Resident Evil 2 gives black screen (with sound) after a hour of playtime.

[ShadowOne333]

Resident Evil 2 with almost all settings set to default, Framebuffer ON and only both DRAM options disabled.

Game plays fine for several minutes, but the problem starts around the 1 hour mark of playing. The game starts having graphical glitches all of the sudden when opening the menu or opening a door, like some bad video signal of sorts, but still visible, until it goes to a black screen entirely when reopening the menu or opening a new door.

However, the game is still running in the background. I can still hear my character moving around, enemy noises, opening the menu, etc., it's just the screen altogether which is entirely black, no matter what I move. I'm guessing there is some kind of memory leak or something of the like.

This has been a consistent issue for me throughout several nightlies. Currently running Atmosphere with title redirection for RetroArch on a 8.0.1 Switch.

[m4xw]

> several minutes > one hour What is it?

[ShadowOne333]

Around the one hour mark of consecutive gameplay is when the issue can be replicated.

I played right from the beginning of the game to around the part where you are about to go into the basement of the RPD consecutively, and right before that it's when I first got the issue.

Although, it doesn't matter what point of the game you are in, it always tends to happen around one hour of playtime.

[m4xw]

Probably some leak. I will give u some test bins soon.

[ShadowOne333]

Sure thing. I will test it out with a full playthrough of the game from start to finish just to be sure.

[ShadowOne333]

Decided to go ahead and record the glitch with the Switch's video recording feature. Here's the video right when the glitch occurs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RYeKW7ptSA

The game is running fine until around the 14s mark. When I grab the document, the video goes completely black (but can still hear the audio, although I forgot to enable the Audren driver before recording, that's why there's no audio in the video). If you notice, a few seconds after grabbing the document (19s mark), you see that I grab the Acid Rounds that were right next to the document, all of this while the video was still black, I had to move around with no video feedback to grab them. Then the screen goes black, and I press Pause again to bring up the menu (22s), then go back again.

After that, you can start seeing some video feedback, but the image is flickering (27s). This doesn't last for long, a couple screen transitions at most, and then the image goes back to black (33s). Last, I pause the game a couple more times (42s and 44s), and after the second Pause there's no video feedback at all.

All of this happens while still hearing audio in the background, so the game is still running. The glitch can be consistently reproduced at around the one hour mark of consistent playtime.

Hope this helps to explain the glitch better.