How to speed up Skies of Arcadia considerably making it almost perfectly playable !

[rpglord]

I have been trying to run Skies of Arcadia for a couple of days now,and it was unplayable for one reason : sound.
If using HLE there was a lot of missing music,instruments,sound would cut off etc..
If using LLE sound would work as it should,but game was very slow,even on new i5 sandy bridge cpu. It was also unplayble as sound would skip a lot every time game would slow down one 1 fps below 30.
So,bottom line,I figured out how to play it now : enabling "accurate vbeam emulation" in game properties speeds the game a lot,by 50% in LLE. Now game is running at 30 fps all the time and sound is perfect.
So I just wanted to share in case somebody alse has problems with this game
A quad core ( or triple core ) cpu is still needed,because of the "lle on thread" option needs to be turned on,or game would still run at 28-29 fps instead of 30 even on i5 which still causes sound skipping

[rpglord]

Nobody plays this great rpg ?
If this helped you,then comment here so other people can read the thread and it may help them too

[Nameless Mofo]

Nobody plays this great rpg ?
If this helped you,then comment here so other people can read the thread and it may help them too

I play it, but apparently no one else around here does. I already discovered the accurate vbeam trick, that one works with several games including Resident Evil 0 but it's very much YMMV. Some people have reported huge fps DROPS when enabling it, but I've always found it to improve fps.

[haddockd]

I do play it, but haven't really been active with that particular game. I will be using this when I get around to playing it though. Great find. Thanks!

[MegaJump]

I checked it out, but it seems a little too cartoony for me.

[elegyempty]

A small note: the sound occasionally skips and drops on an actual Gamecube. I'm playing the game right now, and every now and then an instrument or sound effect will cut off early or fail to play at all.