v4.7

KytyPlus v4.7

An Apple Silicon Mac could not create a Vulkan device at all, so no game could start. That gate
is gone.

MoltenVK device selection (issue #18)

• Every macOS device was being rejected before a game loaded. A reporter on an M1 got
  Could not find suitable device, naming four features: image view minLod,
  shaderBufferInt64Atomics, nullDescriptor and shaderCullDistance. These are not
  borderline cases — MoltenVK hard-codes nullDescriptor to false, reports
  shaderBufferInt64Atomics false, states maxCullDistances = 0 // unsupported, and exposes no
  VK_EXT_image_view_min_lod. Requiring them meant requiring something no Mac can answer, so the
  emulator never reached vkCreateDevice.
• Those capabilities are needed per shader, not per device. The SPIR-V emitter asks for the
  Int64Atomics capability only for shaders that perform 64-bit atomics, and CullDistance only
  for shaders that write gl_CullDistance. Selecting the device without them costs an individual
  shader at worst instead of the whole title.
• Null descriptors were never actually used. An unbound shader resource resolves to the shared
  dummy buffer, not to a null descriptor, so requiring that feature gained nothing.
• Image views fall back to the base mip level. VK_EXT_image_view_min_lod is now probed on
  macOS instead of required, and a view only carries a minimum-LOD parameter when the device can
  honour it. Windows and Linux still require it, so their behaviour is unchanged.
• vkCreateDevice is no longer asked for features the device reports as unsupported. The
  emulator requested nullDescriptor and shaderCullDistance unconditionally, which is invalid
  input for a device that does not have them. This is fixed on every platform, not just macOS.

Known issues

• Nobody on this project has Apple Silicon hardware. The macOS branches are compile-verified by CI,
  but not run on an M1 — if you filed #18, please retest and report the new log.
• A second gate may still stop some Macs. The device check also requires a block-compressed format
  to be usable as both a sampled image and a blit destination; Apple GPUs can sample BC, but may not
  offer that second use. If it fires, the log now names the format rather than a list of features.
• The macOS package is still x86_64-only, so Apple Silicon users run it through Rosetta.