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I never thought to check the CPU portion. I'm off to try my victorious boxers 2 again. I'll be back with results as I never ran the emu in dual core
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Danj said:
Thanks for the reply. This is almost what I have (only difference I can see is that I have Vista Ultimate & a silly tv tuner).
As an aside, is it possible to change the screen on a laptop? I've found that 1400x900 sucks ass.
Hopefully if I set the emu up like the guy who provided pics, I'll have a better experience than last time.
Agent Icebeezy
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What do all of the top numbers that I have circled signify?
sixteen-bit
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As much as I dislike Odin Sphere, it would have ben nice if they rereleased the game on current gen with the original HD assets. It is my understanding that the sprites and backgrounds do exist in a much higher resolution than 480i, but using them raw wasn't possible on PS2.
Littleberu
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How are the Grand Theft Auto stories game running?
so what games have you guys found to run near-perfect? I'm talking gameplay-wise, like if you had to, you could play through the game with minimal suffering. post specs if you want, but I'm just looking for a general idea.
me:
--KOFXI
--Odin Sphere
--Gradius V
specs:
--E6750 (2.66 core 2 duo)
--640mb GTS
--2gb DDR2 ram
and Odin Sphere looks amazing at 720p and with AA...not to gloat, but far better than the above pics.
me:
--KOFXI
--Odin Sphere
--Gradius V
specs:
--E6750 (2.66 core 2 duo)
--640mb GTS
--2gb DDR2 ram
and Odin Sphere looks amazing at 720p and with AA...not to gloat, but far better than the above pics.
Tchu-Espresso
likes mayo on everthing and can't dance
If by amazing you mean the most shaky and poorly animated ever, then yeah i agree._dementia said:
clashfan said:
You need a cutting edge for good performance and even then most games won't run full speed.
My PC:
Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 @ 3.2GHz
Asus P5N-E SLI
XpertVision 8600 GT 256MB GDDR3
2GB Corsair XMS2 PC2-5400 DDR2 RAM
Windows XP Pro SP2
I'm soon going to replace the 8600GT with a 8800GT.
I have a E6750 at 3.55ghz, and an 8400 (which is a shitty card in the 8800 series but it works wonders when overclocked).clashfan said:
I can turn on AAx4 (didn't see any notiable difference with AAx4, though clearly a visible difference with AAx8, less jaggies) without any lag (averaging about 60 fps with limit on cause it goes alittle too fast) but since my Video card is shit at AAx8 it drops to about 30 fps on FFX and at AAx16 to about 8-16fps.
If FFX didn't get so crappy by the time that laughing scene came and ruined the whole game for me, i'd actually try to get farther in it.
jakershaker
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So has anyone got FFX or FFX-2 running good enough to be playable?
I get decent speed and can play it somewhat but it's still riddled with graphical bugs and not exactly what I would call playable. Am I using the wrong settings or are the people playing this not caring about stuff like that?
I get decent speed and can play it somewhat but it's still riddled with graphical bugs and not exactly what I would call playable. Am I using the wrong settings or are the people playing this not caring about stuff like that?
jakershaker said:
Use the latest GSdx9 plugin (0.11.0 as of now) with the NLOOP hack enabled in the plugins setting menu.
ZeroGS is nowhere near as good as the new and improved GSdx9 which is made by gabest BTW, author of Media Player Classic.
GSdx9 doesn't support anti-aliasing at the moment though because of the way it renders.
Like the hat?
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i would try it, but I'm running a 1.5ghz pentium dual core laptop with 2g of ram and x3100 integrated video.
h3ro said:
a large portion of the pcsx2 codebase is x86 specific, it would require a significant rewrite to port to the PS3.
I asked the dev's about this a while ago, and was told that the interpreter could be useful, but the dynarec would require a complete rewrite.
but hey, why dont you ask them yourself, they regularly haunt ngemu.com's forums, and as long as you don't behave like a TOOL (sorry), they will usually answer your questions.
So what's the final verdict on Odin Sphere with this emu? We have some people saying how amazing it looks at 60fps with 4xAA and 720P, then someone else saying 4xAA makes Odin Sphere look all garbled. This is the one game I really want to see run at constant 60fps since the original had so much slowdown. My comp specs if anyone wants to estimate my performance:
CPU: Core 2 Duo E6850 @3.0Ghz
GPU: Nvidia 8800GTS 640MB Superclocked
RAM: 4 GB DDR2-800 (however running 32-bit XP)
CPU: Core 2 Duo E6850 @3.0Ghz
GPU: Nvidia 8800GTS 640MB Superclocked
RAM: 4 GB DDR2-800 (however running 32-bit XP)
Wow!! That VF screen is beautiful!! I can't wait till this emu is near perfect...
You'll run it pretty well, but yeah, in 9.4, AA will garble the graphics. It was a few weeks ago, but I think it only happens at AA levels above 4x. Someone will have to fact check me on that.
In any case, you probably won't run it perfectly at 60fps for the whole game with slowdown cured. and you'll also have audio problems to deal with.
alexel said:
You'll run it pretty well, but yeah, in 9.4, AA will garble the graphics. It was a few weeks ago, but I think it only happens at AA levels above 4x. Someone will have to fact check me on that.
In any case, you probably won't run it perfectly at 60fps for the whole game with slowdown cured. and you'll also have audio problems to deal with.
rollingstart
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Agent Icebeezy said:What do all of the top numbers that I have circled signify?
you picked an awesome game to test.
nevermind, checked it for myself. 4xAA should work fine on Odin Sphere. I found another problem though-- when I loaded from a save state (not the memory card) the audio was glitchy. Went in and out of the game a few times to reproduce it and it happened each time.
anyway, I took a screen while testing it:
anyway, I took a screen while testing it:
That's not an issue of the hw though. The tech budgets for these types of games are typically exceptionally low, and it shows.Eiji said:
Besides as a 2d game, it wouldn't surprise me if they intentionally balanced the load so it reaches slowdown when action gets busy enough, it's been done in the past in certain shooting games.
xemumanic
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Nice work with all the screenshots you've been posting lately. Just thought you'd like to see FF XII running on PCSX 2 with the GSDx9 plugin.
Sorry, it got dropped down to 1600x900 from 1920x1080 (1080p).
How'd I get it to look that way? I just turned up the internal resolution to 1920x1080.
I have a theory that turning it up even higher would be like a fake AA, but I never got around to testing that theory out.
Sorry, it got dropped down to 1600x900 from 1920x1080 (1080p).
How'd I get it to look that way? I just turned up the internal resolution to 1920x1080.
I have a theory that turning it up even higher would be like a fake AA, but I never got around to testing that theory out.
Propagandhim
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Damn - those hi-res AA Tekken and FFXII shots look like Xbox 360 games.
xemumanic
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SRG01 said:
Yeah it seems so. Changing the resolution doesn't affect performance, unless you change the internal resolution, (which only GSDx9 allows). Enabling AA however, does also affect performance, for a similar reason to the internal resolution.
So toss all the CPU you can at it. Even in the days of next-gen emulation of 3D hardware like the PS2, the emulation is still mainly processor-dependant.
xemumanic
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My theory about increasing the internal resolution to produce an effect like AA holds true after all. Here's a post from someone by the name of NexXxus on the PCSX 2 forum who did exactly what I'd theorized and posted screenshots.
http://forums.ngemu.com/1234485-post1828.html
http://forums.ngemu.com/1234485-post1828.html
Looks like HD Frequency.Sylar said:Wondering how awesome Frequency looks
My PC is too ancient though to run it over about 20 fps, which is sad since the game is hardly graphic intensive.It would be playable except for the fact that if the game isn't running top speed, the music will lag and be choppy.
It was truly a painful experience for me to play "Ex-girlfriend" under those conditions... so I booted it on my PS2 immediately after to sooth the pain
*high five* to anyone who can get some screencaps of Amplitude up
edit: oh, and Bully too! I'd love to see that so I can begin speculation about Scholarship Edition's graphic quality
Mefisutoferesu
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... why?Fafalada said:
Because it ensures continued life for the arcade bread'n'butter version?
IronicallyTwisted
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Its amazing how AA can turn the ugliest of games into gorgeous showpieces.
Diatribe1974
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Someone post some FFIX pics please. Want to see what it looks like since it's the recent "old game of choice" I've been tinkering around with lately.
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