Metal Gear Solid HD Collection [BLUS30847]

Hello people. I hope all is going well for you.

This is my first post, so I am going to thank the whole RPCS3 community, especially the DEVs. I was introduced to RPCS3 after watching a video on Modern Vintage Gamin's YT channel. I believe emulation, at this point, is a consumer right since there is no way to play some older games you have bought and owned in a decade or so. The developers themselves really do not care in most cases. So, thank you.

But I digress. Let's get to the actual point. This is my first post, and I tried to follow the rules. so if anything is missing, please let me know.

My specs are:

-Ryzen 3600
-Nvidia 1650 Super
-16GB Memory
-Win 10

Regarding the whole MGS HD collection, I use BLUS30847, Version 1.03. My RPCS3 version is 0.0.16-12221 - 7b6482c0 Alpha

I managed to play MGS 3 surprisingly well with the provided settings in the Wiki. But my main issue now is Peace Walker, which should work very well, but it does not so I am asking you people for help.

For the sake of this post, I cleared the log file, removed all caches, and I am going to provide a brief explanation and then attach the information.

With the recommended settings on the Wiki, the game does some PPU compiling, then freezes on "Compiling Shaders" (Bottom left of the screen) after I select Peace Walker to play. Nothin happens. It just freezes. After about a few minutes, it crashes. Please note that the RPCS3 itself does not crash, only the "Game" screen. 

If there is anything else I should provide, please let me know.



Thank you again.

Dear fine people,

After requesting help on the official discord, many different solutions were suggested and tried, none of which helped.

I just decided to use a previous build, and I randomly selected 12236, with the exact same settings, and the issue was resolved!

Oddly enough, I encountered another issue during the game (Peace Walker), and I was not able to start a mission since it kept telling me "Fulton Recovery System is needed for this mission", despite the fact that I had it selected. I found a post on Reddit which suggested using build 11014, and by using that build the new issue was also resolved!


TLDR; So far, it appears that the most compatible build for playing Peace Walker (For me) is 11014 to prevent in-game bugs. If anything new happens, I will update this post.

Update 1: For the in-game bugs, some suggest using different Network settings in RPCS3.