The Oregon Trail (PPSA19244)

[JJenkx]

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Title

The Oregon Trail (PPSA19244)

Content version tested

02.000.001

AnyPS5 commit

main 44a59edc3a.

System tested

Linux 7.2.9 (Arch), Ryzen 9 7950X, Radeon RX 6650 XT, RADV Mesa 26.2.4, GCC, Release.

Furthest point

Boots (presents frames, all black)

What is shown

From a fresh save, with Cross pressed every 15 s for 180 s, the title (Unreal Engine 4) keeps presenting. The window title reports 23 to 26 FPS up to 62 s, then 15 to 18 FPS to the end, with no driver stop and no exception. Every screenshot (30, 60, 95, 135 and 175 s) is completely black, with a maximum pixel value of 0. The log has only the usual Unreal probes for optional files (keyvaluestore.ini, paks, engine.ini) that do not exist. I could not tell whether it is still loading or rendering to something that is not presented.

Current blocker

Black output while running at 15 to 26 FPS; cause not found.

How it was run

relinker --registry --rpath <build>/core/libs/libs eboot.elf app.elf

Modules in sce_module are converted with the title. This dump has no PlayGo files, so it was run with APS5_PLAYGO_UNLISTED_CHUNKS=installed.

AI-assisted testing and report: yes, Claude Code.

[JJenkx]

Additional data: black screen after the signed-out error dialog; the title renders almost nothing

Setup. Same system as the first post.

• Builds:
  • main 0db47b263d + fix(libkernel): skip unallocated pages in sceKernelReleaseDirectMemory #10018 (3b1e7757dc);
  • the same + fix(agc): lower import budgets only on memory exhaustion #8091 (17ae5cc23e).
• Run with APS5_PLAYGO_UNLISTED_CHUNKS=installed.

Findings:

• Error dialog. Right after mounting and unmounting savedata0, the title opens the error dialog with SCE_NP_ERROR_SIGNED_OUT:

  [ERRORDIALOG] open: error_code=0x80550006 user_id=268435456
  

  AnyPS5 runs signed out, and the dialog reports itself finished at once. After it, the log shows almost no new activity.

• Frame rate.

  • On main, the host import budget is lowered after three vkAllocateMemory failures with -1000072003, and 726k imports are refused. This explains the 13-23 FPS.
  • With fix(agc): lower import budgets only on memory exhaustion #8091, presents run at a steady 59.9 FPS. Every frame is still black.

• Black frames. All the evidence says the presented frames are empty:

  • window screenshots are all zero;
  • APS5_DUMP_FRAMES frames at 960x540 are all zero;
  • APS5_DUMP_TARGETS=1 wrote no target.

• Rendering. An APS5_TRACE_SECONDS=110:10 capture with fix(agc): lower import budgets only on memory exhaustion #8091 has about 5 draws and 4 dispatches per present, with the GPU busy 8.2 ms per present. The title renders almost nothing, and there are no rejected or skipped submissions in the log. So the black screen looks like a title state, not lost output.

• Threads. A gdb snapshot at 100 s has the guest threads in condition waits, event-queue waits and sceKernelUsleep, with the render and audio loops running. The guest frames have no symbols, so the state the title waits in is not identified.

Possible causes:

• The title waits for an account or online state that a signed-out user never reaches.
• A later step fails silently.

Not tried:

• buttons other than Cross;
• a signed-in NP state.

AI-assisted: yes (Claude Code)