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The question is: what is it that causes these slowdowns? Is it a bug in the code?

the hell? 4.0.x and still canot get an hd map like it did on r7719
http://i.imgur.com/9XITYLB.jpg r7719
http://i.imgur.com/9n40jLX.jpg Current


is dolphin going backwards or something?

A hack was removed from EFB2Texture, so the map cannot be upscaled currently. Enhancing the image quality is an extra feature, accuracy is of course the first priority, and to fix other games that are broken, EFB2Texture had to be changed. There is work on restoring the functionality, so please be patient and understand that things are still moving fast.

JMC: IIRC r7719 was a texcache-rewrite build, hence the map was upscaled. It has nothing to do with any removal of an EFB2Tex hack removal.

rexoe: You were using a highly unofficial build, which we (as in the development team behind official releases) never supported to begin with, for very good reasons (which I won't get to explain in detail here, though, but I think it's quite logical that we don't support builds which are provided by people who aren't part of our team without any sort of collaboration with us. Still, there are some other very convincing issues with that build, which makes us not support anything related to it).

neobrain: Weird, I saw with some EFB2Tex work in one of those branches that the map was upscaling, but lacked color.

i think i have an official build with what jmc47 is talking about but need to search from the bunch of builds i has in an old HDD xD

r7719 is definitely texcache-rewrite, which (somewhat contrary to what I said before) was an official build indeed, but a huge chunk of code in that build was reverted for various reasons. So putting aside that it's ridiculously old anyway, we support it even less than usually for that reason, and the reason that some things which work in that branch but don't in current builds is simply that no one has bothered fixing the code up, yet.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26282248/ZTP%20Saves/Arbiter%27s%20Grounds/data/zeldaTp.dat
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26282248/ZTP%20Saves/Lakebed%20Temple%20End/data/zeldaTp.dat

2 PAL-wii saves for you all. Arbiter's grounds (Desert, Mirror Cutscene and start of temple) and Lakebed temple (end of temple, midway-through, not sure) on the saves.

Finished the game, 100% dolphin today. Excellent performance all around - only minor issues remain (Z-fighting rarely, HLE is not 100% perfect) - I think this should be moved to five stars very soon in the future. The new Hyrule Field AR code completely fixes the slowdown there, and I'm not even on the best hardware (using -1843)

More saves (read pathnames)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26282248/ZTP%20Saves/Snowpeak/zeldaTp.dat
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26282248/ZTP%20Saves/Temple%20of%20Time/zeldaTp.dat
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26282248/ZTP%20Saves/City%20in%20the%20Sky/zeldaTp.dat
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26282248/ZTP%20Saves/Palace%20of%20Twilight/zeldaTp.dat
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26282248/ZTP%20Saves/Hyrule%20Castle/zeldaTp.dat

One thing: Throughout the game there is constant ghosting around link, is this just me or is it an issue that is fixable/unfixable? I don't mind it (looks better to me), but other than that and the other 2 things I mentioned above, I can't find any more issues at all...

Could post the revision of your Twilight Princess? So we know for sure which one is working with the new patch?