Remaining graphical issues in Saints Row: The Third

[MarioSonic2987]

Update (20/1/2024): Enabling WCB and RCB fixes broken water on the distance.
Update (24/9/2022): OpenGL regression is fixed.

Quick summary

Broken water reflections in Vulkan. Needs Write Color Buffers and Read Color Buffers to fix this glitch.

Details

If you use Vulkan, it has broken water reflections. Anisotropic filter set to 16x improves a little bit.

Configuration needed

It needs Write Color Buffers enabled and Vertex Cache disabled to fix missing 3D graphics and the Map menu UI, respectively.

Log

Log

Screenshots

RSX captures

Lighting Vulkan
Water Vulkan

Specs:

• Windows 10
• Intel Core i9-9900KF
• Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 (512.15)

Savedata

Savedata

[MarioSonic2987]

Saints Row: Gat out of Hell throws this fatal error when using OpenGL:

Unhandled GL format 0x83F1
(in file D:\a\1\s\rpcs3\Emu\RSX\GL\GLHelpers.h:1504[:26], in function texture)

Log OpenGL

Edit: Fixed.

[MarioSonic2987]

0.0.20-13232 (PR #11445) was the last build with correct graphics on OpenGL.

0.0.20-13234 (PR #11443) there was a crash. It couldn't get ingame with OpenGL.

0.0.20-13282 (PR #11525) fixed that crash. Graphics were regressed.

[nitroos-ai]

Try #11833

[MarioSonic2987]

PR #11833 fixes crashing in Saints Row: Gat out of Hell. Graphics are still broken.

[MarioSonic2987]

PR #12020 makes Saints Row games crash randomly when going ingame with no fatal error.
Log Gat out of Hell Broken

[MarioSonic2987]

In 0.0.23-13883, crashes are no longer present.

[MarioSonic2987]

Broken graphics in OpenGL are fixed in 0.0.24-14175.

[MarioSonic2987]

As of 0.0.28-15212, distant water reflection is now fixed, although it's now flickering in Vulkan. However, water is now waving weirdly when you're close to it.

Vulkan:
https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/assets/20027681/a49d2302-321d-4d92-86a1-e3e87cdd02b0

OpenGL:
https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/assets/20027681/21a6c040-de5f-4a18-aaf8-5a2c3d2a64da

EDIT: Saints Row IV is not affected.

[MarioSonic2987]

Some elements are drawn through the objects, like the lights on the plane in the beginning of the game. Same with Saints Row IV and Gat out of Hell.

RPCS3:

PS3:

They are also present on vehicle headlights.

[MarioSonic2987]

Enabling Write Color Buffers and Read Color Buffers fixes water on the distance.

Write Color Buffers only:

The shaking water bug is still present:

BLES01747_recording_2024_01_20_15_05_16.mp4

[kd-11]

The shaking water bug is still present:

BLES01747_recording_2024_01_20_15_05_16.mp4

First thing to check there would be SPU options. Whenever I see weird calculations breaking animation it's almost always some SPU magic.

[MarioSonic2987]

When using SPU ASMJIT, water flickers A LOT more than with SPU LLVM (Approximate XFloat). The same happens with SPU LLVM (Accurate XFloat).

Base.Profile.2024.01.21.-.00.33.17.01.mp4

SPU LLVM (Approximate XFloat):

Base.Profile.2024.01.21.-.00.54.22.06.mp4

[MarioSonic2987]

When you press Alt+Enter to toggle fullscreen many times, the water breaks even more.

No Alt+Enter (water is still shaking):

Pressing Alt+Enter more than 3 times (water has vertex explosions):