Skyward Sword music in slo-mo

[Rade88]

Hi everyone, I'm currently playing Skyward Sword on r7719M. The game runs more or less smoothly on DX9 (on DX11 it seems to run smooth but everything is in slow-motion), except for the shadows that follow you around but I can ignore those. The background music and most of the sound effects run normally too, except for whenever I get a new item or reveal a secret, then the 'item get' jingle runs in very slow motion. Fi's 'voice' also sounds slow.

Does anyone know of an known issue that's causing this? My audio settings are HLE, with DSound backend. I've tried with XAudio2 also and get the same thing.

I'm running at 1920x1080 wit no AA, x1 AF, force texture filtering on, EFB set to Virtual, fog disabled and OpenMP Texture Decoder on.

[Shonumi]

Yo, r7719 is years old and very outdated. We don't support anything older than 4.0. Use that or the latest development revision and tell us if you still have issues. Also, be sure to specify the model number of your i5 (e.g. mine's a 2500K).

[Rade88]

(10-14-2013, 05:40 AM)Shonumi Wrote: Yo, r7719 is years old and very outdated. We don't support anything older than 4.0. Use that or the latest development revision and tell us if you still have issues. Also, be sure to specify the model number of your i5 (e.g. mine's a 2500K).

I was using 4.0 but the game wasnt running as smoothly and the bgm was choppy. After some research on these boards a lot of people were saying that SS ran best on r7719 so I downloaded that instead and now the only major issue I have is slow music in certain cases.

I think my i5 is a 760.

[Shonumi]

You need to run Skyward Sword at fullspeed in 4.0 to get decent audio, else you can use the OpenAL and increase the latency to timestretch the audio. The game will still run slowly, however, if you're not running it fast enough. Dolphin has gotten a lot more demanding since r7719, so even though your hardware can handle it on that revision, newer revisions might demand too much. Your i5 is several generations old; you won't be able to play this game at fullspeed on the latest revisions without overclocking.

[Rade88]

(10-14-2013, 06:22 AM)Shonumi Wrote: You need to run Skyward Sword at fullspeed in 4.0 to get decent audio, else you can use the OpenAL and increase the latency to timestretch the audio. The game will still run slowly, however, if you're not running it fast enough. Dolphin has gotten a lot more demanding since r7719, so even though your hardware can handle it on that revision, newer revisions might demand too much. Your i5 is several generations old; you won't be able to play this game at fullspeed on the latest revisions without overclocking.

Using OpenAL and increasing the latency fixes the choppiness in 4.0, but then the sound is delayed so there's still an issue... I think the choppiness comes from the low FPS I get when I'm in outside areas, even though I have the FPS set to Audio. I can play most modern games fine on my PC, not sure why this won't run smooth.

Is there really no fix for the slow audio on the old revision? I'd rather play that because it runs smooth - in 4.0 it's barely playable. It's just that one audio issue that's annoying.

Thanks anyway.

[Shonumi]

Rade88 Wrote:I can play most modern games fine on my PC, not sure why this won't run smooth.

Well, for one thing, Dolphin is not a modern PC game; it's an emulator. Most PC games stress a strong GPU over a strong CPU. In many cases, Dolphin is the opposite (although Dolphin needs a strong GPU if you intend to play at high resolutions with high AA settings). Your CPU is relatively weak for single-threaded performance in comparison to the latest 3 generations of Intel hardware, and single-threaded performance is what matters a lot when it comes to Dolphin.

Rade88 Wrote:Is there really no fix for the slow audio on the old revision?

The fix is in 4.0 and above, but as I mentioned, you need to be able to run this game at fullspeed in recent revisions to get decent audio in this game.

[LordVador]

Overclock your 760 to 4.0GHz and it will work just fine