God of War - Visual Glitches at High Resolutions

[xuru]

When I try playing at high resolutions, I get a ton of graphical bugs like garbage on the sides of the screen on FMVs, bugged fog effects, and a... Weird chromatic aberration looking filter? Of course, none of these issues are present when running the game at the native resolution. Is there any way I can fix all these bugs?
Also, this is unrelated but I'm also seeing a black bar at the bottom of the screen during FMVs, even at 4:3 aspect ratio. And the game runs surprisingly slow at 4K, despite my PC being good enough to run the PS3 port of the game on RPCS3 at 4K without any issues, I have a GTX 1660 and an i5-9400f by the way.

[jesalvein]

Please post the contents of the emulog.txt file after the problem occurs. The file can be found in "My Documents\PCSX2\logs" for the installer version or in "PCSX2\logs" for the portable/binary version.

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[krollo]

What resolution are you at?

[xuru]

Please post the contents of the emulog.txt file after the problem occurs. The file can be found in "My Documents\PCSX2\logs" for the installer version or in "PCSX2\logs" for the portable/binary version.

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PCSX2 1.6.0-20200506140834- compiled on May  6 2020
Savestate version: 0x9a0e0000

Host Machine Init:
Operating System =  Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (build 19042), 64-bit
Physical RAM    =  16297 MB
CPU name        =  Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-9400F CPU @ 2.90GHz
Vendor/Model    =  GenuineIntel (stepping 0A)
CPU speed        =  2.903 ghz (6 logical threads)
x86PType        =  Standard OEM
x86Flags        =  bfebfbff 7ffafbbf
x86EFlags        =  2c100000

x86 Features Detected:
SSE2.. SSE3.. SSSE3.. SSE4.1.. SSE4.2.. AVX.. AVX2.. FMA

Reserving memory for recompilers...

Loading plugins from E:\PCSX2\plugins...
Bound  GS: GSdx32-AVX2.dll [GSdx 20200506140834 (MSVC 19.25 AVX2/AVX2) 1.2.0]
Bound  PAD: LilyPad.dll [LilyPad (20200506140834) 0.12.1]
Bound SPU2: Spu2-X.dll [SPU2-X 20200506140834 2.0.0]
(GameDB) 9858 games on record (loaded in 107ms)
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Bound  USB: USBnull.dll [USBnull Driver 20200506140834 0.7.0]
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Bound DEV9: DEV9null.dll [DEV9null Driver 20200506140834 0.5.0]
Plugins loaded successfully.

HLE Notice: ELF does not have a path.

Initializing plugins...
Init GS
Init PAD
Init SPU2
Init CDVD
Init USB
Init FW
Init DEV9
Plugins initialized successfully.

Patches: No CRC found, using 00000000 instead.
Opening plugins...
Opening GS
Opening PAD
Opening SPU2
Opening CDVD
isoFile open ok: C:\Users\rafae\OneDrive\Área de Trabalho\God of War (USA).iso
Image type  = DVD
isoFile: second layer found at sector 0x001fbf30
* CDVD Disk Open: DVD, Double layer:
* * Track 1: Data (Mode 1) (4161520 sectors)
Opening USB
Opening FW
Opening DEV9
3.x GL context successfully created
OpenGL information. GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660/PCIe/SSE2. Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation. Driver: NVIDIA 466.47
INFO: GL_ARB_sparse_texture is NOT SUPPORTED
INFO: GL_ARB_sparse_texture2 is available
INFO: GL_ARB_gpu_shader5 is available
INFO: GL_ARB_shader_image_load_store is available
INFO: GL_ARB_compute_shader is available
INFO: GL_ARB_shader_storage_buffer_object is available
INFO: GL_ARB_texture_view is available
INFO: GL_ARB_vertex_attrib_binding is available
INFO: GL_ARB_clear_texture is available
INFO: GL_ARB_multi_bind is available
INFO: GL_ARB_direct_state_access is available
INFO: GL_ARB_texture_barrier is available
INFO: GL_ARB_get_texture_sub_image is available

Current Renderer: OpenGL (Hardware renderer)
Available VRAM/RAM:3840MB for textures
GSdx Lookup CRC:0
McdSlot 0 [File]: C:\Users\rafae\OneDrive\Documentos\PCSX2\memcards\Mcd001.ps2
McdSlot 1 [File]: C:\Users\rafae\OneDrive\Documentos\PCSX2\memcards\Mcd002.ps2
GSdx Lookup CRC:0
Plugins opened successfully.
EE/iR5900-32 Recompiler Reset
Bios Found: USA    v02.30(20/02/2008)  Console
BIOS rom1 module not found, skipping...
BIOS rom2 module not found, skipping...
BIOS erom module not found, skipping...
# Initialize memory (rev:4.00, ctm:196Mhz, cpuclk:147Mhz detected)

PlayStation 2 ======== Hard reset boot
ROMGEN=2008-0220, IOP info (CPUID=1f, CACH_CONFIG=14000200, 2MB, IOP mode)
<20080220-175343,ROMconf,PS20230WC20080220.bin:11824>
# Total accessable memory size: 32 MB (B:2:8:0) (400:2:7c30)
# TLB spad=0 kernel=1:12 default=13:30 extended=31:38
# Initialize Start.
# Initialize GS ...
# Initialize INTC ...
# Initialize TIMER ...
# Initialize DMAC ...
# Initialize VU1 ...
# Initialize VIF1 ...
# Initialize GIF ...
# Initialize VU0 ...
# Initialize VIF0 ...
# Initialize IPU ...
# Initialize FPU ...
# Initialize User Memory ...
# Initialize Scratch Pad ...
# Initialize Done.

EE DECI2 Manager version 0.06 Sep  5 2006 12:57:08
  CPUID=2e20, BoardID=0, ROMGEN=2008-0220, 32M

Patches: No CRC found, using 00000000 instead.
(SYSTEM.CNF) Detected PS2 Disc = cdrom0:\SCUS_973.99;1
(SYSTEM.CNF) Software version = 1.00
(SYSTEM.CNF) Disc region type = NTSC
ELF (cdrom0:\SCUS_973.99;1) Game CRC = 0xD6385328, EntryPoint = 0x00100008
(SYSTEM.CNF) Detected PS2 Disc = cdrom0:\SCUS_973.99;1
(SYSTEM.CNF) Software version = 1.00
(SYSTEM.CNF) Disc region type = NTSC

IOP Realtime Kernel Ver.0.9.1
    Copyright 1999 (C) Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
Reboot service module.(99/11/10)
cdvd driver module version 0.1.1 (C)SCEI
Load File service.(99/11/05)
Multi Threaded Fileio module.(99/11/15)
iop heap service (99/11/03)
loadelf: fname cdrom0:¥SCUS_973.99;1 secname all
loadelf version 3.30
Input ELF format filename = cdrom0:¥SCUS_973.99;1
0 00100000 001c7018 .............................
Loaded, cdrom0:¥SCUS_973.99;1
start address 0x100008
gp address 00000000
# Restart Without Memory Clear.
# Initialize GS ...
# Initialize INTC ...
# Initialize TIMER ...
# Initialize DMAC ...
# Initialize VU1 ...
# Initialize VIF1 ...
# Initialize GIF ...
# Initialize VU0 ...
# Initialize VIF0 ...
# Initialize IPU ...
# Initialize FPU ...
# Initialize Scratch Pad ...
# Restart Without Memory Clear Done.
Elf entry point @ 0x00100008 about to get recompiled. Load patches first.
GSdx Lookup CRC:D6385328
GSdx Lookup CRC:D6385328
(UpdateVSyncRate) Mode Changed to NTSC.
(UpdateVSyncRate) FPS Limit Changed : 59,93 fps
Get Reboot Request From EE
ROM directory not found

PlayStation 2 ======== Update rebooting..Frame buffer size set to  512x448 (3840x2240)


PlayStation 2 ======== Update reboot complete
cdvdman Init

IOP Realtime Kernel Ver. 2.2
    Copyright 1999-2002 (C) Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
Reboot service module.(99/11/10)
cdvd driver module version 0.1.1 (C)SCEI
Load File service.(99/11/05)
Multi Threaded Fileio module.(99/11/15)
iop heap service (99/11/03)
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                                        (pre-release 12)

NO MIDI VERSION! No MIDI, AME, or basic VAG sounds
                  (banks and streams only)

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Frame buffer size set to  640x480 (3840x2400)
Closing plugins...
Closing DEV9
Closing FW
Closing USB
Closing CDVD
Closing SPU2
Closing PAD
Closing GS
Delete 0 Shaders, 103 Programs, 28 Pipelines
Plugins closed successfully.
Shutting down plugins...
Plugins shutdown successfully.
(GameDB) Unloading...
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What resolution are you at?

I'm playing at 4K, but it also happens at 1080p.
This is what I mean by bugged fog effect and chromatic aberration filter by the way.
         

[krollo]

I have just posted my settings for GoW, it worked for the other guy. Also now has a demo video using those settings:

https://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-God-of-W...#pid620162

[xuru]

I have just posted my settings for GoW, it worked for the other guy. Also now has a demo video using those settings:

https://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-God-of-W...#pid620162

Unfortunately it didn't fix any of the issues : (

[xuru]

Managed to fix the performance and the chromatic aberration by putting the CRC Hack Level on Aggressive and setting the Half-pixel Offset in Upscaling Hacks to Special (Texture - Aggressive), but the other issues still remain.

[xuru]

Anyone?

[xuru]

Nevermind, all of the glitches are gone after downgrading to 1.5.0.