The Exit 8 (PPSA23276)

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Title

The Exit 8 (PPSA23276)

Content version tested

01.004.000

AnyPS5 commit

main d0852de, no pull requests or local changes on top. The hallway measurements below were taken on main e25c975. d0852de gives the same rendering and about the same frame rate (63-73 presents per 10 s, GPU busy about 82 ms per present).

System tested

Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200, AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (AMD proprietary driver 26.9.2 for the e25c975 measurements, 26.10.1 for the d0852de runs), Ryzen 7 5800X3D, GCC 15.2.0 (WinLibs 15.2.0posix-14.0.0-ucrt-r7)

Furthest point

In game

What is shown

The title starts in the first hallway without any input; I got through it and around two corners. Audio plays and the DualSense controls work. Video output is 3840x2160. Rendering has three problems:

• Objects pop in and out: the wall vents and the fire alarm next to the right-hand recess appear and disappear between frames while the camera barely moves (screenshots 1 and 2, taken about 2 s apart). Frame dumps (APS5_DUMP_FRAMES, every 5th frame, no input) show the fire alarm in about 2 of every 8 dumps in some runs and in almost none in others, with the same build and settings, so it depends on timing.
• Black wall sections: the recess in the right wall and part of the end of the hall render as solid black in every run and frame dump. Which pieces are missing depends on where the camera points.
• Black corridor after the second corner: after the second corner, everything except the ceiling is black; no walls, floor or props are drawn (screenshot 3).

The title issues no occlusion-query sample dumps: the [samples] counters stay at 0 queued and 0 recorded at once in every run, and the CPU path (dumpSampleCounters) is never reached. So occlusion queries are not the cause of the popping. APS5_STORE_AT_FLIP=1 with APS5_NO_SAMPLED_FROM_STORAGE=1 does not bring the black sections back and drops the frame rate to about 3 FPS.

Hallway with warm caches (APS5_TRACE_SUMMARY_EVERY=10, APS5_PROFILE_DRAW=1, APS5_PIPELINE_JOURNAL_THREADS=16): 67-68 presents per 10 s, frame p50 about 150 ms, GPU busy about 96 ms per present. Queue worker 0x0 is 99 % busy and 0x20 about 65 %. Driver.Packet takes about 244 ms per frame, of which Driver.Packet.dispatch is about 124 ms.

Per 10 s:

• Queue 0x0: DISPATCH_DIRECT x15000 4113 ms, DRAW_INDIRECT x401 1037 ms
• Queue 0x20: DISPATCH_INDIRECT x2891 2724 ms, WAIT_REG_MEM x9334 1916 ms

Queue 0x20 also logs WAIT_REG_MEM ... timed out after 1000ms during loading.

With empty caches, the first run compiles a 552,414-word compute pipeline in 55.4 s, and the first frame appears after about 99 s.

Current blocker

Rendering: objects popping in and out, black wall sections, and a black corridor after the second corner. Frame rate is about 6.7 FPS, bound by both the GPU (mostly compute dispatches) and queue worker 0x0.

How it was run

relinker --windows --registry --sce-module-path app0 app0/eboot.bin app.exe

The dump's decrypted eboot.bin and sce_module/*.prx were used. tools/import_audit.py reports 0 absent imports. No APS5_* variables are needed to reach the hallway. Default in-game settings.

Conversion, log reading and this report were prepared with AI assistance (Claude Code); the gameplay, audio, the popping and the black corridor were observed by me.