The Darkness [BLES00058]

How was the performance? no fps counter in screenshots. Some people reported slowdown in later areas, but not sure if true.

The performance was great, no slowdowns of any kind that I could percieve.

EDIT: Will try FSR for the resolution, not sure what write color buffers was needed for, but the only thing I changed from the default emulator configuration was vsync which I enabled.

EDIT2: Okay FSR does freaking wonders for this game, I almost want to play it again in its entirety because of it, it's clearly not native resolution, but it's a vast improvement over the original 720p resolution. With FSR the game is pretty much in a perfect state.

As for the write color buffers option, I didn't enable it this time, nor did I enable it during my playthrough, not sure if it was needed for the lighting problems or for the black screen, but to get past the black screen I simply would press start and then the game would start, the logos would appear and then the main menu would show up, worked every time without issues.

The lighting was fixed in one of the latest updates to the emulator, I actually tried the game after another user reported the demo of the game to be playable, I didn't use the custom patch during my playthrough nor have I used it for this new "FSR test".

For this test, I just enabled FSR, leaved it at its default 50% value, and kept vsync enabled, every other setting in rpcs3 remained at default.

The game runs, looks, and plays perfectly with FSR. I haven't noticed any performance differences which is pretty sweet, considering how good it looks.

Funny enough, in this new test the game didn't even required me to press anything in order to get past the black screen, it just started as it should.

The game is updated to its latest version (1.03) not sure if that could have an effect in the game's performance, I haven't gotten any slowdowns so far.