[Inc0rporate]

Problem

Ocarina of Time (0400486024DEC000) at GPU accuracy Low with fence behavior Default shows white flashes on leaves and walls. They go away with fence behavior Balanced, as noted in #149, but on my machine that drops the forest from ~12–25 ms to ~63 ms per frame.

Cause

QueryCacheBase::CounterReport treats a fence-flagged report as synchronized when the fence behavior is Default and accuracy is Low (is_synced):

• it frees the query at once (streamer->Free) instead of keeping it registered until the report is written, and
• FenceManager::SignalFence may skip that report's fence as empty (SkipEmptyFence) and run its operation at once, before the host GPU has run the work the report follows.

The game then reads wrong reports.

Change

Fence-flagged reports are handled as Balanced already handles them, without making every other fence wait:

• query_cache.h: the is_synced path is removed. The query stays registered until its fence runs, as it already did at High accuracy and with Balanced/Accurate fences.
• fence_manager.h: while the query cache signals that fence (VideoCore::g_signaling_query_report_fence, a thread-local flag set around the call), SignalFence makes the fence even when it is empty. Other empty fences are still skipped.

Both halves are needed. With only the fence kept and the query still freed at once, the game hangs while loading: three channels wait forever on a semaphore whose word has already moved past their value (Channel 2 waits on semaphore … (op 1, 0xa3, now 0xb2)).

Testing

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT, AMD proprietary driver 2.0.416, Windows 11, Ryzen 7 9800X3D, MSVC 14.51 Release. Ocarina of Time, docked, GPU accuracy Low, EDEN_NX2_SPLIT=1, Kokiri Forest.

Build	Fence behavior	White flashes	Frame time outdoors
nx2	Default	yes	—
nx2	Balanced	no	~63 ms
this PR (nx2 588bfa6 + this commit)	Default	no	~16–50 ms, depending on the view
only the fence half	Default	—	hangs while loading (see above)

The same change has been in my local test builds for a day: no flashes, no hangs, no Query report value not synchronized errors, and sky and fog render normally.

Not tested: other games, NVIDIA/Intel, Accurate GPU mode (unchanged there: is_synced was already false at High accuracy).

Related: #149 (Balanced removes the flashes), #204/#215 (a different approach: flush the query cache before macro DMA reads), #329 (white leaves on Intel from the warp size, a different cause).

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• Bug Fixes
  • Improved synchronization for query-report fences to help ensure query results are handled consistently, including when GPU settings affect fence signaling. This also prevents an empty-fence shortcut from being used while a query-report fence is being signaled.

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Walkthrough

Query-cache report handling now queues queries for unregistering without GPU-setting-based is_synced checks. Fence reports set a thread-local flag around SignalFence, and FenceManager delays signaling while the flag is set. Queries continue through cache insertion or replacement after SyncOperation.

Changes: Query report fence handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Query-cache lifecycle and signaling flag src/video_core/rasterizer_interface.h, src/video_core/query_cache/query_cache.h	The query cache now queues queries for unregistering without the former is_synced checks. Fence reports set the query-report flag around SignalFence, and execution continues to cache the query after SyncOperation.
Delayed fence signaling src/video_core/fence_manager.h	SignalFence forces a delay while query-report fence signaling is active. Otherwise, the existing GPU behavior settings rule applies.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

• Issue 163 reports Low-accuracy flicker and white surfaces in Kokiri Forest on the same AMD GPU. The PR changes query-report and fence handling related to white flashes, but the issue’s query-only experiment did not stop the flicker and the combined changes’ effect is not established.

Possibly related PRs

• zortos293/Lichii#194: Submits deferred work after signaling a delayed fence; this PR makes fence-flagged query reports use the delayed-fence path.
• zortos293/Lichii#166: Submits deferred work for delayed fences and changes fence download commits; this PR makes fence-flagged reports use that path.
• zortos293/Lichii#150: Uses the query cache to detect pending reports for DMA reads; this PR changes how long fence-flagged reports remain registered in that cache.

Suggested reviewers: crueter

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 0f072

The change may not fully fix the reported white flashes. In some cases the report could still be signaled before the GPU finishes its work. Make the fence real whenever a query-report fence is signaled before merging.

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Review comments at @src/video_core/fence_manager.h:
- Line 88: Update the flush-work check in the code around the delay_fence
calculation to include VideoCore::g_signaling_query_report_fence in should_flush
before query_cache.CommitAsyncFlushes(), ensuring query-report payloads trigger
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• src/video_core/fence_manager.h
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git diff 588bfa611be9853729682dd78416c66e8d56385a 0f0720d07ddeeb52b0f59826b2e79b6b03302ab3 -- src/video_core/fence_manager.h src/video_core/query_cache
printf '\n--- fence manager ---\n'
nl -ba src/video_core/fence_manager.h | sed -n '1,260p'
printf '\n--- relevant identifiers ---\n'
rg -n -F -e 'g_signaling_query_report_fence' -e 'HasUncommittedFlushes' -e 'CreateFence(' -e 'class GuestStreamer' -e 'IsFenceSignaled' src/video_core

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printf '%s\n' '--- query cache ---'
nl -ba src/video_core/query_cache/query_cache.h | sed -n '1,130p;200,380p;500,590p'
printf '%s\n' '--- streamer definitions ---'
rg -n -F -e 'class SimpleStreamer' -e 'HasUnsyncedQueries' -e 'GuestStreamer' -e 'QueryType::Payload' src/video_core/query_cache src/video_core/renderer_vulkan src/video_core/renderer_opengl
printf '%s\n' '--- fence manager release and flushes ---'
nl -ba src/video_core/fence_manager.h | sed -n '238,390p'
printf '%s\n' '--- backend fences ---'
nl -ba src/video_core/renderer_vulkan/vk_fence_manager.cpp | sed -n '1,150p'
nl -ba src/video_core/renderer_opengl/gl_fence_manager.cpp | sed -n '1,150p'

Repository: zortos293/Lichii

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printf '%s\n' '--- streamer and query flags ---'
nl -ba src/video_core/query_cache/query_stream.h | sed -n '1,210p'
nl -ba src/video_core/query_cache/query_base.h | sed -n '1,180p'
printf '%s\n' '--- Vulkan payload binding ---'
nl -ba src/video_core/renderer_vulkan/vk_query_cache.cpp | sed -n '1320,1380p;1570,1645p'
printf '%s\n' '--- fence traits and rasterizer bindings ---'
nl -ba src/video_core/renderer_vulkan/vk_fence_manager.h | sed -n '1,115p'
nl -ba src/video_core/renderer_opengl/gl_fence_manager.h | sed -n '1,105p'
rg -n -F -e 'SignalFence(' -e 'CounterReport(' src/video_core/renderer_vulkan/vk_rasterizer.cpp src/video_core/renderer_opengl/gl_rasterizer.cpp src/video_core/engines/maxwell_3d.cpp

Repository: zortos293/Lichii

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printf '%s\n' '--- report producer and Vulkan dispatch ---'
rg -n -F -e 'IsAFence' -e 'QueryType::Payload' src/video_core/engines src/video_core/renderer_vulkan/vk_rasterizer.cpp src/video_core/query_cache
nl -ba src/video_core/renderer_vulkan/vk_rasterizer.cpp | sed -n '1480,1525p;1730,1770p'
printf '%s\n' '--- Vulkan flush command implementation ---'
rg -n -F -e 'RasterizerVulkan::FlushCommands' -e 'NotifyWFI()' src/video_core/renderer_vulkan/vk_rasterizer.cpp src/video_core/query_cache/query_cache.h

Repository: zortos293/Lichii

Length of output: 6344

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nl -ba src/video_core/engines/kepler_compute.cpp | sed -n '95,132p;386,414p'
nl -ba src/video_core/engines/puller.cpp | sed -n '286,320p'
nl -ba src/video_core/renderer_vulkan/vk_rasterizer.cpp | sed -n '1810,1840p'
nl -ba src/video_core/query_cache/query_cache.h | sed -n '400,432p'

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Create a host GPU fence for query reports.

A Vulkan payload report does not count as an unsynced query. If the caches have no other flush work, the delayed callback can run on a stubbed fence before preceding GPU work completes.

Suggested fix

         should_flush |= query_cache.HasUncommittedFlushes();
+        should_flush |= VideoCore::g_signaling_query_report_fence;
         query_cache.CommitAsyncFlushes();

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Review comment at @src/video_core/fence_manager.h at line 88:
Update the flush-work check in the code around the delay_fence calculation to
include VideoCore::g_signaling_query_report_fence in should_flush before
query_cache.CommitAsyncFlushes(), ensuring query-report payloads trigger a host
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[The-Digital-Sandbox]

NVIDIA confirmation. On the Frizti v3 base, which ships EvilOOT's DMA snapshot shortcut (EDEN_NX2_DMA_SNAPSHOT=9), single-frame white flashes on leaves and walls were still present without this PR. With it cherry-picked on top (trivial conflict: Frizti reads IsGPULevelHigh() once per fence, I OR'd g_signaling_query_report_fence into the same delay_fence) the flashes are gone in a Hyrule Field session, with the split on and the snapshot still enabled. No hangs while loading, no Query report value not synchronized errors.

Setup: Windows 11, RTX 5080 (NVIDIA 617.14), MSVC 2022 Release local build, docked, GPU accuracy 0, GPU split on, dynamic state 2 with vertex input dynamic state, community shader pack with the driver stamps rewritten to 617.14. Branches: The-Digital-Sandbox/Lichii fix/oot-visuals-93 (nx2 09b78bd + #337 #351 #353 #354 #395 #279) and fix/frizti-v3-plus-visuals (Frizti v3 + the same set). Found and tested with Claude Code.

[KiranTheRam]

Tested on Linux with AMD's Mesa driver (RADV). This fixes the white foliage flashes in Ocarina of Time for me.

Setup

• AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX, Mesa 26.2.6 (RADV), CachyOS (Arch), Linux 7.3.1, Hyprland
• Ryzen 7 9850X3D
• Ocarina of Time 0400486024DEC000 (NUP), docked, GPU accuracy Low, async shaders and async presentation on
• Build: build 93 (09b78bd) with this PR's commit 0f0720d cherry-picked on top. It applied cleanly. Built locally with GCC 16.2.1, Release, -DENABLE_WERROR=OFF (GCC 16 flags existing -Wshadow cases elsewhere)

Symptom on build 93: with fence behavior Default, grass and tree leaves in Kokiri Forest flashed bright white with bloom for single frames, while standing still.

Measurement: standing still in Kokiri Forest near the Kokiri shop. I captured screenshots in quick succession (about 10 per second) and counted a frame as flashing when more than 1% of the 3D area was near-white.

Build	Fence behavior	Frames with white flashes
build 93	Default	9 / 40 (each covering 4–12% of the 3D area)
build 93	Balanced	0 / 60
build 93 + this PR	Default	0 / 80

The patched build ran at 60 FPS (frame time about 16.4 ms) at that spot, with fence behavior Default. I didn't take precise frame times with Balanced for comparison. Loading the save worked without the hang you described for the fence-only half, and nothing hung in a short play session (a few minutes).

Not tested: other games, High GPU accuracy, moving camera or cutscenes in a controlled way.

[lev92]

RDNA2 data point, AMD proprietary driver: the flashes are gone here too.

GPU	AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT (RDNA2, device ID 0x73BF)
Driver	AMD 2.0.353 (amdvlk64 32.0.21045.16010)
CPU	Intel i7-9700K (8 cores, no SMT)
OS	Windows 11
Build	nx2 6768855c61 + this PR, plus other open PRs I run locally (#573, #259 with EDEN_NX2_PREFLUSH off, #300, #243, #408, #752, #769), clang-cl 22 ThinLTO PGO
Settings	handheld, 1x, GPU accuracy Low, fence behavior Default, async shaders on, EDEN_NX2_SPLIT=2, EDEN_NX2_FENCE_BATCH=1, EDEN_NX2_NOOPT_SHADERS=all
Game	Ocarina of Time 0400486024DEC000 v131072

Before this PR (same stack, the night before): bright flashes on objects inside Kokiri houses and once outdoors in the forest, with #215 already in nx2.

With this PR, ~15 minutes in Kokiri Forest, in and out of houses, camera turns: no flashes seen. No hang while loading the save, 0 Query report value not synchronized lines in the log, no device loss. Frame times were unchanged within noise (~40 ms standing at the spawn point, which is CPU-bound on this machine).

Merge note for anyone stacking this on #243: the only conflict is in CounterReport's is_fence branch, where #243 adds the g_nx2_async_reports_issued increment and this PR adds the g_signaling_query_report_fence flag. Keeping both lines works.