RoboCop: Rogue City - Unfinished Business (PPSA28329)

[LeoFeitosa]

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Title

RoboCop: Rogue City - Unfinished Business (PPSA28329)

Content version tested

01.005.000

AnyPS5 commit

main 9caecfd with #6308.

System tested

Windows 11 (build 26200), NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti (NVIDIA 617.42), built from source with WinLibs GCC 15.2.0 r7, Release

Furthest point

In game

What is shown

Title screen, main menu, the Play menu, then a save loads into the first mission (Assault on Metro West). The HUD, the level and the lighting look right, and the character walks with pad input. In game it runs at 2 to 4.5 FPS with the shader cache warm.

The main menu background is wrong on main: only the blurred light layer is drawn, the city and RoboCop never appear. On main 2083bc7 it also showed purple and black tiles over the top of the screen. The pull request linked below fixes it.

Current blocker

• Main menu background: fixed by the pull request linked in the reply below.
• On main 2083bc7, 4 of 20 runs stopped 41 to 47 s after start with AGC graphics: storing storage image results pending over memory outside the write watch without the guest bytes saved before them is not implemented. With fix(agc): run the unwatch hook when a watched import leaves the write watch #6308, 0 of 20.
• On a first run of a scene (cold shader cache) the graphics queue worker stays in nvgpucomp64.dll for over 120 s and the title stops itself: GameThread timed out waiting for RenderThread after 120.00 secs. A later run with the shaders cached loads.
• With NVIDIA 610.88 it stopped in nvgpucomp64.dll (the 610 driver crash in the usage notes); 617.42 does not.
• On main 2083bc7, on the AMD Radeon iGPU of a Ryzen 9 7900X3D (ANYPS5_GPU=Radeon, AMD 25.10.36) it did not get past the first load: the same 120 s timeout once, then VK_ERROR_DEVICE_LOST with no device fault reported.

How it was run

relinker --windows --windows-gui eboot.bin <exe>, with the title's sce_module modules converted alongside. APS5_PAD_INPUT_FILE for the pad presses; ANYPS5_SHADER_CACHE_DIR on an NVMe drive.

[LeoFeitosa]

Main menu background: #7579. #6308 is still needed for the intermittent storage-image write-back abort.

[LeoFeitosa]

Status on 25ab351: the menu renders right with #7579 merged. In game the title runs at about 5 FPS (frame p50 184 ms, GPU busy 112 ms) and both the queue worker and the GPU limit it, so no single change moves it. Measurements, experiments that did not help, and the two crash patterns seen here (the 120 s render-thread timeout with a cold shader cache, and a 38 GiB allocation request) are in #5436 (comment).