Castlevania curse of darkness slowdowns
#1
I've had slowdowns on my last laptop which was a dual-core 2.8ghz with geforce 9800m gts with this game. But now that I bought an Alienware 14 laptop brand new I can run games very well and I thought this game would run better. Heres my specs.

CPU -- i7 4700mq
GPU -- GT 750M 1GB DDR5
RAM -- 8GB

These specs are very good and the cpu can be overclocked if the program only using on to three cores, as far as 3.37ghz I've seen.

Castlevania runs at a constant speed of 60 fps, but in certain areas I can tell that even though it show 60 fps it has slowdowns. Like minor frameskips that can be noticable. I've tried working with different settings but nothing seems to take those slowdowns away. This is annoying because it runs at full speed and only has slowdowns briefly during running sideways or fighting, or going into different areas. Other games like GTA SA and Black run fine and alot more actions happen in those games. So I'm writing this so that people will know about the issues and maybe find out how to optimize the game. Or maybe give me some advise.

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#2
can you please post the emulog.txt ?
CPU : AMD Ryzen 7 3800X
Mobo : Asus PRIME B450-PLUS
GPU : NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
RAM : 16 Go
#3
(11-22-2013, 09:16 AM)jesalvein Wrote: can you please post the emulog.txt ?

Okay this might be abit long but here it is.

PCSX2 1.0.0.r5350 - compiled on Aug 1 2012
Savestate version: 0x9a080000

Host Machine Init:
Operating System = Microsoft (build 9200), 64-bit
Physical RAM = 7909 MB
CPU name = Intel® Core™ i7-4700MQ CPU @ 2.40GHz
Vendor/Model = GenuineIntel (stepping 03)
CPU speed = 2.393 ghz (8 logical threads)
x86PType = Standard OEM
x86Flags = bfebfbff 7fdafbbf
x86EFlags = 2c100000

x86 Features Detected:
MMX.. SSE.. SSE2.. SSE3.. SSSE3.. SSE4.1.. SSE4.2.. AVX.. FMA

Reserving memory for recompilers...

Loading plugins...
Binding GS: C:\Program Files (x86)\PCSX2 1.0.0\Plugins\gsdx32-sse4-r5350.dll
Windows 6.2.9200
(GameDB) 9640 games on record (loaded in 128ms)
Intel® HD Graphics 4600 (9.18.13.3165)
Binding PAD: C:\Program Files (x86)\PCSX2 1.0.0\Plugins\lilypad-r5350.dll
Binding SPU2: C:\Program Files (x86)\PCSX2 1.0.0\Plugins\spu2-x-r5350.dll
Binding CDVD: C:\Program Files (x86)\PCSX2 1.0.0\Plugins\cdvdGigaherz.dll
Binding USB: C:\Program Files (x86)\PCSX2 1.0.0\Plugins\USBnull.dll
Binding FW: C:\Program Files (x86)\PCSX2 1.0.0\Plugins\FWnull.dll
Binding DEV9: C:\Program Files (x86)\PCSX2 1.0.0\Plugins\DEV9null.dll
Plugins loaded successfully.

HLE Notice: ELF does not have a path.


Initializing plugins...
Init GS
Windows 6.2.9200
NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M (9.18.13.3165)
Init PAD
Init SPU2
Init CDVD
Init USB
Init FW
Init DEV9
Plugins initialized successfully.

Opening plugins...
Opening GS
Opening PAD
Opening SPU2
Opening CDVD
isoFile open ok: C:\Users\GameMachine\Documents\FrostWire\Torrent Data
\Castelvania Curse of Darkness (NTSC) PS2\Castelvania Curse of Darkness (NTSC)
PS2\Castlevania - Curse of Darkness (NTSC) PS2.ISO
Image type = CD
Fileparts = 1
* CDVD Disk Open: DVD, Single layer or unknown:
* * Track 1: Data (Mode 1) (1709664 sectors)
Opening USB
Opening FW
Opening DEV9
McdSlot 0: C:\Users\GameMachine\Documents\PCSX2\memcards\Mcd001.ps2
McdSlot 1: C:\Users\GameMachine\Documents\PCSX2\memcards\Mcd002.ps2
Plugins opened successfully.
EE/iR5900-32 Recompiler Reset
Bios Found: Japan v01.00(17/01/2000) Console
BIOS rom1 module not found, skipping...
BIOS rom2 module not found, skipping...
BIOS erom module not found, skipping...
(UpdateVSyncRate) Mode Changed to NTSC.
(UpdateVSyncRate) FPS Limit Changed : 59.94 fps
(SYSTEM.CNF) Detected PS2 Disc = cdrom0:\SLUS_211.68;1
(SYSTEM.CNF) Software version = 1.01
(SYSTEM.CNF) Disc region type = NTSC
ELF (cdrom0:\SLUS_211.68;1) Game CRC = 0x3A446111, EntryPoint = 0x00400008
(SYSTEM.CNF) Detected PS2 Disc = cdrom0:\SLUS_211.68;1
(SYSTEM.CNF) Software version = 1.01
(SYSTEM.CNF) Disc region type = NTSC
(GameDB) Changing VU0/VU1 clamp mode [mode=0]
EE/iR5900-32 Recompiler Reset

The game is playable but these slowdowns make it annoying, it seems random.
#4
Quote:isoFile open ok: C:\Users\GameMachine\Documents\FrostWire\Torrent Data
\Castelvania Curse of Darkness (NTSC) PS2\Castelvania Curse of Darkness (NTSC)
PS2\Castlevania - Curse of Darkness (NTSC) PS2.ISO

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