Add a native D3D12 FSR Ray Regeneration route for gfx1200/gfx1201,
using the game's device and queue with embedded HLSL guide preparation
and output composition. Preserve the vkd3d compatibility route for
RDNA3 and expose explicit route overrides and diagnostics.
Improve Windows runtime compatibility:
- Retry rejected application-ID initialization with a project identity.
- Defer expensive RR backend creation until feature creation.
- Recover from transient submission failures without disabling later frames.
- Add shared-buffer export fallbacks through explicit heaps and a private
device on the same adapter.
- Safely evict old RR descriptor sets when input views change.
- Treat requested RR presets as hints when a configured model is available.
- Expand SR/RR input formats and handle diffuse/specular hit distances,
packed normals, depth-stencil resources, and unused FSR guides.
Reduce SR overhead by batching output downloads and format conversion
under one completion wait. Optimize strict M enc2/tube attention with
bounded FP32 accumulation and the original FP64 fallback for ambiguous
rounding cases.
Extend RDNA4 tooling with gfx1200/gfx1201 native FP8 RR model builds,
capability checks, architecture-aware deployment, and experimental K/M
kernel paths. Require matching model and runtime arithmetic families.
Add optional embedded FSR shader optimizations keyed by shader hash and
exact original SPIR-V contents. Preserve reflected metadata and record
optimizer provenance, artifact hashes, and cache identity.
Simplify Windows installation with automatic backend dependency downloads,
download progress and ETA, backed-up absolute OptiScaler library paths,
and recovery from interrupted RR model builds.
Add build-kernels.bat and a kernels-only build matrix for all eleven
registered RDNA targets, with code-object target validation and SHA256
manifests. Expand conversion probes, numerical stress tests, temporal
benchmark tooling, installer/deployment tests, and setup documentation.
Document synthetic regression and timing results, experimental build
options, and remaining RDNA4 hardware validation requirements.
network natively on HIP with Vulkan->HIP shared memory, extend K kernels to
gfx11 (RDNA3), and add dependency/packaging/test tooling around them.
Windows: FSR RR backend, native HIP K runner, gfx11 K kernels, tooling
FSR Ray Regeneration (experimental)
- Add fsr_rr_backend.{h,cpp}, fsr_rr_passes.h and the fsr_rr/ prepare and
compose compute shaders. They run AMD's FidelityFX denoiser
(amd_fidelityfx_denoiser_dx12.dll, SDK 2.3, not bundled) on a private
vkd3d-proton device.
- Add the amdxc64 shim (tools/windows/amdxc64_shim) and two vkd3d-proton
patches for libcxx includes. AMD's amdxc64.dll is never loaded.
- d4r_nvngx_windows: RrFeature now selects between the native DLSS RR
backend and the FSR backend (D4R_RR_BACKEND=fsr). After the denoiser it
runs an internal Super Sampling stage (feature 1) to upscale. If SR is
unavailable and output != render size, the frame fails; it is never
returned noisy.
- d4r.ini / player_config: new [RayReconstruction] FsrDenoiser,
FsrStabilityBias (auto or >= 0) and FsrDetail (0-1), with validation, and
matching D4R_FSR_* environment variables.
- Add the FSR RR fixture, output-check and ngx test scripts, and a shader
compile script.
Native HIP K runner (Windows)
- CMake: add d4r_engine_k_hip (d4r-k-hip) plus separate volk/engine copies,
because VK_USE_PLATFORM_WIN32_KHR changes volk's entry points.
- Share Vulkan memory with HIP via Win32 opaque handles on Windows
(VK_KHR_external_memory_win32) and via fds on Linux. Handle types are now
intptr_t, and the platform choice is in D4R_EXT_MEMORY_* macros.
- HipNetwork: add debugRepeatHashes and debugNodeMicros, exposed as
D4R_HIP_REPEAT_CHECK, D4R_HIP_REPEAT_ALL and D4R_HIP_NODE_PROFILE in
replay.cpp.
- replay.cpp: display-resolution-motion frames (FrameFlagDisplayMotion) no
longer require near2rnd == out2rnd. Both values must still be in (0, 1].
K kernels on gfx11
- Allow position-token and enc1 tiling on __GFX11__ as well as gfx12.
- Add an opt-in ds_bpermute cross-half exchange
(D4R_WINDOWS_GFX11_DS_EXCHANGE, enabled for K on Windows gfx11). M keeps
its LDS path.
- Fix a block-barrier race in the position layer. Without POS_VSHARE a fast
wave could overwrite its hb rows while a slower wave still read them for a
later head, giving rare wrong results on gfx1101 (enc0 outputs differing
between identical launches).
Packaging and install
- install.bat, d4r.ini, WINDOWS_README: FSR option, and
install_dependencies.py to install pinned NVIDIA dependencies with staged,
hash-verified replacement and rollback.
- Update the release package, local package refresh and test scripts.
- Add the InteropBatchInputCopies option (default false). Batching is faster
on some synthetic runs, but player temporal exactness is unresolved.
Tooling and tests
- K model: capture_k_weights, build_k_model, compare_k_outputs,
benchmark_k_hip, build_capture_runtime, test_k_model and the
zluda-k-output-capture patch. Captured weights and models are private
local assets and must not enter release archives.
- Synthetic probes: test_m_ngx, test_sr_dynamic,
prepare_rr_dynamic_fixture and the d3d12/rr_ngx probe updates.
- Add tests/windows/test_install_dependencies.py.
Docs
- Update the windows-fsr-rr, k-performance, local-package, rr-interop and
rr-model-cache docs. Add windows-parity-handoff.md and
windows-parity-continuation-prompt.md.
Add native K/M/RR inference engines, HIP kernels, replay and validation
harnesses, and Windows DLSS setup and runtime support. Include GPU
profiling tools, build and packaging scripts, platform integration
patches, and implementation documentation.
Players extract one ZIP into the game folder, copy their two NVIDIA
DLLs, and start the game from Steam, Epic or a shortcut. No launcher
script is needed; settings live in d4r\d4r.ini.
- Shim player mode: when the launcher has not set D4R_HIP_ROOT and
d4r.ini sits beside the shim, derive the backend environment from it.
Codegen flags stay at the Windows-validated values. NVIDIA DLLs must
match an exact SHA256 in dll-pins.txt, with "you have X, you need Y"
errors. Rejects a vkd3d/Wine d3d12.dll and code objects built for
another GPU. [DLSS] Model accepts K or M and is applied by rewriting
the render preset hints.
- d4r.ini exposes only options that exist on Windows: Model, AsyncInterop,
ValidateOutput, Log, CacheDir. Invalid values fall back with a note in
d4r_nvngx.log.
- d4r_nvngx_loader: one _nvngx.dll for all GPUs. It matches the game's
adapter by LUID and loads _nvngx_<arch>.dll from the same folder.
- OptiScaler patch 0006: relative NvngxPath/NvngxDlssPath/
NvngxFeaturePath resolve against OptiScaler's folder.
- package-windows-release.ps1 builds the release from the per-target
game packages and refuses mixed targets or differing shared runtimes.
- Tests: test-player-config.ps1 (ini and DLL-pin decisions, loader
selection on the local GPU) and test-windows-release-package.ps1.
Adapt official LLVM 7a0829e41228 to the pinned LLVM 22 parser and ELF structures. Apply and audit the complete source delta before building, export its provenance, and package the source patch. Add 33 offline public PTX compilation checks across all eleven GPU targets without hardware execution. Preserve strict arithmetic and document RX9070XT K/M regressions.
- Fix Cyberpunk 2077 preset-K black artifacts by preserving FP16/FP64
denormal requirements while limiting denormal suppression to FP32.
- Fix stale direct-output redirects after array destruction, preventing
reused handles from inheriting an earlier feature's output buffer.
- Log rejected resource formats and dimensions, including failures after
startup, with rate limiting for repeated errors.
- Add opt-in blocking output synchronization with a dedicated bridge
export and fallback to context synchronization.
- Report output-wait CPU and wall time, and defer GPU timing queries
until asynchronous evaluation has completed. The CPU-overhead
mitigation for #7 still needs reporter confirmation.
- Reject release libraries requiring GLIBC newer than the configured
baseline, defaulting to 2.41, and document compatible builds.
Validation: shim and bridge builds pass; targeted redirect-lifetime and
format-logging checks pass.
Fixes#5Fixes#8
Refs #7
RDNA4 (experimental; untested on RDNA4 hardware)
- kernels/common/wmma_layout.h picks the WMMA operand/accumulator layout
per target; K (pwin_*) and M (swin_*) index through it, so the same
sources build for gfx11 and gfx12. D4R_WMMA_LAYOUT=12 on gfx11 is a test
shim that runs the gfx12 indexing on gfx11 WMMA.
- M can use native e4m3 FP8 WMMA on gfx12 (D4R_NATIVE_FP8=1). Texture
tails (enc0_tail, dec0_head) get gfx12 f16 and FP8 paths that match
ZLUDA's gfx12 lowering.
- ZLUDA patch 0007: gfx12 WMMA helpers, optional native FP8 MMA
(D4R_ZLUDA_WMMA_FP8_NATIVE), a layout override for testing, and an
architecture argument for d4r_emit. Texture kernels are now compiled
offline per target through d4r_emit (D4R_ZLUDA_EMIT) instead of on the
local GPU.
- New d4r.ini option [Kernels] NativeFp8 (default on), wired through the
shim and d4r_config.py. On gfx12 the bridge serves kernels/<arch>-fp8
when it is on.
- The bridge picks the KFD GPU with the most SIMDs (so an iGPU is not
chosen over a discrete GPU); D4R_GPU_ARCH overrides it.
- kernels/build.sh and package_release.sh build gfx1100-gfx1103 and
gfx1200/gfx1201 (plus -fp8 variants), and D4R_BUNDLE_TEX takes
per-target folders.
Performance (RDNA3; harness byte-identical unless noted)
- ZLUDA patch 0006: m16n8k8 f16 MMAs on WMMA (E; not bit-exact, 52-55 dB
per layer, D4R_ZLUDA_WMMA_K8=0 disables it), per-key weight-image slots
for native prep kernels (d4r_prep_key_at, d4r_prep_key_slots), and
wave64 builds of MMA-free kernels (D4R_ZLUDA_WAVE64).
- M: packed FP8 encoding, conflict-free patch-merge reads, scalar weight
loads in enc1, and weight prep once per weight set for the six enc3
tube blocks.
- K: CU mode for the six non-wide pwin layers.
- Texture kernels: every DLSS flag variant is built natively (24 K output,
8 M post, 4 M downsample, 4 M enc0), not only Townfall's; post and K
output run as wave64.
- M direct output: rrlite_downsample_kernel writes the shim's output
buffer; the shim's default direct-output presets are now 11,13.
Tools
- dump_runner takes the prep grid from d4r_prep_blocks and refuses
texture/surface dumps.
- New pwin_check.py, swin_check.py, model_enc3.py and tail_check.hip.
Docs: README GPU table and RDNA4 notes, building (patches 0002-0007,
d4r_emit), native-kernels (RDNA4 section), performance (new numbers),
packaging README. Version 0.1.2.
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