30 hours into the game, locked 60 fps all day every day.
It dropped once (to 55fps) in the bazaar when I turned the camera to have 20 + npcs and the entire length of the bazaar onscreen. (this scene
http://www.abload.de/img/pcsx2-r53502013-03-184kbx9.png )
It has not budged from 60 fps otherwise (not a single time) and the cpu usage usually hovers between 50 and 70 percent , maybe peaks at 80 percent.
Here's what I paid for this cpu when I ordered it in early 2009:
1 x AMD Phenom II Triple 720 Black edition (2.8 ghz, 7.5 mb, am3, 95 watt, boxed) (ADUHDZ720WFGIBOX) = 130,43 €
Anything with the word core2 or core i- in it since 2008 is faster than this....
Runs flawlessly for me with this entry level 4 year old gaming cpu, not sure what more you want me to say.
Btw you DO notice every single slight fps dip (when I tab out, when I take a screenshot) since the game logic slows down if the fps slows down so the sound gets distorted (which happened in the bazaar scene hence why I noticed it dropping to 55 fps), so no I'm not just 'not noticing', there are no framedrops full stop
CRT user? HIGH FIVE!
I too use a crt for my pc
There is no discernable input lag here, then again I only use the emulator for rpgs and ICO (it's way easier to notice in action games or fps), so I might not notice if there is a slight bit of it (there certainly is FAR less of it than when I play games on my ps3 + lcd tv)
I can't fucking stand input lag
People in this thread just said the emulation on ps3 has an additional 40 ms of input lag so I guess you are mixing the two up.
I wouldn't know if the ps3's emulation is laggy as I have no interest in playing games at 512x488 (ps2 native res for ff12) and without anisotropic filtering, fuck that.
Are you on a laptop perhaps? Maybe power saving mode is kicking in and downclocking your cpu.
If it runs on a core2duo it runs on an i3
Your gpu might be a bottleneck if you supersample a lot (say 4x or 3x)
When is the last time you tried it?
As I said they have added really good gpu support about a year ago (maybe longer) and with the latest version the performance is REALLY good.
Ofcourse it takes isos, why wouldn't it.
edit; bonus shots (linking since the quote scaling on gaf shits on the image quality....)
http://www.abload.de/img/pcsx2-r53502013-03-21csu58.png
These 2 are at a weird resolution since I was playing windowed.
http://www.abload.de/img/pcsx2-r53502013-03-20t1ukr.png
http://www.abload.de/img/pcsx2-r53502013-03-20hjuyi.png