Emulator

little typo there it's "Final Fantasy Crystal Bearers" but you can also test it with
"Silent Hill Shattered Memories" or "Dead Rising"

dx plugin?

From the sounds of it he is using the OGL pluign.

I have this problem, too.
For example:
Rockman 9 w/o Safe Texture Cache: 140 FPS
Rockman 9 w/ Safe Texture Cache: 5 FPS
And the problem only occurred when you using OGL plugin.

In DX9, Rockman 9 have no noticable FPS difference.
And my computer:
Core2Duo E6420 @2.13GHz
2G Ram
Geforce 8600GT
WinXP SP2

The Issue described is for OGL Pluggin.

But in Direct3D there seems to be other problems, depending on the configuration you
can have a black square/mirror glass square or a zooming issue. (but in direct 3d
activatingevery single option to solve it is not a big deal as it does not affect the
fps count.
The next description was tested with "Final Fantasy Crystal Bearers"

Safe Tecture Cache "Enable"
CPU-EFB access "Enable"
EFB scale copy "Enable"
EFB Copy "Disable"
You will get the black square on the upper left

Safe Tecture Cache "Enable"
Eneble CPU-EFB access "Enable"
EFB scale copy "Disable"
EFB Copy "Disable"
You will get the black square and a the game zoom in the view (making it look like an
FPS)

Now the zooming "effect" seems to be related to EFB Sacale Copy as enabling it makes
the game look the right way, but deactivating EFB scale makes the game zoom in (But
Without the black Square)

The Black square is related to EFB Copy, disbling it makes the black square appear.

The picture is from Direct3D pluggin.

I said that a LOT of games need it on or they look the wrong way or hangs... i didn't
said that every game needs it (the ones i mentioned need it for example) so it is a
bug...

"Silent Hill" will crash in a lot of places if you don't have it on (Like the place
where you need to lower the bridge)

pluss this issue didn't happened on previous revisions so still saying is an issue...

what's the point in reporting issues if ppl is gona take the easy answer and say
"don't use it" ??? Oo

pluss having a black square on the upper left when you NEED to use it it's rated
anoying as you can't see so... basically if you need it or not it's not the problem,
the problem is that when you DO need it it does not work properly

Reporting that issue is not presented in r4826
way to go ^^

Also the emulator seems to run a lil bit better (for example "Silent Hill" now runs
smooth and with no slowdowns, but the light problem seems to be back, as the
flashlight does some strange black bars appear on the backgrond)