grumpycoders / grumpycoders/pcsx-redux

complications with the Vigilante 8 Saga

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Description

### Describe the bug

I've been working on this game for a Mod for 2 weeks now. Although the mod works as expected, I've found several anomalies in how Vigilante 8 (1 & 2) works in PCSX-Redux.

Mainly my mod is aimed at Vigilante 8 Second Offense. I've noticed that there is a glitch or bug that causes the game to freeze when the camera is oriented towards a point in the stage, it happens in almost all maps. This freeze happens in at least 2 points of the stage, giving an example:
In Route 66 (Meteor Crater) if you orient the camera where the Policeman is at the beginning of the game, or towards his counterpart in "V" the game will freeze printing this message in the console:

GPU timeout:que=0,stat=94022288,chcr=00000401,madr=00ffffff

The freeze happens for about 4 or 5 seconds and tries to resume (the music or sounds are not affected), if you leave the freeze point or move the camera where the error does not occur, it disappears.

For Vigilante 8 (The first version) the same thing happens as I mentioned above.
GPU timeout:que=0,stat=14022295,chcr=00000401,madr=00ffffff

The background music also sounds like someone is trying to play it through a broken speaker.

### Expected behavior

The emulation should be normal and the errors I mentioned above should not occur.

The game has some debug commands that can be enabled by placing a 0x01 at address 80065560 (4bytes), this activates some print commands

### Steps to reproduce the bug

Start a level, rotate the camera or play the music

### Operating System

Windows 11

### PCSX-Redux version

Version: 21899.20250311.2.x64
Build: 220
Changeset: 2b06c4ca5a7c038a7f27a7d02ce6b90f1573838c
Date & time: 2025-03-10 21:12:03

### CPU model

Xeon 12 Cores

### GPU model & Drivers

Saphire Plus 4GB

### BIOS version

OpenBios

### Options

- [x] Dynarec CPU
- [ ] 8MB
- [ ] OpenGL GPU
- [x] Fastboot
- [x] Debugger

### Iso checks

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