08-09-2021, 09:21 PM
Hi there,
I have a dual boot set-up with PCSX2 installed on both Linux Mint 20.2 and Windows 10 21H2 operating systems. I was expecting the app to run better under Linux but that hasn't been the case. So far I am talking about PCSX2 running straight out of the box with no changes to settings.
Firstly, let's get this out of the way:
HP Laptop/Notebook - 15da0xxx
Intel® Pentium® Silver N5000 (1.1 GHz base frequency, up to 2.7 GHz burst frequency, 4 MB cache, 4 cores)
4 GB DDR4-2400 SDRAM (1 x 4 GB)
Intel® UHD Graphics 605
I know the above specs are not good enough for the app, but actually games from the early period 2000-2004 are often a lot less demanding than those released later in the console's lifespan (ie.2008) so I don't see why some less demanding ones should be discounted. Rather than going for as low spec as possible though, I do want to try whatever I can achieve.
Thing is, if I had just run the app on Linux I might have given up on PCSX2 very quickly, but the machine actually performs rather well under Windows! So I wonder if there are things I can do with settings to improve performance on Linux, given that it is exactly the same hardware.
I originally tried Romancing SaGa on Linux and got speeds of around 80-90 but in certain areas it dropped to like 30-40, however after installing on Windows the same game runs at 90-100 or in certain areas about 70-80.
I expected it to be the other way around, for no reason other than Linux just does a lot of things surprisingly better than Windows but it obviously wasn't the case with PCSX2. I realise in reality Linux give varying results with different software and that it's not necessarily realistic to expect it to run PCSX2 faster.
Anyway, I decided to push it and experimented with Eternal Poison (2008) that is going to be one of the more demanding PS2 era games. This time on Linux it was now unsurprisingly unplayable at a speed of 40-50 or 20-30, but on Windows this lowly cheapo laptop was running it at 80-100 or 40-50 (the latter being SFX-heavy, cut scene animations that can be switched off).
Again, under Windows I was surprised to find it rather playable but Linux.. not so much.
So if there are any techies out there, I'd appreciate any feedback as to why Linux Mint would struggle so much compared to Windows that many describe as bloated, and if at all possible I would naively request any possible settings that could enable me to get playable performance under Linux, given that's my preferred operating system.
Cheers!
I have a dual boot set-up with PCSX2 installed on both Linux Mint 20.2 and Windows 10 21H2 operating systems. I was expecting the app to run better under Linux but that hasn't been the case. So far I am talking about PCSX2 running straight out of the box with no changes to settings.
Firstly, let's get this out of the way:
HP Laptop/Notebook - 15da0xxx
Intel® Pentium® Silver N5000 (1.1 GHz base frequency, up to 2.7 GHz burst frequency, 4 MB cache, 4 cores)
4 GB DDR4-2400 SDRAM (1 x 4 GB)
Intel® UHD Graphics 605
I know the above specs are not good enough for the app, but actually games from the early period 2000-2004 are often a lot less demanding than those released later in the console's lifespan (ie.2008) so I don't see why some less demanding ones should be discounted. Rather than going for as low spec as possible though, I do want to try whatever I can achieve.
Thing is, if I had just run the app on Linux I might have given up on PCSX2 very quickly, but the machine actually performs rather well under Windows! So I wonder if there are things I can do with settings to improve performance on Linux, given that it is exactly the same hardware.
I originally tried Romancing SaGa on Linux and got speeds of around 80-90 but in certain areas it dropped to like 30-40, however after installing on Windows the same game runs at 90-100 or in certain areas about 70-80.
I expected it to be the other way around, for no reason other than Linux just does a lot of things surprisingly better than Windows but it obviously wasn't the case with PCSX2. I realise in reality Linux give varying results with different software and that it's not necessarily realistic to expect it to run PCSX2 faster.
Anyway, I decided to push it and experimented with Eternal Poison (2008) that is going to be one of the more demanding PS2 era games. This time on Linux it was now unsurprisingly unplayable at a speed of 40-50 or 20-30, but on Windows this lowly cheapo laptop was running it at 80-100 or 40-50 (the latter being SFX-heavy, cut scene animations that can be switched off).
Again, under Windows I was surprised to find it rather playable but Linux.. not so much.
So if there are any techies out there, I'd appreciate any feedback as to why Linux Mint would struggle so much compared to Windows that many describe as bloated, and if at all possible I would naively request any possible settings that could enable me to get playable performance under Linux, given that's my preferred operating system.
Cheers!