Adds what testers reported in the Q&A thread and what our own runs
showed: confirming the GPU and the cache state, AC power and refresh
rate, the Windows exit code of an uncaught exception, Windows session
and scheduled-task start, Unity module placement and the MinGW DLLs,
a section on measuring performance, and the report fields.
Drops APS5_NO_MOUSE_CAPTURE, which main no longer has.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BywPXoZACVi8ALV4JKvuPZ
A report names the GPU as the log's `Selected GPU name=` line shows it, since AnyPS5 can fall back to llvmpipe without presentation support or pick another adapter on Windows (suggested by odntht on #6627).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BywPXoZACVi8ALV4JKvuPZ
Draft guide for running a title on AnyPS5: the build and conversion steps,
the environment variables to set for each run, what to read in the log and
the exit code, how to tell a stall from a crash, Windows-specific notes, and
what to include when reporting a result. Maintainers are asked what they need
from it in the Q&A discussion linked from the page.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BywPXoZACVi8ALV4JKvuPZ
A PS5 (firmware 13.60) reports CPU write 0x2 with CPU read 0x1, 0x80 with 0x40 and 0x200 with 0x100 after a map, sceKernelMprotect, sceKernelMtypeprotect or POSIX mprotect; GPU write 0x20 keeps GPU read 0x10 clear. sceKernelVirtualQuery and sceKernelQueryMemoryProtection now report the protection that way.
NVIDIA's Windows driver reads a host import of guest memory far slower than a buffer it allocated.
Since draw vertex and index ranges are bound in place from host imports (#2253, measured on Linux), Astro
Bot's Crash Site on Windows 11 with an RTX 5070 Ti spends 164 ms of every frame in draws on the GPU, and
45 ms with the ranges copied as before; with the same build, 4.71 fps in place against 7.52 copied. An
RTX 3060 shows the same (draws 32.3 against 24.3 ms per frame), while AMD's Windows driver reads them in
place about as fast as a copy (RX 9070 XT: 69.8 against 73.1 ms), so copying there only costs CPU.
The device decides once (DrawInputsInPlaceUsable, Context::drawInputsInPlace): ranges are copied with
VK_DRIVER_ID_NVIDIA_PROPRIETARY on Windows and bound in place everywhere else. APS5_DRAW_INPUTS_IN_PLACE=1
binds them in place and APS5_NO_DRAW_INPUTS_IN_PLACE=1 copies them on any device, the second winning.
agc_draw_inputs_in_place_driver checks the decision per driver and host; agc_draw_inputs_copied checks
that an aligned imported range is copied and its read not noted when the context copies, whatever the
inherited environment.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GN8FJFTedayRXLHythXkZ4
The MinGW libstdc++ reports a dangling symbolic link as missing and clears
the error, so std::filesystem::remove neither deletes it nor fails, and
remove_all loops forever over a tree that contains one. Remove reparse
points with DeleteFileW and RemoveDirectoryW and the fixture through the
shell; record the gap in the libs technical debt.
Adrià