It seems during a re-write of part of my post I removed the information that stated I had tested at default settings, whoops.
But yeah, dumping is disabled, and upon testing a little bit more, the only thing that appears to change this functionality is enabling "Disable EFB VRAM Copies". With that enabled, the counter now increases infinitely regardless of anything.
I should clarify that I don't think anything negative is happening, it's just that this statistic is increasing (and some other values are flipping wildly) during certain scenes, notably menus. I'm merely curious and just wondering why it's doing this in later beta versions compared to the stable release.
The place I'm testing it is Muramasa's new game screen (where you select a gameplay type). The intro before that, a few second into it there's a fish that gets drawn on screen and it tanks the performance (causing the stutters I mentioned). I don't know enough to say it's due to some alpha texture or not.
But yeah, dumping is disabled, and upon testing a little bit more, the only thing that appears to change this functionality is enabling "Disable EFB VRAM Copies". With that enabled, the counter now increases infinitely regardless of anything.
I should clarify that I don't think anything negative is happening, it's just that this statistic is increasing (and some other values are flipping wildly) during certain scenes, notably menus. I'm merely curious and just wondering why it's doing this in later beta versions compared to the stable release.
The place I'm testing it is Muramasa's new game screen (where you select a gameplay type). The intro before that, a few second into it there's a fish that gets drawn on screen and it tanks the performance (causing the stutters I mentioned). I don't know enough to say it's due to some alpha texture or not.