FPS troubles

[russell25u]

I have searched through quite a few threads lookings for answers on why my fps is sickly 10-12 just playing the intro to a game and didnt find an answer, that made any difference anyway.

CPU: AMD Turion X2 Dual-Core 2.1GHz
Ram: 3GB
GPU: ATI Radeon 3100 -256MB Displayed - 1.2GB Shared

I realize I don't have a beast of a machine here but its a laptop and I am forced to settle with it instead of my desktop (joined the Army) for now.

All I am trying to do so far is play Gladius, and theres no way this laptop cant out do a PS2.

Any help?

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[Air]

All I am trying to do so far is play Gladius, and theres no way this laptop cant out do a PS2.

Sure, your laptop can probably outdo a PS2, though not by as much as you probably think. And that's moot. What it can't do is emulate one.

Quick explanation: Emulation requires creating and managing what we fancy pants programmers call a Virtual Machine. This particular virtual machine (a PS2) is a combination of four (4!!) MIPS cpus, we have to translate and execute each MIPS instruction for each of these CPUs using a series of Intel cpu instructions, and additionally all memory references must be translated from PS2 mappings to PC mappings. For reference: The max potential throughput of the PS2's four parallel cpus is ~ 1.2 billion instructions per second.

Furthermore we have to record and maintain the entire machine state as each instruction is executed: This includes over 100 CPU registers, DMA controllers, and a Graphics Synthesizer (which is entirely unlike any modern video card and so it requires a great deal of conversion logic to render PS2 output).

Yes, someday PCSX2 will be faster than it is now. But it will prolly still suck on your laptop. Sorry.

[Shadow Lady]

Besides of what Air just explained you have to consider the recommended specs for PCSX2 are way higher than you have, you might have to use software renderer on GSdx I think but usually this "stuck" low fps might be caused by some software in your computer but it's also possible the game just wont run any higher.

[rama]

Enable all speedhacks, brought my 2005 laptop to 30fps in another 3d game.
But still, i also doubt you'll get more than 30-40fps on your laptop in that game.