Fixing slowdown in Xenosaga Ep 1?

[Xirix]

I'm on the latest nightly, my PC isn't great, but I've been able to play the game mostly flawlessly, with just the odd minor slowdown on specific areas/cutscenes, which I'll assume is on the emulator's side and not mine, but I've just gotten to Jr.'s segment, and battles slow down quite a bit with 3 A.G.W.S on screen, for anyone familiar, I don't suppose there's any settings I could play around with that might alleviate this?

[jesalvein]

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• Your hardware specs - CPU, Graphics Card, Memory, Operating System.
  
• The version of PCSX2 you are using.
  
• Any non default settings you are using, such as speed hacks or presets.
  
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Thank You.

[Xirix]

Sorry, my bad, here's my stats.

Intel Core i5 750 (2.67ghz), GTX 950, 12 gigs of ram, Windows 10 Pro 22H2
PCSX2 Nightly v1.7.5449

Only non-default setting I changed was to put the blur setting on, I'm running default otherwise, I don't know how to add a screenshot here, it said I can't post URLs, so here's an imgur link without the url : RxlNks5
I'm playing Xenosaga Ep 1 (specifically the undub version), in ISO format.

I tried changing to software renderer and it sort-of improved performance a bit on the laggy bits by about 10-15%