08-13-2009, 12:30 AM
I have only read about this through googling once in another forum somewhere, but it was unanswered thus pushing me to post this here.
I would also like to add that I haven't had any problem as the one I'm describing now before I had totally made a clean install of Windows XP Professional SP1 and then upgrading to SP2 > Direct x 9.0c March 2009 Release, Visual C++ Redistributable 2008, .net framework 3.5 sp1, and of course the nVidia Video Driver (I did try many versions of the nVidia Video Driver, including my original one before the clean install). Of course I have tried many different combinations of gsdx plugins, in fact the original pcsx2 configurations I had back up'ed on my External HDD, when copied over to my clean install, they also give ***** CPU readings. This has been bothering me for a while, because of course when testing my computer to run a game, I would like to know whether the gsdx plugin is using up 99% or the CPU resources or not, although it may not be accurate, it at least gives me within the ballpark of how well my computer (I should mention its a laptop, if that provides any help) can handle it. Before I post my complete configurations (Since I don't believe the case is that my configurations are odd), I would like to ask in general if any of you have encountered this problem and simply found the solution on your own. I will post configs later though if it will truly help solve this case. From all of the above, I am only able to conclude that the problem lies within the fact that I have lacked to install a required system file, but it seems so weird, because I should have everything from windows update, all the drivers, all the essential files that one would need to use a computer fully to its function.
I would also like to add that I haven't had any problem as the one I'm describing now before I had totally made a clean install of Windows XP Professional SP1 and then upgrading to SP2 > Direct x 9.0c March 2009 Release, Visual C++ Redistributable 2008, .net framework 3.5 sp1, and of course the nVidia Video Driver (I did try many versions of the nVidia Video Driver, including my original one before the clean install). Of course I have tried many different combinations of gsdx plugins, in fact the original pcsx2 configurations I had back up'ed on my External HDD, when copied over to my clean install, they also give ***** CPU readings. This has been bothering me for a while, because of course when testing my computer to run a game, I would like to know whether the gsdx plugin is using up 99% or the CPU resources or not, although it may not be accurate, it at least gives me within the ballpark of how well my computer (I should mention its a laptop, if that provides any help) can handle it. Before I post my complete configurations (Since I don't believe the case is that my configurations are odd), I would like to ask in general if any of you have encountered this problem and simply found the solution on your own. I will post configs later though if it will truly help solve this case. From all of the above, I am only able to conclude that the problem lies within the fact that I have lacked to install a required system file, but it seems so weird, because I should have everything from windows update, all the drivers, all the essential files that one would need to use a computer fully to its function.