zgauthier2000/fsr4-shader-performance-overrides timing-kit-2026-11-06

Timing kits 2026-11-06: optional music player, shorter runs, AMD's FSR 4.1.2 as references

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Superseded: this is an older timing kit. The newest are Windows (2026-11-11) and Linux and Steam Deck (2026-11-11). The text below describes this release only.

Timing kits, version 2026-11-06 (experimental). Windows: download fsr4-timing-kit-windows-2026-11-06.zip, unpack it and run fsr4time.exe. Linux and Steam Deck: download fsr4-timing-kit-linux-2026-11-06.tar.gz, unpack it, and in a terminal in that folder run bash run.sh. The kit downloads its test builds itself on the first start (36 MB on Windows, 37 MB on Linux): you don't need the .pack or music-*.zip files below.

For the best results, run it with the processor and graphics in performance mode: a laptop plugged in, not on battery, battery saver or a power-saving mode.

New in this version:

• An optional music player. While the timing runs go, press Space to start the music (a random song first), Space again to pause and again to resume; the Left / Right arrows skip back and forward. The header at the top shows the song playing and the keys. It stays silent unless you press Space, the keys never answer the kit's questions, and the summary says if music played. In this project's tests the timings were the same with music on and off. Twelve songs come with the kit: seven written for this project and sung by a synthetic voice, and five public-domain recordings (Chopin, Mussorgsky, Scott Joplin, a 1925 Charleston and a bagpipe Amazing Grace). music\music.txt lists who made each one. New songs can arrive later the way new tests do: the kit asks before downloading them. --no-music turns the player off.
• Shorter runs: tests that are already answered were removed, so each run times fewer builds (21 on Windows instead of 29).
• Two new reference builds: AMD's own FSR 4.1.2, as AMD's FSR SDK 2.4.0 ships it, with its RX 7000 and its RX 6000 model (sdk-int8-reference, sdk-navi2-reference), next to AMD's FSR 4.1.2 Lite from the same SDK (lt134-sdk-reference), so this project's builds are timed against AMD's real FSR 4.1.2.
• Kits from 2026-11-03 keep working and pick up the new tests by themselves; they say this new version exists, but you only need it for the music player.
• Reports from every card are welcome; RX 7000 cards on Windows and handhelds have the fewest so far.

On Windows, it will warn about an unknown program, because the file is not signed; the source is in the repository (timing-kit/windows/fsr4time.c, fsr4update.inc, music.inc, timing-kit/linux/run.sh). Checksums: SHA256SUMS.