08-11-2015, 10:06 PM
Hi everyone. This project is awesome, so I start by saying thanks. I also apologize if this is like the 10 billionth time someone has been asked these questions but I DID do a lot of googling before resorting to creating this account and posting. Either the info wasn't out there or I just wasn't getting it.
Now, I know the first thing someone is going to ask for is my system specs, and I can do that as soon as I get home, but for the time being, I'm mostly looking for general advice here. My PC is a Toshiba laptop with an a6 processor and an AMD graphics card, but I don't know which one off the top of my head. For comparison, it can run Diablo 3 at max settings nearly perfectly, if that helps at all.
I am trying to run FFXII. And it *works* but the speed is incredibly inconsistent. I would happily accept that it's just that my hardware isn't good enough to run it smoothly, but it's not doing any of the things that it usually does when I'm running a game that it can't handle. CPU usage is like 40% with plenty to spare. It's not overheating or anything which is what usually happens when I'm running something graphically intensive. The hard drive isn't at critical. It's got 6 GB of ram, which seems like it should be enough. Not much running in the background.
But I have been messing with the settings like crazy and nothing really makes that much of a difference. The game runs from 50-75% of the normal speed unless there are few to no character models on the screen. That's after tweaking every single setting in PCSX2 that I could find so far (everything has an effect but it's been minor). And that's ok if that's the best my PC can muster, but it just doesn't seem to be actually using everything it can. It feels like I'm just one stupid setting away from being able to run this game nearly perfectly.
The TL;DR here is, if it's not using up my CPU power and it's not burning up my graphics card, what's holding it back?
Now, I know the first thing someone is going to ask for is my system specs, and I can do that as soon as I get home, but for the time being, I'm mostly looking for general advice here. My PC is a Toshiba laptop with an a6 processor and an AMD graphics card, but I don't know which one off the top of my head. For comparison, it can run Diablo 3 at max settings nearly perfectly, if that helps at all.
I am trying to run FFXII. And it *works* but the speed is incredibly inconsistent. I would happily accept that it's just that my hardware isn't good enough to run it smoothly, but it's not doing any of the things that it usually does when I'm running a game that it can't handle. CPU usage is like 40% with plenty to spare. It's not overheating or anything which is what usually happens when I'm running something graphically intensive. The hard drive isn't at critical. It's got 6 GB of ram, which seems like it should be enough. Not much running in the background.
But I have been messing with the settings like crazy and nothing really makes that much of a difference. The game runs from 50-75% of the normal speed unless there are few to no character models on the screen. That's after tweaking every single setting in PCSX2 that I could find so far (everything has an effect but it's been minor). And that's ok if that's the best my PC can muster, but it just doesn't seem to be actually using everything it can. It feels like I'm just one stupid setting away from being able to run this game nearly perfectly.
The TL;DR here is, if it's not using up my CPU power and it's not burning up my graphics card, what's holding it back?