04-17-2012, 03:02 AM
Hi,
Well I just got PS2X running amazing. I am running 6x upscaling and all this other stuff, to make games look absolutely amazing, although there is one issue....
That issue is random slowdowns. The game for the most part runs smooth as butter, but in some parts it randomly slows down a tad and I can feel it in my movement of the character in game. These slowdowns usually happen during scenes that maybe have a lot of AI or sometimes with lots of graphical effects.
During these slow times, my FPS does NOT budge in the slightest. It always stays at 60 FPS, no matter what, according to both the Emulator and FRAPS. I have checked the EE usage and it only spikes up to 55% max and the GS consistently stays at 13%. I have also tried disabling sound, because I thought maybe that was causing this issue, but that has absolutely no effect on these random slowdown spots.
This leads me to believe that it it may not be a hardware issue, but instead an issue with the PS2 specs. Maybe it is slowing down, just like the actually hardware PS2 would do in these scenarios, due to some CPU (or GPU) bottleneck on the ACTUAL PS2?
Here is a pic of when it slowed down. I could feel it in the controller and it was getting choppy....... ~40ish FPS I would say it felt like.
http://76.79.79.143/content/images/slowdown.png
So, I was just wondering if these slowdowns were because this is what the real PS2 would slow down in or if it is an emulator/hardware issue with my PC? If it is a PS2 issue, is there some way that I could virtually overclock the stock EE on the emulator, so that it does not slow down in these situations?
Specs of PC:
Core i5 2500K @ 4 GHz
8 Gigs DDR3
GTX 570 1.25 GB overclocked
Games are run off a Crucial M4 SSD.
PCSX2 V 0.9.8
Settings of PS2x:
http://76.79.79.143/content/images/setting1.png
http://76.79.79.143/content/images/setting2.png
http://76.79.79.143/content/images/setting3.png
http://76.79.79.143/content/images/setting5.png
http://76.79.79.143/content/images/setting6.png
http://76.79.79.143/content/images/setting7.png
http://76.79.79.143/content/images/plugin_versions.png
Games it happens in:
- Every game I have tried, which is not much.
- Star Wars: Bounty Hunter -- random and not that often.
- Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortext -- Happens A LOT and very frequent.
Thanks in advance,
Nate
Well I just got PS2X running amazing. I am running 6x upscaling and all this other stuff, to make games look absolutely amazing, although there is one issue....
That issue is random slowdowns. The game for the most part runs smooth as butter, but in some parts it randomly slows down a tad and I can feel it in my movement of the character in game. These slowdowns usually happen during scenes that maybe have a lot of AI or sometimes with lots of graphical effects.
During these slow times, my FPS does NOT budge in the slightest. It always stays at 60 FPS, no matter what, according to both the Emulator and FRAPS. I have checked the EE usage and it only spikes up to 55% max and the GS consistently stays at 13%. I have also tried disabling sound, because I thought maybe that was causing this issue, but that has absolutely no effect on these random slowdown spots.
This leads me to believe that it it may not be a hardware issue, but instead an issue with the PS2 specs. Maybe it is slowing down, just like the actually hardware PS2 would do in these scenarios, due to some CPU (or GPU) bottleneck on the ACTUAL PS2?
Here is a pic of when it slowed down. I could feel it in the controller and it was getting choppy....... ~40ish FPS I would say it felt like.
http://76.79.79.143/content/images/slowdown.png
So, I was just wondering if these slowdowns were because this is what the real PS2 would slow down in or if it is an emulator/hardware issue with my PC? If it is a PS2 issue, is there some way that I could virtually overclock the stock EE on the emulator, so that it does not slow down in these situations?
Specs of PC:
Core i5 2500K @ 4 GHz
8 Gigs DDR3
GTX 570 1.25 GB overclocked
Games are run off a Crucial M4 SSD.
PCSX2 V 0.9.8
Settings of PS2x:
http://76.79.79.143/content/images/setting1.png
http://76.79.79.143/content/images/setting2.png
http://76.79.79.143/content/images/setting3.png
http://76.79.79.143/content/images/setting5.png
http://76.79.79.143/content/images/setting6.png
http://76.79.79.143/content/images/setting7.png
http://76.79.79.143/content/images/plugin_versions.png
Games it happens in:
- Every game I have tried, which is not much.
- Star Wars: Bounty Hunter -- random and not that often.
- Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortext -- Happens A LOT and very frequent.
Thanks in advance,
Nate