cfg_meta,
rt_knob, a cfg_get or "NX2NAVI_%s" wrapper, or a patches-v111.txt set line that is not in known[] or a cheat.
--self-test puts each kind of fault into a copy and checks it is caught. The content guard workflow runs the
check after tools/check_content.py. The 15 names go into known[] on a line of their own with no //.
Reproduced before the change: the check reported the 15 names on stability-pass, as the audit's prototype did.
Now it reports 0 problems and its self-test catches all 15 injected faults; the scratchpad cfg rows check
("missing []"), cfg_parse_check and the compile checks pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
