Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare [BLUS30072]

RPCS3 v0.0.8-9528-54da9ac7 Alpha | HEAD | FW 4.85 | Windows 10 1909
Intel Core i9-9900K | 16 Threads | 15.86 GiB RAM | AVX+ | TSX-FA
GPU: GeForce RTX 2080 (441.20)

Game should remain INTRO. Sadly there has been no progress with this game. Still freezes in the same spot as evidenced below. Game also freezes before map loads in when trying to play local multiplayer.

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RPCS3 v0.0.9-9929-d25ba03e Alpha | HEAD | Firmware version: 4.85
Ingame with graphic bugs.

RPCS3 v0.0.19-13053-276ee81d Alpha | HEAD | FW 4.86 | Windows 10 21H1
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 12 Threads | 31.93 GiB RAM | TSC: 3.600GHz | AVX+ | FMA3
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (496.13)
You can now finish the game from start to the very ending. The only problems that i had were, FPS sometimes drops to 30-40 when there is many thing going on and game would sometimes randomly freeze but changing the Shader Mode to Legacy, ZCULL to Relaxed and driver wake-up delay 200, the crashes were gone. I think that this would be the very first playable COD.

Thanks for report.
Zcull relaxed shouldn't help stop crashes, that would've been wakeup delay that helped.
Relaxed zcull can improve fps in some games but for most approximate is the best. Precise is just default because its more accurate and some games require it to fix minor graphical issues.

Also a Tip, if you are playing 4 player splitscreen set either one of the following settings:

Disable vertex cache=On
Disables the vertex cache. Might resolve missing or flickering graphics output. May degrade performance.

Or

Multithreaded RSX=On
Offloads some RSX operations to a secondary thread.
May improve performance for some high-core processors. May cause slowdown in some situations due to the extra worker thread load.

Either one of these settings will prevent flikkering and rendering issue with splitscreen.

I'm using RPCS3 Version: 0.0.26-14600-53cc067c Alpha | master
PS3 Firmware 4.89
i7-12700KF  3.61 GHz CPU
RTX 3060 GPU
Windows 11 Home

This does not seem playable to me. I am new here, so maybe what's playable for me isn't what others consider playable? When turning certain directions in certain areas, most of the screen goes black. It may be possible to play through it anyway, but it's such a glaring/annoying problem to me it would not be worth it.

I've tried both vulkan and opengl, both with default settings.

Here's an example of what I see when it happens (I should be seeing a large ship in this instance):

RPCS3 v0.0.26-14618-18ab42dc Alpha | master | FW 4.88 | Windows 10 22H2
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 12 Threads | 31.93 GiB RAM | AVX+ | FMA3
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (527.56)

Ingame
Sadly it looks like there is a regression, game crashes when you close it (can be fixed by switching to hle liblv2.sprx), black screen when you look at certain directions.
Game also spams, which i am pretty sure it didn't before

Code:

E RSX: Framebuffer setup error: Color target failed pitch check, Pitch=[8192, 64, 64, 64] + 8192, target=1, context=0

Don't really have the time to test which build broke the game.

... turning certain directions in certain areas, most of the screen goes black ...

Hello, I am new in the forum too, been enjoying RPCS3 and I felt I should contribute the bare minimum which is talk about compatibility.

Yes, COD4 is tagged under playable but I faced the exact same issue that you have listed.
I think it is best to list it under in-game so that people are not mislead.

After testing a lot of build versions, the one that started the black screen glitch seems to be build v0.0.26-14570.

Build v0.0.26-14569 and prior the black screen glitch is not present.

Build v0.0.26-14570 to the latest build the black screen glitch is present.

v0.0.27-14823 is the latest version as of the time I'm writing this