Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II - Slow down bug

[jonbeam1]

I've been looking for a fix to Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II

There's an old post for the first game: https://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-Baldur-s...1-slowdown

Explaining that the torches and fire in the game slow down the emulator a bunch. Completely dropping FPS by a ton.

Does anyone know of any other threads on the forum that have fixes I can try? My game looks and works great so far with the settings from the forum post I linked but it still has the slow down issue, if I can fix that one thing it would be playable.

Please let me know about a fix I really would like to play this game again.

[jesalvein]

leaving an email address on a public forum is the best way to get spammed.
but as you wish...
did you enable fast invalidation hw hack in gsdx settings ?

[jonbeam1]

leaving an email address on a public forum is the best way to get spammed.
but as you wish...
did you enable fast invalidation hw hack in gsdx settings ?

took the email off sorry,

Yes I have that setting turned on. I have the speed fixes and a bunch of other settings from that post that helped the game run A LOT smoother, it just has this one issue of slow down around fire. I messed with the shader options and it did nothing.

[jesalvein]

Please post the contents of the emulog.txt file after the problem occurs. The file can be found in "My Documents\PCSX2\logs" for the installer version or in "PCSX2\logs" for the portable/binary version.

Please make sure to enclose your emulog in code tags like so (remove the empty space on the closing code tag!):
[code]
Pasted emulog goes here
[ /code]

[jonbeam1]

I don't know what I'm doing but here you go. Just loaded into the game and ran around for a little bit.

Code:

 

 PCSX2 1.6.0-20200506140834- compiled on May  6 2020
Savestate version: 0x9a0e0000

Host Machine Init:
Operating System =  Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (build 19041), 64-bit
Physical RAM    =  16315 MB
CPU name        =  AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-Core Processor
Vendor/Model    =  AuthenticAMD (stepping 00)
CPU speed        =  3.792 ghz (12 logical threads)
x86PType        =  Standard OEM
x86Flags        =  178bfbff 7ed8320b
x86EFlags        =  2fd3fbff

x86 Features Detected:
SSE2.. SSE3.. SSSE3.. SSE4.1.. SSE4.2.. AVX.. AVX2.. FMA
SSE4a

Reserving memory for recompilers...

Loading plugins from C:\Program Files (x86)\PCSX2\plugins...
Bound  GS: GSdx32-AVX2.dll [GSdx 20200506140834 (MSVC 19.25 AVX2/AVX2) 1.2.0]
Bound  PAD: LilyPad.dll [LilyPad (20200506140834) 0.12.1]
Bound SPU2: Spu2-X.dll [SPU2-X 20200506140834 2.0.0]
Bound CDVD: cdvdGigaherz.dll [cdvdGigaherz 20200506140834 0.11.0]
Bound  USB: USBnull.dll [USBnull Driver 20200506140834 0.7.0]
Bound  FW: FWnull.dll [FWnull Driver 20200506140834 0.7.0]
Bound DEV9: DEV9null.dll [DEV9null Driver 20200506140834 0.5.0]
Plugins loaded successfully.

(GameDB) 9858 games on record (loaded in 106ms)
HLE Notice: ELF does not have a path.

Initializing plugins...
Init GS
Init PAD
Init SPU2
Init CDVD
Init USB
Init FW
Init DEV9
Plugins initialized successfully.

Patches: No CRC found, using 00000000 instead.
Opening plugins...
Opening GS
Opening PAD
Opening SPU2
Opening CDVD
isoFile open ok: C:\Program Files (x86)\PCSX2 1.2.1\games\SLUS-20675 (1.03).iso
Image type  = DVD
* CDVD Disk Open: DVD, Single layer or unknown:
* * Track 1: Data (Mode 1) (1425696 sectors)
Opening USB
Opening FW
Opening DEV9
3.x GL context successfully created
OpenGL information. GPU: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT. Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.. Driver: Core Profile Forward-Compatible No Error Context 21.4.1 27.20.21002.112
INFO: GL_ARB_sparse_texture is NOT SUPPORTED
INFO: GL_ARB_sparse_texture2 is NOT SUPPORTED
INFO: GL_ARB_gpu_shader5 is available
INFO: GL_ARB_shader_image_load_store is available
INFO: GL_ARB_compute_shader is available
INFO: GL_ARB_shader_storage_buffer_object is available
INFO: GL_ARB_texture_view is available
INFO: GL_ARB_vertex_attrib_binding is available
INFO: GL_ARB_clear_texture is available
INFO: GL_ARB_multi_bind is available
INFO: GL_ARB_direct_state_access is available
INFO: GL_ARB_texture_barrier is available
INFO: GL_ARB_get_texture_sub_image is available
The OpenGL hardware renderer is slow on AMD GPUs due to an inefficient driver.
Check out the link below for further information.
https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/wiki/OpenGL-and-AMD-GPUs---All-you-need-to-know

Current Renderer: OpenGL (Hardware renderer)
Available VRAM/RAM:3840MB for textures
GSdx Lookup CRC:0
McdSlot 0 [File]: C:\Users\JBPC\Documents\PCSX2\memcards\Mcd001.ps2
McdSlot 1 [File]: C:\Users\JBPC\Documents\PCSX2\memcards\Mcd002.ps2
GSdx Lookup CRC:0
Plugins opened successfully.
EE/iR5900-32 Recompiler Reset
Bios Found: USA    v01.60(07/02/2002)  Console
BIOS rom1 module not found, skipping...
BIOS rom2 module not found, skipping...
BIOS erom module not found, skipping...
Patches: No CRC found, using 00000000 instead.
(SYSTEM.CNF) Detected PS2 Disc = cdrom0:\SLUS_206.75;1
(SYSTEM.CNF) Software version = 1.03
(SYSTEM.CNF) Disc region type = NTSC
ELF (cdrom0:\SLUS_206.75;1) Game CRC = 0xB0859096, EntryPoint = 0x00100008
(SYSTEM.CNF) Detected PS2 Disc = cdrom0:\SLUS_206.75;1
(SYSTEM.CNF) Software version = 1.03
(SYSTEM.CNF) Disc region type = NTSC
(UpdateVSyncRate) Mode Changed to DVD NTSC.
(UpdateVSyncRate) FPS Limit Changed : 59.93 fps
(SYSTEM.CNF) Detected PS2 Disc = cdrom0:\SLUS_206.75;1
(SYSTEM.CNF) Software version = 1.03
(SYSTEM.CNF) Disc region type = NTSC
(SYSTEM.CNF) Detected PS2 Disc = cdrom0:\SLUS_206.75;1
(SYSTEM.CNF) Software version = 1.03
(SYSTEM.CNF) Disc region type = NTSC
(SYSTEM.CNF) Detected PS2 Disc = cdrom0:\SLUS_206.75;1
(SYSTEM.CNF) Software version = 1.03
(SYSTEM.CNF) Disc region type = NTSC
(SYSTEM.CNF) Detected PS2 Disc = cdrom0:\SLUS_206.75;1
(SYSTEM.CNF) Software version = 1.03
(SYSTEM.CNF) Disc region type = NTSC
(UpdateVSyncRate) Mode Changed to NTSC.
(SYSTEM.CNF) Detected PS2 Disc = cdrom0:\SLUS_206.75;1
(SYSTEM.CNF) Software version = 1.03
(SYSTEM.CNF) Disc region type = NTSC
(SYSTEM.CNF) Detected PS2 Disc = cdrom0:\SLUS_206.75;1
(SYSTEM.CNF) Software version = 1.03
(SYSTEM.CNF) Disc region type = NTSC
(SYSTEM.CNF) Detected PS2 Disc = cdrom0:\SLUS_206.75;1
(SYSTEM.CNF) Software version = 1.03
(SYSTEM.CNF) Disc region type = NTSC
(SYSTEM.CNF) Detected PS2 Disc = cdrom0:\SLUS_206.75;1
(SYSTEM.CNF) Software version = 1.03
(SYSTEM.CNF) Disc region type = NTSC
Elf entry point @ 0x00100008 about to get recompiled. Load patches first.
GSdx Lookup CRC:B0859096
GSdx Lookup CRC:B0859096
Closing plugins...
Closing DEV9
Closing FW
Closing USB
Closing CDVD
Closing SPU2
Closing PAD
Closing GS
Delete 49 Shaders, 75 Programs, 28 Pipelines
Plugins closed successfully.

[jesalvein]

SLUS-20675 (1.03).iso

why did you name it 1.03 ?
did you patch it with something like an internal widescreen patch or so ?

[jonbeam1]

thats how i got the .iso ...

I did use the 4gb patch on it though.

[jesalvein]

Ok. Dump it again from your original disc, using imgburn to do so is recommended. And don't apply any patch