Possible RSX regression with Persona 5

[jclc]

Possible regression related to #4469. Attempting to load a game or start a new game in Persona 5 hangs with high CPU usage and constant error {rsx::thread} RSX: Dangling reports found, discarding... several times a second. Last confirmed working with tag v0.0.5.

Built from master with 98b715d as the latest commit, but please note that I have stubbed out function utils::has_rtm() in Utilities/sysinfo.cpp to always return false as per the workaround for #4460.

System:
Arch Linux 4.16.3-1
Intel i7-6700K
Nvidia GTX 970 with proprietary drivers 390.48-9

_RPCS3.log.gz

[Ricardo1991]

Got ingame without problem, on Windows 10.
Might be related to linux or it's workarounds.

Log from a few minutes of a new game
RPCS3.log.gz

[jclc]

Just tried bd1d4de and had the same issue, could be related to the other issue I mentioned.

[kd-11]

Same here. Windows 10, will check linux later but pretty sure it also works. Also that error is harmless. Worst case you get missing geometry ingame, but cannot cause a hang.

[kd-11]

If its unrelated then update issue title and description to avoid misleading others with a similar problem. Or close if its actually related to the other issue.

[jclc]

Alright, figured out what the issue was. Turns out the emulator wasn't hung, but had lots of in-game overlay popups for DLC I had activated. The Vulkan renderer only displays a black screen for the overlay (also happened during initial game installation), but the OpenGL renderer displayed them correctly.

[kd-11]

Interesting. It should just work but I removed nvidia drivers from my linux install. Are there newer drivers available? Nvidia drivers are usually similar on windows and linux and I heard they were experimenting with a new spirv backend.

[jclc]

I am using the latest drivers. The overlay doesn't display on Vulkan at all and I recall it not working on much earlier commits as well all the way back to v0.0.5 release, so I think a driver bug is very likely. Nvidia has a habit of pushing buggy drivers that rolling-release distros suffer from.

[13xforever]

Native UI didn't work on Arch with vulkan since the very beginning. Also similar issue on Manjaro. Doesn't matter if you're using appimg or build from sources. I've mentioned it in #4072 in January.

[kd-11]

Works fine on ubuntu and nvidia-384. I'll look into it some more once I move to 18.04 and upgrade to the latest nvidia drivers. This is on a 1050ti