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Brandon Thomas 2218ca5a4c Issue #78: GPU export: respect device limits, fall back to CPU on GPU errors
A GPU render no longer hands back an image it cannot vouch for:
- set the wgpu device-lost callback (wgpu never reports a lost device as an
  error, so a driver reset went unnoticed); readback waits with a timeout and
  checks the poll result and map callback instead of blocking forever
- each render runs in OutOfMemory/Validation/Internal error scopes; errors
  fail that render (OOM and limit failures for that render only, device
  errors for the process) and it is redone on the CPU
- every buffer is checked against the device limit when created (no
  validation error, no process-wide disable); LIGHTCRAFT_GPU_LIMITS=webgpu|<MiB>
  creates the device with lower limits to reproduce small adapters
- the output buffer is cleared and the per-pixel kernel writes alpha 255:
  any unwritten pixel (work silently dropped, the issue's all-black export)
  fails the render; an all-black result is re-rendered on the CPU
- renders submit per stage and every 16 M invocations, the per-pixel stage
  runs in ~4 MP bands: no long submission for a slow iGPU's watchdog to reset
- ui.inspect perf.gpuReason / perf.gpuFallback, app.gpu reason/lastFallback,
  System Info and Settings say why the GPU is off (e.g. llvmpipe skipped) and
  why the last render fell back

Tests: crates/gpu/tests/fallback.rs (limit, mid-render limit, validation
error, dropped work, black photo), engine export falls back to the CPU image,
banded 3000x2000 GPU/CPU equivalence.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-05 05:06:24 -04:00
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brand Licensing: MIT OR Apache-2.0 files, NOTICE, ArtCraft brand terms 2026-10-04 10:05:02 -04:00
images docs: README (MCP, CLI, export, status, contributing), AGENTS.md (asset enforcement, crash recovery, testing/perf), screenshots re-captured with Inter 2026-09-30 23:52:34 -04:00
showcase M1.4: crash-safe catalog persistence (op log + snapshot) 2026-09-30 23:40:40 -04:00
control-protocol.md Issue #78: GPU export: respect device limits, fall back to CPU on GPU errors 2026-10-05 05:06:24 -04:00
gpu-pipeline.md Issue #78: GPU export: respect device limits, fall back to CPU on GPU errors 2026-10-05 05:06:24 -04:00
mcp.md Persistence: a failed save fails the command (change kept in memory, queued, retried) 2026-10-05 02:26:49 -04:00
merge.md Merge main (Photo Merge); M1.14b: stack merge results with their sources 2026-10-01 11:00:51 -04:00
parity.md Issue #78: GPU export: respect device limits, fall back to CPU on GPU errors 2026-10-05 05:06:24 -04:00
web.md Issue #30: Import Photos… as the clear import entry point 2026-10-04 11:44:15 -04:00
whats-new.md Issue #78: GPU export: respect device limits, fall back to CPU on GPU errors 2026-10-05 05:06:24 -04:00
xmp-interop.md Merge main into feat/copyright-status 2026-10-04 15:26:53 -04:00