RPCS3
Issue with releases later than v0.0.34-17138 on Mac M3 Pro
Quick summary
From version after v0.0.34-17138 there is something wrong on MAC with M3 Pro (12 core CPU, 18 core CPU, 18 GB RAM). When loading a game, RPCS3 becomes slower and heavier.
Details
To better understand what is happening I took some video captures, starting a game with "Marvel vs. Capcom 3 - Fate of Two Worlds", showing the game starting, switching to full screen mode and exiting the game. What you see happens with all games. I compared v0.0.34-17138 with v0.0.34-17151
Build with regression
The issue appears to have started from v0.0.34-17141
Attach two log files
Attach capture files for visual issues
Capture video v0.0.34-17138: https://mega.nz/file/vMxQRQ7T#BlS-EWhsdYouxXrfRNpDr28d5bhy-bIocD89NxBpIDA
Capture video v0.0.34-17151: when starting the game, then when you go to full screen mode and then when you exit the game the mouse pointer shows the spinning rainbow wheel effect, but strangely in the video capture this is not visible. https://mega.nz/file/zM4TEKaK#bOjE0R3iy64mxnxj-x6VU_crcKsVTa7hg0Q5-08ye-c
System configuration
MacBook Pro, M3 Pro (CPU 12 core, CPU 18 Core, RAM 18 GB).
Other details
I don't know if any other information is needed, if necessary just ask me.
Details:
Same issue here, overall interaction with the emulator causes freezing for a long while with spinning rainbow ball when trying to go into fullscreen mode, building cache, right clicking for context menu. Doesn't seem to be a game dependent definitely.
System configuration:
- SYS: RPCS3 v0.0.34-17151-b94ddb0c Alpha | HEAD
- SYS: VirtualApple @ 2.50GHz | 8 Threads | 16.00 GiB RAM | TSC: 1.000GHz | FMA3
- SYS: Operating system: macOS, Version: 15.2.0
- SYS: Current Time: 2024-11-24T11:17:28
- RSX: Found Vulkan-compatible GPU: 'Apple M1' running on driver 0.2.995
- SYS: Firmware version: 4.91
Was also able to repro the same behaviour on an M2 MacBook Air running macOS 15.2 Beta 4 and on macOS 14.7.1, when either compiling firmware caches, running any game or running VSH with the latest RPCS3 macOS arm64 releases. Build 17141 lines up with the merging of #16186 and the move to Qt 6.8 so maybe that's what's responsible?
https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/pull/16186 appears to be responsible. @Megamouse Likely an upstream issue. Maybe we should just use known-stable versions (current release - 1) for these dependencies.
#16186 appears to be responsible. @Megamouse Likely an upstream issue. Maybe we should just use known-stable versions (current release - 1) for these dependencies.
Sounds right, simply compiling against 6.7.3 was enough to fix the slowdowns when launching/exiting PS3 titles.
@schm1dtmac I'm not entirely convinced by downgrading you're addressing the issue properly but who am I to judge 🤷🏻
@schm1dtmac I'm not entirely convinced by downgrading you're addressing the issue properly but who am I to judge 🤷🏻
I mean, from the looks of it this is an upstream issue, and I'd personally (as a user) rather not wait for Qt to fix things and push another stable release whilst being left with broken macOS builds in the meantime, so the only other option is a downgrade I guess. IDK if Qt 6.8.1 is officially out yet or if that fixes things on the macOS side at a brief glance so I haven't looked further into that.
@schm1dtmac I'm not entirely convinced by downgrading you're addressing the issue properly but who am I to judge 🤷🏻
I mean, from the looks of it this is an upstream issue, and I'd personally (as a user) rather not wait for Qt to fix things and push another stable release whilst being left with broken macOS builds in the meantime, so the only other option is a downgrade I guess. IDK if Qt 6.8.1 is officially out yet or if that fixes things on the macOS side at a brief glance so I haven't looked further into that.
Can I test your version somehow? I'm running into issues with the current macOS build where it basically goes unresponsive if I do anything.
@schm1dtmac I'm not entirely convinced by downgrading you're addressing the issue properly but who am I to judge 🤷🏻
I mean, from the looks of it this is an upstream issue, and I'd personally (as a user) rather not wait for Qt to fix things and push another stable release whilst being left with broken macOS builds in the meantime, so the only other option is a downgrade I guess. IDK if Qt 6.8.1 is officially out yet or if that fixes things on the macOS side at a brief glance so I haven't looked further into that.
Can I test your version somehow? I'm running into issues with the current macOS build where it basically goes unresponsive if I do anything.
Download one of the macOS artifacts (Intel or arm64) complied from PR #16365, it’ll be available to download as a ZIP archive off of Azure Pipelines.
IDK if Qt 6.8.1 is officially out or if that fixes things on the macOS side.
QT 6.8.1 is now merged into the RPCS3 master branch. Has it helped? Ok, https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/pull/16365#issuecomment-2538484794
I tested with RPCS3 0.0.34-17177-49081d0d Alpha. No, unfortunately Qt 6.8.1 does not fix the issue, It doesn't solve the issue I see when I launch and exit a game.
I tested with RPCS3 0.0.34-17177-49081d0d Alpha. No, unfortunately Qt 6.8.1 does not fix the issue, It doesn't solve the issue I see when I launch and exit a game.
Right, guess reverting to 6.7.3 is needed for now then (@shinra-electric reported the same so I’m relatively confident in this).
It looks like the fix didn't work properly, at least on Intel: https://rpcs3.net/download only lists the Arm version, and RPCS3 itself reports "E UPDATER: Some information seems unavailable".
It looks like the fix didn't work properly, at least on Intel: https://rpcs3.net/download only lists the Arm version, and RPCS3 itself reports "E UPDATER: Some information seems unavailable".
The fix worked for ARM but I made a cockup that broke the Intel build script (somehow the PR CI didn’t catch it so I didn’t notice until after the merge), already opened a PR to fix it in #16405.
Qt 6.8.2 is still broken, for reference, so it doesn't seem like macOS can be moved beyond 6.7.3 any time soon.
@schm1dtmac can you please try with 6.8.3?
Tested a fresh RPCS3 compile against 6.8.3 @hcorion @Megamouse, it's just as broken as before (freezes and lags when booting any software). I'll hold out a bit of hope for 6.9, otherwise this issue likely needs reporting upstream if it's ever going to be fixed.
@Megamouse new problem, Qt's also gone and taken down the official download for Qt 6.7.3, so if the Azure Qt cache expires/is invalidated for whatever reason macOS builds will start failing.
@schm1dtmac 6.7.3 is still online , QT just moved all 6.7 to an archive url , rather than the official releases url, the reason I know this other projects found it out and pointed to the archive url https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/pull/12477
https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/6.7/6.7.3/
@schm1dtmac 6.7.3 is still online , QT just moved all 6.7 to an archive url , rather than the official releases url, the reason I know this other projects found it out and pointed to the archive url PCSX2/pcsx2#12477
https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/6.7/6.7.3/
Ah, good to know, thanks!
@schm1dtmac, @mavethee is that still an issue?
Last I attempted to compile against Qt 6.9.x the same performance issues persisted, current RPCS3 just works around this by compiling against 6.7.3. P.S. are these necros necessary?
Retested with a fresh Qt 6.10 CI compile, I couldn't even get as far as seeing if the lag still existed because nothing boots under Qt 6.10, you just get this VK error instead.