[Wii] Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

***MayImilae*** · 02-28-2013, 08:21 AM **#21**

Ah, so it does work the same way. Good. Yea, there's no way to get rid of that. It first appears in Prime 2, so my only guess is that it's related to how scanning works.

11-05-2013, 01:29 PM **#22**

What are the controls to use the Grapple Lasso?

Default · 03-04-2014, 02:19 AM **#23**

So, I'm having all sorts of trouble with this game, and I'm not sure if it's my specs of the version of Dolphin I'm using.

Specs are an HD7950, 8 gigs of RAM, and a i5-3570k. Speed is @3.40GHz. I've tried on 1040, 1048, and 1052. I also went back and tried it on 4.0.2.

Using OpenGL or DirectX9 leads to unplayable slowdown. Even with VBeam set to on, I'm looking at 20 or so FPS, with extreme slowdown while turning.

Using DirectX11 ( Or Direct3D on newer versions ), gives me a much more stable 25-30 FPS while wandering around, but I get some slowdown while things are happening ( the lights from a savepoint flying around, being in a savepoint room, cutscenes ). The bigger problem is the entire ship battle at the start is almost completely unplayable, with my FPS dropping back down to the 15-20 range when Space Pirates appear.

I'm largely using default Dolphin settings. I've so far fiddled with setting VBeam on, ( helped smooth things out ), Dual Core/Idle Skipping on ( dual core did nothing, idle skipping made things worse. ), and Enable MMU/Speed Hack ( made everything much worse ). I also unchecked Scaled EFB ( made things worse ), and checked on Skip EFB ( made things worse ).

As I said, not sure if my machine just isn't powerful enough to pull this off, or if I should be trying something else.

***Shonumi*** · 03-04-2014, 04:13 AM **#24**

(03-04-2014, 02:19 AM)Default Wrote: Speed is @3.40GHz.

Overclock it. MP3, along with the rest of the MP games, are particularly demanding in Dolphin. Stock clocks aren't enough to run these games at fullspeed consistently.

**JMC47** · 03-04-2014, 06:30 AM **#25**

20 fps is wrong though; I have a Core i5 3570K and get 60 - 90 fps on Dualcore in most areas. Sure, it stutters and loses speed, but getting 20 fps seems wrong.

Also, what the hell is with everyone using the vbeam speedhack all the sudden? It can break stuff...

Default · 03-04-2014, 07:52 AM **#26**

(03-04-2014, 04:13 AM)Shonumi Wrote:
(03-04-2014, 02:19 AM)Default Wrote: Speed is @3.40GHz.

Overclock it. MP3, along with the rest of the MP games, are particularly demanding in Dolphin. Stock clocks aren't enough to run these games at fullspeed consistently.

Can I overclock a stock processor? Don't have anything in place to help with heat, since I assumed the base speed would be high enough. I've never really looked into overclocking, since I assumed you needed a backend to support it.

If I can, what should I clock it to? MP1/2 ran at 60fps consistently on this system, as does Skyward Sword, Xenoblade, Last Story, and several other major Wii games. This and Overlord Dark Legend are the only two games I've ever had any issues with, which make me think it might be a Dolphin issue.

And I'm using VBeam because according to the wiki/old thread MP3 has no issues with it.

**KHg8m3r** · 03-04-2014, 07:58 AM **#27**

You don't have a stock processor, you have an unlocked one, as noted by the k at the end of the CPU (i5-3570k)

Overclocking is done in the BIOS of the computer. Just go to Google and do a search on how to overclock

**JMC47** · 03-04-2014, 10:42 AM **#28**

btw, I wasn't complaining about you in particular using vbeam speedhack; its' just that EVERY SINGLE post I see seems to mention it being enabled. I'm always nervous when there are speedhacks enabled; usually people don't try turning them off before making issue reports.

Anyway, I'm guessing you're getting 20 fps due to "sync GPU" being enabled in the game properties. It's pretty much necessary, unfortunately? I think? I'm not sure if it fixes the blackbar or not, but I think it's supposed to.

CryZENx · (This post was last modified: 03-04-2014, 11:38 AM by CryZENx.)

Playing this game at 4K and don't have any problems , got only very small stutters when i go through the doors but in heavy fights 60-80FPS,
pretty playable, im used to play with OGL, AA OFF

cheers

Default · (This post was last modified: 03-04-2014, 03:15 PM by Default.)

(03-04-2014, 10:42 AM)JMC47 Wrote: btw, I wasn't complaining about you in particular using vbeam speedhack; its' just that EVERY SINGLE post I see seems to mention it being enabled. I'm always nervous when there are speedhacks enabled; usually people don't try turning them off before making issue reports.

Anyway, I'm guessing you're getting 20 fps due to "sync GPU" being enabled in the game properties. It's pretty much necessary, unfortunately? I think? I'm not sure if it fixes the blackbar or not, but I think it's supposed to.

Yeah, the first thing I try whenever I have issues is to start testing my settings to see if anything is causing it.

So I did some further testing. Game works ok so far on 3.5. On 4.0 it still has issues for me. Something must have changed between 3.5 and 4.0 that caused the issues. ( this also fixes the crazy bloom/lag issues Overlord Dark Legend had as well, along with the crashing inbetween rooms problem it has on Direct3D! I'm now really curious what it was that broke both games for me. ). I'm not sure if things will stay fixed as I can't get off my ship, but the slight lag I had in the first cutscene/ship flyby didn't occur on 3.5 at least.

e: 3.5 works fine. I need to do some additional tweaking obviously, but I'm getting 50-60 FPS in everything, including battles. Setting up a Wiimote was as easy as pairing it with 4.0, then starting up 3.5 with it already paired. I'm guessing almost all the slowdown was due to the forced GPU sync Dolphin puts on the game. Considering I'm having none of the issues that GPU sync is supposed to fix on 3.5, I'm curious why it's even a forced setting. Perhaps make it a toggleable setting in the options menu Dolphin devs? I may have gotten the squish bug/pixelation compared to how sharp it looked on 4.0, but I'd much rather have a running slightly less pretty game then a pretty bunch of frames.

I'm guessing this isn't the thread for this, but I figure I might as well ask anyway. While fiddling with Dolphin settings to get MP3 working, I toggled quite a few things on and off, and forgot about what exactly I switched on. I jumped into RE0 to mess around in that game, and after creating a save state, my Dolphin suddenly started freaking out and emulating the game incorrectly. Gameplay worked fine, but the sound/graphics were all over the place. I figured I'd turn it on/off again and things would work, but the problem kept happening even on a restart. Worse other games started having sound/graphic glitches as well, even after I set all Dolphin settings back to perfect default. Installing 4.0/4.0.1/4.0.2 didn't seem to change anything, as they all pull from the same settings. 3.5 fixed not just the problems I had with MP3/Overlord, but also the sound glitch that affected my 4.0 install. Is there any way to fully clear settings for Dolphin, so I can reinstall a fresh 4.0 that doesn't pull from my current install?