So I have been playing the US NTSC version of DQ8, after playing for awhile with turbo or framelimit off, from as little as 30 seconds, the fps will crash down to about 50% emulation speed with max GPU usage and vram usage jumping 500 MB higher. It is fixed temporarily by disabling and reenabling turbo/framelimiter, or even moving the mouse across the emulation's window. The vram and GPU usage go back to normal with this. At most, during normal play roughly 6-700 MB vram is used, when the bug hits it jumps to roughly 11-1200 MB, I have 3500ish MB vram so that is likely not the issue.
I have reproduced the results on the current release build 1.4, and also a beta build 1.5 from 2-3 days ago, with a variety of emulation settings including the safest, safe, and balanced presets, nothing else touched including speedhacks. Multithread microVU is off, have tried on as well. I have had this happen with the hardware dx9, dx11,and openGL plugins with a variety of settings.
My main question is. has anyone else has encountered something similar in any game? Second question, did you resolve the issue and also how?
Any help is greatly appreciated. If you think you can help me fix this I will be eternally grateful as it is incredibly annoying to have the game crash to slow motion so often.
Desktop PC specs
Windows 10
intel i5 4690k @ 4GHz
Nvidia GTX 970
edit: Specified that this was a desktop pc
I have reproduced the results on the current release build 1.4, and also a beta build 1.5 from 2-3 days ago, with a variety of emulation settings including the safest, safe, and balanced presets, nothing else touched including speedhacks. Multithread microVU is off, have tried on as well. I have had this happen with the hardware dx9, dx11,and openGL plugins with a variety of settings.
My main question is. has anyone else has encountered something similar in any game? Second question, did you resolve the issue and also how?
Any help is greatly appreciated. If you think you can help me fix this I will be eternally grateful as it is incredibly annoying to have the game crash to slow motion so often.
Desktop PC specs
Windows 10
intel i5 4690k @ 4GHz
Nvidia GTX 970
edit: Specified that this was a desktop pc