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PCSX2 - Excellent PS2 emulation, support improving all the time!
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What affects speed the most?
I have a 2.2Ghz Dual Core Processor
8600GT (dx9)
1.5Gb RAM
Apparently Guilty Gear X2 and all the games in the series run at full speed but I can't seem to attain it. I get around 30-40% in game with pretty much every version of this emu that I've tried. So it has to be my system.
I have a 2.2Ghz Dual Core Processor
8600GT (dx9)
1.5Gb RAM
Apparently Guilty Gear X2 and all the games in the series run at full speed but I can't seem to attain it. I get around 30-40% in game with pretty much every version of this emu that I've tried. So it has to be my system.
gregor7777
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CPU speed is king. Get that modern 2/3/4 core CPU up to around 3+GHz and you're talking.
Bog said:
OC the C2D. the problem wth the PS2 is that it has multiple processors inside, the emulator itself is optimized for Dual core support, any other cores will have some workload put off to it which helps performance a little, so whats really needed is a CPU with 2 cores that can do as many calculations per second as possible, so the faster you can get that C2D, the better performance you'll have. The 4890 is overkill, the emulator supports a max of 3.0 Pixel shader so all the extra features are pretty useless.
Someone released software to do it for PC, but not for PS3.Barkley's Justice said:
It runs a lot better then any of the PC emulators (lots of games run perfect on a 100mhz R4000, which would be PC analogue of a 100mhz 486).brain_stew said:
The rendering is done the same way as you described "highlevel emulator" - they translate PSX command streams into something that works on PS3/PSP/PS2 GPUs, and run them.
Enhancements with commercial emulators are fundamentally always an issue because they introduce too many compatibility problems, and you can't ship a commercial product which has 15pages of nonsensically named option screens to wade through.
Simply put - homebrew emulation wins on flexibility because it's never held to the same standards for compatibility/stability as commercial one.
Demigod Mac
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The Maetel version runs a bit faster, but it seems to handle frameskipping better. Under stress the framerate simply gets choppier instead of moving in slo-mo, which is better for playability.
Demigod Mac said:
Do not use frame skipping on the Maetel version. It screws everything up (at least on my comp). Max-out all speed hacks and let all frames be displayed. The X3 speed hack already frame skips and does a better job at it.
Also. GOWII is fully playable on my comp, with a few graphical glitches:
The game slows down to about 48-50 fps when there is a lot of geometry around. In some places where there is simple geometry, like in caves and stuff, the game sometimes runs too fast.
Here are the plugins I'm using:
Gsdx r962 DX10 set to windowed mode, filtering on, fullscreen, everything else default
SPU-2X for sound with time stretching on for sounds
Lilypad so I can play with my Logitech Gamepad
CPU settings: Render full frames, X3 Cycle hack, VU cycle stealing set to very large, CPU set to dual core mode
Also I'm using Maetel v 2.6 but it turns out that v1.5 is actually faster..which makes no sense.
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Deleted member 30609
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This might be it, I'll take a look now.Schrade said:
Thanks for the links, appreciated.
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I'm not sure what it is, but when I try and run SOTC at the exact same settings with the newer plugin, everything slows way, way down. Strange.
infinityBCRT
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PAL version would probably run with minimal slow downs on yours.ultim8p00 said:
ArjanN said:
Are you saying that PAL games are slower than NTSC games? Wouldn't it just be less frames for graphics, the game logic should surely have the same speed across the versions.
I'm pretty sure limiting the NTSC version to 50 FPS will make the game run slower than the PAL at 50 FPS.
infinityBCRT
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mmm if I'm not mistaken, PAL games run at 50hz whereas NTSC games run at 60hz. If you limit the NTSC version to 50FPS (assuming you're not frameskipping) the game will run 20% slower than the normal speed.ArjanN said:
nincompoop
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Err no, PAL games are optimized for 50 hz so they run at the same speed even though they're drawing fewer frames.ArjanN said:
infinityBCRT said:
Correct. But sometimes the developers spend extra time working on the PAL code to compensate for rendering speed, making it an identical experience to the NTSC version despite the lower frame rate.
Games that have received this special treatment include MGS2/3, FFXII and KHII and various other big budget titles. It did take a while for some developers to hear PAL-land's complaints though.
infinityBCRT
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Thats what I said. The guy I was responding to was saying the opposite.Cataferal said:
It looks ridiculous in motion.hateradio said:
here's my settings:
using nhancer (using STALKER compatability profile) and forcing the vsync and AA that way.
Only works for nvidia GPU's but doesn't seem to hurt the framerate much as far as I can tell. Try it out if you have one.
Cat in the Hat
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For anyone trying to run Shadow of Collosus make sure you turn on speedhack *3 cycle, its essential that you do.
twinturbo2
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Oh God, there's a joke in here...inner-G said:Using nhancer, I forced AA. I got 16X MSAA running, but 4X looks just as good to me, so I'm running it at that.
Screens after AA:
You know what's awesome? I tell you what's AWESOME!!! Time-freaking-splitters 2 running at full speed (60fps) with no graphical glitches at all......on my crappy/standard computer!!!!
TP2 + 4 X 360 joysticks = I'm in heaven. This will make the waiting for Perfect Dark XBLA a lot easier
My Timesplitters 3 disc has 728 scratches, so I couldn't test it =/
TP2 + 4 X 360 joysticks = I'm in heaven. This will make the waiting for Perfect Dark XBLA a lot easier
My Timesplitters 3 disc has 728 scratches, so I couldn't test it =/
UnluckyKate
Member
OMG @ this thread. You're bringing back to life my best gaming memories on my beloved and higly regreted, dead PS2.
I need this emulator.
I need this emulator.
sixteen-bit
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Timesplitters 2 is love.Dizzy-4U said:
awesome.
Although my computer is incapable of playing games, does anyone here using the DualShock 3 via USB on a PC get issues with you try to test the slower motor in the JoyPad settings?
I had installed the lib-usb thing a while back and added the rumble thing to the registry, the stronger motor works but every time I tried testing the slower one, nothing happens and PCSX2 crashes.
I had installed the lib-usb thing a while back and added the rumble thing to the registry, the stronger motor works but every time I tried testing the slower one, nothing happens and PCSX2 crashes.
inner-G said:
I have an 8400 and it runs Persona 3 perfectly with the newest beta. I think it's hard to tell where hardware is helping and where the emulation just isn't good with a game yet. There are lots of games where the emulator just isn't good yet, and a lot of games where it works perfectly.
Each official release is a pretty big leap with performance in a lot of games, and we're still only in 9.6.
Also, I think I've read that the emulator only uses two cores.
CurlySaysX
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I can't get this to for god2.
Runs very fast but can't see for shit.
Runs very fast but can't see for shit.
Slightly Live
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I can't play anything except Nippon Ichi games. Everything else is slow as fuck no matter what build I use. Is AMD Athlon 64 X2 @ 2.01GHz really not good enough?
Some Gitaroo Man is needed.
Some Gitaroo Man is needed.
Sorry but it really isn't. Most would recommend a Core 2 Duo clocked at a minimum of 3Ghz.Dani said:I can't play anything except Nippon Ichi games. Everything else is slow as fuck no matter what build I use. Is AMD Athlon 64 X2 @ 2.01GHz really not good enough?
Some Gitaroo Man is needed.
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