(08-04-2014, 08:07 PM)Frozen_Raven Wrote: If the PCSX2 version the same is as the Windows version I have one tip for the Demi/Fire scenes in the game.
In GSDX window tick (Enable HW Hacks) and then select configure.
Then use Skipdraw = 1
and enable Aggressive-CRC
This solved all my slowdowns in FFX and I am surprised that no one else ever suggests this...
The rest you should leave it on default, no speedhacks or whatever (It never helped me)
Skipdraw and Aggressive-CRC doesn't break any of the games that I play till now (I keep it allways on)
I hope this helps.
Thanks for this! I've yet to run into demi again but fire is perfect. I just played for 30mins with the only slowdown being at the FMV.
Also thanks willkuer for the tip about async audio, this has given me a huge improvement to the quality of audio especially between loading screens and in dialogue where it would stutter at the start of a conversation.
So assuming demi goes well I've only got two issues left.
FMV's run slow, the FMV when you meet Yuna was 8fps below normal, and the FMV after that was only 3fps... strange. EE is at 100% which indicates the CPU.
There was a highly detailed background later on where I got a 3fps drop and I noticed VU was 100%.
I thought I would try the clamping idea and turned VU Clamping to none which appears to massively improve performance and returned it to the regular fps.
My only worry is any particular downsides, I understand having this option set can cause issues, would this just be crashing? I'm just worried that I could corrupt my save or something down the track will be forever broken where changing clamping back to normal won't fix it anymore?
Also I checked clamping for EE and it didn't appear to improve FMV's, looks like I'm stuck with that.. but its not a big deal.
(08-05-2014, 02:34 AM)ZackFair Wrote: I really don't get HOW does he play it at 50 fps and get slowdowns on FMV's and not during normal gameplay,if on a slow Athlon like mine
I have no idea since my game is basically perfect except for FMV's now.
My theory is the PCSX2 uses 3 cores... FMV's might only be able to process on one core?
Also I've tried all sorts of cycle stealing.. none seem to give me a definite improvement, EE Cycle Stealing doesn't help FMV's and VU cycle stealing gives me a weird kind of frame loss/jitter.