Live-validated Mac <-> RTX 4090 at the display's native 5120x1440@240:
- Resolution: set_active_mode enumerates the IDD's advertised modes and sets the
requested resolution at the best supported refresh (keeps 5120x1440@240; no more
silent fallback to the 1080p OS default when an exact mode is briefly unavailable).
- Bitrate auto-cap: NVENC init probes and steps the average bitrate down to the GPU's
codec-level max so a high client bitrate connects (matches the Linux host; we do not
split NVENC sessions).
- Mouse cursor: DXGI duplication excludes the HW cursor; capture the pointer
shape/position (GetFramePointerShape) and GPU-composite it before NVENC. Color cursors
alpha-blend; masked-color (the text I-beam) uses an INV_DEST_COLOR inversion blend so
the caret inverts the screen and shows on any background (no black box); monochrome
handled too.
- Secure desktop (lock / login / UAC): run as SYSTEM in the interactive session, follow
the input desktop via SetThreadDesktop, and on the WinSta switch recreate the D3D11
device and re-resolve the virtual output's GDI name from the stable SudoVDA target id
(the name changes across the topology rebuild; the old failure hunted the stale
\\.\DISPLAYn and dropped). ACCESS_LOST / INVALID_CALL / device-removed are recoverable,
and a mid-stream resolution change is followed (capturer + NVENC re-init at the new
size). isolate_displays detaches other monitors so Winlogon renders to the virtual
output. One real session recovered 1012 desktop switches and completed cleanly.
Windows-only backends; Linux/macOS unaffected. Builds clean on x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.
Deployment (windowless SYSTEM launch via PsExec + hidden VBScript) documented in
docs/windows-host.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Validated live on an RTX 4090 (Windows 11) host streaming to the Rust
reference client over the LAN: SudoVDA virtual display → DXGI Desktop
Duplication (D3D11 zero-copy) → NVENC HEVC → punktfunk/1. 720p60 and
1080p60 both clean (181 / 177 frames, 0 mismatched, p50 1.6 / 3.45 ms
cross-machine), coexisting with Apollo. Two real-hardware bugs the
GPU-less VM couldn't surface:
- DXGI capturer: the SudoVDA virtual monitor's DXGI output is enumerated
under the GPU that *renders* it (the 4090, LUID 0x15df6), NOT under the
SudoVDA "adapter" LUID SudoVDA reports (0x23276). Restricting the output
search to that LUID found nothing → "adapter has no output named
\\.\DISPLAYn". Now search ALL adapters for the GDI name, bind the D3D11
device to whichever adapter exposes it (NVENC then shares that device),
with a settle-retry (the output appears a beat after display creation)
and topology logging.
- native_pairing / apps: keyed config paths off raw $HOME, which a Windows
service/scheduled-task context doesn't set → "HOME unset" hard-fail at
m3-host startup. Route both through gamestream::config_dir(), which falls
back to %APPDATA% on Windows (cert/paired/apps now under AppData\Roaming).
clippy -D warnings + build green on x86_64-pc-windows-msvc (default and
--features nvenc) and Linux (78/78 tests).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wire the host→client rumble path on Windows, the analogue of the Linux
uinput EV_FF read loop: a game's force-feedback on the virtual Xbox 360
pad is delivered by ViGEm's notification API (`request_notification` →
`spawn_thread`, gated by the crate's `unstable_xtarget_notification`
feature). A per-pad background thread stores the latest motor levels;
`pump_rumble` relays changes to the client on the universal 0xCA plane
(motors scaled 0..255 → 0..65535). Dropping the target aborts the
notification, so the thread exits with the session. Live verification
still needs a physical pad.
Also fix the Windows backends' clippy debt — these modules are cfg-
excluded from Linux CI, so `clippy -D warnings` never saw them, and the
VM's rustc 1.96 clippy is stricter on shared code than the CI image:
- dxgi: manual checked division → checked_div().map_or
- sendinput: `x = x | y` → `x |= y`
- sudovda: `.then(|| ptr)` → `.then_some(ptr)`
- m3 pick_compositor: drop the needless early return (match form)
- m3 resolve_compositor: Windows arm is a tail expr, not `return`
All Windows backends now build + clippy clean (default and --features
nvenc); Linux unaffected (fmt/clippy/check green).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Zero-copy capture->encode on the GPU via the raw NVENC API (nvidia_video_codec_sdk sys + ENCODE_API; the safe wrapper is CUDA-only). Opens an NV_ENC_DEVICE_TYPE_DIRECTX session on the SAME ID3D11Device as the DXGI capturer (carried on the new FramePayload::D3d11), registers a pool of BGRA textures once, CopyResources each captured texture in and encode_picture; CBR/ULL, infinite GOP, P-only, forced-IDR for RFI. The DXGI capturer gains a D3D11 zero-copy output (selected, like the encoder, by PUNKTFUNK_ENCODER=nvenc) so capture+encode share textures.
OFF by default (the nvenc feature pulls the NVENC SDK + cudarc): the default Windows host links without it (openh264 path). cudarc builds toolkit-less via the SDK ci-check feature (dynamic-loading). At link time --features nvenc needs nvencodeapi.lib (NVENC SDK, or an import lib generated from the driver's nvEncodeAPI64.dll) on PUNKTFUNK_NVENC_LIB_DIR. Both default and --features nvenc builds validated to compile+link GPU-less on the VM (import lib generated from the driver DLL). Runtime needs a real NVIDIA GPU.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Windows Capturer via DXGI Desktop Duplication: create a D3D11 device on the SudoVDA adapter (by LUID), find the matching output (by GDI name), DuplicateOutput, and per AcquireNextFrame copy the desktop into a CPU-readable staging texture -> tightly-packed BGRA (FramePayload::Cpu, feeds the openh264 software encoder GPU-lessly). Handles WAIT_TIMEOUT (reuse last frame) and ACCESS_LOST (re-duplicate). Adds FramePayload::D3d11(D3d11Frame) for the future NVENC zero-copy path, and a VirtualOutput.win_capture identity (adapter LUID + GDI name) carried out of the SudoVDA backend. Pure helpers (pack_luid/gdi_name_matches/depad_bgra) unit-tested on the VM; the live duplication path needs a real GPU + an activated SudoVDA monitor. Compiles clean on Windows + Linux.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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