Pacing: when driver vsync owns the frame cadence the blocking Swap IS the
game's clock, but the unchanged-frame present skip bypassed it - every
skipped swap silently unpaced that frame. WipEout 3 at 30 Hz sim renders
every other vblank, so half the frames ran unpaced: the game sped to a
fluctuating ~2x with pitched-up CD audio and visible frameskip, EXCEPT while
the FPS readout was on, whose persistent OSD line forced a swap per frame
and masked the hole ("the moment I do fps readout off it goes stupid fast").
gl_renderer_set_swap_paces(), derived in apply_present_cadence(), disables
the skip whenever the swap paces. Real hardware scans out every vblank
regardless of change.
Bezel: replace the flat tiling with a mounted-screen treatment - deep-tinted
ground, the tiled marks at watermark subtlety (0.22), a distance-field shade
(rounded-rect SDF against the live viewport rect) running near-black beside
the game to a faint pattern at the outer edges, and a resolution-scaled
hairline seam terminating the viewport. The 200 ms fade-in from black on
viewport-rect changes folds into the shade endpoints. Game framebuffer
untouched; all of it derives procedurally from the viewport rect.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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