EE Cycle Rate and MGS3 Subsistence (NSTC-U)

[nobleflame]

Hi all, 

I have a fairly decent PC and MGS3 runs pretty much flawlessly so far (I've just beaten the Fury). Now, playing in windowed mode, I noticed that the EE was hitting 100% while fighting the Fury and I was getting a few minor frame drops during this battle - so far, this has been the most intense moment in terms of processing power in the game. I've been fiddling with the EE cycle rate and currently have the option set to 180% cycle rate. This seems to improve the performance but doesn't seem to have any negative effects on the game. My CPU also isn't really that taxed by this process.

My questions are:
1) is it safe to run the EE cycle rate at this speed or even higher?
2) does anyone have any personal experience with running MGS3 and using speedhacks? If so, what settings did you use?

My specs are:

i7 9700KF
RTX 3070
16GB RAM
M.2 SSD

Thanks in advance!

[RedDevilus]

See how it is with default + MTVU (also can be activated with preset 3) before doing other speedhacks.

[nobleflame]

See how it is with default + MTVU (also can be activated with preset 3) before doing other speedhacks.

Hi, I’ve tried that. I get slow down in several areas if I don’t push the EE cycle rate hack beyond its baseline. 

I see a lot of conflicting advice online about MGS3 settings.