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Potentially Serious bug with RPCS3 - goody_fyre11 - 12-09-2018
I've encountered a very strange and worrying bug with RPCS3 itself that might actually do harm to someone's computer.
I was in the middle of compiling an SPU cache for a game, when it crashed due to a game-specific compatibility error. All of a sudden, my screen went black for a good 30 seconds, displayed some random corrupted-looking colors, then both my onboard Intel Graphics and my NVIDIA GTX 1080 got disabled and were giving Error 43.
I've never seen RPCS3 do this before, and I found out that disabling and re-enabling the GPU's in Device Manager fixes the problem.
I don't think any logs were saved from this, and I don't feel safe trying to re-create the issue. But given that I hadn't seen this happen before, I don't know if it has the potential to actually ruin computers. I was worried it fried my NVIDIA card or something, because a quick Google search said that Error 43 can be caused by broken or damaged hardware.
Just wanted to report this. I wish there was a way to provide more information.
RE: Potentially Serious bug with RPCS3 - batboy - 12-09-2018
Well just be careful man. If you fry your stuff that's on you. Say you have a $2400 computer and something fries, you got no legal recourse (like, you can't sue the dev team, especially since it's open source). You'd be up shit creek without a paddle (or a PC).
Stay safe.
RE: Potentially Serious bug with RPCS3 - Ani - 12-09-2018
Never seen or heard about such issue, no idea how to reproduce this
RE: Potentially Serious bug with RPCS3 - goody_fyre11 - 12-09-2018
If it helps, the game was Grand Theft Auto V. I wanted to, as hard as it may seem, complete an SPU cache for the loading screens and the intro level, or as far as I could get. I wanted to see how it was affected by the new FIFO optimizations.
The error that RPCS3 gave was something like "Error: could not create function" or "Error: could not compile function". That error made the computer lock up, and attempting to close the emulator caused the problem. I hope that makes it easier to try an reproduce.
I won't launch Grand Theft Auto V again until I know that it can't cause physical harm to computers.