Demon's Souls [PPSA01341]

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Game Name

Demon's Souls

Title ID

PPSA01341

Game Version

1.00

Current Status

Crashes on boot

Description

Stops around sceKernelGetTscFrequency or related modules.

Log File

PPSA01341.txt

Operating System

Windows 11

CPU

5800X3D

GPU

4070S

RAM

64 GB

Emulator Version / Commit

0.0.1

Renderer

Vulkan

Additional Notes

No response

[par274]

I think this is the game where I've made the most progress. However, I don't think the problem stems from TSC.

[par274]

New milestone;

**********************************************************************************************************
* BPE_VERIFY_OSRESULT_DEFAULT_VALUE() FAILURE: ?v

* File: BPE_VERIFY_OSRESULT_DEFAULT_VALUE() (-266380576)
* BuildVersion: ?v
                  IsAPackageBuild: sceGameUpdateInitialize() Bui* Running Duration:
* Message: X??
**********************************************************************************************************
**********************************************************************************************************
(null) FAILURE: (null)

[par274]

New milestone but no videoOut.

It stop around TaskGraphThreadBP

[par274]

01ebab9 new milestone;

Demon's Souls now reached shader/resource initial loading.

des-playgo-20260623-154008.log

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[LOADER][WARN] Import#127659 result: 1 (Up36PTk687E) rdi=0x00000000000000FF rsi=0x0000000000000000 rdx=0x00000000000000
00 rcx=0x0000000000000000 ret=0x0000000800945269
[LOADER][TRACE] videoout.register_buffers handle=1 group=0 start=0 count=2 fmt=0x8100000022000000 tile=0 1920x1080 pitc
h=1920

Good news.

des-video-20260623-191307.log

4ab614e

[par274]

Demon's Souls is now create shader and showing splash image.

af35389

PPSA01341.log

After this point, the game loops through the scePthreadMutexUnlock phases, meaning it hasn't "fully" entered the shader translator phase yet.