[macOS] [Arm] Final Fantasy XIII softlocks for a minute during first battle - BCAS25005

[shinra-electric]

Quick summary

Final Fantasy XIII softlocks during first battle.

Edit: I had left it running while writing this issue, and it eventually continues after waiting for about 2 minutes. So it's not as bad as I thought, but the issue is still a thing. The same freeze happens upon death before the game over screen displays, on battle victory, and probably in other places later in the game.

Details

Here is a video of the softlock: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b16cf654-82cd-4df1-862e-c4e28ccddcf7

I looked at other issues, and it seems identical to #6623 which was closed while unresolved. The freeze is the same as the screenshot posted there. In that issue, KD-11 suggested it may be an LLVM issue.

Tested on RPCS3 0.0.34-17323 (latest as of posting).

Attach a log file

RPCS3.log.zip

System configuration

M1 Pro macOS 15.2

[shinra-electric]

I should also mention that when running the x86 version through Rosetta, it doesn't boot. It will freeze when compiling the PPU modules.

[shinra-electric]

Update: same long pause happens after LLVM was updated to 18.1.8

[tifasoftware]

This also happens on M1 Max MBP (2021) 0.0.36-17812

[digant73]

@shinra-electric is that still an issue?

[shinra-electric]

Seems to be fixed on build 18115.

Tested on M4 / macOS 26.0.1 Tahoe