[OUTDATED] NFS: Undercover on Xbox 360 Emulator (Xenia) - Still goes into gameplay and just stutters

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Published on April 30, 2021 2:40:13 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTg2QCehJ24

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Need for Speed: Undercover (2008)

Duration: 10:54

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I had upgraded my rig with a new good enough CPU to handle any heavy-workload-software / games, thus I made this update video on how Xenia emulates games on mediocre by 2021 standards hardware.

I still stand by everything I had said in the previous video. And by this I mean that the only best version of Undercover is on Xbox 360. It has all of the graphics features the PC version lacks (this includes DoF effect, contrast presets PC doesn't have, frontend reflections, etc.) (especially on the latest patch (Steam distributes initial version 1.0)).

Apart from Hollywood-like physics and lacking of competitive AI (at the beginning of the game), it is still playable.

Even though it is emulated and may be way back from perfection with its lag and other minor issues like stuttering in heavy moments, Input Lag or unsynced sounds, I'd rather play this version than PC one.

Although I have to admit that big recent update of Xenia sort of broke this game, regressed it: there are more chances of emulator to silently crash without any error.
And recent FFmpeg commit broke music, cop speech, NIS cutscenes sound.



00:00 intro
03:10 launched once again

What's even funny is that when you crash/bump onto anything on low fps on emulator, the crash still counts, whereas on PC it's not and you get nothing (in these cases you have to use speedbreaker to trigger it)

Consider this video a sort of a sequel to my previous outdated video with gameplay.

Tested on: https://github.com/xenia-project/xenia/commit/71fbfdb63ee1c12c6a56d24e8fa8d38d53870ee0


Specs:
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 v2 3.3GHz (yay, new CPU!)
RAM: 8 GB (DDR3 1333MHz)
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB (do not rely on percentage workload: even though it may say 100% - the real maximum workload of GPU is in watts, which for this GPU is 152w)

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