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[Hardware Quirk] GPU hangs if one shader program has a geo component and the other doesn't
In working this demo using two different shader programs to draw a scene, I was getting a hard GPU hang on real hardware (and not on Citra). I narrowed the cause down to one shader I was using having a geo part as well as a vertex part and the other one just having a vertex part. If you flip-flopped which shader you used every frame, there'd be no issue.
Here's a demonstration based on the composite_scene example. This exhibits the same behavior I was running into. However, I just went and made another one based on the lenny example and this one doesn't seem to hang. Is something done in citro2d the culprit? Or is the lenny-based example not hanging because the shader programs are basically the same aside from the geo part?
I was told to submit an issue here. Hopefully this helps out!
Edit: turns out I had the same exact issue. My workaround was to give dummy geo components to all shaders; even if they didn't need one. This not only boosted performance, but prevented those pesky hangs.
Yeah, I ended up doing the same thing... And wow, boosted performance? How's that?
Looks like switching between shaders with and without geo components really put a strain on my system. The same code with the dummy geo shader for triangles had a big improvement in performance, but that might be because of the insane amount of shader changes I am doing!