EA SPORTS FC 25 (PPSA20049)

[hugodearaujo]

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Title

EA SPORTS FC 25 (PPSA20049)

Content version tested

01.000.028

AnyPS5 commit

main e5f18ea with #6343, #7606 and #7413.

System tested

Arch Linux (kernel 7.2.9), AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT with RADV (Mesa 26.2.4), built from source with GCC 16.2.1, Release

Furthest point

Menu

What is shown

Its splash screen, the EA SPORTS intro video, its title screen, the notice that online features need PlayStation Network and the EA servers, a loading screen, and then the main menu (FC News, Ultimate Team, Manager Career, Player Career, Clubs, Kick Off, Learn To Play, Seasons, Tournaments) over its animated stadium scene, about 6 minutes after start. It was still on the menu when the run ended at 620 s. Input works: Options and Cross took it through the start-up screens.

The title printed its own GPU hang report (Failure in SubmissionManagerPs5::waitForFrame with error code 0x8002003C) 13 times, each time at a different pass, and kept running. Frame rate was not measured, and audio was not checked (SDL dummy driver).

Current blocker

No stop in that run; starting a match was not tried yet.

Needed to get here on main e5f18ea:

• feat(libkernel): accept a kevent read event on descriptor 0 #6343 (merged as 9d4966c on 18 October): without it, the title stops 32 s after start with kevent: EVFILT_READ on a descriptor that is neither a socket nor the read end of a pipe not implemented.
• fix(libSceAgc): accept register range values at any byte address, as the console does #7606: without it, the title stops 8 s after start with sceAgcCbSetShRegisterRangeDirect: null or misaligned address 0x115ba2be5d.
• fix(shader): link a table call whose descriptor load sits before its loop #7413: without it, the title stops 230 s after start, after the online notice, in a compute shader that calls a function from a table once per lane and loads the table's V# before the loop:

  [gpu] driver failure: compute shader 0x1184ca4400: shader 0x1184ca4400 stage 0: ShaderRecompiler::Recompile: computed/data-dependent s_swappc_b64 call target at program counter 0x000004c4 is not statically resolvable
  

How it was run

From the app0 directory, relinker --module-dir . --registry eboot.bin app.elf: the title's own modules (Engine.*.prx, EAWebKit.prx) are in the app0 root, not in sce_module.

Environment: APS5_LAZY_SHADER_PREPARE=1, ANYPS5_NO_SHADER_CACHE=1 and the input file (APS5_PAD_INPUT_FILE). In earlier runs on main 66702f1, without APS5_LAZY_SHADER_PREPARE=1 the title stayed on a black screen while shaders were prepared and used more than 10 GB.

An anyps5-entitlements.ini beside app.elf listed FULLGAMEUNLOCK00, an entitlement the title checks after Start on its title screen. In a run without the file, Start still led to the online notice; whether the title gets further without it was not tested.

AI-assisted: yes (Claude Code)

[hugodearaujo]

Update, same system: main e5f18ea with #6343, #7606, #7413 and #6960 (36df663).

Furthest point: a Kick Off match. After the main menu: the offline notice, the Kick Off welcome screens, Classic Match, side, team and kit selection, Match Preview (Atlanta United v Orlando City), then the pre-match dressing-room cutscene, about 16 minutes after start. The frame rate dropped from about 55 FPS at the start to 1–5 FPS in the Kick Off menus and below 1 FPS in the cutscene, so inputs need presses of a second or more.

Current blocker: the GPU hangs in the pre-match cutscene. amdgpu reports ring gfx_0.0.0 timeout and resets the ring, and the title stops with:

[gpu] driver failure: compute shader 0x1182867000: AGC graphics: vkQueueSubmit recorder: Vulkan result -4

The same happened once in the main menu without #6960, in a run under gdb, there naming compute shader 0x1180813800. The dispatch named is the first submission after the hang, not necessarily the work that hung. Not investigated yet.

Needed now:

• feat(libkernel): accept a kevent read event on descriptor 0 #6343, fix(libSceAgc): accept register range values at any byte address, as the console does #7606 and fix(shader): link a table call whose descriptor load sits before its loop #7413, as above.
• fix(agc): keep guest stores over freed storage-image memory #6960: without it, none of three runs got through Kick Off. One sat on Kick Off's tunnel scene with no menu and did not react to input; one crashed in the title's own allocator 280 s after start, with its heap headers overwritten by the texel 0xff1b181c of a 1920x1080 storage image at 0x10f4800000 (the signature of SONIC SUPERSTARS (PPSA06888): guest heap metadata overwritten with texel data after respawns #5934); one lost the GPU in the main menu under gdb. With fix(agc): keep guest stores over freed storage-image memory #6960, both runs reached the Kick Off menus.

Also seen: bright speckles over the players' shirts in the cutscene; not investigated.

AI-assisted: yes (Claude Code)