Dragon Quest VIII Frame-rate drops

[MarcusTheMadness]

So I've been playing around with the Video Plugin settings on PCSX2 1.4.0 and I've been working around the settings, and ultimately I ended up with this:
 
Now, it runs fine at the start up and everything, but then everything starts to slow down at ~64% speed, with the EE being used at around ~28-34% and GS at around ~80-90%.

I'm using a laptop with:

• Windows 10
  
• 16GB RAM
  
• Intel i7-7500U @ 2.70GHz
  
• NVIDIA GeForce 940MX 3GB
  

The game plays perfectly fine at its original settings, but I prefer to play them at a prettier settings. If the laptop can't play it like that, so be it. At least you guys helped me out.

[jesalvein]

DQ8 is quite GPU taxing, and your GPU won't handle it with 3x internal res and 2x anisotropic filtering.
Try lowering those settings 1 by 1

[MarcusTheMadness]

Alright, seems that lowering the internal resolution down to 2x while maintaining the anisotropic filtering bumps my speed to around ~90% to full speed. I'll have to play a while longer to see if there's any other places where it drops, but thanks a lot!

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Oh, and one more thing, which might sound a bit off-topic, but when there's a "cutscene", it switches the original resolution of the game, but then suddenly shifts to the intended resolution that I set up. Don't know if that's something the game does or a glitch.

[Topken]

FMVs are NOT upscalled since they are pre rendered scenes and thus stuck at their native resolution.

[refraction]

videos can't be upscaled, but they made the videos using the ingame engine, so it's not as fluid as if you have it in native resolution