Poor Eternal Darkness performance despite good system

[Vdaxzter]

Here are my system specs:

Intel core 2 quad 3.00 Ghz
HD 6950 2GB (11.7 drivers)
6 GB DDR3 RAM
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

I have tried running Eternal Darkness on several revisions, specifically r7689, the official 3.0, r7128, and r7283. All of these builds have worked well for other people (with much weaker systems than me) but unfortunately I am getting hitching and mediocre performance regardless of the settings I use. I have tried many of the suggestions in the "Eternal Darkness" thread, but the performance remains poor. Is there a specific build and configuration someone could recommend me? Thanks.

[Starscream]

r6000 or r6500 work well for me.

[vortextk]

Where in the game are you talking about? I've gone through the like prologue up to where you get to the soldiers on dolphin with 8x AA and 3x native resolution at 60 frames on my computer, revision 7671 all game settings in my youtube video of it down below. If you mean later in the game, I haven't played farther on the emulator yet so I can't compare.

[Vdaxzter]

(08-04-2011, 12:21 PM)vortextk Wrote: Where in the game are you talking about? I've gone through the like prologue up to where you get to the soldiers on dolphin with 8x AA and 3x native resolution at 60 frames on my computer, revision 7671 all game settings in my youtube video of it down below. If you mean later in the game, I haven't played farther on the emulator yet so I can't compare.

I am talking about the beginning of the game. Rolling back to the 11.6 drivers has essentially solved the problem. I feel like the game could still run a little smoother, but at this point I think it's my imagination since I'm getting 60 FPS and VPS, that only ever drops to 59. What drivers are you using?

[vortextk]

11.6 here still, guess there are new ones out? Haven't paid attention for the last few weeks. Man did the witcher 2 light/crossfire problems ever get solved...I stopped playing cause of that. Anyway yeah 11.6, all settings in my video and same as you I just sat around 60fps for the beginning.

It's probably just the game itself seeming not super smooth and remember the actual resolution the game runs out. What is a smooth animation in a little box, can be jerky when blown up 3x, you know? That couple pixel movement between frames is now double digit pixel movement. Atleast I think that is a cause of things. I was having mad problems with that same thing last time I was screwing with epsxe. I hadn't really used it since upgrading to a 1080p tv and a lot of animations and things were really awkward because it was blown up like 6x or something from native ps1 res. It seemed super twitchy but it's hard to explain without a video.