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Hello,
Recently Ive had an interest on playing the game Urban Reign on my laptop with the emulator. My laptop is pretty strong.
Lenovo Y50
Graphic card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
Processor: Intel® Core i7-4720HQ CPU @2.60GHz (8CPUs), ~2.6GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
While I'm aware I can't run all games smoothly, I expected games like Urban Reign would. I use the Balanced preset with the avx plugin.
My FPS is mostly around 60 but sometimes it drops drastically along with sound lag.
Is there anything I can do to improve this?
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04-17-2016, 02:50 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-17-2016, 02:50 PM by FlatOut.)
Make sure the MTVU speedhack is on in Config - Emulation Settings - Speedhacks.
Also check the EE and GS rates in the title bar of the game window. If one is at or near 100% during the fps drops, you might want to drop the preset and manually tweak the appropriate Cyclerate slider in the speedhack tab to see if it improves the situation.
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At first EE was around 20-40 and GS <20. I tried to mess around with the cyclerater and vu cyclestealer. And EE got upped to 40-60 and GS 20-60. It never hit the 100 percent mark.
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I still have problems with FPS drops which makes my game lags. Anyone knows a solution?
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(04-18-2016, 05:36 PM)TECK Wrote: I still have problems with FPS drops which makes my game lags. Anyone knows a solution?
did you set power plan to high performance ?
are you running on batteries ?
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04-19-2016, 12:40 PM
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What happens during the speed drops? Do you get heavy graphics or level switch or is it just happening randomly without any reason and even if you stand still?
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PC is on a high performance and Ive set everything to Performance instead of Balanced or Quality. No batteries.
During the speed drops the screen gets mostly stuck for 1-3 seconds. It mostly occurs during gameplay not during cutscenes. I think me standing still makes it less worse but I havent tested it.
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are you playing straight from your original PS2 DVD ?
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weird.
tried disabling intel speedstep ?
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