Valkyrie Profile 2 and Shadow of the Colossus

Both suffer from major slowdown even in my rig that can run FFXII at 170fps (with GDSx 3 cores software mode).

I beg of you to optimize these two games eventually, because they're among the best the PS2 has to offer.

Thank you very much PCSX2 devs.

Cobra: Turn on VU cycle steal for SotC. If you don't have that option, it's because you're using the much older and slower version 0.9.6. Use the latest released beta (Rev 1888 which you can get from the download section)

Also, you really shouldn't ask for the devs to focus on one game or another... They have their own plans for the emulator and their own priorities. Since they are doing this for free and using their own free time, you should simply be happy that those games work at all and wait patiently until the devs get around to it, if ever.

Thanks for the SotC tip, I'll give it a try.

Quote:you really shouldn't ask

I don't ask, I humbly beg them

Humble begging will not help either.

We optimize what we can, without sacrificing compatibility/stability, and when we have time to do so. We know these games are slow, but they are slow for good reason -- they are technically the most complex games on the PS2 (seriously, I don't think any other game squeezes more polys, animations, and detail textures through the PS2's internals than those).

anyway CobraSA i remember playing SotC at around 40-50 fps some months ago on an older pcsx2 version(not the latest beta) with my current specs , of course with some speedhacks enabled(vu cycle stealing set to moderate) so it shouldn't really be a problem for you (i guess )

(11-07-2009 04:52 PM)Air Wrote:  Humble begging will not help either.

We optimize what we can, without sacrificing compatibility/stability, and when we have time to do so. We know these games are slow, but they are slow for good reason -- they are technically the most complex games on the PS2 (seriously, I don't think any other game squeezes more polys, animations, and detail textures through the PS2's internals than those).

Sorry if I have bothered you.

wow! with slight stealing hack thing, combined with gfx hardware mode, I just got a whooping 60-70 fps in Shadow of the Colossus with minor gfx glitches. The game is playable at last! THANKS PCSX2!!

isn't more people helping with the development?
the emulator is open source and every day I see new beta builds....

there's a few, but like Air said, they work on it in the FREE time, they're not going to work on a game for you specifically. oh and for the record, BOTH of the games you mentioned work fine