I wasn't so sure where I should post this as
after reading the guidelines for Bug Report forum
it didn't seem to quite meet the criteria.
I am not 100% sure what caused it, but this has
never occurred before using pcsx2pg-vtlb-658.exe.
Another possible way it could have caused the problem
is playing an NTSC game using a PAL bios.
I know these 2 don't seem to have any relevance to
MTGS suddenly not working but those 2 things are the
only things I've recently messed around with.
Allow me to explain the problem in detail. First obvious
sign was a catastrophic drop in the framerate, more or less
a 50% drop. When I saw the status bar I could tell
the CPU usage was stuck @ 25%, which meant multi-threading wasn't
working as I own an Intel i7 Quad.
This led me to go to the CPU option in PCSX2 and I was
surprised to find that the MTGS was checked.
I solved the problem by unchecking the MTGS, restarting PCSX2,
checking MTGS again, and restarting PCSX2. After that when I
turned the frame limiter off in-game the CPU usage went up to 50%.
Maybe someone else had the same problem? as you can see it is
by no means a critical problem as fixing it as easy as restarting the PCSX2
but thought I might mention it as someone out there may be using
PCSX2 without utilizing their second core and is unhappy about the speed.
after reading the guidelines for Bug Report forum
it didn't seem to quite meet the criteria.
I am not 100% sure what caused it, but this has
never occurred before using pcsx2pg-vtlb-658.exe.
Another possible way it could have caused the problem
is playing an NTSC game using a PAL bios.
I know these 2 don't seem to have any relevance to
MTGS suddenly not working but those 2 things are the
only things I've recently messed around with.
Allow me to explain the problem in detail. First obvious
sign was a catastrophic drop in the framerate, more or less
a 50% drop. When I saw the status bar I could tell
the CPU usage was stuck @ 25%, which meant multi-threading wasn't
working as I own an Intel i7 Quad.
This led me to go to the CPU option in PCSX2 and I was
surprised to find that the MTGS was checked.
I solved the problem by unchecking the MTGS, restarting PCSX2,
checking MTGS again, and restarting PCSX2. After that when I
turned the frame limiter off in-game the CPU usage went up to 50%.
Maybe someone else had the same problem? as you can see it is
by no means a critical problem as fixing it as easy as restarting the PCSX2
but thought I might mention it as someone out there may be using
PCSX2 without utilizing their second core and is unhappy about the speed.