Evergate (PPSA01886)

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Title / content version

Evergate (PPSA01886), 01.000.003, from sce_sys/param.json.

AnyPS5 commit

Main ce991f1ec2eb71a1f30459b4442a0730a0a4861b plus #6476 (bundled validator teardown/build repair), validation head 375d201337e213458fcdeaf0e1b716cb56255721. No other production changes in the baseline.

System tested

Arch Linux 7.2.9-arch1-1, GCC 16.2.1, Ryzen 9 7950X, Radeon RX 6650 XT with RADV Mesa 26.2.4-arch1.1, SDL X11.

Furthest point / what is shown

A window titled Evergate presents black output. The first native run lasted 172.78 s and exited 0 after an ordinary close request at 170.78 s. Window samples advance at about 59.94 FPS, but this is a black-frame count, not working gameplay or a performance gain. Captures at 30, 90 and 150 s are black; no scripted game input was injected.

A separate 42.53 s diagnostic run also closed normally. It captured four display buffers directly on the GPU, every 300 presentations, downscaled to 240×135. All four have RGB extrema (0, 0) in every channel. This rules out a stale window capture as the sole explanation for those samples.

Current blocker

No visible logo, menu or game scene has been established. No runtime missing-export error was reported. Two shader-library prebuild warnings mention unsupported multisampled array descriptor shapes; they are nonfatal and have not been shown to cause the black output. Audio, controller behavior and level loading remain unvalidated. No functional title fix is proposed yet.

How it was run / checks

VK_DRIVER_FILES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/radeon_icd.json, SDL_VIDEODRIVER=x11, APS5_HOST_IMPORT_MIB=16384, APS5_DRAW_CACHE_ENTRIES=4096, APS5_PIPELINED_DRAWS=1. The udmabuf size limit was temporarily raised for each native run and restored to 64 MiB afterward. Guest modules from Media/Modules, Media/Plugins and sce_module were converted; bundled middleware was used, with no host middleware replacements.

Full libs and relinker builds passed. Rebuilt GPU graphics/disk-cache checks and the validator-exit regression passed, three CTests with no skips on RADV. Static converted-import resolution and ldd -r passed, but do not prove functional library coverage. No proprietary assets, raw logs, images or binaries attached. AI-assisted investigation.

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Rechecked against main e16b2bcce with the common #6476 validator repair, then the same base plus draft #6586's loader change. Evergate remains black in both cases. Each run produced four direct GPU captures with RGB extrema (0, 0) in all channels.

Both ordinary closes exited 0. The candidate ran 112.72 s and also received scripted Cross input; it did not establish a visible menu or game scene. This is a negative title result for #6586, not an Evergate unblock. The earlier multisampled-array prebuild warnings remain unproven as the cause.