SSX Blur

SSX Blur
Developer(s)	EA Montreal
Publisher(s)	EA Sports BIG
Series	SSX
Platform(s)	Wii
Release date(s)	NA February 27, 2007 AUS March 15, 2007 EU March 16, 2007 JP September 13, 2007 KO July 25, 2008
Genre(s)	Sports, Snowboarding
Mode(s)	Single-player, Multiplayer (4)
Input methods	Wii Remote + Nunchuk
Compatibility	4 Playable
GameIDs	RSXE69, RSXK69, RSXJ13, RSXP69
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia

SSX Blur is a snowboarding and skiing video game. It is the fifth installment in the SSX series. The soundtrack was created by Junkie XL and is played through the in-game radio station, "Radio BIG".

Problems

VP6 Videos

SSX Blur uses the VP6 video codec, common in Electronic Arts' titles, causing its videos to have vertical line artifacts and other glitches on many graphics cards. The Software Render will display VP6 video correctly, but is typically too slow. VP6 rendering also reacts poorly to the Force Texture Filtering enhancements (and Anisotropic Filtering on NVIDIA), causing further scrambling. See issue 7193. In 5.0-15515 or newer, this can be fixed with "Manual Texture Sampling" in the Graphics Settings -> Advanced menu.

VP6 video

VP6 video with manual sampling

Loading Screens

Loading screens can suffer from some graphics corruption in the lower half when scaling above native is used.

Configuration

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

Graphics

Config	Setting	Notes
Manual Texture Sampling	On	Render VP6 video

Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with SSX Blur since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

2.0

r7719

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5.0-20555 (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
3.0	Windows 7	AMD Athlon II X4 645 @ 3.1 GHz	ATI Radeon HD 4250	Unplayable! The game seems to have a lot of graphics issues. I can't even get to make a save so I can at least have a banner for this one.
r7719	Windows 7	Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 @ 3 GHz	ATI Radeon FireGL 5600	Working with two bugs: sometimes the fog is much thicker and I do not see anything. Sometimes the character disappears completely, so that can only be seen ski or snowboard.	DeniSSXRus
3.0-370	Windows 7	Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 @ 3 GHz	ATI Radeon FireGL 5600	Working without bugs because 3.0-370 has "Scaled EFB Copy" option, but speed is 80-90%	DeniSSXRus
4.0-5422	Windows 8.1	Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 @ 3.5 GHz	AMD Radeon HD 7750	Fullspeed	DeniSSXRus
4.0-8400	Windows 7	Intel Core i5-3570K @ 3.8 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760	Plays correctly.	JMC47

Gameplay Videos

SSX Blur (SLOW) - NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV - Dolphin Emulator 5.0-12729 [1080p] - Nintendo Wii

SSX Blur (4K / 2160p / 60fps) - Dolphin Emulator 5.0-20339 - Nintendo Wii