Main menu and tutorial render · playability unverified
The title advances from its intro to a correctly rendered main menu with character models, textures, lighting and colours, and on into a tutorial scene. Fixes covered Gen5 single-sample texture addressing, layered render targets and scanout channel order. Gameplay itself has not been verified.
Main-menu median: 9.4 FPS (9.0–9.5), versus 4.9 FPS before; 45 one-second window-counter samples after warmup. RTX 3070 Ti, 1080p output, game-controlled internal resolution. All samples remain below 15 FPS. Tutorial performance was not retested.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
Result
Each entry names the release that includes the reported changes. Work not yet included in a published release is marked as a development build. Dates and FPS remain those of the original runs.
October 10 menu check: 9.4 FPS median (9.0–9.5) over 45 seconds, versus 4.9 FPS before. Resource coherence fixes, bounded GPU readbacks, volume reuse and asynchronous batching reduce repeated work. An intermediate stencil-discard regression was removed and dense grass is visible again. Sampled failure counters are zero; stable 15 FPS and universal rendering correctness remain unverified.
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The layout converter now copies a full 16-byte horizontal run whenever its address equation proves those bytes are contiguous, instead of moving one pixel at a time. Buffer-cache eviction stopped scanning all 4,096 entries, adjacent guest pages are watched in groups, and completed Vulkan buffers are recycled.
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Resource checkpoints stopped carrying unused scalar-load history, and full scalar analysis avoids redundant scans on forward visits. Isolated fixtures got 9–45% cheaper, but matched game samples were effectively unchanged — 157 ms in the menu against 154.5 ms in the control — and the report says so plainly.
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The title could stop on its first black frame or part-way through resource loading while its process and audio threads stayed alive: the loading thread waited forever after a file read returned an I/O error. Handling GPU-watched file reads correctly cleared the stall.
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With Gen5 single-sample texture addressing, layered render targets and scanout channel order corrected, the menu renders properly with its character models, textures and lighting. Profiling put the cost in the host graphics backend — resource preparation, guest-to-Vulkan copies and synchronisation — rather than in pipeline compilation.
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Frames produced by the emulator itself during the runs above.
Less transfer work, with the grass preserved
October 10, 2026 · Development build
Wider tile copies, cheaper eviction and grouped page watches
September 29, 2026 · Release 0.3.3
Scalar bookkeeping trimmed, with no frame-rate gain to show
September 29, 2026 · Release 0.3.3
An indefinite wait during loading, fixed
September 28, 2026 · Release 0.3.3
A correct main menu, and where the time goes
September 28, 2026 · Release 0.3.3
5
Recorded runs
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
0.3.6
Current build
October 30, 2026
Intro / menus
Result
Intro and menus render
Playthrough reports carry the date the maintainer confirmed them. Every timing refers to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti development machine and will differ on other hardware. Game content is supplied locally and is never distributed here.
