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Summary

Fix Wonder NS2E getting stuck at 30 FPS by letting the present thread return without waiting for the next display frame.

Type of change

• Bug fix
• Game compatibility / game-support
• Performance
• New feature
• Refactor / cleanup
• CI / build
• Documentation

Related issues

Testing

• Tested on Windows
• Tested on Linux
• Tested on macOS
• Tested on NVIDIA
• Tested on AMD
• Tested on Intel

Games tested:

Mario Wonder NS2E: Doesn't limit to 30fps anymore
Tears of the Kingdom NS2E: Doesn't limit to 30fps in main menu anymore but after it detects in-game that stable 60fps arent reachable it locks to 30fps again

Checklist

• I built it locally and it compiles without new warnings
• I did not add any copyrighted game data, keys or firmware
• Docs updated if needed
• I added AI Disclosure if one was used

Screenshots / logs

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1568271783520637031/1568276163246170142/eglantine_EPaUe1OlkT.mp4?ex=6aef3a7e&is=6aede8fe&hm=4156c2de482ab3b0384e306a55fb0ec3552ca98785ccd9b76d40347278bdbca4&

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Presentation now queues frames by default without waiting for vertical synchronization. Buffers are released after the selected swap interval and GPU work are complete.
  • Blocking, vertically paced presentation remains available through a configuration option, with speed limiting enabled in that mode.
• Reliability
  • Presentation requests now report a resource error when a release fence cannot be allocated or the release queue is full.

[github-actions]

Retargeted to nx2-experimental for pre-build testing. It will be promoted to nx2 after validation.

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Walkthrough

INx2Vi2Session adds queued presentation, enabled by default unless EDEN_NX2_PRESENT_QUEUE begins with 0. Queued presents return scheduled release fences. The synchronous path retains vblank pacing, and both paths use shared swap-interval selection.

Changes: NX2 presentation timing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Nonzero syncpoint allocation src/core/hle/service/nvdrv/core/syncpoint_manager.h, src/core/hle/service/nvdrv/core/syncpoint_manager.cpp, src/tests/core/nx2_present_queue.cpp	TryAllocateSyncpoint returns no ID when allocation is exhausted and does not reserve ID 0. Tests cover exhaustion, ID reuse, and ID 0.
Queued release scheduling src/core/hle/service/nx2_present_queue.h, src/tests/core/nx2_present_queue.cpp, src/tests/CMakeLists.txt	The queue releases buffers in order after their deadlines and applicable GPU fences are ready. Tests cover timing, ordering, capacity, and shutdown.
Queued presentation integration src/core/hle/service/nx2_gsv.h, src/core/CMakeLists.txt	The present path can return a scheduled release fence. The session allocates and cleans up the release syncpoint and queue. Queued presentation skips blocking vblank pacing and the post-composition speed limiter.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant INx2Vi2Session
  participant SyncpointManager
  participant Nx2PresentReleaseQueue
  participant CoreTiming
  Client->>INx2Vi2Session: PresentClientBuffer
  INx2Vi2Session->>SyncpointManager: allocate release syncpoint
  INx2Vi2Session->>Nx2PresentReleaseQueue: queue deadline and GPU fence
  Nx2PresentReleaseQueue->>CoreTiming: schedule release check
  Nx2PresentReleaseQueue->>SyncpointManager: signal ready release
  INx2Vi2Session-->>Client: return release fence

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Possibly related issues

• Djihads80/Eglantine#493 — Reports an apparent Mario Kart World frame-rate cap; this change alters presentation pacing that can affect frame-rate decisions.
• Djihads80/Eglantine#588 — Reports frame rates and swap-interval behavior; this change alters how presentation releases are paced for requested swap intervals.

Possibly related PRs

• Djihads80/Eglantine#503 — Changes Switch 2 frame-ahead waiting and vsync pacing, which overlap with this PR’s presentation pacing changes.

Suggested labels: bug, game-support, performance, needs-testing

Suggested reviewers: takoroka

Merge Risk: Low · up to 87d9d

Frames may be corrupted in these cases. The change is mergeable with follow-up on release timing.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 87d9d

The change is contained to local graphics synchronization and bounds pending releases. Cleanup introduces a dependency that may prevent a session from closing when a required service is unavailable. No new privilege escalation or broader data-access capability was established.

Retained concerns

• Medium · reliability · inferred: Presentation-session teardown now requires successful service discovery. After a queue has been initialized, destruction resets it and performs a fresh blocking nvdrv lookup before closing existing display events. If that registration is absent, the lookup retries without a timeout or shutdown exit. The inspected guest-facing unregister handler can remove a supplied service name without an ownership check. This extends a preexisting video-session cleanup dependency to presentation sessions and can strand their cleanup; ordinary shutdown was not shown to remove the registration.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The changed state spans presentation sessions and the emulator-wide syncpoint pool. Queue capacity is session-local, but allocation consumes shared IDs, so resource pressure can affect other users of that pool. The inspected change does not establish additional host privileges or access outside graphics synchronization.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A conditional availability path is to initialize presentation, remove the nvdrv registration through the guest-facing unregister command, and close the presentation session. Its new cleanup lookup then cannot resolve while the registration remains absent. An analogous video-session path already existed, so this broadens affected cleanup paths rather than establishing a new privilege boundary bypass.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Guest-supplied valid fence IDs are checked before queue release. Out-of-range IDs represent an absent fence and skip that check. Returned release counters are globally addressable through the existing syncpoint query and event-wait interfaces; the inspected code does not attach a session identity to them.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Ordinary shutdown closes service servers before resetting the service manager. Server cleanup deletes sessions but does not itself unregister service names. Consequently, ordinary shutdown ordering alone does not demonstrate the missing-registration failure described above.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Give the allocated release syncpoint a lifetime-safe cleanup owner that does not require blocking service rediscovery during destruction. Separately, define whether shutdown signaling means cancellation or completed buffer consumption before strengthening the release contract around final-consumer completion.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 71.43% 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.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check		The title describes the 30 FPS issue that queued presentation aims to fix.

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Resolution

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @src/core/hle/service/nx2_gsv.h:
- Around line 1786-1789: Update the queued release path around PresentQueue and
QueueRelease so its release fence remains pending until the GPU fence for the
frame passes, rather than being signaled based only on timing. Preserve the
nonblocking present path required for suspended GPU channels.
- Around line 1855-1858: Update NvdrvSyncpoints::AllocateSyncpoint so pool
exhaustion reports failure without reserving or returning syncpoint ID 0. In
QueueRelease, check the allocation result before calling GetGuestSyncpointValue
or creating the timer, and follow the existing failure-handling path without
creating a release fence for an invalid syncpoint.
- Around line 1701-1708: Update the release cleanup loop in the m_release_timer
block to stop when the syncpoint has reached or advanced beyond m_release_value,
using a wrap-safe signed distance check. Increment only while the target is
still ahead, and preserve the existing unscheduling and syncpoint-freeing
behavior.

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