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The RX 9070 XT field A/B (2026-08-11/12 logs) convicted BOTH of our REALTIME GPU-scheduling levers of generating the metronomic capture-stall class the stall program has chased for weeks — compose-silence holes of 150-800 ms in which ETW shows NO process presenting while the GPU stays responsive: - the vdisplay driver's IddCxSetRealtimeGPUPriority raise beat at ~1.75-1.78 s (PFVD_NO_RT_GPU=1 alone removed that metronome: ~0.35 stalls/s metronomic -> 10 sparse aperiodic over 3.9 min); - the host auto-gate's HIGH->REALTIME upgrade (pf-frame dxgi.rs, T2.3) beat at ~3.58 s in the AV1 sessions where it promoted (vram_pct=1, 12:59:26); pinning PUNKTFUNK_GPU_PRIORITY_CLASS=high removed that residual too (13:45 session: zero metronomic, stall rate at the clean-run baseline). Neither period matches any punktfunk clock: the full periodic-actor census (driver: event-paced drain + 16 ms E_PENDING wait, 33 ms cursor poll, 3 s watchdog reap; host: 250 ms descriptor poll, 5/50/100 ms probes + ~2 s scanline retarget, 2 s VRAM gate, 2 s exclusive re-assert, 3.33 s pinger, 1 s stats, ~1 Hz phase-lock, fps/2 LTR marks) has nothing in the 1.69-2.29 s band, and every host-side actor ran unchanged in the A/B that killed the fast metronome. The periodicity is emergent from holding an unreachable-priority queue against the WDDM scheduler on this AMD family (the period even differs by which of our processes holds REALTIME); it is not a punktfunk cadence being amplified, so there is nothing punktfunk-periodic to fix - the fix is to stop holding REALTIME by default, which is also canonical parity (no shipping IDD raises it, and HIGH was the class that delivered the original Sunshine-parity encode win). - Driver: PFVD_NO_RT_GPU (default-ON, opt-OUT) becomes the PFVD_RT_GPU ladder, default OFF on every vendor: unset = no raise (canonical IDD behavior); =thread = SetGPUThreadPriority(+7), a graduated in-band middle rung for field A/B (not default: unmeasured here, and the host measured the same call as "no help" for its own starvation case); anything else = the old REALTIME DDI. PFVD_NO_RT_GPU stays recognized and WINS over the opt-in, so the field boxes that carry it through the default-ON era keep meaning OFF. Both directions remain A/B-able without a rebuild (machine env + device restart). The CPU half of the original branch-2 hardening (MMCSS / TIME_CRITICAL) is untouched - it addressed the delivery holes that were actually observed. - Host: PUNKTFUNK_GPU_PRIORITY_CLASS default auto -> high. `auto` (the gated REALTIME upgrade) stays available as an explicit opt-in, `realtime` still pins; unrecognized values now land on the HIGH default instead of silently opting into the gate - a typo must not buy the hazard. The VRAM/HAGS gate machinery is unchanged for `auto`; it guards the NVENC-hang hazard but cannot see this one. - stall.rs: the no-OS-event METRONOMIC warning now carries rt_gpu_driver / rt_gpu_host fields (the machine-env state of both levers) and names clearing them as the FIRST cure, ahead of the display-hardware suspects - a field log self-answers the triage question this program just spent a week on. No console policy axis for the driver knob: the lever is default-safe now, the driver reads config at WUDFHost scope where machine env already matches the device-restart lifecycle, and a policy axis would need pf-driver-proto churn (or a device-key registry write) for an experimental lever that only exists to be A/B-ed. If the `thread` rung ever proves out as a default-worthy raise, that is the moment to revisit.