• First of all, as mentioned in the thread before, I set the Vblank rate to 40 and the frame limit to 60 in order to get properly synced skits. I am using OpenGL as Vulkan is really buggy for me with this game. (Lots of graphical glitches, makes it unplayable)
  
• I used LLVM Recompilers for both the SPU and the PPU.
  
• I set the SPU threads value to 1, it greatly helps with the performance.
  
• For the audio, I checked Downmix to Stereo and Convert to 16 bit.
  
• I set the Sleep Timers Accuracy to All Timers, this might be placebo but I felt like I got 2-3 more FPS with this setting on.
  

• Disable ZCull Occlusion Queries: true (I am not sure if this made any difference, change it back to false if it causes problems)
  
• Enable Frame Skip: true (For me, enabling Frame Skip made a great deal of difference, the game looks more "jumpy" but at least the combat stopped being sluggish and runs in the speed it was meant to run. I experimented with Consecutive Frames To Draw and Skip values a bit, if both set to 1 feels too jumpy for you, you can change the Frames to Draw value to 2.
  
• Enabling Frame Skip introduced some audio sluttering for me. I fixed it by enabling the debugger and using the thread pausing method. This video explains how to do that starting at 3:08.
  

(11-14-2019, 04:55 AM)HigurashiCentral Wrote: My personal settings. If nothing in this topic has worked for you, try this.

Preferred SPU Threads: 1
Renderer: Vulkan
Framelimit: 60
Strict Rendering Mode On
VSync On
Multithreaded RSX On
VBlank Frequency: 30
Clocks Scale: 50%

These settings get me a very smooth 30 FPS in the field and cutscenes. 60 FPS for synced skits and combat. The only sacrifice is the full anime FMVs chug and become unwatchable, but skippable. I consider this is very small sacrifice, considering how few of them there are. The real setting that breaks these FMVs is the Clocks Scale. So if you really have to see them, return that setting to default whenever there is one you need to see.