The HDR row lists Off, RenoDX (the game's picture tone mapped to the display, the one fixed look) and Native (the game's own HDR, taken up at the next start), with the peak, game and HUD whites under either.
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HDR on is the game's scene through the observer-response mapper, anchored to the game's own mid grey and tone slope, with half of the hue bend of the game's clamp: the defaults the menu had. The tone mapper choice, the mid grey, the tone slope and its match, the hue clip, exposure, highlights, shadows, contrast, saturation, highlight saturation, blowout, flare, hue, grade and gamma are gone from the menu, the settings table and the example ini; a file that still sets them works as before, the keys read by nothing and logging nothing. The menu's HDR row is Off and On, with the peak, game and HUD whites under it. The game's own HDR is still there for a file that sets hdr = native, and the row lists it only then. The luminance mapper and its grading code, which no setting reaches any more, are removed from the tonemap library, and the support buffer carries one vec4 for it.
The dark tones of a dark scene sat far above black: the present showed the game's sRGB-encoded picture as that encode decodes, linear near black, while the game is graded for a display of gamma about 2.2, and since the observer-response mapper became the default the 2.2 correction ran with the luminance mapper only. A scene value of 0.003 came out at 0.29 nits at a white of 350 nits, where a 2.2 display shows the game at 0.015. The present now always shows the picture as a 2.2 display would, and the tonemap aims its peak lower by that correction's inverse, so the brightest light still reaches the display's peak; the same value comes out at 0.017 nits.
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A setting read at the start showed "after restart" under its value always. The values the game started with are now
kept (cfg.c start_values), a row shows the note only while its value differs from them, and the Restart button counts
the settings that wait, the upscaler, frame generation and HDR among them. A value the environment sets never waits.
--probe-cfg checks the count.
From pull request #377 by mooki000. Three conflicts in the menu resolved against the frame generation rows that came
in since: the upscaling row keeps its description by what can load, and the frame generation restart test knows both
ways NVIDIA's runs.
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The game's ACES tonemap shader gets a GLSL function linked into its SPIR-V where it clamps each channel: the game's SDR result upgraded to the HDR range by luminance and mapped to the display with the RenoDRT curve, exposure, highlights, shadows, contrast, saturation, highlight saturation, blowout, flare and hue correction. The settings reach it as four vec4 the support buffer gains at 1440. The present encode is a port of the swap chain pass: gamma correction, gamut compression, the peak clamp and PQ. Without an HDR10 swapchain the shader gives the game's own SDR picture; native HDR is unchanged.
The menu offers Off, RenoDX and Native, with gamma correction, the tone mapper and its grading rows. The shader build compiles sources marked "keep functions" without optimisation so their functions survive for the splice.
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The Upscaling row no longer carries "DLSS on or off: after restart". It shows "after restart" only while the upscaler picked cannot start in this run. Frame generation says so only for a change to or from NVIDIA's, since AMD's applies at once, and the HDR row no longer says it twice.
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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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Import Saves: the saves folder picked in the dialog imports what waits in it (it had made the folder's README the
save); the save backed up is the one the game would load, in runtime/fs_host.c save_recover's order, so an interrupted
commit's only copy is kept, and the rest of the commit journal moves into the backup instead of being deleted; the
imported save goes into place before the old one is deleted, which comes back if that fails; another NX2navi install's
finished commit counts as its save. Tests cover each.
Quit waits while the game writes a save, as Restart does: the game runs on under the menu, and closing the window
finishes only a commit that has begun. The VSync row says "in use: Immediate" when VSync On falls back to tearing, and
its default follows the device profile (cfg_default). Without the game's textures the menu's divider is a plain line
and diamond of its own, not a tracing of the game's ornament.
make_game.py: the compile key holds the processor's features (cpu_tag), so a game folder moved to a PC without AVX2
compiles again instead of crashing; the main thread gets 16 MiB of stack with GNU ld too; any error waits for the
RomFS image, so its .part file is not cut short. The launcher tests use a neutral title id; tools/menu_preview.cpp
has cfg_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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