How well do these games work?

[coisman]

It was true at the time I wrote that. I didn't consider mass save states to be a viable option...Though, I'm glad to see that all the crashing errors got fixed. Off to play now~

[Force88]

Star Ocean 3 is "playable", but only if you have skip all the movie. However, its still terrible slow (my pc is E7200 & 9800gt and its only run about 17fps, while persona4 often get 45-60)

[coisman]

Force88 - Try using GSDX version 1.7, SO3 is faster on that, though you still may not get full speed with an E7200.

[Force88]

GSDX 1.7 ?, mine is Gsdx 890 0.1.14 SSE41, where do you find it ?

Edit: sorry, that's the old version, I have found it....

[Rawkus]

Is star ocean 3 playable with dx9 ? or are these speeds people say are playable only with dx10?

[ChivoX]

man odin sphere runs slow when dialogue goes on!! 25 FPS!! I guess having a q6600 2.4 ghz doesnt cut it??!!

[LuisR14]

if you're going to run Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories NTSC version then i would recommend having the EE Sync Hack set to default (since having it more than that causes the cutscenes to act buggy (and sometimes it will even skip the cutscene , also it can cause the cutscene to freeze at some random point {but the chars still working })), also set the the spu plugin to either peops or zerospu (if you choose peops then there are sometimes where the background music will stay in a buggy way {and is only fixed by setting it to thread mode before it happens}), so overall kh re:com ntsc works ok (i haven't gone much into it so don't know if it fully playable )

[nintendo85]

Regarding Star Ocean 3...I know PCSX2 is by no means a perfect emulator and only some games run full speed (and even then, it may or may not be true full speed since speed hacks may be used). I just recently got a Core 2 Duo E8400 (3.00GHz) and with or without speed hacks, the in-game speed has some odd fluctuations. Take Kirlsa Mining Caves for example, at the first save point, it runs at a silky smooth 60fps. BUT, as I go to the exit, it starts going between 30 and 60 every two or so seconds. It gets worse when I leave to enter Kirlsa Mining Town...the speed drops to 20-25fps. Why is it then I've heard of people, who also have Core 2 Duo CPUs, can run this game at 60fps most of the time? What the crap am I doing wrong?

CPU: Core 2 Duo E8400 (1333MHz FSB) 3.00GHz
GPU: PNY GeForce 9600GT 512MB GDDR3
RAM: 2GB DDR SDRAM (PC2 6400)
OS: WinXP Home SP3

And here's my config for PCSX2 0.9.6 SVN831 in the screenshot    

[rama]

nintendo85:
Use an older version of GSdx. Gabest had a hack in those, that is very much needed in this game.

[Register]

for Tri Ace games, the best gsdx plugins are gsdx.0.1.7 and gsdx.0.1.6 and two plugins are best too for game Xenosaga eps.3 (this game i already tried) but not sure for other Xenosaga.