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Emulator Issues #6101

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Excessive VRAM usage in Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness

Added by julian.bragard about 11 years ago. Updated over 8 years ago.

Status:
Fixed
Priority:
Urgent
Assignee:
-
Category:
GFX
% Done:

100%

Operating system:
N/A
Issue type:
Bug
Milestone:
Next
Regression:
No
Relates to usability:
No
Relates to performance:
No
Easy:
No
Relates to maintainability:
No
Regression start:
Fixed in:

Description

Game Name?

Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness

Game ID?

GXXP01

What version of Dolphin were you using?

3.5-429

64 or 32 bit Dolphin?

64 bit

What version of Dolphin used to work?

3.5-426 and previous versions

What Operating System were you using and what are your hardware
specifications?

Windows 7 64 bit
i7-2600k
Geforce 580 GTX
8 GB RAM

Any other relevant information or links to logs:

The video memory usage (NOT system memory) steadily rises while Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness, especially when fighting a lot of trainers, e.g. at Mt. Battle.
I noticed this by watching the msi afterburner hardware monitor showing the video memory load increasing continuously.
Also, there seem to be a lot of random crashes and freezes (fps drop to zero), i don't know if this is related to the problem.

However you can clear the video memory "manually" by changing the texture cache accuracy (either from safe to fast, or from fast to safe, doesn't matter)

This happens in all versions 3.5-429 and above with all backends and does not happen in revisions 3.5-426 and below as far as i can tell.

Other GC games don't seem to affected by this.

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