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Oops, sorry had the git revision numbers backwards for 3.5-1165 and 3.5-1166.

rodolfo: the other backends had a slowdown due to perf queries to, I doubt there's any issue in d3d9 specifically. Adding an option for the thing should be sufficient.

Thanks for the info neo, will check that specific game to see what is causing the issue and if is fixable

Hey guys I just realized I forgot to mention, my gfx is Intel HD 4000 graphics, yeah I know it's weak but

(a) I'm running it on low gfx settings: 1x native res, no AA, 4x AF, EFB->texture, XFB diabled, ignore format changes, texture cache accuracy mid-way between safe & fast.

(b) 3.5-1164 ran it perfectly, graphically speaking. Slight crackling in the audio but perfect visuals.

Let me re-iterate that I am happy to help with any testing, debug, etc.

this showld be fixed in the dx9-ssa-fix branch, please test it when is posible.

this showld be fixed in the dx9-ssa-fix branch, please test it when is posible.

rodolfo: by the way, do you think any of the commits in your branch should be merged to master? It would greatly help if you rebased the branch instead of always merging master into it (or better yet, not integration master changes at all unless there's a reason to). Currently, reviewing the changes is quite a mess because the new commits are hidden between merges.

sorry about that i'm not really use to use git, i will make that for my next branch.
all the changes can be merged to main safetly because all are fixes to existing issues.
and i will fix any issue that is generated from them. currently i'm working on other issues in a diferent branch i will not update that branch until is merged to main.

Excellent news, thanks for looking into this Rodolfo.

In the original issue I forgot to mention that my GPU is Intel HD4000 integrated, which I know sucks but it manages Xenoblade well on 3.5-1158 using 1x IR and render-to-main, and Xenoblade is much more demanding graphically than RE0.

ONE PROBLEM THOUGH, AND QUESTION FOR THE DEVS: I would gladly test it, but this branch is not compiled by the build bot. How to get it added so the branch shows up on the main Dolphin home page?

https://dl.dolphin-emu.org/builds/

Thanks Neobrain, will go download the latest rev of the branch later tonight and test.

I can confirm that the dx9-ssaa-fix build fixes it for me.

Neo, do you think that is a good moment to merge the dx9-ssaa-fix? it doesn't introduce new issues and seems to fix 2 accepted issues.

Yes please. The changes look good enough for me (except one commit with indentation issues, please fix that before merging) - only looked at the VideoCommon parts, I don't think we care about D3D9 code quality anymore. Do the merge before sunday evening, we are stopping merges of non critical/preapproved improvements after that (4.0 release is soon).

Finally had a chance to test it. Tried RE0 GC and Xenoblade with both DX9 and DX11 backends, problem is gone, gfx are back to silky smooth. Excellent work Rodolfo!

Tried OGL, RE0 would hang at different points very early on (either somewhere in the menu or shortly after going in-game) so went back to 3.5-1158, and verified the problem is back there as well. So that issue is unrelated to this one.

The OGL problem may be due to my GPU which is Intel HD4000 which I'm sure has crappy OGL support. At least DX9/DX11 both work.

I saw Rodolfo just merged his branch into master, so maybe this is all a moot point. But I thought I should anyway report my findings back here, and give my thumbs up to the merge since I'm the issue reporter. :thumbsup: