Shiing force 3 someone make my life less difficult

[R0YB0T]

When some spells are cast I get serious framerate drops. The game is playable, it just stinks that the spell effects are very degraded. Anyone else experience this?

Examples:
Blaze 1: Very low fps starting whe the fire cones surround enemy, the fire cones themselves are distorted.

Blaze 2: same as blaze 1 except 3 messed up cones

Tornado: Very low fps.

Freeze 1: Low fps. Looks a bit better than the other two.

[Lord Darkstorm]

It's not unusual that it drops whilst trying to handle the snazzy stuff.
Computer spec?
Emulator?

[Borisz]

Try upping the Slave SH2 speed to 100% and the Dot Clock to 3.2, and disabling Idle Loop.

[R0YB0T]

Thanks fo rthe replies guys. My system specs are:
Petium 4 2.8c Ghz, Radeon 9800 pro 128MB, 1 gig dual channel corsair xms pc3200 ram, 120 gig western digital hard drive 7200RPM 8 megs of cache.

I use SSF .07

Borisz I will try that.

[R0YB0T]

Try upping the Slave SH2 speed to 100% and the Dot Clock to 3.2, and disabling Idle Loop.

K tried it, it didn't work. The spells are still distorted and some have big fps hits.

[Borisz]

well, a 2.8ghz p4 is not supposed to give you fullspeed.

[deathace]

how fast do you need to aquire full speed?

[Lord Darkstorm]

Probably about 3500, amd wise. That's just speculation though, based on the fact that it almost runs fine on my 3000. Saying that, Giri-Giri should run fine on your comp.

[Borisz]

how fast do you need to aquire full speed?
The author has a dualcore Athlon64 X2 4400+ and can run anything at full speed, even games that his other config (p4 3ghz) can't.

[R0YB0T]

The spell effects are not rendering correctly though, anyone have this problem also?

[Lord Darkstorm]

Yeah, that's normal. I assume it's a graphical effect the author has not yet got round to emulating.

[R0YB0T]

Thanks buddy

[R0YB0T]

WooT! Fixed the slowdown! I just tured autoskip off in Screen options. Now it's so smooth. It seems almost 100% speed too for the [arts that were going nuts with it on. Like the Blaze spell and the Ghost town.