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Large sampled-texture arrays repeatedly read handles and rebuild host descriptors for each draw. This adds two opt-in Vulkan optimizations and a saved Experimental texture binding optimizations checkbox under Graphics → Advanced. It defaults off, supports per-game overrides, and must be changed before starting the game.
In the tester’s FPS-unlocked Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave setup, enabling both optimizations in GPU Fast mode reportedly improves a busy free-roaming scene from approximately 40 to 50 FPS, an increase of up to 10 FPS. This is a single-tester gameplay observation, not a general benchmark or a claim of the same gain in Accurate mode or other games.
Updated against nx2 at cbb512ee7a, including the newer upstream draw memo and its #921 correctness fixes. Handle batching now runs inside the full-resolve fallback; memo hits keep upstream's path, and full resolves retain upstream's handle-read tracking. The FPS observation above predates upstream #858/#921; gains over this newer baseline need a fresh comparison.
Implementation
Sampled descriptor chunks: reuse final host descriptors in 64-entry chunks after normal handle reads, sampler resolution and image preparation. Hits require matching resolved view/sampler IDs, length and resource epoch. View destruction, sampler variant creation and custom-border budget release invalidate the epoch; rescaling flags are recomputed on hits. Allocation is capped at 16 MiB globally and 8192 sampled entries per stage.
Bounded handle reads: gather up to 64 logical handles from ordinary native constant-buffer sampled-texture arrays with 4/8/16-byte spacing. Each copy stays within one positively mapped 4 KiB page, using at most 1 KiB scratch storage. Only each stride’s first 32-bit word is consumed. Snapshots are local to the current array, with no cross-draw reuse or retained host pointer.
Batching applies only to native Vulkan graphics arrays with at least 64 elements. Storage-derived/computed handles, secondary handles, unsupported strides, arithmetic wrap, syncpoint/shim memory and unmapped ranges retain scalar reads. The upstream storage-pointer exclusion is preserved. Buffers, writable images, usage tracking, image uploads, aliases, barriers, residency and sampler/view processing order retain their existing paths.
Copying ahead changes when concurrent guest writes are observed. Stable draw inputs remain an assumption; the validation below does not prove equivalence for every racing update. Keeping this opt-in allows further cross-game testing without changing default rendering behavior.
Settings and validation
The checkbox controls both paths through experimental_texture_binding_optimizations; no environment variables are needed to enable it. It is saved through the existing renderer settings registry and disabled while a game runs.
Developer validation remains available with the checkbox enabled:
LICHII_STABLE_IMAGE_BINDINGS_VALIDATE=1: rebuild cached descriptor hits and compare sampler/view/layout fields. A mismatch uses fresh output and disables further hits.
LICHII_BATCHED_HANDLES_VALIDATE=1: compare gathered words against fresh original scalar reads before use. A mismatch returns the fresh word, discards the snapshot, logs the failure and disables later batching for the process.
Verification
497 assertions across eight cache/batching test cases pass, including resource/key/budget invalidation, padded layouts, page boundaries, zero handles, unsupported inputs, overflow, fallback and validation failure.
The actual setting declaration passes Qt INI save/reload, default-off, global/per-game override and restore checks; it is not runtime modifiable.
The exact public branch passes Windows GUI and CLI MinGW Clang Release PGO compilation against upstream cbb512ee7a.
Earlier instrumented FE batching runs reduced busy-scene handle preparation from 733.84 to 526.33 ms accumulated over approximately five seconds: 31.56% lower work-normalized handle cost. These are CPU scope totals, not frame times or FPS percentages. Validation checked 72,907,776 gathered words with zero mismatches.
Earlier descriptor-cache validation checked 79,130,112 FE entries and 2,563,712 Tomodachi entries, with zero mismatches. Tomodachi did not exercise the targeted batching path in those captures.
The gameplay observation used a local PGO build with this optimization and an unrelated AV1 fix. This PR contains neither that video fix nor the private capture tools, game patches, logs or the discarded descriptor-copy experiment. The final settings label change has been checked separately from gameplay performance.
Related work
There is functional overlap with #717’s broader binding memo/page translation work and the FEFW-Stable source archive, which also bulk-reads arrays and reuses decoded/binding data. This PR is a narrower alternative, not a claim that the optimization area is new or that gains combine additively. Split-thread waits/upload batching in #805 and uniform-bank upload deduplication in #802 address different work.
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Added an experimental Vulkan texture-binding optimization setting, disabled by default and available in the renderer’s advanced settings. When enabled before starting a game, it may improve performance in CPU-limited scenes by reusing texture bindings and batching texture-handle reads. Changing the setting after a game has started will not affect that session.
The change adds an experimental setting for Vulkan texture-binding optimizations. It introduces bounded batched handle reads and a resource-epoch-based sampled-image descriptor cache, then connects both mechanisms to the graphics pipeline. A shader-cache test also adds NX2 debug-session cleanup.
Uses batched reads when enabled and falls back to scalar reads when batching is unavailable. Passes per-stage cache state to descriptor processing under specified conditions, and adds sampled images to the descriptor queue.
Shader-cache test cleanup
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Compute-environment test cleanup src/tests/video_core/shader_cache_v2_programs.cpp
The test starts an NX2 debug session and registers cleanup to clear rejected hashes and end the session.
sequenceDiagram
participant GraphicsPipeline
participant BatchedHandlesCursor
participant MemoryManager
participant PushImageDescriptors
participant ChunkCache
participant UpdateDescriptorQueue
GraphicsPipeline->>BatchedHandlesCursor: Read texture handles
BatchedHandlesCursor->>MemoryManager: TryReadHandleWords
MemoryManager-->>BatchedHandlesCursor: Return words or failure
GraphicsPipeline->>PushImageDescriptors: Pass texture descriptors and cache
PushImageDescriptors->>ChunkCache: Find or store descriptor chunks
PushImageDescriptors->>UpdateDescriptorQueue: Add sampled images
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zortos293/Lichii#1015 — Reports a slowdown in related texture reuse paths. This PR changes a related texture-binding path but does not establish that it addresses the reported regression.
Suggested reviewers:zortos293, camillelavey
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Do not invalidate when reusing a fallback sampler.
When the custom border-color budget is exhausted, HandleFor can repeatedly reach Emplace for an absent original key. Returning an existing fallback still changes the epoch, so the affected chunk cannot be stored and other cached chunks miss.
Move the invalidation after the fallback return. Budget release still invalidates cached handles when a custom variant can become available.
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Update Sampler::Emplace so it does not invalidate sampled resources when
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Large sampled-texture arrays repeatedly read handles and rebuild host descriptors for each draw. This adds two opt-in Vulkan optimizations and a saved Experimental texture binding optimizations checkbox under Graphics → Advanced. It defaults off, supports per-game overrides, and must be changed before starting the game.
In the tester’s FPS-unlocked Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave setup, enabling both optimizations in GPU Fast mode reportedly improves a busy free-roaming scene from approximately 40 to 50 FPS, an increase of up to 10 FPS. This is a single-tester gameplay observation, not a general benchmark or a claim of the same gain in Accurate mode or other games.
Updated against
nx2atcbb512ee7a, including the newer upstream draw memo and its #921 correctness fixes. Handle batching now runs inside the full-resolve fallback; memo hits keep upstream's path, and full resolves retain upstream's handle-read tracking. The FPS observation above predates upstream #858/#921; gains over this newer baseline need a fresh comparison.Implementation
Batching applies only to native Vulkan graphics arrays with at least 64 elements. Storage-derived/computed handles, secondary handles, unsupported strides, arithmetic wrap, syncpoint/shim memory and unmapped ranges retain scalar reads. The upstream storage-pointer exclusion is preserved. Buffers, writable images, usage tracking, image uploads, aliases, barriers, residency and sampler/view processing order retain their existing paths.
Copying ahead changes when concurrent guest writes are observed. Stable draw inputs remain an assumption; the validation below does not prove equivalence for every racing update. Keeping this opt-in allows further cross-game testing without changing default rendering behavior.
Settings and validation
The checkbox controls both paths through
experimental_texture_binding_optimizations; no environment variables are needed to enable it. It is saved through the existing renderer settings registry and disabled while a game runs.Developer validation remains available with the checkbox enabled:
LICHII_STABLE_IMAGE_BINDINGS_VALIDATE=1: rebuild cached descriptor hits and compare sampler/view/layout fields. A mismatch uses fresh output and disables further hits.LICHII_BATCHED_HANDLES_VALIDATE=1: compare gathered words against fresh original scalar reads before use. A mismatch returns the fresh word, discards the snapshot, logs the failure and disables later batching for the process.Verification
cbb512ee7a.The gameplay observation used a local PGO build with this optimization and an unrelated AV1 fix. This PR contains neither that video fix nor the private capture tools, game patches, logs or the discarded descriptor-copy experiment. The final settings label change has been checked separately from gameplay performance.
Related work
There is functional overlap with #717’s broader binding memo/page translation work and the FEFW-Stable source archive, which also bulk-reads arrays and reuses decoded/binding data. This PR is a narrower alternative, not a claim that the optimization area is new or that gains combine additively. Split-thread waits/upload batching in #805 and uniform-bank upload deduplication in #802 address different work.
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