diff --git a/src/xenia/gpu/command_processor.cc b/src/xenia/gpu/command_processor.cc
index cac3a14a2..1d2afb53b 100644
--- a/src/xenia/gpu/command_processor.cc
+++ b/src/xenia/gpu/command_processor.cc
@@ -92,7 +92,9 @@ DEFINE_bool(
 
 DEFINE_bool(
     log_ui_draws, false,
-    "Reverse-engineering aid: arm a UI DRAW-ORDER capture with F10. Writes "
+    "OBSOLETE — the UI draw-order capture is armed by F10 unconditionally now, "
+    "so this flag is no longer needed and is kept only so old command lines "
+    "still parse. Reverse-engineering aid: F10 writes "
     "every draw of the next few swapped frames to xenia_re_ui_draws_NN.log in "
     "SUBMISSION ORDER and undeduplicated, with each draw's bound texture base "
     "and dimensions. For recovering the paint order of a 2D screen, which "
@@ -194,9 +196,14 @@ void NoteUiDrawCaptureSwap() {
 }
 
 void RequestUiDrawCapture() {
-  if (!cvars::log_ui_draws) {
-    return;
-  }
+  // No cvar gate. It used to require `log_ui_draws`, which meant a run that
+  // wanted a UI capture had to pass the flag at LAUNCH — and launching with it
+  // correlates, across 12 runs, with the title screen refusing (A) (0 of 7 with
+  // the flag, 4 of 5 without). No mechanism was found for that and boot time
+  // does not explain it either, so rather than keep an unexplained variable in
+  // every navigation run, the arming is now unconditional: F10 arms it, exactly
+  // as it arms the ship capture next to it. The cost when nobody presses F10 is
+  // one relaxed atomic load per draw.
   uint32_t gen = g_ui_capture_gen.fetch_add(1, std::memory_order_relaxed) + 1;
   g_ui_swap_count.store(0, std::memory_order_relaxed);
   g_ui_capture_armed.store(true, std::memory_order_relaxed);