Digital Devil Saga 1&2

[Coornio]

Put the EE cyclerate to 3... game seems more fluid...About the MTVU hacks i'm not sure if my pc uses more than 1 core during the emulation...

Your i5 is a dual-core with hyper-threading, which means it has 2 logical cores and 4 threads. Hyper-threading is the act of a single core running in a way that imitates 2 cores. It benefits applications that make use of multiple cores/threads for better performance but it's not up to par with a true dual core CPU.

PCSX2 uses 2 cores when emulating. 1 for the Emotion Engine and 1 for the GS unit. MTVU breaks up the GS unit into VU0 and VU1 which brings the total up to 3 cores, and there's also the UI thread? I don't know well how it works, but you may see a small speed increase with MTVU. Just give it a try, your results might be better.

[revengerofdeath]

http://forums.pcsx2.net/attachment.php?aid=52805 %VU remains high...Okay nevermind...ill play with the slowdowns XD
I guess it's impossible a fluid emulation for me.
I envy all of those that have a cpu that works at more than 3Ghz

[Blyss Sarania]

It's less about GHZ and more about IPC.

[revengerofdeath]

It's less about GHZ and more about IPC.

Oh great, another acronym...
Screw it, Im gonna play to the ePSXe XD

[Blyss Sarania]

IPC = instructions per clock.

Consider a CPU with 20 instructions per clock, and one with 50 instructions per clock. The 20 IPC cpu is 4 Ghz, the 50 IPC cpu is 2 Ghz.

20 * 4,000,000,000 = 80,000,000,000 instructions per second.

50 * 2,000,000,000 = 100,000,000,000 instructions per second.

So the 4 Ghz CPU would be 20 percent slower than the 2 Ghz one.

(I pulled these numbers out of my ass, and they don't correlate to any known processors. It was just to show the math and make the point)

[revengerofdeath]

UhUh....uhuh...
So how can I see my IPS?

[Coornio]

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=...40+2.30GHz

Single Thread Rating: 1322

Compared to mine:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=...GHz&id=772

It's a measly 1135

[revengerofdeath]

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=...40+2.30GHz

Single Thread Rating: 1322

Compared to mine:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=...GHz&id=772

It's a measly 1135

So does it mean that my cpu is better??? It's strange

[Blyss Sarania]

PCSX2 needs about 1200 for non demanding games, 1400 for moderate ones, 1600 for moderately demanding ones, 1800 for demanding ones, and 2000 for insanely demanding ones.

*this is without using speedhacks

[revengerofdeath]

PCSX2 needs about 1200 for non demanding games, 1400 for moderate ones, 1600 for moderately demanding ones, 1800 for demanding ones, and 2000 for insanely demanding ones.

*this is without using speedhacks

Well, I guess Digital Devil Saga is about 1400...
Xenosaga 3000! XXD