The Last of Us [BCUS98174]

just registered for a big thanks to everyone helping through this post and sharing my way through.

After dealing with blackscreens and blinding lights, and specially following quick.sliver1's advice, plus my own read+explore+trial+test mix, here're my specs so far

PC
Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic | RPCS3 v0.0.10-10575-a7a50349 Alpha | HEAD | Firmware version: 4.86
Intel® Core™ i5-9300H CPU @ 2.40GHz | 8 Threads | 7.59 GiB RAM | TSC: 2.400GHz | AVX+ | FMA3 | Using white-label PC controller recognised as Xbox controller.

(today's update 0.10-10595 doesn't seem to read patches properly for some reason - surely will be fixed soon)

RPCS3 config for BCUS98174

• using current wiki patch.yml (just follow wiki guidelines)
  

1. CPU

• PPU Decoder - Recompiler LLVM
  
• SPU Decoder - Recompiler LLVM (both seem to preload stuff and speed things up)
  
• Lower SPU thread priority
  
• Enable SPU loop detection
  
• SPU Cache
  
• SPU Block Size - Mega
  
• Preferred SPU Threads - 2
  GPU
  
• Using graphics card: GeForce GTX 1050
  
• Resolution - 720 x 480
  
• Shader Mode - Async (multi threaded)
  
• Stretch To Display Area (this way I get full window rescaling on any display)
  Advanced
  
• Load liblv2.sprx and manual selection
  
• libavcdec.sprx
  
• libssl.sprx
  
• libvdec.sprx
  
• Read Color Buffers
  
• Relaxed ZCULL Sync
  

gameplay is >20fps on quiet areas and about 10 when things shake up, which is fair enough for a quick revisit of the game in a modest PC Just remember your PC is not intendeed to be a PS3/4, unless you've made it on purpose - then you wouldn't be reading here.

Some early signs (with screenshots below) of things going right (after going wrong for some time):

• SPU will preload lots of stuff so be patient on start up.
  
• SPU will compile stuff "on the go", and you will read "Compiling shaders" while playing. This could freeze your game for a tiny second, but seems to me the most effective way to play.
  
• main menu displaying properly (no black screens, no reflections, etc). I got to see some bricks reflected everywhere...
  
• cinematics should play fine. I get 30fps (make sure sound runs alright as well and is not choppy)
  
• lights should be mild. Phone screenshot on first scene could appear as a fully white screen. Also, you could get blinding squares of lights everywhere (in lamps, fire, car lights, etc). It's probably a "depth buffer" issue. I fixed it disabling them.
  

I'll probably report when I get through the milestone missions that seem to cause issues and see if I need more tweaking.

Cheers everyone for sharing your progress!