RIDGE RACER (PPSA31372)

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Content version tested

01.000.002

AnyPS5 commit

eaae7e0 (main at the perf/agc-storage-texture-budget merge-base); also tested on perf/agc-storage-texture-budget head ea0fcec. The blocker below reproduces on both.

System tested

Windows 11 (10.0.26200), NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Laptop GPU (NVIDIA 617.42), MinGW-w64 GCC 15.2.0.

Furthest point

In game

What is shown

Boots to the menu and plays. Audio and a PS4 controller work. Menu text renders once the Noto fonts are placed in anyps5-fonts/. During a race the road flickers blue intermittently (menu scenes are unaffected) — see blocker.

Current blocker

Blue flicker on the road during races only. Issue #865: StorageTexture write-back keeps the CPU's bytes for a whole 64 KiB block when a CPU stamp lands in a partial (edge) block, dropping GPU results for bytes the CPU did not change. This is the case that remains open after #1599 (the byte-by-byte edge merge from the closed PR #1918). APS5_EAGER_WRITEBACK=1 sidesteps the glyph-box form of it but collapses race loading to sub-5 FPS, so it is not a usable workaround for this title.

How it was run

Relinker pipeline: unwrap the SELF eboot.bin and sce_module/libc.prx to ELF, relink for Windows, assemble run/ with the system libraries in libs/ and the title data in app0/ (assets, conf, data, global, SIEA, sce_sys). Environment: VK_LOADER_DRIVERS_DISABLE=*dzn*, ANYPS5_GPU=NVIDIA, ANYPS5_PRESENT_MODE=mailbox, APS5_PREBUILD_THREADS=8, APS5_PIPELINE_DISPATCH=1, APS5_PIPELINE_DMA=1, APS5_HANDOFF_SPIN_US=150. Noto font set in anyps5-fonts/.