Echoes of Aincrad (PPSA22969)

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Title

Echoes of Aincrad (PPSA22969)

Content version tested

01.000.006

AnyPS5 commit

fb0dc11

System tested

Windows 11 build 26200, AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D, NVIDIA RTX 5090 (driver ver. 617.14), 64 GB RAM

Furthest point

In game

What is shown

Main menu, opening cinematic, and gameplay in the starting cave all load. Characters, foliage, the altar, the mural, decals and effects render correctly, but large static geometry (ground, stairs, pillars, cave walls) renders black with only correct silhouettes and depth. Frame rate between 0.75 and 4 FPS depending on what's on screen and running profilers.

Current blocker

Frame rate. The menu runs at about 2 FPS, gameplay between 0.5 and 4 FPS depending on the scene. With APS5_PROFILE_GPU=1, standing still in the cave, the GPU spends about 345 ms per frame, of which storage write-back is 137 ms and 55.9 GB per frame in about 2900 copies, draws 66 ms (about 1040 per frame), shadow-publish 41 ms, and all compute programs about 83 ms. nvidia-smi reads the GPU at 99 % busy at around 190 W. The [gputime] line is below.

Additionally, loading into the game from the main menu sometimes stops presenting about 250s-300s after the first present and never resumes (2 of 4 profiled runs). gdb stacks of both stops show both driver queue workers idle in Driver::run, presenter waiting, every game thread in a condition wait, and the game's main thread in scePthreadMutexLock. APS5_STALL_WATCHDOG_SECS=30 prints nothing, which is consistent with no outstanding GPU work, and audio contexts were pushing at full rate. The capture holds only thread, module and function names. I could not diagnose why this deadlock occurs.

[gputime] 1419 ms of GPU time in 2886 batches over 10 s (batch 5782 ms first to last command; classes 4316 ms, all ranges 5716 ms, untimed 66 ms outside every range; 17 presents; 0 ranges dropped at the 512 cap); by program: 0x1c01154000 x17 193ms 0x144116fc00 x17 176ms 0x1901161600 x1615 92ms 0x1bc0fac000 x16 84ms 0x1c40e78000 x17 77ms 0x1a40e60000 x17 65ms 0x18814f0000 x1615 58ms 0x1780f30000 x17 57ms 0x18c134f000 x1615 56ms 0x18814f9500 x1615 56ms 0x1bc110e000 x17 55ms 0x188151c400 x1615 52ms; by class: dispatch-lead x12112 38.3ms 0.0MiB (per present x712.5 2.25ms 0.00MiB) dispatch-trail x15473 55.3ms 0.0MiB (per present x910.2 3.25ms 0.00MiB) indirect-args x2935 7.8ms 0.0MiB (per present x172.6 0.46ms 0.00MiB) label-run x2627 21.3ms 1.2MiB (per present x154.5 1.25ms 0.07MiB) fill x1509 9.9ms 186.3MiB (per present x88.8 0.58ms 10.96MiB) fill-clear x34 0.2ms 85.0MiB (per present x2.0 0.01ms 5.00MiB) copy x113 9.8ms 507.9MiB (per present x6.6 0.57ms 29.88MiB) staging-in x11678 58.8ms 1462.6MiB (per present x686.9 3.46ms 86.04MiB) staging-out x11678 74.6ms 1462.6MiB (per present x686.9 4.39ms 86.04MiB) draw x17409 1061.5ms 0.0MiB (per present x1024.1 62.44ms 0.00MiB) storage-upload x963 68.2ms 4823.4MiB (per present x56.6 4.01ms 283.73MiB) storage-writeback x48834 2158.9ms 928391.4MiB (per present x2872.6 126.99ms 54611.26MiB) dcc-clear x1105 5.1ms 7310.0MiB (per present x65.0 0.30ms 430.00MiB) dcc-keys x508 3.8ms 31.9MiB (per present x29.9 0.22ms 1.87MiB) present-blit x17 17.0ms 86.1MiB (per present x1.0 1.00ms 5.06MiB) shadow-publish x5393 721.0ms 32953.5MiB (per present x317.2 42.41ms 1938.44MiB) template-refresh x11446 4.4ms 1.3MiB (per present x673.3 0.26ms 0.08MiB)

How it was run

Converted with the relinker from a dump of the installed title and run as app.exe from the output directory with the title's content directories junctioned into app0. No APS5 switches for the baseline runs; APS5_TRACE_SUMMARY_EVERY=10 for the frame times, APS5_PROFILE_GPU=1 for the GPU line, APS5_STALL_WATCHDOG_SECS=30 on one loading run. Used an Xbox One Elite 2 through SDL for input.