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  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "recordedUtc": "2026-07-24T00:00:00Z",
  "referenceHardware": {
    "cpu": {
      "name": "AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-Core Processor",
      "physicalCores": 8,
      "logicalProcessors": 16
    },
    "memoryBytes": 34359738368,
    "gpu": {
      "name": "AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT",
      "driverVersion": "32.0.31021.5001"
    },
    "os": {
      "name": "Microsoft Windows 11 Pro",
      "version": "10.0.26200",
      "build": "26200",
      "architecture": "x64"
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    "dotnetSdk": "10.0.300"
  },
  "displayPaths": {
    "authoritativeLocal": {
      "adapter": "AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT",
      "desktopResolution": "2560x1440",
      "refreshHz": 240,
      "authority": "performance-gate"
    },
    "diagnosticRdp": {
      "adapter": "Microsoft Remote Display Adapter",
      "desktopResolution": "2056x1290",
      "refreshHz": 32,
      "authority": "diagnostic-only"
    }
  },
  "clientConfiguration": {
    "build": "Release",
    "windowMode": "windowed",
    "renderResolution": "1280x720",
    "quality": "High",
    "fieldOfViewDegrees": 60,
    "vsync": false,
    "retailUi": true,
    "developerUi": false,
    "audio": true,
    "datSource": "local retail EoR DAT files",
    "server": "local ACE"
  },
  "routes": {
    "canonicalNineStop": "tools/connected-r6-soak.route.txt",
    "denseTown": {
      "name": "Arwic",
      "route": "tools/connected-dense-town.route.txt",
      "arrival": "ACE canonical /telepoi Arwic position and heading",
      "camera": "six seconds of MovementTurnRight after materialization",
      "timeOfDay": 0.5
    }
  },
  "screenshotComparison": {
    "channelTolerance": 2,
    "maxDifferentPixelFraction": 0.001,
    "timeOfDay": 0.5,
    "dynamicPixelRule": "Particles and other nondeterministic dynamic pixels must be excluded by an explicit same-resolution alpha mask. An unmasked failure is never waived by increasing the global tolerance."
  },
  "baselineRules": [
    "Capped-local, uncapped-local, capped-RDP, and uncapped-RDP captures are separate populations and are never compared as if interchangeable.",
    "Only an authoritative-local capture may establish or pass FPS, CPU, GPU, or frame-time budgets.",
    "RDP captures may validate automation, lifetime, allocation attribution, and large regressions, but are labeled diagnostic-only.",
    "Re-baseline after a CPU, GPU, driver, OS build, physical display path, render resolution, quality, FOV, VSync, DAT set, route, or measurement-schema change.",
    "A re-baseline records the source commit and keeps the prior committed baseline for historical comparison unless its data is invalid.",
    "Performance captures use a clean tracked worktree and disclose all ACDREAM_* launch variables with secrets redacted."
  ]
}