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Looks like this also causes emu crashes when performing save states. The save state crashing really began with r5777 - by a big noob commit. Once you look at it, you'll see that this is definetely the culprit.

However, this issue with the games crashing with both Vsync & Dual Core active started just a little earlier (wierd, but true). The games worked fine in r5750, but started crashing by r5762 (sorry mamario didn't have any compiles in between there).

Basically before 5750, all these games and settings and savestates worked just fine. But within 25 commits, alot was broken. Looks like plenty of good came out of it at least.

Save states have been fixed in r6000. The issues with games crashing with these settings on is still present.

Issue 2924 has been merged into this issue.

Issue 2877 has been merged into this issue.

Good luck @ the one who tries to fix this, our best whishes are with you :)

I have quickly browsed through the changes made between r5750 and r5762. They mostly consisted of DX11 and OpenCL changes. The only ones that could affect both OGL and DX9 would be r5757, r5762 and r5768. All of those revisions are highly unlikely to cause this sort of instability.

Unfortunately this thing has always been there, not caused by any revision I know of.

Well Javimi, all I can say is the problem got worse in these revisions at the very least and I have seen no evidence that what I stated here existed prior to that set of revisions.

@skidau: Yeah, not alot of revs in there look that they could have caused this BUT if I had to place money, I would say it was actually r5754. That seems the most likely to my ignorant eyes. If you can do up a version without that commit, I can test and let you know the results?

I just downloaded r5751 and r5762, loaded each up, adjusted a few settings (vsync, controller, etc) and then started Sega All-Star Racing and attempted to enter the race. On r5751, it entered game no problem - it can get past the little level load screen stutter and enter the race. Whereas r5762, it crashed at that stutter.

So I've confirmed this again here - it definetely became, at the least, "more" unstable somewhere in those 10 revs.

Let me know if you want me to check out anything else with this.

I just tried this with Super Smash Brothers Melee (Sorry I don't have either of those games you mentioned) on 2.0 and R6164 with no issues.

Dual Core enabled
V-sync enabled
Copy EFB -> RAM
64bit Windows 7

Ok....I never said every game. What is with people coming into this thread trying to tell me I'm wrong about something?

So far, i've only been able to fully confirm it on the above 2 games.

But they can't be the only ones, that's for sure!

If it explains anything at all, the stability issues don't occur when the game is running slow (like less than 40 FPS). But if it's running full speed (60) and it tries to sync to the refresh rate (also 60) that's when you run into problems.

Also, Crash Bandicoot - Wrath of Cortex crashes when entering gameplay with Dual core + Vsync active. Not sure if knowing what games are affected by this issue helps.

It's not fixed, F-Zero GX does not work here in Grand Prix mode, when Vsync and DualCore is enabled. It crashes after a few seconds into the race.

With Vsync disabled, it works, but this is not a good way to play F-Zero; not only cause of the tearing you get, but it also stutters a bit and steering is not fluid anymore.

Yeah, it still causes Sega All-Star Racing to hang at the same spot. I don't think anything has gotten better with this issue.