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Copilot AI commented Nov 14, 2025

High-DPI displays with full Unicode support can generate 200MB+ font atlases, causing crashes and severe performance degradation on integrated GPUs that share system RAM.

Core Implementation

FontMemoryGuard provides memory estimation and GPU-aware limits:

  • Conservative defaults: 16-96MB for integrated GPUs, 64-128MB for discrete
  • Memory estimation accounting for font count, sizes, Unicode/emoji ranges, and DPI scaling
  • Fallback strategies: reduce font sizes → disable emojis → reduce Unicode ranges → minimal fonts

GPU Detection

Detects available memory via OpenGL extensions (GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info, GL_ATI_meminfo) with heuristic fallbacks for GPUs that don't expose memory queries:

Intel integrated graphics (HD/UHD/Iris/Xe):

  • Generation-aware limits: 24MB (old HD) → 48MB (HD 6xx) → 64MB (UHD) → 80MB (Iris) → 96MB (Xe/Arc)

AMD APUs (Vega/RDNA):

  • Architecture-aware limits: 48MB (GCN) → 96MB (Vega) → 128MB (RDNA2+)

Usage

// Automatic GPU detection and configuration
FontMemoryGuard.TryDetectAndConfigureGpuMemory(gl);

// Estimate memory usage
var estimate = FontMemoryGuard.EstimateMemoryUsage(
    fontCount: 2,
    fontSizes: new[] { 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 },
    includeEmojis: true,
    includeExtendedUnicode: true,
    scaleFactor: 2.0f
);

if (estimate.ExceedsLimits) {
    var strategy = FontMemoryGuard.DetermineFallbackStrategy(estimate);
    var reducedSizes = FontMemoryGuard.GetReducedFontSizes(fontSizes, estimate.RecommendedMaxSizes);
}

Test Coverage

242 tests covering memory estimation, GPU detection patterns, fallback strategies, and edge cases across Intel/AMD integrated and NVIDIA/AMD discrete GPUs.


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@matt-edmondson matt-edmondson moved this to In Progress in ktsu.dev Nov 14, 2025
Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Implement font memory guards to prevent using too much texture memory Implement font memory guards to prevent texture memory exhaustion on integrated GPUs Nov 14, 2025
Copilot AI requested a review from matt-edmondson November 14, 2025 23:47
@matt-edmondson matt-edmondson marked this pull request as ready for review November 14, 2025 23:58
@matt-edmondson matt-edmondson merged commit dad3369 into font-memory-guard Nov 14, 2025
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