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So, I'm trying to play Suikoden 3, and I'm having frame rate troubles. Originally, it was running about 20-30 FPS. After activating x3 cycle rate and checking Disable Effects Processing under SPU2-X, my FPS seemed to have gone up to sit at a comfortable ~60 FPS. Which was fine, despite the graphical choppiness of the game.
But about 10 minutes in, I'm noticing that my FPS seems to like to fluctuate wildly between 35-60 FPS, which is increasingly frustrating and irritating.
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I'm using PCSX2 0.9.6, with no extra plugins. Is there something I can do to fix this FPS problem?
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...it seems that game is CPU demanding, so your 2.8GHz is maybe little to slow to keep game on 60fps...
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Show us your settings so we can try to help, however take in count sometimes games will just behave like that specially when using speedhacks.
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i took a stab at the beta and played around with it a bit. I've come to the conclusion that I'm just limited by my CPU. I noticed that spots in the game with less going on, graphically, sat comfortably around 60 FPS. But as soon as I started running in front of more graphically intense backgrounds, my FPS would drop into the 40-50 range. This is with every speed hack on the program turned on. Without any speed hacks on, I'm peaking at about 45 FPS.
Kinda sucks, really. I could overclock my CPU to try to eek out some more frames, but I don't have the money to replace a processor if I end up blowing it up.
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Yep, that game is one of the slowest currently. It probably does a weird idle loop thats very hard on your cpu.
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I managed to play through Suikoden 3 earlier this summer on my 2 ghz core 2 duo with nothing more than a minor slowdown or graphical glitch here and there. There is one point in the game where I had to play without VU cycle stealing as it caused the game to hang in a spot. I think it is probably the easiest of the 3 numbered Suikoden games to run.
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Wrong, at least part 5 runs twice as fast.
VU cycle steal causes suikoden 3 to slow down, even at the lowest setting.
(Having a hack cause slowdowns goes way too far, as you've noticed with that hang)
