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Description

Picks up a rebuilt libgamenative_drm.so and the payload that carries it, and stops the container from declaring things the guest and the shim already decide.

Draft: the payload carries changes reviewed separately in gamenative-drm#67.

What the payload brings, from the user's side

gamenative-drm from 7a37022 to the head of #67 — twenty-nine commits, no app-visible setting:

• Tearing under direct scan-out is gone. Portal 2 and Half-Life 2 both showed it; the cause was a buffer being reused while the panel was still scanning it, and the fix is to return an image only once the display says it has let go. Half-Life 2 was the title that made it obvious, Portal 2 the one that named it.
• Gamescope sessions stopped running at half the panel rate. Witcher 3 on Odin 3 went 23.5 → 53.8 fps and Doom 2016 29.9 → 57.4, in both cases by removing a wait the shim was imposing on itself rather than one the game asked for. The limiters now sit in the GPU, where they belong (LIMIT: GPU+THERMAL on both, at 89 % and 79 %).
• Lower memory. The swapchain no longer allocates images the guest did not ask for (the old minImageCount + 1, plus one for mailbox, plus one for generation), and the two consumers behind the guest's images — a strict game's hidden copies and frame generation's destinations — share one ring instead of each having its own: 4 + 5 slots became 5. (gamenative-drm#59)
• Frame generation obeys the QuickMenu's present mode. It did not before: the setting was rendered in the UI, sent to nothing, and the layer served mailbox either way. Users who picked fifo for generation and saw no difference were seeing the truth.
• Fewer allocations and less CPU per commit. The daemon's present path stopped rebuilding a HashSet from both object tables on every commit, stopped decoding the atomic request through four scratch arrays, stopped allocating pollfd buffers per call, and caches the JNI static method id: 6.04 → 1.04 allocations per commit, 915 → 695 bytes. Measured on the title screen, the same scene: CPU 27.3 → 25.7 %, sys 14.9 → 13.8 %, package power 8.06 → 7.84 W. Small, and stated as direction rather than a result. (gamenative-drm#62, with the non-blocking present mark in cf76583)

Expected, not measured: the CPU and memory figures above are per-commit and per-swapchain numbers, so a lighter title may not resolve them.

The present mode, and the image count

On the gamescope route the guest's own request is the present mode that counts — the shim records what DXVK asks for and forwards it — and the image count is the shim's to advertise, because that is what the surface capabilities tell the guest. A present mode in the container therefore makes the shim declare one the guest never asked for, and a WRAPPER_MAX_IMAGE_COUNT ceiling competes with capabilities the guest has already read.

// XServerScreen.kt, setupXEnvironment — after the container, best-config,
// Environments-tab and game-fix merges have all landed
if (!isX11Display) {
    envVars.remove("MESA_VK_WSI_PRESENT_MODE")
    envVars.remove("WRAPPER_MAX_IMAGE_COUNT")
}

Placing it after those merges is the point: the removal covers every source of the value instead of one of them. The X11 route keeps both, where Mesa's WSI is what consumes them.

Two mode substitutions now live in the layer and only there, because both are about what the panel can be handed: a guest that declares IMMEDIATE is served MAILBOX (an immediate frame tears by construction), and so is one that declares FIFO_RELAXED (it otherwise costs a whole vblank per frame that lands after the compositor's latch point — the Doom 2016 case above).

Frame generation follows the QuickMenu

nativeSetLsfgConfig gains a presentMode argument — 1 for fifo, 0 for mailbox — so the layer stops assuming mailbox when generation is armed. The value is the container's presentMode extra, the same one the rest of the launch path reads.

This one is a fix, not a nicety. Until now the call carried no present mode at all, so the layer decided for itself, and the QuickMenu's choice reached nothing: a session set to mailbox and one set to fifo were both served mailbox. That is the mode generation's frames are committed in, which decides whether a generated frame waits for a latch or supersedes the one ahead of it — so the setting looked present in the UI and had no effect on the pipeline. It now does, and the wire struct grew by four bytes to carry it, which is why the payload version had to move with it.

Also here

• GNDRM_LOG_VKSHIM joins the environment options as a toggle: the shim's per-frame lines and its per-session census, which is what a frame-rate report has to quote.
• THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES now describes libgamenative_drm.so as GPL-3.0-or-later with its source repository, instead of the proprietary entry it carried. The same binary is inside the gamescope payload, so the old entry was wrong for both copies.
• GamescopePayload.VERSION moves to 20261113.1. The wire struct grew with present_mode, and an older payload would reject the longer frame and silently leave generation settings unapplied.

Recording

None. The change is a payload bump plus two argument-level changes, and nothing about it is visible on screen: what a recording would show is the titles below running faster, and none of those runs is a controlled before/after I can put in a clip. The measurements are quoted inline instead.

The two substitutions the layer now makes are worth a second device pass before this leaves draft: IMMEDIATE and FIFO_RELAXED are both served as MAILBOX, and the second is new — it fixes Doom 2016 (29.9 → 57.4 fps) and it is a judgement, not a correction, because a superseded frame is dropped rather than shown late.

Type of Change

• Bug fix
• Performance / stability improvement
• Compatibility improvements
• Other (requires prior approval)

Checklist

• If I have access to #code-changes, I have discussed this change there and it has been green-lighted. If I do not have access, I have still provided clear context in this PR. If I skip both, I accept that this change may face delays in review, may not be reviewed at all, or may be closed.
• This change aligns with the current project scope (core functionality, stability, or performance). If not, it has been explicitly approved beforehand.
• I have attached a recording of the change.
• I have read and agree to the contribution guidelines in CONTRIBUTING.md.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Improvements
  • Updated the Gamescope support component.
  • Frame generation now uses the selected presentation mode.
  • Gamescope sessions no longer retain graphics settings specific to X11 sessions.
  • Added an optional toggle for verbose graphics diagnostics; it is off by default.
• Documentation
  • Updated third-party notices with licensing, attribution, source repository, and source-availability details.

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Walkthrough

The Gamescope payload version changes to 20261114.1. Non-X11 sessions remove two environment variables. The DRM bridge receives a present-mode flag. The DRM notice and environment-variable documentation are updated.

Changes: Gamescope and DRM Runtime Updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Session environment variables app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/ui/screen/xserver/XServerScreen.kt	For non-X11 sessions, setupXEnvironment removes MESA_VK_WSI_PRESENT_MODE and WRAPPER_MAX_IMAGE_COUNT. X11 sessions retain both variables.
DRM present-mode configuration app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/display/GameNativeDrm.kt, app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/utils/LsfgVkManager.kt, app/src/main/java/com/winlator/core/envvars/EnvVarInfo.kt, THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES	nativeSetLsfgConfig accepts a presentMode integer. applyDrmRuntime passes 1 for FIFO and 0 otherwise. The environment-variable list documents GNDRM_LOG_VKSHIM. The DRM notice identifies the license, attribution, source location, and source availability.
Gamescope payload version app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/display/GamescopePayload.kt	GamescopePayload.VERSION changes from 20261105.4 to 20261114.1.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 6e0e7

Gamescope sessions ignore the visible present-mode setting, and the third-party notice does not name the exact source revision of the shipped DRM library. Both are minor and bounded, so the change is mergeable with follow-up.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the gamescope payload bump to 20261114.1 and lists tearing, memory/CPU, and open-source changes. The main change is the gamescope payload update with a rebuilt libgamenative_drm.so and…
Description check		The description follows the template sections: Description, Recording, Type of Change, and Checklist. It explains the payload bump, the present-mode and image-count changes, the frame-generation fix, …
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.

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The title names the gamescope payload bump to 20261114.1 and lists tearing, memory/CPU, and open-source changes. The main change is the gamescope payload update with a rebuilt libgamenative_drm.so and related present-mode, memory, and frame-generation fixes, so the title is related to the changeset. It is long at 107 characters and bundles several claims, and the open-source claim is only partly reflected in the diff (THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES and the license notice). It is not misleading or off-topic.

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The description follows the template sections: Description, Recording, Type of Change, and Checklist. It explains the payload bump, the present-mode and image-count changes, the frame-generation fix, and the new GNDRM_LOG_VKSHIM option. The Recording section explains why no recording is attached, and the checklist is filled in. The description is detailed and mostly complete. The payload version it states (20261113.1) does not match the 20261114.1 in the summary and title, which the author should correct. Some checklist items are marked as complete without evidence, such as the #code-changes green light.

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Disable the present-mode control for Gamescope.

The graphics tab still lets Gamescope users select presentMode, but launch removes the resulting environment values. Disable the control for Gamescope and explain that the guest chooses the mode. Preserve the saved selection for X11.

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4567:
Disable the presentMode control in the graphics tab when the selected runtime is
Gamescope, and explain that Gamescope’s guest chooses the mode. Preserve the
existing saved selection and control behavior for X11; use the runtime-selection
and presentMode UI logic to make this change.

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<file name="THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES">

<violation number="1" location="THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES:111">
P2: Pin the corresponding-source offer to the exact gamenative-drm commit (or a permanent release archive) used to build this binary. The current moving repository URL does not let recipients reliably obtain or verify the complete source for the shipped object code after the upstream branch changes.</violation>
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<file name="app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/display/GamescopePayload.kt">

<violation number="1" location="app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/display/GamescopePayload.kt:14">
P1: This version points fresh installs at `gamescope-gamenative-20261113.1.tzst`, but that archive is neither bundled nor published on either fallback host (both currently return 404). Publish the archive before shipping this version, or keep the version aligned with an available artifact; otherwise the first Gamescope launch fails during payload installation.</violation>
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P1: This version points fresh installs at gamescope-gamenative-20261113.1.tzst, but that archive is neither bundled nor published on either fallback host (both currently return 404). Publish the archive before shipping this version, or keep the version aligned with an available artifact; otherwise the first Gamescope launch fails during payload installation.

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<comment>This version points fresh installs at `gamescope-gamenative-20261113.1.tzst`, but that archive is neither bundled nor published on either fallback host (both currently return 404). Publish the archive before shipping this version, or keep the version aligned with an available artifact; otherwise the first Gamescope launch fails during payload installation.</comment>

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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import java.io.File
 /** Versioned gamescope payload (gamescope, XWayland, scaling clients), fetched on the first gamescope launch. */
 object GamescopePayload {
-    const val VERSION = "20261105.4"
+    const val VERSION = "20261113.1"
     const val ARCHIVE = "gamescope-gamenative-$VERSION.tzst"
     private const val STAMP = ".payload.version"
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<comment>Pin the corresponding-source offer to the exact gamenative-drm commit (or a permanent release archive) used to build this binary. The current moving repository URL does not let recipients reliably obtain or verify the complete source for the shipped object code after the upstream branch changes.</comment>

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@@ -102,16 +102,24 @@ in the sense of GPL-3.0 §0 ("based on").
-to the compositor's Wayland seat. Its source is not distributed with this application.
+**License:** GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.
+**Copyright:** Joshua Tam and GameNative Inc.
+**Source:** https://github.com/GameNative/gamenative-drm
+
+`libgamenative_drm.so` is the userspace DRM replacement developed for gamescope mode.
</file context>

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	**Source:** https://github.com/GameNative/gamenative-drm
	**Source:** https://github.com/GameNative/gamenative-drm/tree/<exact-build-commit>

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Name the source revision and fix the build-script reference in the notice.

The notice points to the source repository but does not name the revision the binary was built from. It also cites tools/build-android.sh, which is not in this checkout. A recipient therefore has no exact revision and no build procedure to follow. If the binary does not carry revision metadata, the revision cannot be recovered from the distribution.

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