Xenosaga Episode 1 Slowdowns.

[smartstrike]

lets not use any hacks the cutscenes w/ subtitles will get out of sync.

[Disgaealikerasap]

You can run it at full speed 95% of the time with a 8350. Been a long time since I played it ON a 8350 mind you. I will say from what I remember. This was years ago after all. To fix the shadow issues, you should go under your GPU settings and enable HW hacks. Turn on the half pixel offset to normal. If that doesn't fix it pick the other option. There are 3.
AMD had a trick to actually make it run better vs intel. It actually liked VU cycle stealing I think it was. If you turn that to 1 or 2 it may help. I also think you turn off mVU flag hack.
You WILL need to OC the 8350 though to at least 4.4 GHZ to get 60 FPS 95% of the time though.

It seems to running pretty great with these settings. Thanks.