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* Windows: start Direct3D 12 first, and Vulkan only without a D3D12 GPU

wgpu started Vulkan, D3D12 and OpenGL together and preferred Vulkan, so
every Windows start loaded all installed Vulkan drivers. An old Intel
Vulkan driver (igvk64.dll) crashed 0.10.1 at startup inside the driver.

The app now probes D3D12, then Vulkan, then OpenGL, one backend at a
time, and starts only the first with a hardware adapter (WARP when none
has one). WGPU_BACKEND still wins; graphics.json's "backend" sets the
order by hand; the software renderer (safe mode, the retry) uses D3D12
alone. A new Windows CI job starts the real app under several settings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

* CI: a test filter YAML parses

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

* CI: the startup smoke test writes graphics.json where the app reads it

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

* CI: run the WARP shader tests one at a time

WARP's shader JIT (d3d10warp.dll) crashed twice in 124 runs of the gpu
tests with four test threads, with a null read inside its own optimizer
while several devices compiled compute pipelines at once. Serial runs
did not crash.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
2026-10-14 16:41:27 -04:00

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//! Getting the window open, whatever state the settings folder or the graphics device is in
//! (docs/book/src/guide/troubleshooting.md).
//!
//! - **Settings that don't read** (`app.ron`, `graphics.json`): moved aside as
//! `<name>.bad-<time>` and the app starts with defaults, instead of a newer or damaged file
//! being dropped silently or stopping the start.
//! - **Launches that die before the window is up**: a marker file counts them; after two in a
//! row the next launch starts in safe mode by itself.
//! - **Safe mode** (`--safe-mode` or `SOLIDCRAFT_SAFE_MODE=1`): default settings (the saved ones
//! are left untouched), no recovery offer, the software renderer and CPU meshing.
//! - **No usable graphics device**: one retry on the software renderer
//! (`SOLIDCRAFT_RENDERER=cpu`), then a message box saying what failed and what to try.
use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
/// The environment variable that starts safe mode (any value but `0` or empty).
pub const SAFE_MODE_ENV: &str = "SOLIDCRAFT_SAFE_MODE";
/// `SOLIDCRAFT_RENDERER=cpu` picks the software renderer (WARP, lavapipe, llvmpipe).
pub const RENDERER_ENV: &str = "SOLIDCRAFT_RENDERER";
/// Consecutive launches that died before the window was up, after which safe mode starts.
pub const FAILED_STARTS_FOR_SAFE_MODE: u32 = 2;
const MARKER: &str = "starting";
/// Whether an environment value switches something on.
pub fn env_on(v: Option<&str>) -> bool {
v.map(str::trim).is_some_and(|v| !v.is_empty() && v != "0" && !v.eq_ignore_ascii_case("false"))
}
/// Whether `SOLIDCRAFT_RENDERER` asks for the software renderer.
pub fn cpu_renderer_env(v: Option<&str>) -> bool {
v.map(str::trim).is_some_and(|v| v.eq_ignore_ascii_case("cpu") || v.eq_ignore_ascii_case("software"))
}
fn unix_now() -> u64 {
std::time::SystemTime::now().duration_since(std::time::UNIX_EPOCH).map_or(0, |d| d.as_secs())
}
/// Move `path` aside as `<name>.bad-<time>` (kept for a bug report); returns where it went.
pub fn back_up(path: &Path) -> std::io::Result<PathBuf> {
let name = path.file_name().map(|n| n.to_string_lossy().to_string()).unwrap_or_else(|| "settings".into());
let mut to = path.with_file_name(format!("{name}.bad-{}", unix_now()));
let mut n = 1;
while to.exists() && n < 100 {
to = path.with_file_name(format!("{name}.bad-{}-{n}", unix_now()));
n += 1;
}
std::fs::rename(path, &to)?;
Ok(to)
}
/// Whether eframe's `app.ron` reads, with the preferences inside it.
fn app_ron_reads(text: &str, prefs_keys: &[&str]) -> bool {
let Ok(kv) = ron::from_str::<std::collections::HashMap<String, String>>(text) else { return false };
prefs_keys.iter().filter_map(|k| kv.get(*k)).all(|p| serde_json::from_str::<serde_json::Value>(p).is_ok_and(|v| v.is_object()))
}
/// Check the settings files in `dir` before anything reads them: one that doesn't read is moved
/// aside (the app then starts with defaults for it). Returns a line per file moved.
pub fn check_settings(dir: &Path, prefs_keys: &[&str]) -> Vec<String> {
let mut notes = Vec::new();
let mut check = |name: &str, reads: &dyn Fn(&str) -> bool| {
let path = dir.join(name);
let Ok(bytes) = std::fs::read(&path) else { return };
let ok = std::str::from_utf8(&bytes).is_ok_and(|t| t.trim().is_empty() || reads(t));
if ok {
return;
}
match back_up(&path) {
Ok(to) => {
log::warn!("settings: {} did not read; moved to {}", path.display(), to.display());
notes.push(format!("{name} could not be read and was moved to {}; defaults are used.", to.display()));
}
Err(e) => log::warn!("settings: {} did not read and could not be moved: {e}", path.display()),
}
};
check("app.ron", &|t| app_ron_reads(t, prefs_keys));
check("graphics.json", &|t| serde_json::from_str::<serde_json::Value>(t).is_ok_and(|v| v.is_object()));
notes
}
/// A launch begins: count it in the marker in `dir`. Returns how many launches before this one
/// died before their window was up.
pub fn begin(dir: &Path) -> u32 {
let marker = dir.join(MARKER);
let before = std::fs::read_to_string(&marker).ok().and_then(|s| s.trim().parse::<u32>().ok()).unwrap_or(0).min(1000);
if std::fs::create_dir_all(dir).is_ok() {
let _ = std::fs::write(&marker, (before + 1).to_string());
}
before
}
/// The window is up: this launch did not fail to start.
pub fn started(dir: &Path) {
let _ = std::fs::remove_file(dir.join(MARKER));
}
/// The software adapter among `adapters` (WARP on Windows, lavapipe or llvmpipe elsewhere), else
/// the first one that can draw to `surface`.
pub fn pick_cpu_adapter(adapters: &[eframe::wgpu::Adapter], surface: Option<&eframe::wgpu::Surface<'_>>) -> Result<eframe::wgpu::Adapter, String> {
let fits = |a: &&eframe::wgpu::Adapter| surface.is_none_or(|s| a.is_surface_supported(s));
adapters
.iter()
.filter(fits)
.find(|a| a.get_info().device_type == eframe::wgpu::DeviceType::Cpu)
.or_else(|| adapters.iter().find(fits))
.cloned()
.ok_or_else(|| {
let names: Vec<String> = adapters.iter().map(|a| format!("{} ({:?})", a.get_info().name, a.get_info().backend)).collect();
format!("no graphics adapter can draw the window (found: {})", if names.is_empty() { "none".into() } else { names.join(", ") })
})
}
/// `WGPU_BACKEND`: when set, wgpu picks the backends from it and the order below is not used.
pub const WGPU_BACKEND_ENV: &str = "WGPU_BACKEND";
/// The graphics backends to start with, or `None` to leave it to wgpu (`WGPU_BACKEND`, or all
/// the backends it was built with).
///
/// On Windows, D3D12 comes first, then Vulkan, then OpenGL, and only the first one with a
/// hardware adapter is started at all. wgpu would otherwise start Vulkan, D3D12 and OpenGL
/// together and prefer Vulkan, and starting Vulkan loads every installed Vulkan driver: Intel's
/// (`igvk64.dll`) crashed SolidCraft at startup that way, inside the driver, before anything
/// could be reported. D3D12 is Windows' own graphics API, the one its drivers are tested with.
/// `has_hardware(backends)` says whether those backends have an adapter that isn't software
/// (it is only asked about the backends being tried, one at a time).
///
/// - `WGPU_BACKEND` set (`env_set`): `None`, whatever it says wins.
/// - The software renderer (`cpu`, safe mode): D3D12 alone on Windows (WARP); `None` elsewhere.
/// - `preference` (`graphics.json`'s `backend`: `dx12`, `vulkan`, `gl` or a comma list; `auto`
/// or empty for the order above): those backends, on any system.
/// - Elsewhere than Windows: `None`.
/// - No hardware adapter at all: D3D12 (WARP, Windows' software renderer).
pub fn choose_backends(
windows: bool,
env_set: bool,
cpu: bool,
preference: Option<&str>,
mut has_hardware: impl FnMut(eframe::wgpu::Backends) -> bool,
) -> Option<eframe::wgpu::Backends> {
use eframe::wgpu::Backends;
if env_set {
return None;
}
if cpu {
return windows.then_some(Backends::DX12);
}
if let Some(p) = preference.map(str::trim).filter(|p| !p.is_empty() && !p.eq_ignore_ascii_case("auto")) {
let chosen = Backends::from_comma_list(p);
if !chosen.is_empty() {
return Some(chosen);
}
log::warn!("graphics: unknown backend preference `{p}`; using the default order");
}
if !windows {
return None;
}
Some(WINDOWS_ORDER.into_iter().find(|b| has_hardware(*b)).unwrap_or(Backends::DX12))
}
/// The order backends are tried in on Windows.
pub const WINDOWS_ORDER: [eframe::wgpu::Backends; 3] = [eframe::wgpu::Backends::DX12, eframe::wgpu::Backends::VULKAN, eframe::wgpu::Backends::GL];
/// Whether `backends` (started on their own, nothing else) have a hardware adapter.
pub fn has_hardware_adapter(backends: eframe::wgpu::Backends) -> bool {
let mut desc = eframe::wgpu::InstanceDescriptor::new_without_display_handle();
desc.backends = backends;
desc.flags = eframe::wgpu::InstanceFlags::from_build_config().with_env();
let instance = eframe::wgpu::Instance::new(desc);
let adapters = pollster::block_on(instance.enumerate_adapters(backends));
let found: Vec<String> = adapters.iter().map(|a| format!("{} ({:?})", a.get_info().name, a.get_info().device_type)).collect();
log::info!("graphics: {backends:?} adapters: {found:?}");
adapters.iter().any(|a| a.get_info().device_type != eframe::wgpu::DeviceType::Cpu)
}
/// The message shown when no window could be opened at all.
pub fn no_window_message(error: &str, settings: Option<&Path>) -> String {
let folder = settings.map(|d| d.display().to_string()).unwrap_or_else(|| "the SolidCraft settings folder".into());
format!(
"SolidCraft could not open its window.\n\n{error}\n\n\
The software renderer was tried too. Things to try:\n\
- Install or update the graphics driver (on Windows, from the GPU maker's site rather than Windows Update).\n\
- Over Remote Desktop or in a virtual machine, enable 3D acceleration or run it on the machine itself.\n\
- Start it once with `solidcraft --safe-mode`.\n\
- Rename the settings folder: {folder}\n\n\
More: https://bherbruck.github.io/solidcraft/guide/troubleshooting.html"
)
}
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::*;
fn scratch(name: &str) -> PathBuf {
let d = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("solidcraft-startup-{name}-{}", std::process::id()));
let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&d);
std::fs::create_dir_all(&d).unwrap();
d
}
#[test]
fn switches_read_from_the_environment() {
assert!(env_on(Some("1")) && env_on(Some("yes")) && !env_on(Some("0")) && !env_on(Some(" ")) && !env_on(None) && !env_on(Some("false")));
assert!(cpu_renderer_env(Some("cpu")) && cpu_renderer_env(Some("Software")) && !cpu_renderer_env(Some("gpu")) && !cpu_renderer_env(None));
}
#[test]
fn settings_that_do_not_read_are_moved_aside_and_good_ones_stay() {
let keys = ["solidcraft.prefs", "solvecraft.prefs"];
let d = scratch("check");
// Good files (and an empty one) stay where they are.
std::fs::write(d.join("app.ron"), r#"{"solidcraft.prefs": "{\"grid\":true}", "egui": "(anything)"}"#).unwrap();
std::fs::write(d.join("graphics.json"), r#"{"msaa":4}"#).unwrap();
assert!(check_settings(&d, &keys).is_empty());
assert!(d.join("app.ron").is_file() && d.join("graphics.json").is_file());
// Damaged RON, preferences that aren't JSON, a truncated graphics.json, non-UTF-8 bytes.
for (name, text) in [
("app.ron", b"{\"solidcraft.prefs\": \"{\\\"gr".as_slice()),
("app.ron", br#"{"solvecraft.prefs": "not json"}"#.as_slice()),
("graphics.json", br#"{"msaa":"#.as_slice()),
("graphics.json", b"\xff\xfe\x00".as_slice()),
] {
std::fs::write(d.join(name), text).unwrap();
let notes = check_settings(&d, &keys);
assert_eq!(notes.len(), 1, "{name}: {notes:?}");
assert!(!d.join(name).exists(), "{name} moved");
let kept: Vec<_> =
std::fs::read_dir(&d).unwrap().flatten().filter(|e| e.file_name().to_string_lossy().starts_with(&format!("{name}.bad-"))).collect();
assert!(kept.iter().any(|e| std::fs::read(e.path()).unwrap() == text), "{name}: the bad file is kept");
}
let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&d);
}
#[test]
fn launches_that_never_got_a_window_are_counted_until_one_does() {
let d = scratch("marker");
assert_eq!(begin(&d), 0);
assert_eq!(begin(&d), 1);
assert_eq!(begin(&d), FAILED_STARTS_FOR_SAFE_MODE);
started(&d);
assert_eq!(begin(&d), 0);
// A damaged marker counts as none.
std::fs::write(d.join(MARKER), "zz").unwrap();
assert_eq!(begin(&d), 0);
let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&d);
}
#[test]
fn windows_starts_d3d12_first_and_vulkan_only_when_d3d12_has_no_gpu() {
use eframe::wgpu::Backends;
let probe = |with: &'static [Backends]| {
move |b: Backends| {
assert!(b == Backends::DX12 || b == Backends::VULKAN || b == Backends::GL, "one backend at a time: {b:?}");
with.contains(&b)
}
};
// D3D12 works: Vulkan and OpenGL are never even asked about (starting Vulkan loads
// its drivers, which is what crashed).
let mut asked = Vec::new();
let chosen = choose_backends(true, false, false, None, |b| {
asked.push(b);
b == Backends::DX12
});
assert_eq!(chosen, Some(Backends::DX12));
assert_eq!(asked, [Backends::DX12]);
// Everything works: still D3D12 alone.
assert_eq!(choose_backends(true, false, false, None, probe(&[Backends::DX12, Backends::VULKAN, Backends::GL])), Some(Backends::DX12));
// No D3D12 hardware adapter: Vulkan, else OpenGL, else D3D12's software adapter (WARP).
assert_eq!(choose_backends(true, false, false, None, probe(&[Backends::VULKAN, Backends::GL])), Some(Backends::VULKAN));
assert_eq!(choose_backends(true, false, false, None, probe(&[Backends::GL])), Some(Backends::GL));
assert_eq!(choose_backends(true, false, false, None, probe(&[])), Some(Backends::DX12));
// `auto` and blanks are the default order.
assert_eq!(choose_backends(true, false, false, Some(" auto "), probe(&[Backends::DX12])), Some(Backends::DX12));
assert_eq!(choose_backends(true, false, false, Some(""), probe(&[Backends::GL])), Some(Backends::GL));
}
#[test]
fn wgpu_backend_the_preference_and_the_software_renderer_override_the_order() {
use eframe::wgpu::Backends;
let never = |b: Backends| -> bool { panic!("no probing expected, asked about {b:?}") };
// WGPU_BACKEND: wgpu reads it itself, nothing is probed.
assert_eq!(choose_backends(true, true, false, Some("gl"), never), None);
assert_eq!(choose_backends(true, true, true, None, never), None);
// The software renderer (safe mode, the retry): WARP through D3D12 alone, never Vulkan.
assert_eq!(choose_backends(true, false, true, Some("vulkan"), never), Some(Backends::DX12));
assert_eq!(choose_backends(false, false, true, None, never), None);
// The preference, on any system, without probing.
assert_eq!(choose_backends(true, false, false, Some("vulkan"), never), Some(Backends::VULKAN));
assert_eq!(choose_backends(true, false, false, Some("GL"), never), Some(Backends::GL));
assert_eq!(choose_backends(true, false, false, Some("dx12,vulkan"), never), Some(Backends::DX12 | Backends::VULKAN));
assert_eq!(choose_backends(false, false, false, Some("vulkan"), never), Some(Backends::VULKAN));
// An unknown preference is the default order.
assert_eq!(choose_backends(true, false, false, Some("glide"), |b| b == Backends::DX12), Some(Backends::DX12));
// Elsewhere: wgpu's own choice.
assert_eq!(choose_backends(false, false, false, None, never), None);
assert_eq!(choose_backends(false, false, false, Some("auto"), never), None);
}
#[test]
fn probing_a_backend_alone_never_panics() {
// Whatever this machine has (often nothing): an answer, not a crash.
for b in WINDOWS_ORDER {
let _ = has_hardware_adapter(b);
}
}
#[test]
fn the_message_names_the_settings_folder_and_safe_mode() {
let m = no_window_message("no adapter", Some(Path::new("/x/SolidCraft")));
assert!(m.contains("no adapter") && m.contains("/x/SolidCraft") && m.contains("--safe-mode"));
}
#[test]
fn the_software_adapter_is_preferred_and_its_absence_is_an_error_not_a_panic() {
assert!(pick_cpu_adapter(&[], None).unwrap_err().contains("none"));
let instance = eframe::wgpu::Instance::new(eframe::wgpu::InstanceDescriptor::new_without_display_handle());
let adapters = pollster::block_on(instance.enumerate_adapters(eframe::wgpu::Backends::all()));
if adapters.is_empty() {
return;
}
let picked = pick_cpu_adapter(&adapters, None).unwrap();
if adapters.iter().any(|a| a.get_info().device_type == eframe::wgpu::DeviceType::Cpu) {
assert_eq!(picked.get_info().device_type, eframe::wgpu::DeviceType::Cpu);
}
}
}