Namco Museum 50th Anniversary Not Playable?

[Exile956]

Hello,
Recently I felt like playing Bosconian and remembered I had my copy of Namco Museum 50th Anniversary (NTSC|U/C - SLUS-20273GH).
I installed PCSX2 on my Laptop and I am using my PS2's BIOS from my SCPH-50001/N PS2 console.
I am able to play a variety of games but, this one game just doesn't work well at all and I was wondering if I am doing something wrong.
I have all default settings on the emulator.
I am using the latest nightly build, v2.1.55.
When I check the PCSX2 database for this game and it's issues, it has very few testers(1), and he claims it works but, I can say 100%, without a doubt, it does not.
His fix to get the games to boot does work, aka F9 (software mode) and then F9 (hardware mode) again once the game is booted, but the games are running much to slow and there are tons of graphical and audio issues.
I have tried a few other games, Ace Combat series, and all of them work flawlessly so I think it's just something with this game and how the developers originally programmed it.
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(tried to post the url but the forum does not let me, because I am so new I guess)
(You can find the page I am talking about by googling the following...)
(Namco Museum: 50th Anniversary PCSX2)
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My laptop specs are as follows.
ASUS ROG G14
Windows 11 64 bit 23H2
AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS
16 GB of DDR5-5200 MHz
4 TB M.2 NVME PCIe 4.0 SSD from Samsung.
AMD Radeon RX6700S
AMD 24.7.1 drivers
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If you need any other info please let me know.

[Exile956]

Hello again everyone....

So after a few hours of playing with things and messing with stuff I have determined the issue is being caused by the Vulkan render. Once I swapped to DX11, instead of letting the emulator auto choose a render, things work at full speed with no issues; No more audio or graphical glitches. There is still the requirement of starting in software mode and once you boot up one of the arcade games you switch to hardware render. After that everything works flawlessly.

The steps to fix!:
Ensure you are using DX11 or DX12 render, neither Auto, OpenGL, or Vulkan will work properly for this title for some reason. Probably some missing instruction translation or something.
Note: DX11 and DX12 are Windows APIs for rendering so this fix will only work on Windows until someone can correct the issues with the OpenGL and Vulkan renders that PCSX2 is using. So if you are on MAC or Linux, tough luck bud. At least for now.
To change this setting...
Settings, Graphics, Graphics, Render.
Note: Also make sure you have the correct adapter set.
Many laptops have an Integrated graphics card on the processor that is much weaker than the dedicated one and it's best to tell the emulator to use that Dedicated GPU over the iGPU for the best performance.
Once all that is set...
Start the game.
Hit F9.
F9 = Switch from Software/Hardware render.
Start any of the arcade games while in Software mode.
Once the Arcade game has started hit F9 once more.
Enjoy the old arcade titles!

[MrWizard]

Good job figuring it out.

Honestly, sounds like a 'typical' AMD driver issue. Half of the time drivers don't deal with vulkan properly. I'm unable to test on amd but i betcha it would work fine with vulkan and nvidia.