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GTA VCS - Using a "Texture Pack" causes frequent random emulator crashes. #21036
Description
Game or games this happens in
ULUS10160 v1.03: USA "Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories"
What area of the game / PPSSPP
So, since I started my GTA VCS playthrough a while ago on the development PPSSPP builds, I've noticed that my game crashes quite frequently, but since I'm using a few plugins to enhance the experience + a texture pack that brings enhanced better quality VC PC - like textures to the game, I knew that those could potentially be the culprit of crashes. But since they were happening frequently i was able to remove or disable stuff one by one, It actually turned out that disabling "Custom Textures" in the graphics settings fixed the issue.
Game crashes only if "Replace Texutures" is enabled in the graphics settings and its that type of crash that doesn't even show the Purple screen of death, it simply makes the emulator suddenly quit to homescreen without any error messages, emulator completely crashes and quits without any notice. (Note: That is happening WITHOUT using savestates)
My texture replacement load speed setting:
If you need any more details or my current config files\texture pack files\savegame or testing from my side during attempts of fixing it, let me know! I will gladly help to debug this issue.
SAVEGAME:
Texture Pack that causes a crash:
What should happen
Texture replacements shouldn't kill the emulator and the game.
Logs
Platform
Android
Mobile device model or graphics card (GPU)
Samsung Galaxy S25+
PPSSPP version affected
v1.19.3-1156-g3116eba395
Last working version
Can't remember but this issue is present for quite a while now.
Graphics backend (3D API)
Vulkan
Checklist
- Test in the latest git build in case it's already fixed.
- Search for other reports of the same issue.
- Try resetting settings or older versions and include if the issue is related.
- Try without any cheats and without loading any save states.
- Include logs or screenshots of issue.
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hrydgard commentedon Nov 24, 2025
Thanks for providing a repro case - I'll look into this shortly.
hrydgard commentedon Nov 25, 2025
Hm, I loaded it all up and ran around for a bit but didn't trigger any crashes. Have you found any way to easily get it to crash? Where do you go, do you start the mission or just exit the building and run around?
Domiiniik commentedon Nov 25, 2025
Happens completly randomly sometimes right after i loaded a savegame, sometimes after 5 minutes, and other times during a mission. But it's always does in maximum 10 minuts
hrydgard commentedon May 13, 2026
I'm wondering if this is better now after #21669 ?
Granted, that crash has nothing to do with texture replacements... But could still be related.
Domiiniik commentedon May 13, 2026
Will check this out and let you know!