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my game is too slow xD

no seriously, I mean Tales of Symphonia Dawn of the new World

and the problem I'm having is that when I begin to play this game
it's fast as lightning XD 60 fps which is normal
but after round about 5 minutes the game begins to slow down until it reaches about 35 frames (only in certain areas but mostly dungeons) every now and then it goes up to 60 again (for about a minute,I don't even have to do anything I think, I don't know exactly cause battles are in between)
the battles are always 60 frames so it doesn't bother too much but still sure looks like a leak Oo

is anyone having the same issue? I'm using

dolphin r4790 x86
windows7
tested on multiple builds etc right now I'm using this one here

More information, maybe? What are your PC specifications, Dolphin settings?

ah right sorry
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EFB to GL texture is activated

My pc is a Phenom x4 9500 2.2Ghz with 4Gb ram and a Geforce 8600GTS (slightly overclocked)

just tell me if you need any more info
ah it's the USA (NTSC) version

I've noticed this bug too, but it happens more often un OGL than DX9, so just use DX and you are free for playing as much as you can at good speed

just tested with DX9 and while it looks prettier it slows from 96% to 68% after 5 minutes

and I forgot, both OGL and DX9 slow down in like 1- 2 seconds... no slowdowns at all in the first 5 minutes

I got constant 50fps( i limited it to 50, i got the pal version) on 1280x720p under @dx: efb to texture, 16:9,16x anisotrope filtering, EFB Scaled copy, render to main.
audio throttle off, dsp hle @dsound.
Under 1080p I've around 25-35 fps when I remember correctly.

Core2Duo, 2.4Ghz, 4GB Ram, Geforce 9700Mobile, Win7 x64.

I've done extensive testing and no configuration with an graphic plugin seems to fix this problem
I also tried everything in sound except DSP-LLE and no sound at all
frame limiting doesn't matter
tomorrow I'll test it on another PC to rule out my hardware

so it's not my hardware it's the emu

and I can not fix the problem but I can work around it.
also now it's always slow

the work around:!!!
just start the game get to the main menu and stop it then start the game anew and play
now the game runs always full speed

Your work around didn't work for me, not really matter since i've completed the game though, full speed from start to finish. :p

My solution? Use the orlean build with watchdog at 15 (30 if you want it smoother) and dx9 with efb to texture hack.

I currently use an unknown force build r4812 frame off watchdog 60 dx9 efb to texture

and can get 60 vps 100% almost everywhere

your config doesn't work very good for me thankyou though^^

also 4821 doesn't go fullspeed whatever I do .. it's slow all the time except... it has speed hicups every 2 seconds from 43 vps to 60 for about half a second XD