07-23-2014, 12:23 AM
Hello. I posted this on another thread as help and have taken the suggestion from a user to start a new thread. I've come to know PCSX2 very well over the past week. I have almost identical specs (as the thread starter) except an Athlon X2 64 and HD5450. 4GB of ram clocked somewhere around 400Hz. Running the ISO off a 2nd internal HDD. So much easier than using the dvd.
I know this is old but for anyone who is getting extreme lag around fog and some bosses in FFX (seems to only happen when faced towards said fog or boss) I can manipulate speed hacks and change drivers but nothing seems to improve certain places in the game. E.G - The small forest where they teach of lancet. I move Tidus around to just get this fog with light filtering thru it out of view and the game speeds back up. This happens around Rikku in the first scene on the boat. ONLY when I walk over to her, over by the save spot the game functions normally.
I wish there was a way to shut off fog. My Graphics card might be busted. Over the course of a couple weeks I've tried over 6 different versions of PCSX2 with all sorts of different plugins. Updating Catalyst control center helped. They don't show you that update if you try searching for drivers. That's new to me.
The deal with the game freaking out before spoken dialogue (e.g. first few battles with Auron where they are laggy), I have the fix for Demi enabled as well as every single DX hack and after doing that I noticed a huge increase in speed. Even with my ATI card the Nvidia hack works. I am using the most current version of PCSX2 and it's plugins. I will upload the settings I am using for information. Still torn on whether my graphics card is broke, or the 2GHz CPU is choking ONLY when fog/light/wtf is in the screen? Is it the emotion engine? Man....
PCSX2 1.2.1 CONFIGURATION
Windows Vista Business 32-Bit SP2
AMD Athlon 64 X2
4 GB Dual Channel DDR2
512 ATI 5450
MSAA 0X-Z-32
SKIPDRAW 1
ALL BOXES CHECKED In Hacks Configurations
Native Res. D3D9 Auto Interlacing Extra Rendering Threads 0 ALL OTHER BOXES UNCHECKED
1-Linear. Disable Effects Checked. 1-XAudio Async
BIOS USA 2.2 2006
ee/iop
Recompiler (Both)
Chop/Zero and Normal
VUs
microVU (both cores)
Chop/Zero and Normal
GS (left unmodified)
GS Window
Widescreen (16.9)
720x720
zoom 100.00
hide windows when paused and default to fullscreen mode on oen only boxes checked
Speedhacks
EE 3 VU 3 ( really hasnt made much of a difference sliding either)
only checked boxes are Spin Detection, Flag Hack and Loop detection
I know this is old but for anyone who is getting extreme lag around fog and some bosses in FFX (seems to only happen when faced towards said fog or boss) I can manipulate speed hacks and change drivers but nothing seems to improve certain places in the game. E.G - The small forest where they teach of lancet. I move Tidus around to just get this fog with light filtering thru it out of view and the game speeds back up. This happens around Rikku in the first scene on the boat. ONLY when I walk over to her, over by the save spot the game functions normally.
I wish there was a way to shut off fog. My Graphics card might be busted. Over the course of a couple weeks I've tried over 6 different versions of PCSX2 with all sorts of different plugins. Updating Catalyst control center helped. They don't show you that update if you try searching for drivers. That's new to me.
The deal with the game freaking out before spoken dialogue (e.g. first few battles with Auron where they are laggy), I have the fix for Demi enabled as well as every single DX hack and after doing that I noticed a huge increase in speed. Even with my ATI card the Nvidia hack works. I am using the most current version of PCSX2 and it's plugins. I will upload the settings I am using for information. Still torn on whether my graphics card is broke, or the 2GHz CPU is choking ONLY when fog/light/wtf is in the screen? Is it the emotion engine? Man....
PCSX2 1.2.1 CONFIGURATION
Windows Vista Business 32-Bit SP2
AMD Athlon 64 X2
4 GB Dual Channel DDR2
512 ATI 5450
MSAA 0X-Z-32
SKIPDRAW 1
ALL BOXES CHECKED In Hacks Configurations
Native Res. D3D9 Auto Interlacing Extra Rendering Threads 0 ALL OTHER BOXES UNCHECKED
1-Linear. Disable Effects Checked. 1-XAudio Async
BIOS USA 2.2 2006
ee/iop
Recompiler (Both)
Chop/Zero and Normal
VUs
microVU (both cores)
Chop/Zero and Normal
GS (left unmodified)
GS Window
Widescreen (16.9)
720x720
zoom 100.00
hide windows when paused and default to fullscreen mode on oen only boxes checked
Speedhacks
EE 3 VU 3 ( really hasnt made much of a difference sliding either)
only checked boxes are Spin Detection, Flag Hack and Loop detection