[BUG]: application crash upon booting any iso

[surfup5]

Describe the Bug

when attempting to launch any iso file, the emulator crashes and closes. This began after the latest patch on the discovery app store on the steam deck. Before the patch push everything worked great.

Reproduction Steps

Launch any iso, i used ratchet & clank. The entire emulator will close.

Expected Behavior

I expected the game to launch properly.

PCSX2 Revision

v1.7.2622

Operating System

Linux (64bit) - Specify Distro Below

If Linux - Specify Distro

Arch

[refractionpcsx2]

please update your PCSX2, I believe it was fixed in 2623, but might as well get the latest.

[atmurr]

Same here on v1.7.2622, using Fedora 35 and the flatpak version of PCSX2. I'll test again once 2623 is pushed to flathub.

[weirdbeardgame]

You can unlock the steam deck filesystem and use the AUR pcsx2-git package. I've been working on optimizing it with steam deck usage and it features the fix

[seta-san]

Just also make sure the resources folder is updated

[TheGag96]

Every AppImage version I've been spot checking from the past couple months has brought up an assertion fail handler on booting an ISO . Also, at the very least the latest ones also hang on saving General Settings. The FlatHub version does not hang but just immediately closes on booting an ISO. I even tried an 32-bit AppImage from before they were discontinued, but it doesn't even start because the Steam Deck doesn't have a 32-bit libfuse installed.

[SamRH]

@TheGag96 any chance you could test whether https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/actions/runs/2183121904 (there's an appimage in the artifacts zip downloaded from the bottom of the page) works for you? I suggest renaming it to PCSX2.appimage or something shorter when you extract it to rule out the weird name causing issues.

Fixes are in PCSX2 that will mean the flathub package starts working whenever the flathub maintainers update it - I believe it gets automatically updated every 7 days so in about 5 days or so. Crashes here were likely caused by two seperate issues that are now fixed.

The link I've given you above is a build including #5908 which should resolve the AppImage issues that occur on some Linux distributions and the issue I believe you're currently encountering with the AppImage. This is a third issue that is AppImage specific. The other two issues are also fixed in the above build.

[SamRH]

More info related to my above comment.

This issue is likely resolved by having a build that includes:

#5891 and #5902

If you are using the flathub version (the one Steam Deck Discover uses) and want a more up to date version that includes the fixes sooner you'll need to get the flathub maintainer to bump the version in https://github.com/flathub/net.pcsx2.PCSX2 - if you look at recent commits it's pretty simple and they may welcome a pull request.

If you're encountering this issue while also using a recent AppImage you also likely need to wait until something like #5908 is merged.

[TheGag96]

Yes, that works much better! Was getting into games and changing settings no problem.

[sssembler]

To prevent this in the future is there no functional testing going on? basically whoever broke it should have realised.

[refractionpcsx2]

We don't have a Steam Deck, nor do we support it. why should we have realised? all the Windows/Linux/Mac versions worked absolutely fine to the best of our knowledge. And asking a single developer to test Windows, Mac and 120387132984 distributions of Linux is inherently ridiculous.

[RedDevilus]

Or you can send a steam deck ;)

[sssembler]

Found the guy who broke it.

[refractionpcsx2]

Good for you. Now are you going to contribute anything useful to our github or are you just here to complain and troll?