Withering Rooms on AnyPS5

Verified

• CachyOS Linux (kernel 7.2.9) / GCC 16.2.1 / Ryzen 7 7800X3D / Radeon RX 9070 XT (Mesa 26.2.4, RADV) / 31 GB RAM / KDE Wayland (discussion #5809, 14 Oct 2026): Withering Rooms PPSA21297 content 01.000.000 on unmodified main 23be5a02b, with no pull requests applied. Linux in game — title screen at about 45 FPS, then Gatehouse Residence, a study and Gatehouse Hallway: rooms render with lighting, the character walks between rooms and the "Open" prompt appears, at 14 to 27 FPS in the frames captured, close to 30 at best, with cold shader caches. Audio was present with hiccups. The HUD bar at the top right is corrupted, and some walls show lighter rectangular patches. 23be5a02b predates v0.1.3 and is the merge of #5520, which is in v0.1.3. Single community self-report. In game ≠ Playable.
• Same Linux host and thread: Unity IL2CPP title. The dump's decrypted folder already held plain ELFs of eboot and the modules (sce_module, Media/Modules, Media/Plugins), so no unwrap step was needed. Relinked with relinker --registry --module-dir Media/Modules --module-dir Media/Plugins eboot.elf ../out/WitheringRooms.elf. Those flags are relinker flags, not a game patch. The Media title modules (Il2CppUserAssemblies, PS5Util, SaveData) must go in through --module-dir; passing one as the input executable fails with Unsupported relocation type 0x10. out/app0 held the rest of the dump's resources without the SELF modules; out/libs pointed at build/core/libs/libs. No environment variables. Import audit: 652 imports implemented, no missing system imports; 12 exported-but-throwing stubs (AJM batch calls, sceAudioInOpen, sceSslGet* name getters, sceSystemServiceParamGetString) were not hit. No extra title patch file is named as required.

Blocked

• Current blocker named in discussion #5809: SIGSEGV (exit 139) after 154 s and 232 s in two default runs, both at WitheringRooms.elf + 0x1653dcb (same caller chain). Peak RSS about 10 GB. The faulting instruction is the game's own allocator unlinking a free-list node: mov [r11+0x18], r10 with r11 = r10 = 0x3130313031303130. The node sits at 0x24ff80000, the base of a 480x270 R16_SFLOAT storage image (StorageTexture vk=76). Historical: on older commit 2cf23fcc5 the same crash came after 16-31 s with a 0x3c003c00 fill at another 480x270 R16_SFLOAT image. The reporter has not verified a link to open issues #865, #4841 or #4448.
• Also in the cited report: audio with hiccups, a corrupted HUD bar at the top right, and lighter rectangular patches on some walls. Shader caches were cold for the in-game frame-rate sample. Windows and macOS were not checked. In game on that cited main is not a Playable claim.

Unknown

• Official-table membership. This title is a community report (official: false), not a tested-compatibility table row.
• Whether the current official release zip matches this report. The cited play used unmodified main 23be5a02b, which predates v0.1.3 and is the merge of #5520 (already in v0.1.3), not a release zip.
• Windows. No cited Windows session of this title in discussion #5809.
• macOS. No cited macOS session of this title in discussion #5809.
• Save or save reload. Discussion #5809 names SaveData as a Media module that must be converted; it does not mention a save slot or a save round trip.
• Network or online play. No cited report tests it.
• NVIDIA or Intel GPU in-game reports. The cited Linux host is Radeon RX 9070 XT RADV only.
• Warm shader-cache frame rate. Discussion #5809 says the in-game sample was with cold shader caches.
• How far play went past Gatehouse Residence, the study and Gatehouse Hallway, or completion. The cited runs stopped on SIGSEGV after 154 s and 232 s.
• Whether open issues #865, #4841 or #4448 are the cause. Discussion #5809 says the reporter has not verified that.

Saves

Status: Unknown

Unknown. Discussion #5809 names SaveData as a Media module that must be converted; it does not mention a save slot or a save round trip.

Game patch

Status: Known

Known. The cited report names Withering Rooms PPSA21297 content 01.000.000. Relinked with relinker --registry --module-dir Media/Modules --module-dir Media/Plugins eboot.elf ../out/WitheringRooms.elf. Those flags are relinker flags, not a game patch. The dump's decrypted folder already held plain ELFs of eboot and the modules, so no unwrap step was needed. The Media title modules (Il2CppUserAssemblies, PS5Util, SaveData) must go in through --module-dir. No extra title patch file is named as required. Furthest cited in-game used unmodified main 23be5a02b (the merge of #5520) with no pull requests applied and no environment variables. #5520 is in v0.1.3.

Network

Status: Unknown

Unknown. No cited report tests online or networked play.