454107D9 - Need for Speed Most Wanted (2005)

[TotalCaesar659]

Delisted

Tested on xenia-project/xenia@3d1d4de

Issues:

After intro movies, the game crashes after trying to press A to continue.

Log:

Log file

Screenshot(s):

Labels:

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[D1SMBD1D]

I managed to bypass the initial crash and stay ingame by setting the timescale to 4x. It also has to be turned down to 2x or less before the videos or they get stuck. Always crashes after taking control of the car.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waha-75R6Ig
A screenshot of quick race:

Graphical issues: fake HDR shader constantly maxed out, no car reflections, car shadow texture rendering partly, messed up interface.
@Razzile label as gameplay and gpu-shader-errors

[D1SMBD1D]

I'm 2 weeks late but here're the logs anyway
OpenGL (warning, enormous)
Vulkan (crashes on startup for some reason)

[ThatD07]

I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, but crashing takes much longer on xenia-project/xenia@8ccefa1. Freezes on taking control over car, then waits, then crashes. This was the first time it happened(atleast for me)

Log:
xenia.txt
Running from default.xex itself and not from an iso

[ThatD07]

GREAT PROGRESS!
Tested on: xenia-project/xenia@1e9786e
Game does not crash when taking over control a car!
HUD is not visible
The 4x timescale trick still needed
And I'll try to finish a race(didn't crashed, I quitted)
And I'll try to record a video

[ThatD07]

Video about gameplay(quick race): https://youtu.be/bCEbDGHgNN0
Forgot to send the log file(and I won't do a race again today, sorry)
@Deathlock47 Try to get to the carrer mode. I couldn't(I don't know what to press)

[D1SMBD1D]

@DiamondMaster07 Yep, everything works now

[ThatD07]

@Deathlock47 How can you go to the career mode? I tried everything but I'm stuck, I know the menus are functional, I just don't know what to press in what order.

Edit: I've found out what causes the 4x timescale bug. World updates! If you set it down to 1x, you can stay ingame as long as you don't update the world(load a new chunk).
Also, I've figured out how to get into career mode.
And another thing. If you put the devbuild xex file to the retail files, you can enable debug menu which appears as broken as any other hud elements, but at least it loads.

[osdeverr]

@DiamondMaster07 Not really. You need to modify that devbuild xex as I did, it's way bigger and it's rebuilt for retail X360.

[D1SMBD1D]

@osdeverr Glad to see you too fella. How did you modify the dev xex so it doesn't crash?
Btw any of you had success booting on Vulkan? I still get an instant crash to this day

[ThatD07]

Vulkan still crashes for me
Osdever can't test Xenia cuz his cpu is not compatible with xenia

[ThatD07]

Tested on: xenia-project/xenia@2cf0b39
Game now has an issue with textures, only car model's textures load.

[ThatD07]

Latest issue fixed in xenia-project/xenia@f162b04

[Parovozik]

Tested on (xenia-project/xenia@09c29bb)

Screenshots (OGL)

[osdeverr]

btw as i can see normal maps are borken @Parovozik

[ThatD07]

Tested on: xenia-project/xenia#789
Vulkan works, same issues as OpenGL, but HUD renders correctly, half of the screen is no longer covered and runs on a better FPS.
Here's a video using the devkit version of the game(no gameplay/graphical differences, only a developer menu) https://youtu.be/ybkcVgWyrvU

However, Vulkan crashes on xenia-project/xenia@2a3c664

[Razzile]

@DiamondMaster07 that doesn't make any sense as between 957 and 958 the only change was to the doc files

[ThatD07]

Thanks to @Parovozik (xenia-project/xenia#799) I managed to stay ingame with 1x timescale by removing every sound file from the game.
Video: https://youtu.be/hU_UwIi3HA8

@Razzile I tested it multiple times, xenia-project/xenia@2a3c664 broke something and Vulkan crashes on this build while xenia-project/xenia#789 works just fine

[D1SMBD1D]

Goes ingame on Vulkan again
Now shadows work properly, however the lower part of the screen frequently turns white

[ThatD07]

Here're some screenshots with VisualLookFilter turned off

Also sometimes the lower half of the screen freezes for some seconds

[ThatD07]

In short: Vulkan now has all the visual bugs except for the HUD that OGL has and has worse framerate than on 1.0.957

[ThatD07]

Some findings: when a NIS plays. the lightning is correct
Prologue NIS


Race intro NIS

Here's a video showing correct lightning when a NIS plays, then showing broken lightning, when going ingame: https://youtu.be/2j_kbcZ6k-s

Also, when a frame breaks, shaders still apply(also seen in the video)

This is the reason why half of the picture goes white sometimes(broken shaders)

[HarGabt]

Tested on xenia-project/xenia@5558c8a

Graphics without using d3d12_readback_resolve=true got a little better, though there are issues with overbright objects (particles, sky, etc)

Also found out that using disassemble_functions=true lets several chunks of audio load after pressing start without using time scale. Although after a new chunk of sfx loaded and played, audio mutes and still won't let go into gameplay. So, time scale x4.00 is still required to get into gameplay.

Showcase

Edit: added video.

Log:

log file

Screenshot(s):

[Triang3l]

GPU>CPU readback needed for correct eye adaptation to brightness.

[HarGabt]

Tested on xenia-project/xenia@00e7de9

Lots of commits passed since my previous post, where i mentioned disassemble_functions_true which allowed to pass some of sfx chunks before audio crash. Now this option is not necessary to get into the game, as improvements into emulator code have been made throughout the time to make frontend (menu) sfx play fine enough without APU going silent.
Although, there may be some issues with in-game profiles: if you happen to have 2 or 3 profiles (saves), the game at start may replace one of game profiles, but it doesn't happen when you check profiles in alias manager.

But overall, the graphics are still the same and APU still goes silent when engine sounds are played.

log file

[MaksimKuznetzov]

Hey Guys. I have such a problem, after the end of the race, my game just freezes on this race that I participated in, I tried to pass the prologue, but every time such a problem. Please tell me how to solve this problem?

[HarGabt]

@MaksimKuznetzov Use Canary build with patches. APU issues with Most Wanted and Carbon haven't been solved yet.

Translation to Russian, considering he speaks russian

Качай Canary версию эмулятора вместе с патчами. Проблемы со звуком в МВ и Carbon ещё не решили.

[MaksimKuznetzov]

I already have a PC version of canary and a patch for games. I wanted to say not about the friezes, because of which the game or sound is buggy, but about the frozen picture when exiting the race.

[TorutheRedFox]

xenia-project/xenia#2199 fixes most of the APU issues making the game actually somewhat playable

[samcomeau]

The game still freezes in Canary at the end of the race. Audio issues remain. Extreme bloom with patch off (video shown with patch).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6YnRPAqV4U&ab_channel=SamuelComeau

[Zaccoder56]

Nfsmw audio cuts off sometimes when playing the game and so does jumping to the safe house freezes the game on recent Xenia canary Xma decoder

[nfxw]

For those who have issue at the end of the race - switch from d3d12 to vulkan.
After that no freezes at the end of the race, you may buy car and continue the race.
Also recomend to swtich back to d3d12, because perfomance at vulkan ain't that good.

[nfxw]

With new xma decoder and setting use_dedicated_xma_thread = false Audio seems to be alright and game runs fine, UNLESS you play a race with a Cobalt SS. Either you run quick race with it, opponent drives one or you pick one after prologue. After about 5-10 seconds audio cuts off and nearest return to safehouse/main menu causes freeze.

In patches, you have "Skip audio loop stuck code", the only issue is that the audio at some moment might be silent.
Basically, you can finish a full game, but with "sometimes" silent audio.
Personally, I'm currently at the 8th member of the blacklist, there are no freezes at all, only audio issues.
Plus, if you have silent audio, just reset the game and launch again, the only problem is that when beating a blacklist member, the audio might be silent, and you can't restart the game without losing progress.

[Margen67]

Xenia Canary issue: xenia-canary#28