House Of The Dead 3: Black screen in game

[ThatDudeYouMetThatOneTime]

Title

https://xemu.app/titles/53450008/#The-House-of-the-Dead-III

Bug Description

None of the visuals for the actual game or title screen display. However, sound effects can still be heard as normal. These minor text elements still do display:

1.) Denotation of number of credits/lives with the "press start button" text above it. 2.) "HOLD YOUR FIRE!" text which displays during cutscenes. 3.) In-game pause menu giving options to either "continue" or "return to main menu."

Steps To Reproduce: 1.) Start the game 2.) Wait for the game to boot. You'll know it has booted up when you hear a voice say "December 18th, 1998..." as the start of the intro. 3.) Mash start to skip the intro and get into gameplay. 4.) Observe the absence of any visuals aside from some text elements.

Expected Behavior

The game should display all of its visuals.

xemu Version

Xemu version: 0.6.5 The last build listed on Xemu's site page for the game as being used to diagnose it when it was "Playable" was version 0.5.0-4-gaab63105fc

System Information

OS: Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS CPU: Intel i5-7400T @2.40GHz 4 cores, 4 threads GPU: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2) GPU Driver: ?

Additional Context

No response

[Triticum0]

@ThatDudeYouMetThatOneTime The game is probably not broken on Linux. my guess is your intel GPU/drivers, I had the same issue when testing on intel GPU in the past #571 #543 #459. I can't use window due to a driver issue #84

[ehw]

This game plays fine, it might be your video drivers.

Here are mine:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor
OS Platform: Windows OS Version: Windows Manufacturer: NVIDIA Corporation GPU Model: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080/PCIe/SSE2 Driver: 4.0.0 NVIDIA 531.29 Shader: 4.00 NVIDIA via Cg compiler

Version: 0.7.85 Branch: master Commit: 065c74a00fe402f65147e9b0d1a1eeac1b4b609f Date: Mon Mar 6 21:06:28 UTC 2023

[NerosTie]

Same issue with an AMD gpu. Probably an issue coming from Mesa.

[antoniodesousa]

The game plays almost perfectly for me. I have an AMD GPU.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX OS Platform: Windows OS Version: Windows 11 Pro 22H2 Manufacturer: AMD GPU Model: Radeon RX 6600m Driver: Radeon Adrenalin 23.7.1

Version: 0.7.97 Branch: master

[SeongGino]

Chiming in since OP is Linux, game displays just fine here (other than the slowdown that I guess is just to be expected with Xemu?).

Only thing of note is slight flickering in the skybox when on the title screen.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X OS: Arch Linux Manufacturer: NVIDIA GPU Model: Geforce RTX 3060ti Driver: NVIDIA (Proprietary) 545.29.06

Version: 0.7.117 Branch: master

Looks like it might be specifically a Mesa issue. ~~That's what you would call ironic.~~ Pointless Linux vendor war jokes aside, perhaps if you run with AMDGPU-Pro on Linux it might render properly? Intel probably doesn't have a fighting chance at all in this.