Star Ocean: First Departure

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Well, the stencil thing isn't an issue. When you disable the game's ability to use buffers by choosing that option, effects that require buffers will break. That's intentional and expected behavior. For older phones and devices, the speed boost of non-buffered rendering (because it skips all these effects and all this buffering the game does, etc.) is worth it, since it's the only way to make games playable.

For me (using an underclocked NVIDIA 9800 GT), a render resolution of 5x gives me 1500% speed in a particular area (with fast forward on, but frameskip during fast forward off.) Constantly pressing triangle/circle quickly drops that down to 1000% speed, and the menu normalizes at 1100% speed.

In the menu it might be cpu limited (I'm testing this with a Core i7 3.6Ghz.) It spends 36.6% of the time or so in jit, and about 43% of its time drawing + decoding music. The other lost 20% is probably also drawing, but in the GPU driver, I'm not sure.

Travel between a dungeon area and the world map seems to drop me down to 800% temporarily. Transitioning in and out of battle seems to have little impact. Transitions between areas inside a dungeon seems to have little impact.

If I turn on texture scaling, obviously the impact of transitions is much more significant. At 3x, opening the menu is pretty slow. I'm guessing you're using texture scaling? Try turning it off.

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