Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Metroid Prime: Trilogy): Difference between revisions

|series    = ''Metroid'', ''Metroid Prime''

|released  = '''Original release'''<br/>{{vgrelease|NA=November 15, 2004|EU=November 26, 2004|AUS=December 2, 2004}}{{vgrelease|JP=May 26, 2005}}'''''Metroid Prime: Trilogy'''''<br/>{{Vgrelease|NA=August 24, 2009|EU=September 4, 2009|AUS=October 15, 2009}}

=== Performance ===

Performance in general seems reduced compared to the game's GameCube counterpart. This may be related to the higher resolution textures and various new screen effects added for the Trilogy versions.

This game suffers from severe stuttering during shader generation. Because of the differences between how the Wii works compared to personal computers, whenever something uses the Wii's GPU, Dolphin must generate a shader to emulate it on a PC GPU. Shader generation causes a slight emulation delay while it's being created, so Dolphin caches these shaders in its shadercache folder to help keep things smooth. Most games don't care about this and play fine, but with all of the games in ''Metroid Prime Trilogy'', the shaders are so massive that they cause a significant delay, which creates a hard stutter and desyncs the GPU and CPU threads. The game freaks out over this desync, creating a black bar at the bottom of the screen, which takes up 15% of the screen space and "squishes" the game in the remaining space. The black bar will remain there from then on whether stuttering continues or ceases. Going into new areas or showing new effects will cause the stutter and black bar, as well as going in and out of fullscreen and even taking a screenshot. Building up a shadercache of an area helps, but it will still stutter and desync if a new effect or region is loaded.

Since {{revision|3.5-471}}, when using the MS Bluetooth Stack (the default Bluetooth stack on Windows) this game will think that the wiimote is constantly disconnecting. Pressing Alt-F5 will restore it, but it will disconnect again seconds later. Windows users can disable "Enable Speaker Data" to solve this problem, or move to either the Toshiba Stack or the DolphinBar.

=== Bloom Offset ===

=== Dot ===

When playing above 1x Native internal resolution, there is a dot in the center of the screen. It's small and easy to ignore, but it's always there. There is no fix for this problem.

{{image|MP2GC Thedot zoom.png|The dot, zoomed in 8x|br}}

 

=== <s>Refraction Slowdown</s> ===

Refraction effects, such as raindrops on Samus' visor and the heat effect after firing her weapon for an extended period, cause slowdown in OpenGL. Even the strongest computers are affected by this issue, and there is no solution with the OpenGL backend at this time. D3D is not affected by this problem in this game. Fixed by {{revision|4.0-5124}}.

|enablespeakerdata      = Disabled

|enablespeakerdatanotes = Causes constant wiimote disconnects

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{{testing/entry|revision=7689|OS=Windows 7 x64|CPU=Intel Core i5-2500K @ 4.4GHz|GPU=NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250|result=Close to perfect -> constant 60FPS, 1280x720, 3xNative textures and DSP-HLE sound (still must use dol swap though)|tester=Zlutz}}

{{testing/entry|revision=3.0-766|OS=Windows 7 x64|CPU=Intel Core i7-3770k @ 4.4GHz|GPU=AMD Radeon HD 6970|result=DX11 at 1900x1200 (using internal resolution auto, 4xAA), averages 50FPS.  EFB-copy-to-RAM must be used 100% of the time for the scan visor to function (contrast to MP1 where it is only required for the rarely-used x-ray visor), but fastest cache option can be used (causes very minor graphical glitches).  "Skip Destination Alpha Pass" also breaks the scan visor and should be left off.  "Accurate V-Beam" (in right-click options) provides noticeable speedup in large rooms with no ill effect.  DSP-HLE works fine, except for very occasional loss of BGM (can be resolved by save/load or reset); DSP-LLE does not drop BGM but instead causes crackling and clicking sounds whenever framerate drops below 60FPS.  OpenMP texture decoder, cache display lists, and disable fog/per-pixel-depth are all recommended for slight speedup.  DOL swap still required to run.|tester=anon}}

{{testing/entry|revision=4.0-2826|OS=Windows 7 x64|CPU=Intel Core i7-4790k @ 4.6GHz|GPU=AMD Radeon HD 7970|result=OpenGL at 1920x1080 (3x internal res), no AA, 4x AF, works consistently at 58-60FPS so far - I will update if I see similar drops like I saw in MP1|tester=anon}}

{{testing/entry|revision=4.0-4843|OS=Windows 7 x64|CPU=Intel Core i5-750 @ 2.66GHz|GPU=NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680|result=ES_Launch problems now solved, no problems with speaker data. Direct 3D, EFB to RAM  used. Frequent drops to 25FPS and I must go to windowed then fullscreen again to gain 50FPS. Everything OK otherwise.|tester=Paulli}}

{{testing/entry|revision=4.0-5384|OS=Windows Server 2012 x64|CPU=AMD FX-8350 @ 4.6GHz|GPU=AMD Radeon HD 7970|result=D3D @1920x1080 (3x IR), no AA, 1x AF, playing at PAL50. Runs very nicely, minor FPS drops when entering water and in some places, otherwise constant 50FPS. Played all the way through without major glitches.|tester=XorUnison}}

{{YouTube|bNsglEfBotE|Metroid Prime Trilogy (MP1 & MP2) HD Gameplay|br}}

 

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