Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 [BLUS30901]

Beat the Conquest Ending on-stream a few emu versions ago, re-tested on 0.0.18-12899-792ac5ed Alpha today.  No module settings were tweaked.

There is a known text bug which can be fixed by setting "Write Color Buffers" and "Strict Rendering Mode" both to true, which contradicts what an earlier post in this thread claims. The game seems to run at 60fps without any hiccups whatsoever, at its own detriment at times. Due to the incredibly shoddy programming in this game, hitting 60fps can cause crashes when ejecting out of dungeons, and can cause your position to get warped to the origin point of a dungeon after a fight. Both bugs are present in the Re;Birth PC ports of these games, especially in Re;Birth3 where it's documented the most, so this isn't an "emulation error" and will never be fixed through emulator updates going forward.

This game does not have an FPS cap in-game, so setting to Auto mode will not fix this issue as the game does not perform well enough on PS3 to even reach 30fps., much less the 60 required for these bugs to happen. Mapping a 30fps cap in something like RTSS before ejecting out and right before entering fights fixes this issue entirely. Capping the game to 30fps at all times isn't how the game runs on PS3, as it at the very least attempts to hit 60 on the world map and in menus. Maybe a mod/patch could prevent these issues from happening, maybe detecting when you're ejecting out, or when a fight is starting. Otherwise, the state of the game is as good as it'll get. If absolute stability without fps toggling is wanted, then you need to cap to 30 the entire time unfortunately.

Video below is with Vulkan.




And for consistency's sake. I tested on OpenGL as well.



The anti-aliasing is SIGNIFICANTLY smoother than Vulkan, and the performance is the exact same. Quite interesting results imo.


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