Load modern texpage/texupload PNG replacements independently of DuckStation source. Integrate pack folders and options with mods, preserve native VRAM, and validate GL rendering, format matching, dump safety, and upload invalidation.
With every drawn vertex precise, a title can still show cracks where the game
culled a face on its integer winding. R4's road emitter runs NCLIP on each
far row and skips rows whose native height rounds to 0. Natively their
neighbours meet at the same integer y. With PGXP they sit at their exact y,
and the skipped row becomes a strip of sky across the road beyond the start
gantry, at 4K and in 2P. tri_mixed cannot see this: the missing face draws
no triangle.
Precise culling (DuckStation's "PGXP culling", minimal footprint):
- While geometry correction is armed, gte_nclip computes the exact
determinant of the three SXY register shadows (pgxp_gte_nclip_precise:
live, current words, the GPU's own truncation agreement and tolerance).
When its sign is nonzero and differs from the integer MAC0's, MAC0 takes
that sign, with the rounded exact doubled area (at least 1) as magnitude.
FLAG keeps the integer overflow bits.
- It changes guest-visible MAC0, so it is a `culling` option of
psx.enhancement.pgxp, false in the builtin, with no [video] key, so netplay
(which clears every mod) never runs it. It needs geometry correction.
It is held off in every pass compared against another execution: the
speculative and replay passes, and the whole overlay shadow diff
(psx_overlay_shadow_diff_active), interpreter pass included.
- Counters whenever geometry correction is armed: nclip_precise,
nclip_disagree (exact sign differs: the culled-face crack exposure),
nclip_corrected. TCP pgxp {"culling":0|1}; env PSX_PGXP_CULLING.
Session arming in one place (src/pgxp_session.cpp, psx_pgxp_session_arm):
main.cpp's renderer setup now calls the same code the test drives. The arming
takes the mod request (reads and clears it), so a session with an empty plan
cannot inherit an earlier session's request even if the reset were skipped.
pgxp_session_test now links the real mod runtime, the builtin plugin and the
builtin manifest, and covers:
- a default-on override;
- a netplay clear, with and without the reset;
- the off switch;
- the options;
- env overrides;
- pgxp_mod_only.
[video] pgxp_mod_only (game.toml, default false): for a title that ships
PGXP through the mod, the mod is the one switch. The [video]
geometry_correction / perspective_texturing / pgxp_cpu_mode values are not
applied, from game.toml or the player's settings.toml. The launcher also
hides its Perspective textures row (has_geometry_precision = 0). That row
showed "off" while a default-on mod corrected textures, and it could keep
texture correction on after the player switched the mod off.
geom_correction also reports texture_correction and the culling switch.
R4, Helter Skelter: 28.7% of NCLIPs disagree in sign. With culling, the
ladder is gone in same-frame 4K captures (1P straight and crest, 2P VS), and
the game emits about 24% more triangles. Its packet buffers peak at 60%.
fp_identity over 12000 frames: stock, PGXP off, and PGXP on with culling off
are IDENTICAL; with culling on, the RAM writes differ from the attract race
on, while cyc/mmio/mc agree throughout.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adapt the 8 MB RAM work from the rbengine branch into a master-targeted change. The builtin package is disabled by default, activation requests expanded RAM before memory init, and runtime/state/digest/dispatch paths respect the live RAM map.
psx.enhancement.pgxp (game_id \"*\") in the builtin catalog: one Mods-page
toggle that arms sub-pixel vertex precision + perspective-correct
texturing with the user-validated defaults (tolerance clamp 0.5px), plus
a cpu-mode option. Default off = the faithful floor (G1.9). Fully
effective on PGXP-variant binaries; reduced-but-safe coverage elsewhere
(the always-emitted swc2 tier + interpreters, validate-on-read).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Loading acceleration is a property of the emulated hardware, not of any
particular disc, so having each title carry its own copy of the same two
manifests and plugins was duplication waiting to drift.
- target game_id "*" now matches every game. An empty target list still
matches nothing, so a malformed manifest fails loudly as before.
- mods/builtin/packages ships psx.enhancement.fast-loading and
psx.enhancement.cd-speed: independent host-pacing and CD-timing mods,
each a free integer multiplier (1..1024) plus a tickbox that uses
disabled_by to grey out the field it overrides.
- runtime/src/mod_builtin_speed.c registers both activation plugins.
- runtime.cmake stages mods/builtin into every game's output beside its own
catalog, before the game's own copy, so a title can still override an id.
Titles adopting these should delete their per-game copies; keeping both
would show two of each mod.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Matthew Stanley