FF13 （BLJM67071）Crash at Chapter 11 ending cutscene ("Returning Home") - Access violation / Deadlock

[maaakigai]

Quick summary

The emulator crashes during the cutscene titled "帰郷" ("Returning Home") at the end of Chapter 11, just before the transition to Chapter 12. This occurs consistently.

Details

More specific crash point:

• The crash consistently happens at the transition from a real-time rendered cutscene to a pre-rendered FMV during the opening scene of Chapter 11 ("Returning Home").
• The first crash occurs just as the in-game cutscene ends and the FMV is about to begin.
• On one occasion, I was able to proceed past this transition, but later experienced another crash during one of the next scenes (uncertain whether it was a real-time cutscene or FMV).

What I have tried:

• Switched SPU decoder: LLVM → ASMJIT → Interpreter (dynamic/static)
  Switched PPU decoder: LLVM → Interpreter (static)
• Toggled Accurate RSX reservation access
• Enabled Write Color Buffers / Strict Rendering Mode
• Deleted/rebuild shader & PPU cache
• Rebuilt ISO with IRD using PS3-ISO-Rebuilder (verified clean)
• Lowered rendering resolution, turned off VSync
  -Changed Driver Wake-up Delay (200/400μs)

Attach a log file

RPCS3.log.gz

Attach capture files for visual issues

No response

System configuration

• OS : Windows11
• SYS: RPCS3 v0.0.37-18022-9c93ec0b Alpha | master
• SYS: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-11400F @ 2.60GHz | 12 Threads | 47.86 GiB RAM | TSC: 2.592GHz | AVX-512+ | FMA3
• SYS: Operating system: Windows, Major: 10, Minor: 0, Build: 22631, Service Pack: none, Compatibility mode: 0
• SYS: Current Time: 2025-07-28T17:28:25
• RSX: Found Vulkan-compatible GPU: 'NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti' running on driver 576.88.0.0
• SYS: LLVM version: 19.1.7
• SYS: Firmware version: 4.92

Other details

This is the save data for the scene where the problem occurred.

BLJM67005-90.zip

[maaakigai]

Update (Confirmed reproducible crash at the 3rd cutscene after the battle):

With the following settings enabled:

• Read Color Buffers: ON
• Read Depth Buffers: ON
• Write Depth Buffers: ON
• Accurate RSX (Tiling): ON

The transition from the initial real-time cutscene to the FMV now consistently succeeds.

However, the game always crashes during the third cutscene after the battle.
I'm not sure whether it's an FMV or a real-time scene, so I cannot confirm if that distinction is relevant to the crash.

Please see the attached log:
RPCS3.log.gz

[maaakigai]

Additional update (Renderer change):

After disabling the previously enabled settings (Read/Write Color and Depth Buffers, Accurate RSX Tiling) and switching from Vulkan to OpenGL, all previously crashing scenes now play correctly.

The first crash (during the transition from the initial real-time cutscene to FMV) no longer occurs.
Additionally, the crash that happened just before the real-time rendered cutscene where Cid is shot by the Cavalry has also been resolved.
With OpenGL, both scenes now play without issue.

Please see the attached log
RPCS3.log.gz

[hexad]

Unrelated, but do you have data on FFXIII-2 and FFL.R?
I know XIII-2 is unplayable due to the Matrix Gate glitch, but there are no data on FF XIII Lightning Returns on its wiki since many years ago.
Thanks

[Jonathan44062]

@maaakigai Better join server discord instead of wasting time messing around the settings which makes worst, this report is invalid