diff --git a/.github/workflows/shaders.yml b/.github/workflows/shaders.yml
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@@ -0,0 +1,144 @@
+# The SPIR-V and DXIL fizzy's native backend embeds (Vulkan, D3D12), compiled from their HLSL here
+# rather than on someone's machine, and checked against what is committed.
+#
+# Each `X.hlsl` beside a `compiled/spv/X.spv` and `compiled/dxil/X.dxil` is compiled with
+# SDL_shadercross and compared byte for byte. A difference fails the job and uploads the fresh
+# files as the `compiled-shaders` artifact, laid out as the repository has them: download it and
+# commit them. Before this, nothing noticed when the HLSL changed and the compiled files did not,
+# and Windows and Linux quietly drew the previous glass (#242, #373).
+#
+# The toolchain: SDL_shadercross, pinned, with the DirectXShaderCompiler release it pins itself
+# (Microsoft's prebuilt v1.9.2602, by SHA-256), as shadercross's own CI builds it. Nothing heavy is
+# built here: SPIRV-Cross and shadercross, a few minutes, cached by the pin. The shaders that had
+# not changed since they were compiled (the backend's defaults) reproduce with it byte for byte,
+# SPIR-V and DXIL: it is the toolchain they were made with.
+
+name: Shaders
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - "**/*.hlsl"
+      - "**/shaders/compiled/**"
+      - ".github/workflows/shaders.yml"
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+    paths:
+      - "**/*.hlsl"
+      - "**/shaders/compiled/**"
+      - ".github/workflows/shaders.yml"
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+env:
+  SHADERCROSS_REPO: libsdl-org/SDL_shadercross
+  # Its build-scripts/download-prebuilt-DirectXShaderCompiler.cmake pins DXC v1.9.2602.
+  SHADERCROSS_SHA: 1ff05bec573988a98ef9e0260b4da44f512b8367
+
+jobs:
+  compile:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    timeout-minutes: 150
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Cached shadercross
+        id: cache
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        with:
+          path: ~/shadercross
+          key: shadercross-${{ env.SHADERCROSS_SHA }}-prebuilt-dxc-1
+
+      - name: Toolchain
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update -y
+          sudo apt-get install -y ninja-build cmake spirv-tools
+
+      # Every run: shadercross links SDL, cached or not (setup-sdl caches its own build).
+      - name: SDL
+        id: sdl
+        uses: libsdl-org/setup-sdl@main
+        with:
+          version: 3-latest
+          cmake-generator: Ninja
+          install-linux-dependencies: true
+
+      - name: Build shadercross (prebuilt DXC)
+        if: steps.cache.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        run: |
+          git clone --filter=blob:none "https://github.com/$SHADERCROSS_REPO" sc
+          git -C sc checkout "$SHADERCROSS_SHA"
+          git -C sc submodule update --init --depth 1 external/SPIRV-Cross
+          # Microsoft's release of DXC, as shadercross pins it (version and SHA-256).
+          cmake -P sc/build-scripts/download-prebuilt-DirectXShaderCompiler.cmake
+          dxc_root="$PWD/sc/external/DirectXShaderCompiler-binaries"
+          cmake -S sc/external/SPIRV-Cross -B spirv_cross_build -GNinja \
+            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DSPIRV_CROSS_SHARED=ON -DSPIRV_CROSS_STATIC=ON \
+            -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$HOME/shadercross"
+          cmake --build spirv_cross_build
+          cmake --install spirv_cross_build
+          cmake -S sc -B sc/build -GNinja \
+            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
+            -DSDLSHADERCROSS_VENDORED=OFF \
+            -DSDLSHADERCROSS_CLI=ON \
+            -DSDLSHADERCROSS_SHARED=ON \
+            -DSDLSHADERCROSS_STATIC=OFF \
+            -DSDLSHADERCROSS_WERROR=OFF \
+            -DSDLSHADERCROSS_INSTALL=ON \
+            -DSDLSHADERCROSS_INSTALL_RUNTIME=ON \
+            -DDirectXShaderCompiler_ROOT="$dxc_root" \
+            -Dspirv_cross_c_shared_ROOT="$HOME/shadercross:$HOME/shadercross/share/spirv_cross_c_shared" \
+            -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$HOME/shadercross"
+          cmake --build sc/build --parallel
+          cmake --install sc/build
+          # The compiler shadercross loads at run time, beside it.
+          find "$dxc_root" -name 'lib*.so*' -exec cp -L {} "$HOME/shadercross/lib/" \;
+          ls "$HOME/shadercross/lib"
+
+      - name: Compile and compare
+        run: |
+          export PATH="$HOME/shadercross/bin:$PATH"
+          export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$HOME/shadercross/lib:${{ steps.sdl.outputs.prefix }}/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
+          shadercross --help > /dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "shadercross does not run"; ldd "$HOME/shadercross/bin/shadercross"; exit 1; }
+          stale=0
+          failed=0
+          mkdir -p out
+          while IFS= read -r hlsl; do
+            dir=$(dirname "$hlsl"); name=$(basename "$hlsl" .hlsl)
+            for form in spv dxil; do
+              committed="$dir/compiled/$form/$name.$form"
+              [ -f "$committed" ] || continue
+              fresh="out/$committed"
+              mkdir -p "$(dirname "$fresh")"
+              # One that does not compile is reported, and the rest still go.
+              if ! (cd "$dir" && shadercross "$name.hlsl" -o "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/$fresh"); then
+                echo "::error file=$hlsl::$hlsl does not compile to $form"
+                failed=1
+                continue
+              fi
+              if [ "$form" = spv ] && ! spirv-val "$fresh"; then
+                echo "::error file=$hlsl::$fresh does not validate"
+                failed=1
+              fi
+              if cmp -s "$committed" "$fresh"; then
+                echo "ok      $committed"
+              else
+                echo "::error file=$hlsl::$committed is not what $hlsl compiles to: download the compiled-shaders artifact and commit it"
+                echo "        committed $(stat -c %s "$committed") bytes, compiled $(stat -c %s "$fresh"); first differences (offset, committed, compiled):"
+                cmp -l "$committed" "$fresh" | head -8 || true
+                stale=1
+              fi
+            done
+          done < <(git ls-files '*.hlsl')
+          echo "stale=$stale" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          echo "failed=$failed" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+
+      - name: Upload the fresh compiled shaders
+        if: env.stale == '1' || env.failed == '1'
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: compiled-shaders
+          path: out/
+
+      - name: Fail on stale or broken compiled shaders
+        if: env.stale == '1' || env.failed == '1'
+        run: exit 1
diff --git a/core/gfx/shaders/compiled/dxil/liquid_glass.fragment.dxil b/core/gfx/shaders/compiled/dxil/liquid_glass.fragment.dxil
index e8a82f9af..24e69dce5 100644
Binary files a/core/gfx/shaders/compiled/dxil/liquid_glass.fragment.dxil and b/core/gfx/shaders/compiled/dxil/liquid_glass.fragment.dxil differ
diff --git a/core/gfx/shaders/compiled/spv/liquid_glass.fragment.spv b/core/gfx/shaders/compiled/spv/liquid_glass.fragment.spv
index f9d667b32..4a36459a9 100644
Binary files a/core/gfx/shaders/compiled/spv/liquid_glass.fragment.spv and b/core/gfx/shaders/compiled/spv/liquid_glass.fragment.spv differ
diff --git a/core/gfx/shaders/liquid_glass.fragment.hlsl b/core/gfx/shaders/liquid_glass.fragment.hlsl
index 38c81fffc..42bf83ad9 100644
--- a/core/gfx/shaders/liquid_glass.fragment.hlsl
+++ b/core/gfx/shaders/liquid_glass.fragment.hlsl
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ float4 main(PSInput input) : SV_Target0
     // The glass's own light, added whole. Scaled with the picture, it went wherever the picture
     // was see-through — over the explorer, which is the window's OS glass — and the glass all but
     // vanished there, rim and all, where Liquid Glass keeps its bright rim over anything.
-    o.rgb += float3(clamp(lift + lens * g2.w * lit, 0.0, 1.0));
+    o.rgb += (float3)clamp(lift + lens * g2.w * lit, 0.0, 1.0);
     o = clamp(o, 0.0, 1.0);
     // Light over a see-through picture carries its own alpha: brighter than its alpha, a pixel is
     // no colour premultiplied, and the frost captured from this frame next (`rgb / a`) blew it up