What's new? 🎉📣
- 🛠️ Transcription is back on older AMD graphics drivers — since the move to the new engine, machines with a 2020-era AMD driver (Vulkan 1.2, common on Ryzen laptops with Radeon graphics) crashed at the first GPU submit with "vkQueueSubmit: Invalid queue". The driver returns an empty queue handle from
vkGetDeviceQueue2; Sona 0.6.4 falls back tovkGetDeviceQueueand the GPU works again. Updating the AMD driver is still a good idea, but no longer required - 🖥️ Older Intel and AMD CPUs are back — Vibe no longer refuses to transcribe on a CPU without AVX2. Sona ships its CPU engine twice, an AVX2 build and an AVX baseline build, and picks the one your processor can run when it starts. Any x86-64 machine from 2011 on now transcribes; the "Your CPU is not supported" message is gone
- 🎮 Out of GPU memory no longer kills the run — when the graphics card runs out of memory partway through a file, Vibe reloads the model on the CPU, retries that file once, and finishes the rest of the queue on the CPU. That model is remembered as too large for your GPU and loads on the CPU from then on. Thanks to @mikemikimike for the report and the first pass (#1471, #1472)
- 🔍 Errors now say what the engine printed — when Sona dies mid-transcription, the error dialog, the logs, and the bug report carry its last lines instead of a bare "failed to read sona event line", so problems like the one above are identifiable from a report
Signed and notarized on macOS and Windows.
Full Changelog: v3.1.7...v3.1.9