Tales of Abyss

[Cain]

Got myself Tales of Abyss, and man, it just doesn't want to cooperate. It hangs and hangs and hangs. Anyone playing it? Any recommended settings? Thanks in advance

[Razor66]

I'm playing it now, and I mostly get 60fps and the lowest fps I get is 45fps (mostly in some towns and battles).
It works fine in Directx 10 hardware mode (pcsx2-beta-1059 + GSdx r1161) with a d3d internal res of 1920x1080 and texture filtering and I've gotten no crashes at all.
For speedhacks I use x2 cycle rate and INTC Sync hack.

I hope this helps

[vsub]

Same here.
When I use hacks it's crashing quicker than without hacks but it still crash even with all settings on default.

[Register]

Hm perhaps that problem is related to driver vga issue or you can try with old gsdx and directx9 mode.

[yunsabit]

Back then when I played it, it used to crash with the x2 CycleRates hack. So I never used it and voila never a crash again. max 1.5. I haven't tried with the CycleStealer hack tho, but it could be the reason for a crash, too.

[Cain]

Yea, seems to work with only x1.5 CycleRate enabled, although I'm not far into the game.

So far:
Doesn't always load, sometimes just remains blackscreen, but this is caused by the speedhacks it seems
*Hanged three times right after the combat tutorial
*Crashed once after some cutscene
*Crashed twice right after the battle when two monsters appear at once for the first time

[yunsabit]

I played ~15 h without crash. Just stop using above 1.5 CycleRate hacks.

[Cain]

I played ~15 h without crash. Just stop using above 1.5 CycleRate hacks.

I don't use them, but I use others Well, in the end it all comes down to experiments

[Razor66]

I've played the game for about 30 hours now (almost finished it) with x2 cycle rate and I've never had crashes.

[Cain]

I've played the game for about 30 hours now (almost finished it) with x2 cycle rate and I've never had crashes.

It may depend on what version you use I know it works/worked fine, just wanted to check if there are specific settings required/maybe some build broke it somehow.