Valkyria Chronicles II

[mitul103]

(10-18-2013 05:00 PM)jlperkins Wrote:  

(10-18-2013 02:40 AM)valefor Wrote:  Hmm, I don't have any DLC.
Though savesate seems working to me. I just finished one of april mission using latest v0.9.1-1949-windows-x86.
I do have issue with savestate on past version, 0.9.1-1693-windows-x86, but no longer now.

That's not the point I'm trying to make. Savestates aren't an issue for me either UNLESS I'm loading a savestate that should also load DLC-related stuff into the emulator memory. My guess is that somehow saving a state fails to take into account some piece of memory, or that loading a state fails to load some other piece of memory. Or perhaps a function somewhere scrambles some piece of memory, I don't know. But IMHO, it's definitely DLC related.

If you were to keep the debug log open when you make one of these problematic savestates you would see "FIXME: Open files during savestate, could go badly." Quite simply, loading a savestate does not restore open file handles at the time of the savestate creation and thus the game freezes when trying to deploy a character with a DLC weapon equipped (unless you have another character with that weapon equipped already deployed in which case the weapon is already in memory and it doesn't need to go out to disk). Note that this will affect any game when making savestates while accessing DLC content that lives on the memory stick.

The devs are aware of this problem because they have bothered to create this error message, but it's not something that they have gotten around to fixing yet. You can see the code in DirectoryFileSystem::DoState method in https://github.com/hrydgard/ppsspp/blob/...System.cpp