Hello all. This is my first post here so I apologize in advance if I don't get everything right, but I have encountered a severe bug while playing Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (using PCSX2 version 1.4.0). The game runs perfectly with the recommended fix on the wiki here. However, whenever the "Busted" cutscene occurs, my entire PC totally freezes and I could do nothing but hard reset it with the power button.
Or so I thought.
I started up the game in DX9 hardware mode (was using DX11 hardware mode before) to see if the result would be different. I provoked the cutscene, and it did not freeze this time. Instead, it was extremely laggy (like <1 FPS). Curious, I switched it back to DX11 and provoked the cutscene again. This time, I noticed that the PC was not totally frozen, but rather was operating extremely slowly (just like in DX9 mode, except far worse).
I managed to tab out and open Task Manager, and noticed that my RAM usage was pegged near 100% (I have 16GB, so this is far from ordinary). Disk usage was also pegged at 100%, presumably because the system was using HDD space as an overflow for the "inadequate" amount of system memory.
I managed to kill PCSX2 in the Task Manager, and my PC slowly recovered to normal over a few minutes. I opened up Task Manager and Resource Manager on my second monitor and launched the game again, so I could easily take pictures when it happened again. I apologize for taking literal pictures instead of screenshots, but it was the best I could do under the circumstances. This is during normal operation of the game, and this is after the cutscene in question is triggered.
You can clearly see that the "Modified" memory meter has skyrocketed, yet no program is reporting abnormal memory usage. I do not know what modified memory is supposed to be, but something is clearly wrong.
I appreciate any help here. Let me know if you need any more information, or if you need me to do additional testing.
Or so I thought.
I started up the game in DX9 hardware mode (was using DX11 hardware mode before) to see if the result would be different. I provoked the cutscene, and it did not freeze this time. Instead, it was extremely laggy (like <1 FPS). Curious, I switched it back to DX11 and provoked the cutscene again. This time, I noticed that the PC was not totally frozen, but rather was operating extremely slowly (just like in DX9 mode, except far worse).
I managed to tab out and open Task Manager, and noticed that my RAM usage was pegged near 100% (I have 16GB, so this is far from ordinary). Disk usage was also pegged at 100%, presumably because the system was using HDD space as an overflow for the "inadequate" amount of system memory.
I managed to kill PCSX2 in the Task Manager, and my PC slowly recovered to normal over a few minutes. I opened up Task Manager and Resource Manager on my second monitor and launched the game again, so I could easily take pictures when it happened again. I apologize for taking literal pictures instead of screenshots, but it was the best I could do under the circumstances. This is during normal operation of the game, and this is after the cutscene in question is triggered.
You can clearly see that the "Modified" memory meter has skyrocketed, yet no program is reporting abnormal memory usage. I do not know what modified memory is supposed to be, but something is clearly wrong.
I appreciate any help here. Let me know if you need any more information, or if you need me to do additional testing.
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