Progress Report June 2021 - yuzu
Written by GoldenX86 and Honghoa on July 16 2021
Heya yuz-ers! Welcome to June’s progress report. This past month, we’ve had impressive CPU performance gains, the release of Project Reaper v1, critical audio fixes, an “unlimited” FPS toggle, tons of kernel changes, UI improvements, and more!
An old debt we owed since the release of the Texture Cache Rewrite was Project Texture Reaper, a GPU Cache Garbage Collector, originally started by Rodrigo and finished by Blinkhawk with new and very important optimizations.
This garbage collector has the task of freeing VRAM space by removing the least used resources (textures and buffers), targeting a range of 2 to 4GB of total used VRAM. This range has been decided by Blinkhawk after extensive testing.
It’s worth mentioning that GPUs with 2GB of VRAM or less will be handled by either the driver (in OpenGL) or yuzu (in Vulkan), diverting resources to shared VRAM (a portion of system RAM) as needed. For performance reasons, we strongly recommend a GPU with 4GB of VRAM or more.
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