GpuShift GPU V2 Beta

Highlights

• Added the new GPU Mob Layer for supported adult vanilla passive and neutral mobs.
• Mob animations are prepared on the CPU, while vertex transformations and instanced rendering are handled by the GPU.
• Added automatic batching by model, mesh, and texture to reduce entity draw calls.
• GPU rendering activates for distant mobs when at least four compatible models are visible.
• Added automatic model discovery, mesh caching, bone hierarchy extraction, and safe vanilla fallback.
• Unsupported entities, children, passengers, glowing or invisible mobs, damaged states, custom models, and modded entities remain on the vanilla renderer.
• Vanilla shadows, names, leashes, fire, armor, wool, saddles, and additional render layers remain fully supported.
• Added safe compatibility detection for shader, model, and texture replacement stacks.
• Added GPU Mob settings, status information, capture counters, fallback counters, batch counts, instance counts, and draw-call statistics to the GPU V2 interface.

Smart Calibration

• Replaced the basic Auto Tune toggle with a complete Smart Calibration system.
• Detects the current hardware, rendering environment, active resource packs, shader stack, resolution, render distance, and performance bottleneck.
• Tests particle density, entity distance, Block Entity distance, item-frame budgeting, GPU Particles, GPU Mobs, and Adaptive Mode independently.
• Automatically skips tests when the current scene does not contain enough relevant workload.
• Searches for the best combined configuration using up to 16 controlled probes.
• Validates the final recommendation using an alternating A-B-B-A test.
• Tracks average FPS, 1% Low, p99 frame time, stability, and result confidence.
• Repeats invalid measurements when the player moves, rotates the camera, opens a screen, changes worlds, or loses window focus.
• Temporarily removes VSync and FPS limits during calibration, then safely restores the original settings.
• Trial settings remain runtime-only until the player presses Apply.
• Added recovery protection for interrupted or crashed calibration sessions.
• Saved calibration results are automatically marked as outdated after significant system or rendering changes.

GPU Mob Lighting Fix

• Fixed GPU-rendered mobs appearing completely black in darkness or when a shader mod was installed without an active shader pack.
• GPU Mob rendering now explicitly binds the vanilla lightmap and overlay textures.
• Added safe restoration of texture bindings and OpenGL state after every GPU batch.
• Added automatic vanilla fallback when required auxiliary textures are unavailable.
• Added the new fallback status: AUX_TEXTURES_UNAVAILABLE.
• Added a one-time log confirmation when the mob shader, texture, lightmap, and overlay bindings are ready.

Stability and Compatibility

• Added safe fallback for shader initialization failures, resource errors, unsupported render types, buffer overflow, and unavailable GPU resources.
• Resource reloads, dimension changes, disconnects, and world changes now clear and rebuild GPU Mob resources safely.
• Added protection against permanent mob disappearance after rendering or shader errors.
• Added support for Sodium and Embeddium rendering environments.
• Added SAFE and FORCE operating modes for GPU Mob rendering.
• Reduced runtime telemetry overhead outside active calibration.

Benchmark Results

• Average FPS improvement: +8.4%
• 1% Low FPS improvement: +14.0%
• Frame time improvement: approximately 0.16 ms
• Deep 0.1% Low frame drops did not worsen.
• Results were collected across three clean benchmark cycles and are included in the benchmark graph.