From 73348d8d9fc637de9bd42cd5073c484cf0519600 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luke Street <luke.street@encounterpc.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 01:44:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] aurora: Disable backend validation for release & Windows

---
 aurora/lib/gpu.cpp | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/aurora/lib/gpu.cpp b/aurora/lib/gpu.cpp
index a10bbbbe9..d6de7ac13 100644
--- a/aurora/lib/gpu.cpp
+++ b/aurora/lib/gpu.cpp
@@ -115,7 +115,12 @@ static void error_callback(WGPUErrorType type, char const* message, void* userda
 void initialize(SDL_Window* window) {
   Log.report(logvisor::Info, FMT_STRING("Creating Dawn instance"));
   g_Instance = std::make_unique<dawn::native::Instance>();
-  g_Instance->EnableBackendValidation(true);
+#if !defined(NDEBUG)
+  // D3D12's debug layer is very slow
+  if (preferredBackendType != wgpu::BackendType::D3D12) {
+    g_Instance->EnableBackendValidation(true);
+  }
+#endif
   utils::DiscoverAdapter(g_Instance.get(), window, preferredBackendType);
 
   {