VolcanStorage

VolcanStorage v1.0.0 (Official Release)

High-performance, cross-platform asynchronous GPU asset streaming and hardware-accelerated decompression runtime designed specifically for Vulkan.

🌟 Key Highlights & Features

• Zero-Copy Direct I/O (4KB Sector Alignment): Bypasses OS kernel page caching (FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING on Windows, O_DIRECT on Linux), streaming directly from NVMe SSD into GPU staging memory.
• In-Flight Ring Pipelining (kMaxInFlight = 4): Concurrent CPU file streaming and GPU DMA transfers eliminate synchronization latency bubbles.
• Hardware-Accelerated GDeflate: High-throughput parallel Huffman and LZ77 decompression executed directly within compute shaders on Vulkan.
• Adaptive Vulkan Tiers: Automatic detection and graceful fallback across Vulkan 1.1 (Legacy), Vulkan 1.2 (Timeline Semaphores / UMA), and Vulkan 1.3+ (Synchronization2 / ReBAR Zero-Copy).
• Data Integrity: Embedded IEEE 802.3 CRC32 verification for all archived assets.
• Universal Archiver: Pack assets with any custom file extension (e.g. .assets.gdfl, .volcan, .tar) using the volcan_pack CLI.

📦 Multiplatform Distributions (Zstandard Level 22)

Platform	Architecture	Package	SHA-256 Checksum
Windows	x64 (AMD64)	VolcanStorage-Windows-x64.zip	73E17548EE4753AFA78043127727C6F2979F4764B8F687867CF29E1DF6AD5C5D
Windows	ARM64	VolcanStorage-Windows-arm64.zip	6E0CC124B42C0AE30D750AD6201A8FD27463DF4B1BAA5A813608CFAFE86420B5
Linux	x64	VolcanStorage-Linux-x64.zip	8649D7D5E657E33503A12390A2557D35BAB1662544F5C2ABA58C83BB116EA5D3
Linux	ARM64 (aarch64)	VolcanStorage-Linux-arm64.zip	4611E50E120BDE9E183FD31FF50AD98868B900D240048DA6C4667CF5A4E7BBB3
macOS	x64 (Intel)	VolcanStorage-macOS-x64.zip	E15E97738D4D6C1600A7922CC097149A4F67178C30C48A80DEDF1206B464303A
macOS	ARM64 (Apple Silicon)	VolcanStorage-macOS-arm64.zip	06F33AC2C52B3C1C90153D82175AF823DF51B84721E35585E00D55BDD5838142

Author: Ahmet Enes (Chiretallyn)
License: MIT