Bannerlator 1.9

Bannerlator 1.9

Run Windows apps and games on Android — no PC and no root required.

✨ What's New

🖼️ SurfaceFlinger renderer (Experimental)

A new third host renderer joins OpenGL and Vulkan. Instead of compositing through a GL/Vulkan pass, SurfaceFlinger hands game frames straight to Android's display hardware — one SurfaceControl layer per window — for lower latency and overhead. Selectable per-container and per-game.

⚠️ EXPERIMENTAL — USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. On some devices/SoCs the direct display path can fault the GPU/display driver and reboot your device, possibly losing unsaved progress or corrupting a container. It is validated mainly on recent Adreno GPUs. Selecting it requires confirming an in-app warning, and the default renderer is unchanged — you only use it if you opt in.

🟣 DXVK 3.0 support (Vulkan 1.4)

Added a Vulkan 1.4 option to the Turnip/Wrapper Driver Configuration. DXVK 3.0 requires Vulkan 1.4, so set Vulkan Version → 1.4 there to run it. Needs a VK 1.4-capable driver (recent Mesa Turnip on Adreno 7xx/8xx); on Adreno 6xx, stay on DXVK 2.7.1.

🟢 Need a VK 1.4 Turnip driver? Grab bleeding-edge Mesa Turnip builds (rebuilt on every upstream Mesa commit, Vulkan 1.4) from Banners-Turnip and install them via the in-app graphics-driver downloader.

🐛 Fixes

• Per-game download menu: the DXVK/VKD3D download sheet no longer opens behind the shortcut settings screen — it now appears on top and is fully usable.
• Perf HUD now correctly labels the SurfaceFlinger renderer (it previously read "OpenGL") and shows live FPS under it.

📥 Downloads

Variant	File
Standard	Bannerlator-1.9-standard.apk
PUBG	Bannerlator-1.9-pubg.apk
Ludashi	Bannerlator-1.9-ludashi.apk

🙏 Credits

This release

• The SurfaceFlinger renderer (ASurfaceRenderer / ASR) is ported from GameNative — the ASR implementation by André Vito (GameNative PR #1582) — which is itself built on the SurfaceControl direct-scanout work of StevenMXZ (Winlator-Ludashi). Huge thanks to both for the foundation this renderer stands on.
• The Vulkan rendering path and the bundled Winlator File Manager are from StevenMXZ (Winlator-Ludashi).

Project & upstream

• brunodev85 — original Winlator (Wine + Box64 + Turnip on Android), the foundation of this fork.
• coffincolors — the cmod Winlator fork this codebase builds on.
• Pipetto-crypto — Winlator Bionic + Box64 fix branch (the "Bionic" half of Star Bionic).
• jacojayy & the star-emu team — the Star Bionic / Winlator Frost lines this build continues, plus Turnip Timeline-Semaphore patches.
• isygold — Star Engine / VEGAS DXVK fork. 📖 VEGAS DXVK FAQ · 🚀 Support VEGAS Development — low-level graphics dev & vibecoder: debugging, refactoring & improving original DXVK code for Adreno. ❤️ Sponsor →
• Frame generation: xXJSONDeruloXx (bionic-fg) · PancakeTAS (lsfg-vk) · FrankBarretta (Android port). Lossless.dll is user-supplied (Lossless Scaling by THS).
• Upstream stack: Wine (WineHQ) · Box64 (ptitSeb) · FEXCore (FEX-Emu) · DXVK (doitsujin) · VKD3D-Proton (HansKristian-Work) · Turnip/Mesa (Freedreno).

Full credits are in the README.

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Changelog (commits since 1.8)

Commit	Title
eb39c2b	chore(release): bump to 1.9 stable (versionCode 29)
d915798	fix(shortcuts): DXVK/VKD3D download sheet no longer hides behind settings
4252e55	feat(asr): require opt-in confirmation to select the SurfaceFlinger renderer
bf292bf	fix(asr): fullscreen geometry + wire perf HUD tick
98861c8	fix(asr): back every Drawable with a composer AHB in SurfaceFlinger mode
c4f6e5f	fix(hud): label SurfaceFlinger renderer in the perf HUD (not OpenGL)
c0df0cb	feat(renderer): ASR Phase 1 — SurfaceFlinger scene compositor
068c3a5	feat(renderer): Phase-0 SurfaceFlinger (ASR) render option spike
785fe2b	feat(vulkan): add Vulkan 1.4 option for DXVK 3.0