Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water is comprised of three interconnected stories that converge to uncover the truth behind a recent string of tragic deaths in a forest marred by a history of suicides. As one of three people with the power of the Camera Obscura and the ability to see the shadows of those spirited away, you’ll explore the ruins of an eerie inn, a shrine filled with life-size dolls, and a lake full of dead priestesses. Each shadowy location is connected by a stream of water flowing throughout the mountain, and this once holy water is tied to the darkest mystery of all—the history of death and darkness on Mt. Hikami.
1.7.4- Cemu versions crashes when Miu Hinasaki see black hooded ghost while trying to escape from other ghosts in the beginning.
1.7.5 Cemu version crashes when character enters INN.
1.8.0+ Cemu versions freeze at loading screen before gameplay starts.
1.9.0 - Instant black screen after game load. FPS counter shows 30 FPS.
1.9.1 - Runs again. Needs emulateSinglePrecision = true to avoid in-game crash.
1.10.0f - Crash at "Press A" title screen when A pressed.
1.11.0b - Runs again. Some graphic glitches on-screen but it's doable now.
1.11.0c - Crashed after Hisoka scene in Chapter 2.. Major slowdown in the forest on Chapter 2.. Memory leak in some areas..
1.11.3 - Crashed after Hisoka scene in Chapter 2..
1.11.6 - Un-check separable shaders under "experimental" to progress further into the game, but still black faces/skins and crashed at drop 10..
1.14.0c- Un-checking separable shaders (Options - General Settings - Graphics) makes the game playable
Vendor-Specific Issues
Broken/scrambled text and UI elements on Nvidia GPUs. This can be fixed by following this guide.
Configuration
For Cemu 1.14.0c you'll need two things in order to able to enjoy this game!
You'll need:
- CemuHook
- Un-check separable shader (in graphics tab under settings).
There are a few things that's still broken in this game graphical wise, like viewing photos and the camera view on the GamePad view.
Cemu crashes after getting Camera Obscura and entering INN. No crash if emulateSinglePrecision = true specified. Major sound problems. Sometimes rendering turns into total chaos.
Goes in-game with but you need to create a gameprofile with "emulateSinglePrecision = true" or it will crash in areas without Interpreter, the game runs with glitches and stutter but very playable, one thing i found out is asides from the graphics problems and the problem with colors if you use the wiiu pad screen the letters you cannot read in normal mode can be readed clearly, the game DOES suffer from hangouts time to time (example on the seccond act you enter the woods and follow up a phantom, once you catch up the game will have a major drop in frames (2 or 3) and will freeze for about 5/7 minutes then resume.
Ran well (25-30fps) until Chapter2, having major fps-drop(3-10fps) in the forest entering the fence.. What's worse is after the cutscene of Hisoka (captured by the ghost), crashed no matter what settings.. Some areas triggered memory leak: had to quickly escape from that area ASAP to prevent crash from out of RAM, also make sure have big RAMs (32 GB in my case).. If you use NVIDIA cards, turn off TileCache via NVIDIA Inspector or RivaTuner to make the screen and text clear without distortion..
Changing back to the the "old" shader cache system makes black screen from the start. FPS counts, music plays, key presses handles, just no any graphics displayed. There was no such bug at 1.7.5. With new shader system game randomly hangs at instant camera view changes and looks like it hangs more when I move mouse.
Crashed at drop 10 after Ren is dragged by Rui to another place.. The graphical problem with the black skin/face of the characters ingame still exists..
still crashes on drop 10 after cutscene where rui drag ren. confirmed only crash in joining ceremony building, run smooth as usual once leave until game finish. (problem solved by switching to older version (i use ver 1.9) and revert back to ver 1.14 after the event end)
Regression! 1.14.0c Broke Camera Obscura view on Gamepad, it's UI textures display but the game render view remains 100% pitch black, making you unable to see what you are aiming at.
This doesn't happen at previous 1.13.2 release, same result with and without CemuHook. Other issues are:
1) In-game Brightness setting doesn't work at all.
2) Audio crackles with annoying static noises all the time, regardless of version and audio settings.
3) Characters suffer from somekind of shader/renderer bug where their models, except for hair and the rest of the scene, become either totally dark, or partially much darker than the scene, or come with weird "square checkers" pattern of correctly bright pixels on a (glitchfully) dark models. I'm attaching an Imgur album showing this exact issue, right here
Configuration notes: disablePrecompiledShaders = true, since when you have them enabled the game is literally unplayable, rendering freezes for 5s~15s whenever new models or effects appear on screen, while game simulation keeps running on.
Playable
