Did an update break Metroid Prime 2?

[Horsepuncher]

So I played MP2 about a year ago on the same PC I'm using now with Ubershaders enabled, and I had very little issues. I'd occassionally get a stutter here or there, but things seemed pretty much fine for the most part. Today, though, I booted the game up again and I'm having massive frame drops and stuttering. I've tried asynchronous and synchronous ubershaders, along with every backend and just about every combination of hack and enhancement, and I'm still having some major slowdown, even in small rooms.

I've monitored my GPU, CPU and RAM usage while playing the game, and it really does not seem that that's the issue. Nothing in my PC is going above 30% usage for the most part. I am convinced that this is a Dolphin issue, and I'd like to get to the bottom of it. Any help would be most appreciated!

[KHg8m3r]

Make sure you're on the latest Nvidia GPU drivers. Then go into the Nvidia Control Panel > 3D Settings > Manage 3D settings > Program Settings tab > make a profile for dolphin.exe > set the Power Management mode to "Prefer maximum performance". Dolphin does funky stuff to the GPU that it doesn't expect a PC game to do, so it won't boost properly sometimes. This helps keep it at the max power to prevent these sort of issues.