fix: hard-stop studio preview to avoid teardown corruption

The disposable preview process was tripping MangoHud's shutdown path and
spamming allocator corruption messages on stop/restart. Use an immediate
kill for Studio preview teardown and give the preview child a cleaner socket
thread shutdown path so the live preview controls stay fast and quiet.

src/bin/mangotune-preview/main.rs

@@ -115,6 +115,15 @@ impl Default for SimState {
             .and_then(|value| value.parse::<u32>().ok())
             .unwrap_or(120);
         let present_mode = PreviewPresentMode::from_env();
+        let paused = std::env::var("MANGOTUNE_PREVIEW_PAUSED")
+            .ok()
+            .map(|value| {
+                matches!(
+                    value.trim().to_ascii_lowercase().as_str(),
+                    "1" | "true" | "yes" | "on"
+                )
+            })
+            .unwrap_or(false);
 
         Self {
             gpu_load_target,
@@ -125,7 +134,7 @@ impl Default for SimState {
             gpu_passes,
             interaction_steps,
             present_mode,
-            paused: false,
+            paused,
             should_quit: false,
             scene_preset,
         }
@@ -152,11 +161,18 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
 
     let state = Arc::new(Mutex::new(SimState::default()));
     let state_for_socket = Arc::clone(&state);
-    std::thread::spawn(move || {
+    let socket_thread = std::thread::spawn(move || {
         let rt = tokio::runtime::Runtime::new().expect("tokio runtime");
         rt.block_on(socket_api::run(state_for_socket))
             .expect("socket API crashed");
     });
 
-    renderer::run(state)
+    let result = renderer::run(Arc::clone(&state));
+
+    if let Ok(mut sim) = state.lock() {
+        sim.should_quit = true;
+    }
+
+    let _ = socket_thread.join();
+    result
 }

src/bin/mangotune-preview/socket_api.rs

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
 use tokio::io::{AsyncBufReadExt, AsyncWriteExt, BufReader};
 use tokio::net::UnixListener;
+use tokio::time::{timeout, Duration};
 
 pub fn socket_path() -> String {
     std::env::var("MANGOTUNE_SOCKET").unwrap_or_else(|_| "/tmp/mangotune_preview.sock".into())
@@ -71,8 +72,12 @@ pub async fn run(state: Arc<Mutex<SimState>>) -> Result<()> {
     log::info!("Socket API listening on {}", path);
 
     loop {
-        match listener.accept().await {
+        if should_quit(&state) {
-            Ok((stream, _addr)) => {
+            break;
+        }
+
+        match timeout(Duration::from_millis(100), listener.accept()).await {
+            Ok(Ok((stream, _addr))) => {
                 let state = Arc::clone(&state);
                 tokio::spawn(async move {
                     if let Err(err) = handle_connection(stream, state).await {
@@ -80,11 +85,19 @@ pub async fn run(state: Arc<Mutex<SimState>>) -> Result<()> {
                     }
                 });
             }
-            Err(err) => {
+            Ok(Err(err)) => {
                 log::error!("Socket accept error: {}", err);
             }
+            Err(_) => {}
         }
     }
+
+    let _ = tokio::fs::remove_file(&path).await;
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+fn should_quit(state: &Arc<Mutex<SimState>>) -> bool {
+    state.lock().map(|sim| sim.should_quit).unwrap_or(true)
 }
 
 async fn handle_connection(
@@ -109,6 +122,10 @@ async fn handle_connection(
         let mut bytes = serde_json::to_vec(&response)?;
         bytes.push(b'\n');
         write_half.write_all(&bytes).await?;
+
+        if should_quit(&state) {
+            break;
+        }
     }
 
     Ok(())

src/launcher/runner.rs

@@ -87,6 +87,16 @@ impl Runner {
         Ok(())
     }
 
+    /// Kill a running process immediately (SIGKILL, then wait).
+    pub fn kill(mut process: RunningProcess) -> Result<()> {
+        let _ = kill(Pid::from_raw(process.child.id() as i32), Signal::SIGKILL);
+        process
+            .child
+            .wait()
+            .map(|_| ())
+            .map_err(|err| anyhow!("failed waiting for process exit: {err}"))
+    }
+
     /// Send SIGUSR1 to reload config in a running MangoHud process.
     pub fn reload_config(pid: u32) -> Result<()> {
         kill(Pid::from_raw(pid as i32), Signal::SIGUSR1)?;

src/preview/mod.rs

@@ -150,6 +150,10 @@ impl PreviewScene {
                     "MANGOTUNE_PREVIEW_VSYNC".to_string(),
                     if studio.vsync { "1" } else { "0" }.to_string(),
                 ),
+                (
+                    "MANGOTUNE_PREVIEW_PAUSED".to_string(),
+                    if studio.paused { "1" } else { "0" }.to_string(),
+                ),
             ],
         })
     }
@@ -379,13 +383,7 @@ impl PreviewController {
         };
 
         if let Some(running) = running {
-            if running.request.scene == PreviewScene::Studio {
+            stop_running_preview(running, &socket_path, &temp_config_path)?;
-                let _ = send_studio_command(&socket_path, r#"{"cmd":"quit"}"#);
-                std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(120));
-            }
-            Runner::stop(running.process)?;
-            let _ = fs::remove_file(socket_path);
-            let _ = fs::remove_file(temp_config_path);
             return Ok(true);
         }
 
@@ -461,10 +459,6 @@ impl PreviewController {
             state.current.take()
         };
 
-        if let Some(running) = running {
-            let _ = Runner::stop(running.process);
-        }
-
         let (temp_path, socket_path) = {
             let Ok(state) = self.inner.lock() else {
                 return Err(anyhow!("could not access preview state"));
@@ -475,6 +469,10 @@ impl PreviewController {
             )
         };
 
+        if let Some(running) = running {
+            let _ = stop_running_preview(running, &socket_path, &temp_path);
+        }
+
         let layout_width = request.layout_width_override.unwrap_or(request.width);
         write_preview_config(config, &temp_path, layout_width, request.scene)?;
         if request.scene == PreviewScene::Studio {
@@ -503,7 +501,6 @@ impl PreviewController {
         if request.scene == PreviewScene::Studio {
             wait_for_studio_socket(&socket_path, Duration::from_secs(3))
                 .context("studio preview socket did not appear")?;
-            apply_studio_runtime_settings(&socket_path, &request.studio)?;
         }
 
         let Ok(mut state) = self.inner.lock() else {
@@ -516,6 +513,24 @@ impl PreviewController {
     }
 }
 
+fn stop_running_preview(
+    running: RunningPreview,
+    socket_path: &Path,
+    temp_config_path: &Path,
+) -> Result<()> {
+    if running.request.scene == PreviewScene::Studio {
+        Runner::kill(running.process)?;
+        let _ = fs::remove_file(socket_path);
+        let _ = fs::remove_file(temp_config_path);
+        return Ok(());
+    }
+
+    Runner::stop(running.process)?;
+    let _ = fs::remove_file(socket_path);
+    let _ = fs::remove_file(temp_config_path);
+    Ok(())
+}
+
 fn write_preview_config(
     config: &AnnotatedConfig,
     path: &PathBuf,