Any ways to improve performance?

[Frakachino]

I just installed Pscx2 on my laptop and was trying to play midnight club 3. It crashed and there was a lot of slow down on sound and video but it was only at random times so i don't think just speeding the game up would work...

Are there anyways to improve performance while playing games?

Running Windows Vista 32 bit
Intel Core2 Duo CPU T7300 2.00GHz
2 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

I'm using the default everything pretty much. Would using different plug-ins improve anything? If so, which plug-ins and settings should I use?
Don't really care about the graphics so much as long as its playable.

[smartstrike]

*overall slowdown because you have a weak CPU and GPU laptop.
*send your emulog.txt after the crushes.

[Frakachino]

The program itself doesn't crash but the game freezes and its pretty impossible to play. Will changing the plug-ins do anything? And where can i find the emulog?

[Shadow Lady]

You can try with the latest SVN build that has some hackfixes for that game:
http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-SVN-daily...-by-Orphis

It probably won't freeze but as mentioned already you have a weak PC and you may not get enjoyably results unfortunately .