Final fantasy ffx-2 video problem

[wekselis]

the game it self runs wery nice but video, intro for example is wery slow. with ffx i had zero problems, thats how it looks like then video is playing




this is some PC parameters:

Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_gdr.100618-1621)
System Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model: P35-DS3
BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
Processor: Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.4GHz
Memory: 4096MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 4094MB RAM
Page File: 1199MB used, 6987MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
DxDiag Version: 6.01.7600.16385 32bit Unicode

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Display Devices
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Card name: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
Chip type: ATI display adapter (0x9440)
DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_9440&SUBSYS_22671787&REV_00
Display Memory: 2296 MB
Dedicated Memory: 504 MB
Shared Memory: 1791 MB
Current Mode: 1680 x 1050 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor
Monitor Model: SyncMaster
Monitor Id: SAM0304
Native Mode: 1680 x 1050(p) (59.883Hz)
Output Type: DVI

EMULATOR video plugin:
GSdx 3693 (MSVC 15.00, SSSE3) [gsdx-ssse3-r3978]
renderer dx10(hardware)

tryed others but this one is best of all i know.


SO PLEASE if anyone know how to speed up videos please shere with me, BTW speed hacks not helping. they just give false fps but video speed doesn't change, auodio becomes faster but wery glichy.
oh and i'm using newest PCSX2 0.9.7 beta (r3878).
please help i'm desperate

[Shadow Lady]

Get a faster CPU or watch the videos in youtube or somewhere else (it's like 11 in total FMVs).

The game's videos are so slow that there's a PCSX2 benchmark based on them:
http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-CPU-Bench...d-on-FFX-2

[jesalvein]

Known bug, not corrected yet.
you have to switch to sfotware mode to avoid glithces during fmvs, but won't be able to speed them up.
At least with that PC

That's not very serious, anyways. That game has something like 3-4 Fmvs

[Butz_san]

He or she needs a very powerfull CPU to emulate the videos at full speed, and overclocked until 4Ghz

[Finzy]

Question: Can the FFX video hack under "Game fixes" be used in FFX-2 as well? Using r4072, the videos don't seem to lag that bad for me (though I use speedhacks so I digress ), but the screen flickers constantly and looks pixelated whenever it's playing a video. I'd like them to be watchable even if they play at slow speed.

[jesalvein]

nope.
that hack is for FFX only.
The only way to watch FFX-2 FMVs without any glitch is using software mode

[wekselis]

you guys telling me to get faster cpu, look at the screenshot, cpu use is just 38%^^ i just need the way to make emulator use at least 76% of my cpu and i will get 50fps which is fine in pal game

[Shadow Lady]

you guys telling me to get faster cpu, look at the screenshot, cpu use is just 38%^^ i just need the way to make emulator use at least 76% of my cpu and i will get 50fps which is fine in pal game

Here's the thing, you have a quad core CPU and PCSX2 only uses 2 cores for that scene, that 38% usage represent using the first core fully and part of the second, which is what's slowing you down (using the first one fully). If you had a dual core it would probably show ~76% instead, and with a 4GHz+ dual core it would mean full speed probably, but with a slow quad core core that's what you get right there.

If you want to use the 100% of that quad core you'd have to use the software renderer and raise the SW threads to 3 then render a scene where it'd be slow, but then you wouldn't have the high resolution benefits and for the FMVs it doesn't matter, won't make a difference if you have a quad or not, what matters is the CPU clock speed.

[Yaubot]

nope.
that hack is for FFX only.
The only way to watch FFX-2 FMVs without any glitch is using software mode

NOTE: the fix recommended here also applys to the .hack series.

the 4 Originals worked fine but, the .hack GU games needed to run in software mode.