07-20-2016, 12:28 PM
First of all, I want to thank the devs of PCSX2 for their incredible work. I have been using Emulators for close to two decades now and I just love the work you people are putting into this great piece of software.
Now I've been reading up on PCSX2 for the past few days, as well as trying out different games from my PS2 library. And so far I have had mixed results with the performance of some of the games. Now I understand that my FX-8350 barely reaches the recommended STR I've read about, so I just want to make sure that I use the best settings to archive the maximum performance possible.
GS Settings
Since I have an 8 core CPU I am not quite sure if it would be better for me to use software mode with 7 additional rendering threads, or if there is little point in it and I should rather be using hardware mode with my GTX 960. It would be nice if someone could tell my what the best solution is, if there is such a thing at all.
Speedhacks
For now I've kept the settings of PCSX2 on preset 2, which activates all Speedhacks except for "Enable fast CDVD" and "MTVU". Based on the fact that I have an 8 core CPU should I use the MTVU setting in general, except for games where it is known to cause trouble? Or is the speedboost not worth the potential compatibility problems?
EE / GS / VU Percentage in main window
I am not quite sure how much information I can gather from these three percentage infos I can see in the title bar of the game window. As far as I can tell I've read somewhere that the EE percentage can show me whether or not my CPU is the bottleneck for a certain situation, whereas the GS percentage will tell me if it's my GPU (when used with HW). Did I get that right? And what about the VU percentage?
As to the games I've tried so far, these are my current results:
Thank you all for you help and have a nice day.
Now I've been reading up on PCSX2 for the past few days, as well as trying out different games from my PS2 library. And so far I have had mixed results with the performance of some of the games. Now I understand that my FX-8350 barely reaches the recommended STR I've read about, so I just want to make sure that I use the best settings to archive the maximum performance possible.
GS Settings
Since I have an 8 core CPU I am not quite sure if it would be better for me to use software mode with 7 additional rendering threads, or if there is little point in it and I should rather be using hardware mode with my GTX 960. It would be nice if someone could tell my what the best solution is, if there is such a thing at all.
Speedhacks
For now I've kept the settings of PCSX2 on preset 2, which activates all Speedhacks except for "Enable fast CDVD" and "MTVU". Based on the fact that I have an 8 core CPU should I use the MTVU setting in general, except for games where it is known to cause trouble? Or is the speedboost not worth the potential compatibility problems?
EE / GS / VU Percentage in main window
I am not quite sure how much information I can gather from these three percentage infos I can see in the title bar of the game window. As far as I can tell I've read somewhere that the EE percentage can show me whether or not my CPU is the bottleneck for a certain situation, whereas the GS percentage will tell me if it's my GPU (when used with HW). Did I get that right? And what about the VU percentage?
As to the games I've tried so far, these are my current results:
- Tales of the Abyss seems to run quite well at full speed, though when I am on the world map and I spin the camera around it seems to stutter a little, even though the speed doesn't change. I am not yet sure if that's the way it's always been and I am just rembering it wrong.
- Final Fantasy XII runs perfectly fine at full speed with not a single hiccup so far, but I am sure I read somewhere that it is one of the least demanding games, so that's why I guess.
- Suikoden V doesn't have any hiccups either and runs perfectly fine so far.
- God of War is the first game that ran horrible with SW and kept close to full speed with HW, though there were quite a few spots in the beginning of the game where it slowed down to around 75% speed. I am not sure if there is anything I can do to make it run at full speed with my current spec, but maybe you guys and gals know something I can do.
Thank you all for you help and have a nice day.