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The AMD rule from #448 (landed through #679) keeps ASTC images with uneven BC block mips as the GPU decoder's RGBA8 on AMD drivers, RADV included. That costs 4-16x the BC size.

On a Steam Deck this is the biggest single memory cost:

• The hardware is RADV, an integrated RDNA2 GPU, and a 4 GiB carve-out that shares system RAM with everything else (~11.5 GiB visible).
• In Ocarina of Time, two ASTC 8x8 formats (60 and 71) in that path took ~1.9 GB as RGBA8 against ~113 MB of guest data while an area loads.
• During loads the system dropped to ~150-250 MiB available. earlyoom killed the emulator twice there: once loading the save, once walking out of Link's house into Kokiri Forest.

IsUnevenMipRgba8Astc now returns false on integrated GPUs and on cards with less than 6 GiB of device-local memory, so those images keep BC1/BC3. Discrete cards with 6 GiB or more keep RGBA8 as before, so the RX 6600 XT (8 GB) case the rule was made for doesn't change.

A possible follow-up that would also fix large cards without RGBA8 is NotRexed/Hookshot PR #705. It resizes these textures to block-aligned sizes and trims the uneven tail before the BC encode. I haven't ported it.

Testing

Steam Deck OLED, SteamOS 3.9, Mesa 26.2 RADV, Ocarina of Time (0400486024DEC000) build E0F3CCFA, handheld, 1x.

Memory, measured while walking Link out of his house into Kokiri Forest (scripted input through the debug server, peak values sampled every second):

	GTT peak	RAM in use + swap, peak
RGBA8 (current), 3 runs	3785 / 3789 / 3737 MiB	16.4 / 16.4 / 17.4 GB
BC (same rule disabled), 3 runs	2616 / 2346 / 2285 MiB	16.0 / 15.8 / 16.6 GB
This change, 2 runs	1574 / 2128 MiB	—

Per-image accounting with a temporary log (not part of this PR), at the load peak:

• RGBA8: 594 images, 3355 MiB host / 927 MiB guest.
• BC: 927 images, 616 MiB host / 483 MiB guest.

Image check (the #448 symptom): no dark grid lines with BC. I compared full-resolution captures of the same camera position in Kokiri Forest, RGBA8 against BC, from the balcony looking over the village floor, top-down and at the canopy, and the terrain looks the same. I could not reproduce #448's exact distant-terrain spot, and I have no other integrated or small AMD GPUs to test (e.g. RDNA3 iGPUs).

Build and unit tests: tests and ctest pass (5/5). Testing was done on ad477ef1f + this change; the branch is rebased onto the current nx2 (cbb512ee7) without conflicts.

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• Bug Fixes
  • Uneven-mip RGBA8 ASTC handling now avoids integrated GPUs and devices with less than 6 GiB of device-local heap, improving compatibility on systems with limited graphics memory.
  • The memory threshold accounts for configured VRAM limits, so the decision reflects the available device-local heap rather than memory reported after a reserve is deducted.

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The device records the selected main heap size after applying the configured heap limit. The uneven-mip RGBA8 ASTC predicate excludes integrated GPUs and devices with less than 6 GiB of device-local heap.

Changes: ASTC eligibility

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track device-local heap size src/video_core/vulkan_common/vulkan_device.h, src/video_core/vulkan_common/vulkan_device.cpp	Device exposes and stores the selected main heap size after applying the configured heap limit.
Device eligibility check src/video_core/renderer_vulkan/vk_texture_cache.cpp	IsUnevenMipRgba8Astc returns false for integrated GPUs and devices with less than 6 GiB of device-local heap.

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A data point for discrete cards with 8 GB on RADV, which this PR keeps on RGBA8:

RX 580 8 GB (Polaris10, RADV Mesa 26.2.5), Ryzen 5 4600G, Linux. Ocarina of Time, Kokiri Forest centre, GPU accuracy Low, 1x. The build is #917 (#717 on nx2) plus Polaris fixes, which includes #679.

• With the RGBA8 rule active on RADV: 15.3 fps, p50 55 ms. The back thread spends 123 ms/s in fill image views.
• With RADV removed from IsUnevenMipRgba8Astc, so these images stay BC3: 22.5 fps, p50 44 ms. fill image views drops to 39 ms/s.

On an older build-117 stack the same rule took us from about 20 to 5.5-7.8 fps.

So on this card the cost is not only memory: it is a large CPU/GPU cost even with 8 GB of VRAM. Excluding RADV entirely (or Polaris/GFX8 at least) might be worth considering. I did not see the dark terrain lines from #448 on the RX 580 with BC3. The change I used is one line: drop VK_DRIVER_ID_MESA_RADV from the driver check (fork branch blackxzin/Lichii:amd/oot-rx580-917, commit 430983a).

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Pushed a fix for the CodeRabbit finding: GetDeviceLocalMemory() is a budget with up to 1 GiB taken off as a reserve, so a 6 GiB card would have read about 5.25 GiB and lost the RGBA8 path. The threshold now uses a new Device::GetDeviceLocalHeapSize(), the size of the largest device-local heap (EDEN_NX2_VRAM_LIMIT_MIB still applies, so small-card tests behave the same). Integrated GPUs are unchanged.

Testing: tests builds and ctest passes 5/5. On the Steam Deck, the same change on top of #1028 + #823 ran 4 outdoor runs in Ocarina of Time (Kokiri Forest, standing then panning) without crashes, with the uneven ASTC images still on BC. The Deck takes the integrated-GPU branch, so the new heap-size comparison is build-checked only. I have no discrete card to run it on.

On @blackxzin's RX 580 numbers: the dark lines in #448 were found on the Windows AMD driver (RX 6600 XT), and RADV was added to the rule by analogy. On RADV no one has reported them yet. You saw none on the RX 580 with BC3, and I saw none on the Steam Deck with BC (four 1080p captures in Kokiri Forest, including distant terrain from the balcony). Meanwhile RGBA8 costs you 15.3 → 22.5 fps even with 8 GB. So dropping VK_DRIVER_ID_MESA_RADV from the driver check looks justified. I have kept this PR to the memory guard, because I can only test an integrated RADV GPU, and that is already on BC here. If the maintainers prefer, I can add the RADV change here or open it as a separate PR.

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