Invalid: [Bug Report] Vulkan regression on Steam Deck since v1.7.4227 (affects texture pack)

[GameGourmet]

Steam Deck
SteamOS 3.4.6
PCSX2 nightly v1.7.4227 and newer
SLES-53974 - Dragon Quest VIII - Journey of the Cursed King

Texture Pack Source:
https  ://   gbatemp.net/threads/dragon-quest-viii-de-en-es-fr-it-v0-9.618578/

I tried serveral versions of pcsx2 and the problem appears with version pcsx2-v1.7.4227 and newer when using vulkan.
no problem in pcsx2-v1.7.4226 and older.
no problem with opengl.

For testing i deleted the game.ini and pcsx2.ini and the content of cache folder, to make sure settings are default.
Only changes i made, was to activate the texture pack checkbox, and set internal resolution at 2x.

In vulkan text and inventory pictures of charackters and some icons look much worse.

Pictures for comparison + memory card file:

[refraction]

Can you check your configs and availability of the texture pack between the two versions? because we just tried it with the settings you suggested and we can't reproduce the problem with vulkan. The fact the header change font and size tells me that one copy doesn't have the texture pack.

4226:
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments.../image.png

Current master:
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments.../image.png

[GameGourmet]

Thanks for your quick response/investigation.
I'm not sure what excactly is meant with header in this case.
(in other cases, like html files, i do know what that means).

Would be nice, to know, what excactly you meant, because i would really like to follow your question/suggestion.

for all the pcsx2 versions i tested, i made sure they all were using the excact same directory path for memcard, bios, game and texturepack.

without using a texturepack vulkan looks identical between said pcsx2 versions at 2x resolution.

The fact the header change font and size tells me that one copy doesn't have the texture pack.

in my second attached picture, the inventory items on the right side are hires, so at least particulary some textures did change in the expected way, while text and charackter pictures did not :/. opengl does behave as expexted, wich means, all textures are shown in hires using the excact same texture pack, same goes for vulkan in pcsx2-v1.7.4226 and older. :/

[refraction]

I dunno what to say, it looks like the texture pack just isn't loading for some reason, but it worked fine for us :/

[GameGourmet]

tested pcsx2-v1.7.4226 and 4227 on my desktop pc in win10 & ubuntu 22.04.
texture pack does work 100% there in vulkan at 2x resolution. both 64bit os and nvidia proprietary driver. cpu ryzen 3600, gpu 750ti.

but on steam deck there is a problem between said pcsx2 versions + vulkan + texture pack :/

[jesalvein]

Using official appimage?

[GameGourmet]

yes, from pcsx2s official website.

Edit:
in "Thread-Sticky-How-to-use-this-forum-read-BEFORE-posting" the download link, which should lead to
https :// pcsx2.net/download/development/git.html
didn't work for me. i guess its outdated.

so i used
https :// pcsx2.net/downloads
and selected
Nightly Releases > Show Previous Versions > Previous Nightly Releases
For ubuntu and steamos i downloaded the "Linux 64bit Qt" versions, which fileextensions are named *.appimage.
For windows i downloaded the "Windows 64bit -AVX2 Qt" versions.

[GameGourmet]

pcsx2-v1.7.4227 changelog says something about "GS/HW: Move upscale multiplier to uniform" and directs to
https  ://  github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/pull/8336
the first answering commentary there mentions broken textures when using a texture pack.

sooouuuuunds familiar to me

please let me know if a gs dump could be useful for further investigation and if you would suggest me to post a bug report on github.

in steamos infocenter there is a category about vulkan. this vulkaninfo does look like a very long and detailed feature list to me, and less like an error log, but maybe it could also help, so i will add it as attachement.

anyway, thank you two so far. i am still in "hope" for at least a bug confirmation.
so, if any other steam deck user does experience the same or a very very similiar bug, especially between mentioned pcsx2 versions, then i would like to know about it ... even if it's just to confirm me that its not only me (my steam deck) with this problem ^^

[refraction]

pcsx2-v1.7.4227 changelog says something about "GS/HW: Move upscale multiplier to uniform" and directs to
https  ://  github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/pull/8336
the first answering commentary there mentions broken textures when using a texture pack.

sooouuuuunds familiar to me

Okay but we could reproduce that on windows also, and it manifested as corrupted textures, not native resolution.

[lightningterror]

Thank you for your report.
This bug report has now been marked as Invalid since it either was not reproducible, not a valid bug or otherwise unacceptable for fixing.

This thread will now be closed and moved in the Invalid/rejected/duplicate bug reports subforum.