[Jak2] Dead town - Frame drop on corridor to samos hut

[SvenatorNL]

Acknowledgements

• I have searched for duplicate or closed bug reports
• I understand that I am supposed to provide my own legitimately obtained copy of the game

Describe the Bug

In dead town, you have a section on the top left that's either reachable early with hoverboard (or well timed jumps), but mostly needed during the mission retreiving the life seed from Samos his old hut.
When you walk to the end of the corridor, either on foot early or with the suit for the mission, you get a frame drop near the wall you need to break.
I've had this early in the game when just searching for Precursor Orbs, and got it during the Life Seed Retreival mission as well.
See selection in red in the included image.

How To Reproduce

Just walking in the corridor is enough to see/notice a significant drop in frames.
For me it persistently drops from 60 to around 22 frames, at any selected resolution.

Does this problem occur on original hardware or PCSX2?

Didn't check

Expected Behavior

stable framerate, just like the rest of the level.

Environment Information

opengoal 2.10.4
tooling 0.3.5
Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
AMD Ryzen 9 9950x3d
Nvidia Geforce RTX 3090
Nvida Game Ready Driver 610.74 (july 7,2026)
64 GB DDR5 7200Mhz

Game Version

PAL

Have you set the game to something other than 60fps?

No