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Assuming all other settings remain constant and only vbeam is changed, in 4.0-1304 I get the following results:-

2-player splitscreen - ~20fps ~40vps, low gamespeed
1-player invasion mode - ~20fps ~50vps, normal/ too fast gamespeed
1-player campaign - 10-30fps 20-50vps, low/normal gamespeed

I can find scenes where the game runs 100% fullspeed in single player but the sound always crackles without vbeam on no matter what. Setting framelimiter to audio helps.

Actually, that's a lot better than previous revisions I tried with. A lot better, in fact - even just a few days ago it wasn't running as well as that.

What's good fun is trying the same settings in 3.5 - if I put the vbeam speed hack on in 3.5 the game will render at a constant 50% of full speed with the same graphics/idle skipping settings. Without it, the performance is similar (but much worse) than in 4.0-1304

Try the sync gpu option in game properties and see if that helps. It'll probably be slower, but the VPS/FPS should be right.

Doesn't get past the wiimote safety reminders with sync gpu set - 105 fps and 1 (yes, 1) vps.

Doesn't respond to input.

What about using single core? Will that at least make this make sense?

No such luck. FPS still higher than VPS - sometimes three times higher (so 15 fps, 5 vps for example)

Okay, if you can do that again, with absolutely no hacks on (Like, no hacks, no vbeam hack, etc.) and it's still like that, I'll accept this issue based on your testing 'cause I don't know anyone else who has it.

I removed my custom settings file and got the following results:-

2 player splitscreen - 33 fps 23 vps
2 player invasion - 35 fps 21 vps
1 player invasion - 54 fps 21 vps
1 player campaign - 45 fps 16 vps

and yes I am reading those the right way around :-)

With hacks I get a near constant 20 fps 75 vps and ~90% of actual gamespeed in all game modes except in heavy scenes

Discovered something neat today - in Radeon Pro I can lock any game to 30fps with the double vsync tweak. When Dolphin is locked to 30fps, I no longer need to overload the GPU to produce the same results I had before in Conduit 2. So long as I have idle skipping OFF (to make single player work), vbeam ON and frame limit=audio (stops audio crackles) I get a smooth playable game (albeit with low FPS).

Works on Nvidia too with the appropriate option in the driver's control panel.

OK - new graphics card (Nvidia 750TI), new version of Dolphin (4.0-3469)

• idle skipping off
• EFB->RAM + cache
• enough EFB scale + AA to slow the rendering down

...gives constant 100% speed in game, but quite a low frame rate depending on the scene (15-20).

Audio is distorted however, constant drop outs/wrong pitch

Have you tried using RealXFB on this?

Using real XFB causes the display to become distorted and offset. Reduces FPS to 30, but VPS hovers around 80% in the scene I tested. No effect on Audio.

With virtual XFB it looks better but doesn't run any faster, no effect on audio either.

Best way to play this game is with the settings as I described above and just turn off the sound.

Umm, can you get a screenshot of how it looks with RealXFB. That should never make it look distorted.

Here you go

http://i.imgur.com/VQjbFwl.png

Well then. I have no idea.

whats the status on this it seems to run at normal speed for me only dropping in certain areas. sound is the only issue along with bloom in HD

I cant even boot this game without it soft locking dolphin from the start on 5.0-12731...
Tried only on Linux though..