Insanely high texture upload time - (engine using an allocator to place its object in vram) R&C ACiT

[Yahfz]

This issue is more of a reminder-only to kd, as he knows exactly how to fix it so its best to keep it up here.

[Yahfz]

Killzone 2 and 3 also affected

[PawTM]

DiRT 3 seems to also be affected by this, going as high as 30ms.

[PawTM]

Split/Second: Velocity is also affected a lot.

[PawTM]

And so is Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, up to 30ms aswell.

[RainbowCookie32]

Far Cry 2 is also affected

[dio-gh]

MotorStorm: Pacific Rift might also just be affected? Not sure. Steady 10K-14K us texture upload times though.

[Jacoby1218]

F1 2014 may be affected, if it is then other codemasters racing games will be too

[kd-11]

This is addressed by https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/pull/9738 Upload times are still not amazing, but sub-10ms is good enough for me. Please verify.

[Yahfz]

This is addressed by #9738 Upload times are still not amazing, but sub-10ms is good enough for me. Please verify.

@kd-11 killzone 2-3 are indeed much better and sub 10ms. The bottleneck has shifted in the other games but farcry2 is still really bad hitting 81ms as you can see here:

[Satan86]

Motorstorm Pacific Rift still has high texture upload times

[kd-11]

Some of these games may have the same root cause as the SSX issue. Its a similar bug to the one fixed in texture cache but now in the surface cache. Not overly complex to solve fortunately.

[kd-11]

Test with https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/pull/9772

[kd-11]

This should have improved with recent additions, memory usage is closely monitored and cache eviction works now. I don't expect things to be completely fixed but at least should be improved.

[kd-11]

Let's get a rebench here. I've done some work to significantly improve surface cache traversal times recently, and previously I optimized the regular texture cache as well. Things should have changed.

[RainbowCookie32]

Far Cry 2 is still doing 20-30k us of upload time, looks about the same as my last test.

Split/Second seems to be running fine aside from the graphical issues, no horrible upload times (on this area at least).

[kd-11]

Far Cry 2 is still doing 20-30k us of upload time, looks about the same as my last test.

200+ texture uploads per frame looks like something I need to investigate. The cause is likely different from the other games.

[RainbowCookie32]

F1 2014 is at 4-5k us from my testing, way lower than previously reported (14k).

Dirt 3 is at 1-3k us, running fine aside from random crashes.

SSX is still a bit high, at 8-10k from my quick testing

[kd-11]

I looked into fc2, it has the same issues as kz2 & kz3 but worse. I'll come up with a solution.

[kd-11]

Is ssx still high?

[RainbowCookie32]

Far Cry 2 is still cursed, I'll try to retest ssx again later

[RainbowCookie32]

Same as my previous report, 8-10k us

[Darkhost1999]

4512us FC2 Widows 11, Ryzen 5 3600, gtx 1660s RPCS3.log

[Darkhost1999]

12128us FC3 Widows 11, Ryzen 5 3600, gtx 1660s RPCS3.log.gz

[kd-11]

Some games require this combination:

• Asynchronous texture streaming = true
• Host GPU labels (advanced tab) = true
• MTRSX = true (if your cpu can handle it, I'm not sure if it is needed) This drastically improves texture streaming performance on some setups, and gets some games like FC2 to a much better state.

[marcoluc97]

Tracking improvement or change for these games involving high texture upload time values:

• [x] R&C: A Crack in Time
• [x] FarCry2 - 4,5k us
• [ ] FarCry3 - 3,8k us @Darkhost1999 (waiting non debug)
• [ ] MotorStorm 1
• [ ] MotorStorm Pacific Rift @dio-gh @Satan86
• [X] Split/Second
• [X] DiRT 3
• [X] F1 2014
• [ ] SSX - 8/10k us @RainbowCookie32
• [X] Killzone 2
• [X] Killzone 3

Please let me know if I have incorrect data.

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[kd-11]

I don't think "a crack in time" still has high upload times. Correct me if I'm wrong on that one. I'm halfway through a fresh playthrough and there aren't too many issues other than some minor fps drops to report.

[marcoluc97]

okay thanks i do not own that game so i look at comments here for others titles. the new #12530 PR improve something again in those games? updated the commet above

[Darkhost1999]

Far cry 3 3308us texture upload time without using gpu texture scaling. RPCS3.log Far cry 3 can be ticked off

[Darkhost1999]

Motorstorm 3579us and without enhancement settings that makes the number even lower RPCS3.log Looks good to me

[marcoluc97]

New tracking about improvement or change for these games involving high texture upload time values:

• [X] R&C: A Crack in Time
• [X] FarCry2 - 4,5k us
• [X] FarCry3 - 3,8k us
• [X] MotorStorm - 3,5k us
• [ ] MotorStorm Pacific Rift - 15k @dio-gh @Satan86
• [X] Split/Second
• [X] DiRT 3
• [X] F1 2014
• [ ] SSX - 8/10k us @RainbowCookie32
• [X] Killzone 2
• [X] Killzone 3

Please let me know if I have incorrect data.

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