08-10-2022, 02:30 AM -
Just as a follow-up, I've done some additional troubleshooting in an attempt to isolate what might be the cause. Incidentally, I tried running the closest game to this one in terms of what I imagine is a similar file structure, SoulCalibur II HD (itself also a port of a PS2/Namco System 246 game on the PS3 with a looping FMV demo mode), but was not able to recreate the issue with that.
With the feedback of some helpful folks in the discord, I tried the following (both in isolation and together):
-Toggling HLE on libvdec
-Toggling Strict Rendering Mode
-On the suggestion that it may be a slight regression, I tried running it in several prior iterations of RPCS3, going back to late 2020
Specifically these were
0.0.12.11107
0.0.17.12612
0.0.20.13245
0.0.23.14014 (the original one I tried)
All resulted in the same freeze.
Lastly, wondering if it might be something to do with my own NVIDIA Control Panel settings, I returned those to default and ran it again, but the same freeze occurred. Other than this, no other Namco game with an FMV intro like this freezes in this manner (tested Tekken 6, SoulCalibur II HD, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Tekken Tag Tournament HD). Even the game in question here runs fine *when in-game*, but something seems to cause it hang while loading the FMV video for the intro at random points.
With the feedback of some helpful folks in the discord, I tried the following (both in isolation and together):
-Toggling HLE on libvdec
-Toggling Strict Rendering Mode
-On the suggestion that it may be a slight regression, I tried running it in several prior iterations of RPCS3, going back to late 2020
Specifically these were
0.0.12.11107
0.0.17.12612
0.0.20.13245
0.0.23.14014 (the original one I tried)
All resulted in the same freeze.
Lastly, wondering if it might be something to do with my own NVIDIA Control Panel settings, I returned those to default and ran it again, but the same freeze occurred. Other than this, no other Namco game with an FMV intro like this freezes in this manner (tested Tekken 6, SoulCalibur II HD, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Tekken Tag Tournament HD). Even the game in question here runs fine *when in-game*, but something seems to cause it hang while loading the FMV video for the intro at random points.