FFXII & Xenosaga

[janni01]

I've just installed the latest beta version (1888) of pcsx2 and just thought I's test it out with FFXII and Xenosaga III and there were 2 problems I encountered - In FFXII the game always gets into "slow-mode" whenever there's alot of stuff happening (I realize this is because of a heavy load-out
on the GPU or CPU so I am merely wondering if there's something that can be done in the setup menu to fix this, I tried to switch the settings in the graphic and music settings but not much happened).

- In Xenosaga III there seems to be graphical errors with the shadows in-game and there's just cubes allaround that goes from blacker to whiter.
Is this just how it is or is it fixable?

My rig is :

AMD Athlon 64 XP Dual Core 6000+ - 3.0GHz
2x Geforce 260 on SLI
4GB ram
Creative X-Fi Titanium
Windows 7 Ultra 64-bit

Please bear with me since it's my first post here

[boogerthe2nd]

For FFXII, it's probably your CPU that's slowing you down. It is based on an old architecture, and is quite a bit slower clock for clock than Core 2 Duo and Phenom IIs clock for clock.

You could try speed hacks, or overclock your CPU.

And there's no 'Windows 7 Ultra' version... only Professional or Ultimate

[ecchiless]

For FFXII, it's probably your CPU that's slowing you down. It is based on an old architecture, and is quite a bit slower clock for clock than Core 2 Duo and Phenom IIs clock for clock.

You could try speed hacks, or overclock your CPU.

And there's no 'Windows 7 Ultra' version... only Professional or Ultimate

mmm i dont think so, a lot of ppl with amd 5000, can play ffxii fine, with a few slow downs, maybe something with the plugins confi... use the search function for post with info about ffxii about xenosaga i read that, thats games are hard to emulate.

o/

[boogerthe2nd]

Maybe try disabling SLI and see if that helps. You won't lose any performance since PCSX2 doesn't take advantage of SLI anyway.

[dotHack]

Post some more info about your configuration (plugin), on the speedhacks configuration section, enable all three from the middle row, they help a lot in this game.

[Koji]

ecchiless: I can play FFXII on my older 5200 @ 2.8ghz... but with 2 caveats... One is that I use a lot of speed hacks, and two, when playing the game I tilt the camera so that it faces down. This means less things on the screen, and thus fewer slowdowns. I don't have to worry about either when playing with my current system.

[nelsonz]

I agree, my either 2.5 Quad core have to conduct plenty of speed hack tweak and set Gdsx plugin in-res to lower. In game also need to tilt the camera face down (as KOJI stated) to achieve full speed.

[janni01]

thanks for all the response people.

So basically I should change my CPU to something better and play around with the speedhacks config (which I haven't yet).

To tilt the camera down to increase performance seems like a no-go for me since it's really something of a game breaker (I mean sure its a PS2 title but it's still a beautiful game) + it's generally annoying.