Tony Hawk's American Wasteland Collector's Edition [SCUS 21295] (U)

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[oxguy3]

Game title: Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (Collector's Edition)
Region: NTSC-U
ELF name: SCUS 21295
Game CRC: 21278F5B
Compatibility report:

PC Specs:

CPU: Intel Core i7 3770K @ 3.50Ghz
GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 670 (2GB)

Build Description: PCSX2 1.0.0 Release Pack - Windows
If other please specify: N/A

BIOS Used: USA v01.60(07/02/2002) Console


EE/VU Clamp modes: Normal/Normal
EE/VU Rounding: Chop/Chop

Speedhacks Used: N/A

Gamefixes Used: N/A

Amount of testing done (little/medium/much/completed-game): Little

Comments:
The only problems I encountered were graphical, but they were such major graphical problems that the game is hardly playable at all

Bugs:

• Many large sections of the world's textures will be transparent at any given time
  
• Vertical semi-transparent bars appear on the screen. Sometimes they cover the entire screen and sometimes they only cover sections (from what I saw, the most likely cause is that the bars are visible only in sections of the screen that are not covered by shadows)
  
• Various weird bugs with the lighting
  

Status:
Ingame

[DESTRUIDOR]

1)Game Title: Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (Collector's Edition)
2)ELF nameCUS 21295
3)Game CRC-21278F5B
Compatibility report:

PC Specs:

CPU: I5 3330
GPU: HD radeon 6850

Build Description: PCSX2 1.3 Git 5 of june Release Pack - Windows
If other please specify: N/A

BIOS Used: USA v02.20(10/02/2006) Console

EE/VU Clamp modes: Extra+Preserve Sign ,Completed.*
EE/VU Rounding: More nearbie+More nearbie*

Speedhacks Used:
Standard Speedhackers

Gamefixes Used:


Amount of testing done (little/medium/much/completed-game):
Medium


Comments:Hardware and software looks fine,mainly hardware.

Bugs:

Status

Playable

[DaShirtBoy]

Game title: Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (Collector's Edition)
Region: NTSC-U
ELF name: SCUS 21295
Game CRC: 21278F5B
Compatibility report:

PC Specs:
CPU: Intel Core i7 3770K @ 3.40Ghz
GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 960 (4GB)

Build Description: PCSX2 1.4.0 Release Pack - Windows
If other please specify: N/A

BIOS Used: USA v02.30(20/02/2008) Console

--Video Plugin Settings (VERY important, as this removes the vertical lines!!)--

Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Renderer: Direct3D11 (Hardware)
Interlacing: Auto
"Allow 8-bit textures" Unchecked
Internal Resolution: Native
Texture Filtering: Bilinear (PS2)
Anisotropic Filtering: Off
CRC Hack Level: Aggressive
HW Hacks Enabled
-HW Hacks Configuration-
Skipdraw: 8 (<--------------------------THIS is what removes the vertical lines)
All other settings under the HW Hacks Configuration remain either off, at 0 or unchecked, where applicable.
Shader Configuration:
Enabled FXAA. Left everything else alone.

--EE/IOP Settings--

EmotionEngine: Recompiler
IOP: Recompiler
Round Mode: Nearest
Clamping Mode: Extra + Preserve Sign

--VU Settings--

VU0: microVU
VU1: microVU
-VU0/VU1 Advanced Recompiler Options-
Round Mode: Nearest
Clamping Mode: Extra + Preserve Sign


--Speedhacks--

EE Cyclerate: 0
VU Cycle Stealing: 2
Other Hacks:
-Enable INTC Spin Detection
-Enable Wait Loop Detection
-Enable fast CDVD (not sure if this is necessary, but I have it on regardless)
MicroVU Hacks:
-mVU Flag Hack

Game Fixes Used: None

Amount of testing done (little/medium/much/completed-game): Much - Semi-Complete. PLAYABLE.

Comments:
Tested with the various settings of emulation first, could find no resolution for the infamous "vertical bars". Then, under third-party recommendation, forced a hardware rendering on the video plugin and set the skipdraw to 8. Lines were removed, but the emulation was savagely bogged down. So after tweaking with emulation settings posted before, discovered that the round mode MUST be set to nearest, otherwise the game will crash at a massive null operation when it looks for textures and can't find any in-game. As well, the clamping mode is especially important because without it set to Extra + Preserve Sign the first load screen with the two faces will not load and will hang with another severe crash. After much frustration, and many force-quits of PCSX2, the only thing left to do was to go with speedhacks to make the game physically faster. After playing with the cycle settings, I found leaving the cyclerate at 0 and playing with the VU Cycle Stealing actually brought up the game's performance drastically, only sacrificing the sound quality on a margin.

Bugs:
Game looks and plays fairly smoothly, with the occasional hiccup every few minutes. When in pause menu or naming sequences, lighting occasionally flickers in background. Also, when exiting story mode, game hangs on a crash. However, game window itself is still able to close. Save states HIGHLY recommended. Otherwise playable, decent framerate, no huge graphical anomalies.

Status:
Playable, minimum performance hangups.

[FlatOut]

Did you try the "Align Sprite" HW Hack to fix the vertical lines?

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the vertical lines are a depth thing, it will be fine in the OpenGL setting.