Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
Developer(s)	Intelligent Systems
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Series	Fire Emblem
Platform(s)	GameCube
Release date(s)	JP April 20, 2005 NA October 17, 2005 EU November 4, 2005 AUS December 1, 2005
Genre(s)	Tactical role-playing
Mode(s)	Single-player
Input methods	GameCube Controller, Game Boy Advance
Compatibility	5 Perfect
GameIDs	GFEP01, GFEE01, GFEJ01
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (aka Fire Emblem: Sōen no Kiseki in Japan) brings back to consoles the strategic combat series Fire Emblem from the Game Boy Advance. In this installment, you can control units such as knights, mages, and winged creatures, and use their unique fighting styles to win battles and gain experience. Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance also includes a detailed story that connects the battles and characters together.

Problems

There are no reported problems with this title.

Enhancements

Texture Filtering

Setting Texture Filtering to Force Linear can cause odd lines in the faces of characters; it should not be used for this game. Setting it to Anisotropic will cause the same issue in D3D.

Anti-Aliasing

Somewhat similar to Texture Filtering, anti-aliasing (8x MSAA and 8x SSAA, but not FXAA) can cause faint, grey lines to appear on the faces of characters.

Widescreen

EU

$16:9 Aspect Ratio v3.1de for Dolphin [Ralf]
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HD Texture Packs

Fire Emblem Path of Radiance HD Texture Pack by Thorn

Configuration

Only configuration options for the best compatibility where they deviate from defaults are listed.

Graphics

Config	Setting	Notes
Video Backend	OpenGL	Allow anisotropic filtering /wo lines on character faces
Texture Filtering	Default	Avoid odd lines on character faces

Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

r0

r5474

3.5-78

3.5-661

4.0.2

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5.0-21606 (current)

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2.0 (r5384)

Compatibility can be assumed to align with the indicated revisions. However, compatibility may extend to prior revisions or compatibility gaps may exist within ranges indicated as compatible due to limited testing. Please update as appropriate.

Testing

This title has been tested on the environments listed below:

Test Entries
Revision	OS	CPU	GPU	Result	Tester
r6519	Windows XP	AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+	NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT	Full playable but the cinematics go slowly
3.0	Ubuntu 11.04	Intel Core i5-2300 @ 2.8 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce 430	Perfect, EFB scaled copies must be off	asdf31416
r7714	Mac OS X 10.7.1	Intel Core i7 @ 2.2 GHz	AMD Radeon HD 6750M	Perfect except for final cinematic which needs VSync
r7714	Ubuntu 11.10	Intel Pentium E2200 @ 2.2 GHz	Intel G33	Crashed after the introductory scene when cell shading was attempted.
3.0-377	Windows 7	Intel Core i5-3230M @ 3.2 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M	Framerate perfect, have not completely tested it out. I'll report back.	Njord
3.5	Windows 7	Intel Core i7-950 @ 4.1 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 @ .9 GHz	Almost perfect, the only problem remaining is the sound, many many glitches.	Titouf
3.5	Windows 7	AMD Phenom X4 965 @ 3.4 GHz	ATI Radeon HD 4850	Almost perfect, some sound problems.	Gonner
3.5-367	Windows XP	Intel Pentium E5300 @ 2.6 GHz	AMD Radeon HD 6750	Perfect
3.5-375	Windows 8	Intel Core i5 @ 2.4 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce 310M	Perfect, sound problems are gone, even with HLE.	Nar
3.5-1063	Windows 7	AMD Phenom X4 965 @ 3.4 GHz	ATI Radeon HD 4850	Played till the end. Perfect.	Abalaburn
4.0.2	Windows 8.1	AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.2 GHz	AMD Radeon HD 6850	Until now the game is running perfectly, very stable. Internal resolution at 4x.	guilhermerx7
4.0.2	Windows 7	AMD A8-3850 @ 2.9 GHz	AMD Radeon HD 6550D	Some minor audio stutters, especially on the Choose Units screen, but otherwise perfect.
4.0.2	Arch Linux	Intel Core i7-2600 @ 2.6 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450	Perfect, other than the "Force texture filtering" bug.	10n45
4.0.2	Windows 8.1	Intel Xeon X5650 @ 2.67 GHz	AMD Radeon HD 5770	Great, other than a little audio glitching, which doesn't happen too often."
4.0-100	Windows 8.1	Intel Core i7-4700MQ @ 2.4 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce 750M	Occasional crashes but overall pretty great 4/5.	TheFoxyBox
4.0-1871	Windows 8.1	Intel Core i7-3770K @ 4.6 GHz	AMD Radeon HD 7970	Problems with character sprites when setting Anti-Aliasing or Anisotropic Filter to values other than None and 1x respectively. Some combinations of the internal resolution and AA can bypass this issue.
4.0-5935	Windows 7	AMD FX-8350 @ 4 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750	A near flawless emulation. Perfect run throughout the entire game at 4x native with only a few framedrops. Texture Filtering bug is still present but it doesn't really affect the game and is easily avoidable.	Combatheros
4.0-9173	Windows 10	Intel Core i5-4210M @ 2.6 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce 820M	It ran almost perfect on my laptop. It might suffer small and unnoticeable slowdowns in battle, but fullspeed in everything else. The 16:9 Widescreen code works wonderfully, the only defect is that it makes some menus show a little line in the middle. It's better to avoid non-integer resolutions (it would make the portraits more pixelated) and Force Pixel Filter (it shows lines in portraits, use shaders instead). I tested the PAL version with OpenGL mode, Resolution 3x, Widescreen AR code and FXAA shader.	Intruso
5.0-1694	Windows 10	Intel Core i5-4430 @ 3 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950	No problem whatsoever	kiwi
5.0-3414	Debian Sid	Intel Core i5-3570K @ 4.3 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970	Almost perfect running the Vulkan backend with IR at 3x Native(1920x1584), AA at 2x MSAA, and AF at 2x. The only occasional issue was the same odd lines on the character portraits.	ConvexEd
5.0-19368	SteamOS 3.4.8	Steam Deck APU @ 3.5GHz	Steam Deck APU	Runs mostly well on the Steam Deck, but has a tendency to hang up when entering the Steam menu or sleep mode. Disabling dual core appears to fix the issue.	Stewmat

Gameplay Videos

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