Shadow Of The Colossus - No Likey PCSX2

[ShadeCrenshaw]

OK, So I think I have a fairly decent PC and I should be able to run games that work on the PS2, but my god that is not the case.

I wanted to play an old-time favorite of mine, Shadow Of The Colossus, but I do not get more than 23 frames, and thats during the opening cutscene.

My Specs are as Follows

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E8200 @ 2.66GHz (2CPU's) ~2.7
Memory: 4Gigs of RAM.
Video Card: Nvidia GeForce 250GTS 512mb

No matter what I do with the default Plugins Provided with PCSX2, my game just refuses to work.

Is there really no hope for me?

[abdo123]

yes there is
double the FPS you're having by enabling VU cycling up to 2 and recommended speedhacks

[hellbringer616]

If your PC isn't a prebuilt OEM PC try overclocking it. your CPU is far to low to run SotC well.

[Rezard]

Last I remember, SotC ran more favorably on my Core 2 Duo @ 2.8Ghz.

Using the VU Cycle Stealing truely is the key to this game.

[hellbringer616]

I was thinking with no speed hacks, But only 2.8ghz eh? I can honestly say i'm surprised haha. Glad to see development has gone so far

[Nexxxus]

Using the VU Cycle Stealing truely is the key to this game.

not really.
VU cycle stealing just makes it choppy like hell due to the game internal frameskipper.
I don't use cycle stealing and set the spu2-x sync mode to async mix so I barely notice when the games falls below fullspeed.

[abdo123]

you have I5 2500K if you OCed that beast to 4 GHz you will barely see any slowdown with recommended speedhacks