Armored Core: For Answer [BLUS30187]

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RPCS3 Version: 0.0.9-9806-01db83bc Alpha
Hardware: 2x Xeon X5675 at 4.12ghz, R9 280x, 48gb ddr3

Recently saw that this was working now so I wanted to try it, and really wanted to play the game again. This is my first time using this emulator, don't know my way around a lot of the settings and what they do, so sorry in advance lol. Got through a full playthrough with little issue, fps drops here and there, some missions had low fps overall, but some of it could be the game itself since I remember regulation 1.40 had issues like that on the ps3. Besides that after about 3 hours (twice) I had to restart the game cause menus would start lagging. That could be because of the 3gb of vram on this gpu though, I noticed that as I played and went through more missions the vram usage would stay higher, might not be an issue for a better gpu. A few other things like weird artifacts when buildings or stuff were destroyed sometimes, and the sky has some artifacts. Another thing I noticed was in the mission ''Defend Arteria Carpals'' the sun would flicker (could be because of the sky thing, no idea), was mostly noticeable in the beginning of the mission, moving the camera a bit down fixes it, and once you're in the fight it's not really an issue. Most of my settings are the defaults, again I don't really know what a lot of them do, but I had vsync on. I also have to use Vulcan, OpenGL doesn't work right for me. The game will start, can hear the audio, but no video. Not sure if that's specific to my gpu. And as the others here, AC textures also don't work right. Turning on write color buffers and read color buffers in the advanced tab kinda fixes it, but will crash for me after a few matches or missions. This doesn't completely fix it either, sometimes there will still be some artifacts on the AC, but not as bad. Also causes a noticeable loss in fps, and some weird stuttering. Only enabling write color buffers causes it to crash on any load screen to test area, matches, or missions for me. So yeah, this is my experience with it so far, the issues weren't too bad considering I got through the game. Glad for all the work that's been put into the emulator and that the game actually is playable now.

Needs log file.