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Retain frontend INFO/WARN/ERROR, driver errors, startup trace and klog.
Restore frontend log setup after rebuilt arguments, mark its build identity,
and retrieve it with each run. Remove periodic frame and button chatter;
log menu texture handover once. Profiling is opt-in, bounded and written only
after capture; validate per-frame partitions and presentation-return cadence.
Verified: bash tools/verify.sh (all gates, 28 tests); fresh vendor patch
replay/idempotence (86 edits). Two 60-second captures completed: first at
59.940238 FPS with maximum interval 16.905813 ms; fresh frontend logging
exposed three late texture-probe stalls, then those probes were limited.
Final refined build launched with zero refusals, logged handover once and
returned 0 before profiling completed; no final timing claim is made.
User requested ending performance investigation and proceeding to XMB.
Evidence: evidence/vulkan-buffered-logging/{capture,expectation}.json
Replay: python3 tools/evidence.py compare evidence/
Console: bash tools/run-title.sh --no-build --gpu-profile 60 --watch 80
Analysis: python3 tools/analyze-gpu-profile.py klog/gpu-profile-<stamp>.tsv
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Active work
Updated: 2026-09-19
Now
The user ended further performance investigation and requested committing the logging work, then enabling XMB as the default menu and testing it on PS5. That is the next task; do not continue optimizing RGUI frame timing.
Logging step
Routine periodic frame/render/API-success messages and successful input-button
traces are removed; bounded startup diagnostics and all errors remain. Menu
handover/staging-ask probes now log once. retroarch.log is explicitly enabled
after argument/config processing and records this build's identity; the old file
had been stale because this port rebuilds arguments. INFO/WARN/ERROR output,
Vulkan refusals/assertions in trace.txt, and host kernel capture remain enabled.
Profiling is off by default. tools/run-title.sh --gpu-profile 60 --watch 80
opts into 120 warmup frames followed by up to 60 seconds of in-memory timing.
The report is written only after measurement and the one-shot control is consumed.
The runner checks idle state before upload/launch, retrieves retroarch.log and
optional timing, and rejects a frontend log without the expected build identity.
Definitions/replay: docs/GPU_TIMING.md, tools/analyze-gpu-profile.py.
Verified results and limits
- First buffered run: 3,597 frames / 60.0098 seconds, 59.940238 FPS; maximum frame interval 16.905813 ms, no presentation-return gap above 20 ms. Owner: "Very smooth", stable estimated refresh 59.941 Hz after startup.
- Restoring fresh frontend logging exposed three ~100 ms texture-update stalls from remaining first-four-call diagnostics. They were reduced to one initial message. The logger now contains this build's identity and Vulkan startup.
- Final refined build launched with zero driver refusals, logged each menu
handover probe once, and returned from
rarch_mainwith status 0 before the profile completed. The runner rejected the missing report. No final timing result is claimed. The user requested proceeding to XMB instead of more tests. evidence/vulkan-buffered-logging/contains both completed timing analyses and the final startup/logging evidence, including that incomplete final capture.- All five
tools/verify.shgates PASS; 28 tests. Fresh vendor patch replay and second-pass idempotence PASS: 86 edits. - Installed identity:
a6063c61145fb42ac409a1d78026f29865673e4575e9a6afc3500e4abccc4f66. - Fresh frontend logs retain the existing audio-driver initialization errors and missing configuration-save directory error. These are outside this logging/menu step, not Vulkan failures; audio/config persistence are not claimed complete.
Presentation measurements are CPU timestamps at this driver's synchronous present return, not hardware vblank counters. RGUI's refresh estimate averages frame intervals; startup frames depress it. No guarantee for other workloads.
Preserved GPU acceptance and operating notes
Correct GPU RGUI is recorded in evidence/vulkan-fragment-inputs/: RGBA conversion
947134d, driver compiler fix 6f0ce0d, owner-confirmed correct colours and no
flicker/triangles. PS5_Vulkan was not modified in this logging step. video_vulkan
uses statically linked libps5vk; video_ps5 stays registered/selectable.
The user authorized necessary driver fixes with documentation and a commit in
PS5_Vulkan, and console uploads/runs without further permission. Never interrupt
an existing title to test. Raw captures remain in ignored klog/. Extract the
last bss check= substring and verify identity before reading appended traces.
No partial switch to the CPU route if the GPU refusal gate cannot be satisfied.
XMB preparation: the current build disables HAVE_XMB, only RGUI fonts are staged.
Official assets were fetched into ignored vendor/retroarch-assets at
73106363e14e34c08a5854b4cfbc29f184e3b783; monochrome icons/font are available.
No XMB implementation change has landed yet.