These changes should help in reducing crashes/drivers panics that may
occur due to synchronization issues between the shader completion and
later access of the decoded texture.
Users may want to fall back to the CPU ASTC texture decoder due to hangs
and crashes that may be caused by keeping the GPU under compute heavy
loads for extended periods of time. This is especially the case in games
such as Astral Chain which make extensive use of ASTC textures.
ASTC texture decoding is currently handled by a CPU decoder for GPU's without native ASTC decoding support (most desktop GPUs). This is the cause for noticeable performance degradation in titles which use the format extensively.
This commit adds support to accelerate ASTC decoding using a compute shader on OpenGL for GPUs without native support.
The current texture cache has several points that hurt maintainability
and performance. It's easy to break unrelated parts of the cache
when doing minor changes. The cache can easily forget valuable
information about the cached textures by CPU writes or simply by its
normal usage.The current texture cache has several points that hurt
maintainability and performance. It's easy to break unrelated parts
of the cache when doing minor changes. The cache can easily forget
valuable information about the cached textures by CPU writes or simply
by its normal usage.
This commit aims to address those issues.
ameerj