Integer num_format fetches now get their scale CPU-side instead of trying to guess in the shader. This is authoritative; no cvar. Both translators now use texture_integer_scale_bits after signs/gamma and before exponent bias. This alone fixes black screens and a bunch of rendering bugs across at least several dozen titles.
This new information lives in the updated FormatInfo table, including fixed component widths.
Resolve also has two new fixes.
8_8_8_8_GAMMA EDRAM sources can now decode through the PWL curve while still in linear space, before MSAA resolve or format conversion, then re-encoded for gamma destinations. This is also now default enabled via gamma_decode_pwl_resolve and has improved blowout in at least 4 titles, with no obvious regressions thus far.
Full resolve can also now pack fixed destinations according to copy_dest_number.
Drivers and hardware may provide more optimal paths for untyped buffers
compared to typed.
Also, ByteAddressBuffer may be bound via a root descriptor in Direct3D 12,
greatly simplifying the binding logic.
ByteAddressBuffer also doesn't have the 128 * 2^20 element count limit that
typed and structured buffers have, and doesn't require the structure stride
to be specified at resource creation time in Direct3D 11.
The 32_32_32_FLOAT format seems to be vertex-only, so it looks like there
can't be storage elements smaller than a single texel.
So, use a more precise name that can't be confused with "picture element"
(pixel) or "texture element" (texel) that represents a single logical pixel
rather than a storage block of pixels.
Switch between even and odd 16-byte element sequences along X by simply
flipping a bit rather than going to a different resolution-scaled group of
pixels, by increasing the size of the group within the constraints imposed
by tiling.
Use the _xe suffix instead of the xesl_ prefix for quicker visual
recognition of identifiers, also switch to snake_case for consistency.
Also add the f suffix to float32 literals because the Metal Shading
Language is based on C++.
Ordering the descriptor sets by the change frequency on Vulkan, in increasing order (the opposite of D3D12 root signatures). The EDRAM binding never changes there (always one storage buffer), while the destination buffer binding may become changeable in the future (to split dispatches if exceeding `maxStorageBufferRange`, for example).