[Regression] Playing Freeze Tag with a Blood Dragon (#15765)

[Darkhost1999]

Quick summary

I was playing some Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon on my PS3 last night when I got curious about what improvements RPCS3 might've made. So I clean dumped and installed the game to ensure file integrity then tried to play.
Starting with no caches, I noticed that Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon was freezing before I gained control of my character. I thought okay, Far Cry 3 has been doing the same thing for months needing to be booted more than once.
But 4-5 boots later Blood Dragon was still failing to go in-game.

Details

So today I performed some regression testing and found that the game stopped working on RPCS3 v0.0.32-16676-669ce1fa AKA #15765
The issue is that the gameplay freezes before gaining control over the main character or within the 1st minute of gameplay.

Build with regression

RPCS3 v0.0.32-16676-669ce1fa Alpha | master

Attach two log files

Working.log
Broken.log

System configuration

Ryzen 7 7700x
GTX 1660 super driver: 565.90
Windows 11

Other details

This version of the game comes from the Far Cry Compilation disc included in PKGDIR of Far Cry 3 as PKG01

[Darkhost1999]

F {RSX [0x00a3e04]} SIG: Thread terminated due to fatal error: Verification failed (object: 0x0)
(in file D:\a\1\s\rpcs3\Emu\RSX\Common\surface_utils.h:116[:4], in function struct area_base __cdecl rsx::deferred_clipped_region<class vk::viewable_image *>::src_rect(void) const)
RPCS3.log
This error occurs without strict rendering mode. But I discovered that I can trigger it almost immediately with strict rendering mode.