Intel's SPIR-V shader compiler is broken. For now, skip compiling any compute pipelines until they fix this issue.
This is not a perfect workaround, as there are a small subset of non-compute pipelines that still cause it to crash, but this should cover the majority of crashes.
It is unfortunate that even with a test case reported 6 months ago the issue has not been fixed in favor of fixing "the most popular games and apps".
Intel, you can do better than this.
On AMD a subpixel offset of 1/512 of the texel size is applied to the texture coordinates at a ImageGather call to ensure the rounding at the texel centers is done the same way as in Maxwell or other Nvidia architectures.
See https://www.reedbeta.com/blog/texture-gathers-and-coordinate-precision/ for more details why this might be necessary.
This should fix shadow artifacts at object edges in Zelda: Breath of the Wild (#9957, #6956).
Some games have very tight scheduling requirements for their audio which can't really be matched on the host, adding a constant to the reported value helps to provide some leeway.
MicroSleep allows the processor to pause for a "short" amount of time (in the microsecond range). This is useful for spin-waiting that does not require nanosecond precision.
This uses the new TPAUSE instruction introduced on Intel's newest processors as part of the waitpkg instructions. For CPUs that do not support waitpkg instructions, this is equivalent to yield().
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Fernando Sahmkow