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My framelimiting won't stop the fps at 60, instead many of my games stay around 70fps, and cause my sound to start skipping and music to play faster and sound bad. I messed around with my audio as much as I could, but I can't seem to fix it. Ar Tonelico used to run fine but after messing around to get Steambot Chronicles to work. Currently trying to fix it for Persona 3 FES.

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GSXd10 (Hardware) 0.1.16 SSE41
Interlacing: None
Texture filtering: Check
8-bit: Check

SPU2-X 1.4.0
Interpolation: 4 Catmull-Rom
Reverb Boost: 1x
Module: 2 DirectSound
Synch Mode: TimeStretch
Audio Expansion: Stereo

EE/IOP: Recompiler
Round: Chop/Zero
Clamping: Normal
Flush to Zero: Check
Denormals are Zero: Check

VU0/VU1: superVU Recompiler
Round mode: Chop/Zero
Clamp: Normal
Flush to Zero: Check
Denormals are Zero: Check

Frameskip: Disabled

Speedhack EE Cycle: 1
VU Cycle: 0
INTC Spin: Enabled
Wait Loop Detection: Enabled
mVU Flag Hack: Enabled

No Game Fixes
That can't be happening if your frame limiting options have been left intact. Make sure you did not change the NTSC and PAL base frame rates
And also make sure to use the official PCSX2 beta (not Valdanx, it has that bug).
The NSTC framelimit is left at 59.96 and PAL at 50. I have never had this problem before. I tried returning to default on all my options but that did nothing.

*Edit*

I started up another game and read the log and saw this:

(UpdateVSyncRate) FPS Limit Changed : 71.94 fps
hmm what about using frame limiter as bositman said
frame limiter is on, but it's not keeping my fps below 60 like it used to.
Hmm maybe you have Vsync on? If so disable it (also disable it from your graphics card driver settings)
disabled vsync but nothing changed. :c

*Edit*

The fps is still at 70, but I think it might have fixed the audio problems.
Can you attach your PCSX2.ini here?
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Filename03=C:\\Users\\MrFancyHat\\Documents\\PCSX2\\ISO\\Persona3 FES.ISO
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