low fps, EE and GS percentage

[starweaver]

As the graphics are only good in Software Mode (F9) - you could play with the number of software threads in GDS Settings (Config/Video/Plugin-Settings) - as your i7-2670QM has Hyper Threading it may be interesting to increase this value to 6-7 ?! But probably you'll get the best results with 3 threads.

Ace Combat series are the more demanding games - with my i5 4670k 3,4Ghz I get 60 fps in HUD view but in external View the fps drop sometimes down to 40 fps (depends which level you play)

Also I found out that MTVU speedhack makes Ace Combat 4 a bit slower - but could be a side effect of the number of software threads.

the pal (E) version has a fps cap at 50 with the ntsc (U) version has 60

[smartstrike]

if you have the 2 regions of that game
best to use the "PAL" version its consume less CPU/GPU than NTSC.

[cosmoruski]

I'm currently in Mission 8 of Ace Combat 4 (Bad Weather Attack on the Beach Mission)
Now I'll get even in internal view only 55fps :-( i5 4670 CPU is working in Turbo Mode @ 3,6Ghz

So I'll assume fullspeed would be possible somewhere @4Ghz in all situations