- Add native preset K kernels for gfx1030–gfx1036 using software matrix
products, with fast and accuracy builds and RDNA2 motion kernels.
- Follow OptiScaler's DLSS and RR preset overrides, sanitize unsupported
values and select the preset matching the feature's quality mode.
- Enable FSR 4 under NVIDIA GPU spoofing by exposing real AMD PCI IDs
to OptiScaler and FidelityFX modules; bundle AMD's loader and upscaler.
- Keep K on native kernels in engine auto mode unless HIP is selected,
and fall back to CUDA for M/L when shader_float8 is unavailable.
- Add native-engine K GPU timings, preset recreation harness controls
and regression coverage; fix the input-wait test's glibc name clash.
- Update configuration, installer guidance and release documentation,
simplify the README and move gameplay videos to docs/videos.md.
RDNA2 kernels remain untested on RDNA2 hardware; software matrix
arithmetic was validated against WMMA on RDNA3.
Verified copies go to ~/.cache/d4r: the next game's install copies them instead of downloading or building
again. Enabled = auto (the new default) turns the engine on when d4r/engine holds a model; the shim probes the
nine model folders. build-engine-models.sh gains --exact (NVIDIA's roundings) and --find-proton.
A fresh extract plus bash install.sh builds all 9 models in about a minute, and they run in the shim.
Engine-vs-CUDA path: K 67 dB, M/L 45-50 dB, RR D/E/F 43/46/37 dB.
Add an optional D4R_INSTALL_MODE=asi release (d4r-<version>-asi.zip)
holding only d4r.asi and a companion d4r/ folder, to drop into an
existing OptiScaler plugin directory.
- Shim: export InitializeASI. It identifies OptiScaler by its PE export
name to find the active INI, then launches d4r-setup.exe out of
process (no GPU or network work under the loader lock). The .asi
build loads its runtime and config from the companion d4r/ folder.
- tools/d4r_asi_setup.cpp: native helper. It waits for the game to
exit, installs the D3D12 wrapper and the private d4r12core.dll beside
the EXE, and merges the NGX route into the loader's INI (including
GE-Proton's prefix-local INI) with backups. Unchanged launches do
nothing. It skips Proton helpers and background utilities and runs
setup for one plugin install at a time.
- scripts/private_d3d12_core.py: points vkd3d's d3d12.dll forwarder at
d4r12core.dll without moving code addresses.
- install.sh runs from inside the ASI's d4r/ as well as the proxy
release root. d4r-check.sh checks ASI installs (loader, plugin path,
LoadAsiPlugins, HookOriginalNvngxOnly, Wine drive paths).
- Packaging, build script, docs, ASI_README.txt and tests.
- engine/rr: d4r's own shaders for the denoiser frame (exposure, six encoders,
five decoders, hkpn output stage) at NGX layouts, plus PTX->GLSL/HIP packing
scripts, reference implementations and weight extraction
- runtime.h/runtime_rr.inc, game_rr.{h,cpp}: GameDenoiser wired into the engine
build (d4r-rr replay binary) and the D3D12 shim's feature-13 path
- shim: answer GetFeatureRequirements from d4r's own state only (the old
cross-binary CUDA handoff crashed OptiScaler's scan); drop the core's
CUDA GetFeatureRequirements import
- shim/harness: exact guide capture/replay of a frame's RR inputs
- kernels/rr: expanded enc0/engine prototypes; kernels/tools: ptxsim rewrite
plus rrsim and an engine test; vulkan: ptx2glsl FP8/cooperative-matrix
support, kvk inout buffers and KVK_DISABLE_OPTIMIZATION
- bridge: report the surface array in cuSurfObjectCreate traces
- packaging: RR settings and the ICU launch overrides in D4R_README
Run the signed CUDA-capable denoiser through feature 13 with independent D/E presets, pre-Init discovery, per-frame guide and camera snapshots, normalized integer guide staging, paired alpha output, and recorded-resource retirement.
Add the required ZLUDA/LLVM patch, behavioral configuration tests, GPU harness coverage, optional denoiser installation and packaging, and tested support limitations. Preserve upstream attribution and distinguish LLVM licensing from the ZLUDA portions of the patch.
A standalone Vulkan inference engine (engine/) for DLSS presets K and M that
runs from weights extracted from the user's own nvngx_dlss.dll, with d4r's
own input, network and reconstruction shaders or the native HIP network
layers, recorded into the game's command list by the shim. Opt-in
([Engine] Enabled / D4R_ENGINE=1); anything uncovered falls back to the
CUDA/ZLUDA path with the reason logged.
Byte-identical to NGX's CUDA backend under the phase-capable reference
(1706x960 -> 2560x1440, native HIP network, eleven frames, RX 9070 XT):
- K render- and display-resolution motion vectors, HDR and LDR
- K game-supplied exposure and automatic exposure with any pre-exposure
and exposure scale (one residual: effective exposure exactly 2 or 4)
- K and M with the DLSS indicator's inverted-axis parameters
- M with any exposure settings (NGX ignores them for M)
K packages need the current compile_k.py (marker D4RO0003).
Also: HIP shared buffers are pooled across feature recreation (ROCm leaks
destroyed imports), hipnet.bin must match the preset, M-only games do not
load the K model, install_d4r_runtime.sh stages k, k-ldr, m, m-ldr with
hip/, the activation table has a generator (gen_activation_m.py), and
package_release.sh can bundle the engine's shaders (never its weights).
Signed-off-by: woutermans <[email protected]>
Implement NGX's Vulkan API over the existing CUDA backend. Compute shaders
pack the game's sampled images into buffers shared with CUDA (device-local
memory exported through the Wine bridge), and a device event in the game's
command buffer holds its queue until the result is written back, keeping
frame age at zero. DLSS reads inputs through pitch-linear textures and its
native output kernel writes the shared buffer directly; input and
completion waits are adaptive.
Make it work across engines: shared buffers are concurrent over every
compute-capable queue family (Indiana Jones records DLSS on async compute),
depth kept in an R32F colour image is accepted under a depth aspect, and the
extension-requirement query allows a null list. Spare buffer sets are
imported on the first frame and never while a frame is pending, since an
import can block on GPU work that is waiting for us; host staging covers any
shortfall.
Fix two exit hazards. A game quitting without NGX shutdown left the GPU
waiting on an event that only a killed thread would set, resetting the ring
10 s later: the bridge now runs a shim hook before teardown and skips all
CUDA destroy/sync calls once Wine is shutting the process down. The shim's
own entry point skips CRT static destructors at process termination, where
locks held by killed threads made the exit spin forever.
Add a Vulkan DLSS harness (dynamic, recreate, discard, invalid, exit,
compute-queue and in-flight modes), staging/depth probes, ABI/config tests,
and an OptiScaler settings overlay for Vulkan games.
- Explicitly route OptiScaler to d4r\nvngx.dll in release packages.
- Extract INI generation into a helper that preserves line endings
and rejects missing or duplicate settings.
- Check NGX routing separately from file presence and return failure
when the installation is incomplete or misconfigured.
- Add an optional OptiScaler patch for external DLSS backends while
preserving AMD identity for FSR4, with matching launch guidance.
- Align portable and launcher marker polling defaults at 200 us.
- Log when d4r's model override replaces game or OptiScaler presets.
- Add configuration, package, routing and coexistence regression tests.
- Update installation documentation, add FSR/DLSS comparison videos
and ignore local .tools artifacts.
Refs: #7, #14
- Add default-off PreferAccuracy for all native kernel families,
including RDNA4 FP8 variants.
- Restore intermediate FP8 quantization, per-MMA FP16 rounding,
denormal handling and NGX synchronization in accuracy mode.
- Select separately marked accuracy kernels and use a separate JIT
cache; reject mixed sets and never silently substitute fast kernels.
- Add a pinned GLIBC 2.41 build environment for ZLUDA/LLVM, the DLLs
and both kernel sets, with ABI checks and toolchain provenance.
- Support parallel target builds and pre-extracted PTX; correct
ROCm header paths and Clang-CL input handling.
- Bump to 0.1.3 and update release notes, documentation and tests.
Validation: 11 tests passed; all 912 kernels built; E/K/M GPU harness
runs completed with accuracy off/on. Packaged libraries loaded under
GLIBC 2.41 and require no GLIBC version newer than 2.38.
RTX image-quality parity remains unverified.
Fixes#6
Refs #6
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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