Issues with the Legend of Spyro series
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Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core 4.00 GHz
Memory: 16GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti
64-bit system

PCSX2 version 1.4.0

Hi there, I've been trying to figure out what's going wrong with the TLoS series and am thoroughly stumped.
I don't know a whole lot about the technical parts of emulation. I've only run the first and second game so far, but seeing as I've had issues with both, I'm assuming I may run into some with Dawn of the Dragon as well..

The issue(s):
A New Beginning: Just a lot of FPS dropping in large, open areas or where there's a lot of enemies.
The Eternal Night: FPS issues remain, but now There's also screen tearing,bright purple flickering/flashing. Random zooming in on the loading screens, and quick flashes to entirely different parts of the game, (I.E. If I go near a wall I'm suddenly back in the dream for a split second before it corrects itself.)

What I've tried:
-Swapping between Direct 3D 9 and 11 hardware/software
- 3D 9 Hardware: Disabled Logarithmic Z, then Alpha Correction when that didn't work
- 3D 9/11 Software: Disabled Edge Anti-Aliasing (AA1)
- 3D 11 Hardware: Set round sprite/sprite to Half (down from Full), set Skipdraw to 0 (fixed an unrelated issue), unchecked all boxes under Configure Hacks
- Set Preset to 4, changed back to 3 when it didn't work
- Disabled mVU Flag Hack
- Enabled MTVU, disabled when it didn't work
- Enabled Vsync refresh, disabled when it didn't work
- Updating graphics driver (in progress)
- Enabled Allow 8-bit textures, Disabled because it did nothing
- Cycled through Interlacing, returned it to Auto because it fixed nothing
- Set Antisotropic Filtering to 2x, turned back off when it did nothing


I have all default settings enabled, Direct 3D 11 (Hardware) with hacks enabled - Alpha box checked, Round Sprite/Sprite set to half - No shaders enabled, and EE cyclerate set to -1 (anything over or under negatively impacts performance). I also have a 3x Native Resolution, Bilinear (PS2) Texture Filtering, Anisotropic Filtering off, CRC Hack level Full, and Interlacing on Auto.

I've tried to be as detailed as I can, but if there's anything I'm missing please let me know. I just want to play, and the FPS drops are bearable if there's no fix for them, but not the flashing and other graphical glitches..
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#2
The dev builds will work better.
https://buildbot.orphis.net/pcsx2/

Also use OpenGL HW.
CPU: I7-4770 3.9GHZ
Motherboard: Asrock B85M - DGS
RAM: Hyper X Savage 2x8GB 1.6GHZ CL9
GPU: GTX1070 8GB GDDR5
OS: Windows 10 Pro 64bit
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(06-30-2018, 02:24 AM)lightningterror Wrote: The dev builds will work better.
https://buildbot.orphis.net/pcsx2/

Also use OpenGL HW.

Thank you, changed and downloaded the latest one. Uhm, I'm trying to google it now, but where do I unzip this to? Is there a certain folder under PCSX2 it needs to go in?
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#4
You can unzip it anywhere, is portable version.
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