[Mcm190]

Star Fox stopped on "Launching..." at 0 FPS, then rendered only black once it booted.

• nx2_gsv: report 4 KiB native image alignment. The SDK rejected the window buffers (8 KiB required, 4 KiB offset), dropped the window and later called through a null pointer.
• audio: implement hwopus command 100 (OpenHardwareAudioCodecClient) and the hwacod client/manager it opens, decoding Opus and multistream Opus with libopus into the shared completion ring.
• lower_to_maxwell: lower TXD with a uniform-register handle (0xf6c) to TXD.B, I2F.U16 from a uniform register (0xd06), and ULDC U8/S8/U16/S16 with alignment matching the width.
• kepler_compute: let the upscale fallback convert formats when no same-format pair exists (Star Fox: R16G16B16A16 to A8B8G8R8).

Known issue: about a minute into gameplay it crashes with SIGFPE in RADV under TextureCacheRuntime::ReinterpretImage.

Fixes #533 (boot and black screen only)

Signed-off-by: Mcm190

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Gets Star Fox (#533) from a hang on "Launching..." to rendering in-game. It still crashes about a minute into gameplay (see Known issues), so I'm opening this as a draft.

What was wrong

1. Boot hang: we reported 8 KiB alignment for native images, but Star Fox puts its window buffers at a 4 KiB offset. The SDK rejected them, removed the native window, and later called through a null pointer while acquiring a frame.
2. Audio: after that, hwopus command 100 (OpenHardwareAudioCodecClient) was auto-stubbed without returning the interface, so the SDK called through a null object.
3. Black screen: frames were being presented, but every one was empty:
   • Scene passes use TXD with the texture handle in a uniform register (0xf6c), which wasn't lowered, so those draws were skipped.
   • The final pass into the window image uses I2F.U16 from a uniform register (0xd06) and ULDC.U16 at 2-byte-aligned offsets (0xab9). Both were rejected, so the window image was never written.
   • The game's tensor upscaler (1080p to 4K) can't run, and the upscale fallback only handled same-format pairs. Star Fox goes R16G16B16A16 to A8B8G8R8, so the 4K image stayed empty.

Changes

• nx2_gsv.h: native image alignment is 4 KiB instead of being derived from block height.
• audio/nx2_hardware_audio_codec_*: new hwacod client and manager behind hwopus command 100. They decode Opus and multistream Opus through libopus into the shared completion ring and signal the completion event.
• lower_to_maxwell.h: lowerings for 0xf6c (TXD with a bindless handle, to TXD.B), 16-bit 0xd06, and narrow-width ULDC with width-matched alignment.
• kepler_compute.cpp: when no same-format upscale pair exists, the fallback converts between the formats at the title slots (cbuf0+0x90 to +0xa0). Existing same-format matches are tried first and behave as before.

Testing

Star Fox NUP (0400E88025B1A000, base + update), docked, Vulkan on RADV, Ryzen 7 5800X, GPU accuracy Low.

• Boots, decodes audio (real PCM), shows "The Lylat System" intro and gets into the first mission at about 30 FPS.
• Mario Kart World was boot-tested with the alignment change only. The shader and upscale changes haven't been regression-tested on other titles yet.

Before	After (intro)	After (in mission)

Known issues

• About a minute into gameplay: SIGFPE (integer divide by zero) in RADV's radv_get_binning_state, under vkCmdCopyBufferToImage from TextureCacheRuntime::ReinterpretImage. Not investigated yet.
• The upscale is a plain bilinear copy, not the game's network, so the image is softer than on hardware.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added support for hardware-assisted Opus audio decoding.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved shader handling for additional uniform loads, texture-gradient operations, and numeric conversions.
  • Fixed texture upscaling in cases where input and output formats differ, with improved handling of supported formats.
  • Corrected image layout alignment calculations.

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Walkthrough

The changes add an NX2 hardware audio codec service, extend Ampere shader lowering, update compute texture upscaling to handle supported format conversions, and set NX2 image-layout alignment to 4 KiB.

Changes: NX2 hardware audio codec

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Codec data contracts and service entry src/core/hle/service/audio/nx2_hardware_audio_codec_types.h, src/core/hle/service/audio/nx2_hardware_audio_codec_client.h, src/core/CMakeLists.txt, src/core/hle/service/audio/hardware_opus_decoder_manager.*	Adds codec and shared-memory data structures, declares the client service, includes the new sources in core, and exposes the client through the existing Opus decoder manager.
Client sizing and manager creation src/core/hle/service/audio/nx2_hardware_audio_codec_client.cpp	Adds instance and manager work-buffer sizing commands and validates inputs before creating a manager and returning its ID, object, and completion event.
Decoder task execution src/core/hle/service/audio/nx2_hardware_audio_codec_manager.*	Adds Opus instance management and task execution that decodes packets into shared memory and reports task completion through a ring and event.

Ampere shader lowering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Uniform-bank and constant-load handling src/shader_recompiler/frontend/ampere/lower_to_maxwell.h	Recognizes additional uniform-bank opcodes, accepts narrower uniform constant loads, and supports uniform-source 16-bit integer-to-float conversion.
Bound and bindless gradient textures src/shader_recompiler/frontend/ampere/lower_to_maxwell.h	Adds bindless TXD dispatch and validation while retaining the bound path; emits the corresponding bound or bindless Maxwell form.

Compute texture upscaling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Upscale format selection and blit surfaces src/video_core/engines/kepler_compute.cpp	Adds format mappings and a conversion-enabled retry for upscale pair selection. Each blit surface uses the render-target format for its own texture.

NX2 image layout alignment

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Image layout alignment src/core/hle/service/nx2_gsv.h	Sets the calculated image-layout alignment to 4 KiB for all layouts.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant IHardwareOpusDecoderManager
  participant INx2HardwareAudioCodecClient
  participant INx2HardwareAudioCodecManager
  participant CompletionEvent
  IHardwareOpusDecoderManager->>INx2HardwareAudioCodecClient: OpenHardwareAudioCodecClient
  INx2HardwareAudioCodecClient->>INx2HardwareAudioCodecManager: OpenManager creates manager
  INx2HardwareAudioCodecManager->>CompletionEvent: Execute signals completion

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Suggested reviewers: takoroka, camillelavey

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to fbd11

The new cross-format upscale path can pick the wrong texture pair, or decode a non-float 16-bit-per-channel source as float. This could leave Star Fox, or other titles that hit this path, with incorrect colors or a skipped upscale. These issues should be addressed before merge or explicitly accepted. The boot and black-screen fix and the audio codec additions have no confirmed blocking defects in this review.

Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to fbd11

The new audio interface performs writes to guest-selected memory without establishing that the selected pages are writable. Handle ownership and size checks constrain access, but memory authorization and recovery after partial execution need clarification.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: The new codec path treats mappedness as sufficient authorization for writes into a caller-selected process range. OpenManager does not establish writable-page permissions, while manager construction, PCM output, and completion publication use direct memory writes that do not enforce those guest permissions. This creates a path for service-mediated modification of mapped guest regions that may be read-only. Typed process handles and transfer-memory ownership constrain the target; unauthorized cross-process access and host compromise are not established.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The direct memory target is the nominated process's guest address space. Invocation requires access to the Opus service and valid typed process and same-owner transfer-memory handles. A process handle alone is not evidence of unauthorized cross-process access; effects through aliased mappings and broader permissions were not established. Native decoding executes in the emulator process, but no host-escape path was demonstrated.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A guest possessing the required handles can select a mapped range and completion offset unrelated to that range's write permissions. Manager creation immediately writes ring metadata there; execution adds completion and PCM writes. The missing permission check is introduced through this new access path, although the underlying direct-memory helpers already existed.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The implementation checks manager, instance, and IO identifiers; limits input and output capacities; checks available completion entries; and validates the copied packet length before native decoding. Block-memory operations also reject addresses outside the process address space. These controls counter simple layout-based host overrun paths, but do not establish writable-region authorization.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Execution is not batch-atomic: decoder state and PCM output may change before completion publication fails, and earlier completions remain committed. A completion-write failure returns before the final event signal. The available evidence does not define retry, slot ownership, or guest publication-ordering guarantees, so recovery remains uncertain rather than a demonstrated broader security failure.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Establish permission-aware authorization for the registered input, output, and completion regions, including their mapping lifetime. Define slot ownership, completion publication ordering, and partial-batch recovery so retries cannot silently reuse advanced decoder state or strand completed work without notification.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 21.43% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Title check		The title names the Star Fox fix and the boot and rendering goal, which matches the main thrust of the changeset and the PR objectives. The changeset adds the NX2 hardware audio codec (hwopus command …
Linked Issues check		Issue #533 requires Star Fox to boot. The PR reports that Star Fox boots, decodes audio, displays the intro, and reaches the first mission. The changed alignment, hwopus command 100, shader lowering…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes remain within issue #533 scope. Native-image alignment supports window creation. The hardware audio codec prevents the boot-time null interface. Maxwell lowerings and format conversion pro…

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Explanation

The title names the Star Fox fix and the boot and rendering goal, which matches the main thrust of the changeset and the PR objectives. The changeset adds the NX2 hardware audio codec (hwopus command 100), native-image alignment changes, shader lowerings, and upscale fallback changes that serve that goal. The title is concise and specific, and it does not describe anything absent from the change. It mentions the linked issue number, which is minor noise but acceptable. The PR objectives state the fix covers boot and black screen only, and the title says 'past boot and rendering', which is slightly broader than the stated scope because the PR reports a later gameplay crash as a known issue.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

Issue #533 requires Star Fox to boot. The PR reports that Star Fox boots, decodes audio, displays the intro, and reaches the first mission. The changed alignment, hwopus command 100, shader lowerings, and format-converting upscale fallback directly address the reported launch hang and black output. The later RADV SIGFPE is declared as a known issue and is outside the stated boot requirement.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The changes remain within issue #533 scope. Native-image alignment supports window creation. The hardware audio codec prevents the boot-time null interface. Maxwell lowerings and format conversion produce the missing rendered frames. The audio, shader, and upscale code are supporting implementation for the reported boot and rendering behavior. No unrelated change is identified.

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Docstring coverage is 21.43% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 14 functions across 10 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

Resolution

Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Review comments at @src/video_core/engines/kepler_compute.cpp:
- Line 948: Update the pair-selection flow around the input/output checks to
test whether the pair at offsets 0x90 and 0xa0 is convertible before running the
generic scan. Use that pair when convertible; otherwise retain the scan as the
fallback, so a same-format match elsewhere cannot override the convertible pair.
- Around line 907-912: Update the mixed-format path’s rt_format selection so
R16G16B16A16 uses the TIC component type to select the matching render-target
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• src/core/hle/service/audio/nx2_hardware_audio_codec_client.cpp
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Account for TIC component types.

The mixed-format path maps the base R16G16B16A16 format to R16G16B16A16_FLOAT, but TIC component types support non-float variants. If the title-4 input at slot 0x90 uses one of those variants, the blit can decode the source with the wrong format and produce incorrect colors.

Use the TIC component types when selecting the render-target format, or reject non-float R16G16B16A16 inputs.

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Review comment at @src/video_core/engines/kepler_compute.cpp around lines 907 -
912:
Update the mixed-format path’s rt_format selection so R16G16B16A16 uses the TIC
component type to select the matching render-target format, or explicitly reject
non-float variants before blitting. Preserve correct handling of float inputs
and avoid decoding non-float inputs as R16G16B16A16_FLOAT.

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Check the convertible title 4 pair before the generic scan.

The generic scan at lines 931-946 runs unless the pair at 0x90/0xa0 is a valid same-format pair. A convertible mixed-format pair fails that check, so the scan still runs. If the scan finds a same-format pair in 0x80..0x11c, it sets input and output to that pair. The conversion fallback at lines 948-954 then does not run. The blit can use the unrelated pair, or line 955 can return false when that pair's format has no render-target mapping.

A valid same-format pair at 0x90/0xa0 does not reach this path, because the scan is skipped in that case.

Prefer the convertible 0x90/0xa0 pair over the generic scan. Keep the scan as the fallback when that pair is not convertible. This order also changes the selected pair for any title that has a convertible 0x90/0xa0 pair and a same-format scan match.

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Review comment at @src/video_core/engines/kepler_compute.cpp at line 948:
Update the pair-selection flow around the input/output checks to test whether
the pair at offsets 0x90 and 0xa0 is convertible before running the generic
scan. Use that pair when convertible; otherwise retain the scan as the fallback,
so a same-format match elsewhere cannot override the convertible pair.

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[pretend7979]

#532 Does not have these issues. Waiting for merge. - Well unless it's specific to NVIDIA hardware.