Armored Core 3: FPS down to 10, what am I doing wrong?

[Nobbs66]

Armored Core is also incredibly GPU demanding. I doubt that card can handle it.

[gigaus]

It's a fair difference when you consider it like this: PCSX2 uses 3 threads with MTVU. That 1800 STR is what's roughly needed for this game, but for each core.

So you have 1600, 1600, 1600
You need: 1800, 1800, 1800

It adds up because it's not just one  core that is a little too weak, but three.

A few light games in PCSX2 can be okay with 1400 or less. Most RPG style games and medium games need around 1600. Popular titles and heavy games need 1800. And games that really push the PS2 itself can need over 2000.

My 3770k @ 4.2 Ghz has 2400 STR and some games still slow down on it. It's just the nature of the beast. Syncing things, emulating multiple processors in single threads, doing things in weird ways like the PS2 does and stuff like that all add up.

Alright, that makes more sense to me. Ah well, I was hoping to finally play that game again and finish it, but 'seems out of reach. Oh well, guess I'll stick to older ems, or ones with lower requirements ;3;

Thanks guys, at least I didn't end up banging my head over this.