03-01-2009, 12:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-01-2009, 01:00 PM by NeoCloudstrife.)
(03-01-2009, 11:36 AM)Elanzer Wrote:Quote:I use about 4 different anti-vius softwares, so this can't be the case
That can be very much the case if they're all active runtime scanners.
Simple solution is to just check your CPU usage while playing PCSX2, and also because this is a laptop it probably doesn't deal with constant 100% CPU/GPU load temperatures properly (most on the market don't), make sure you're not doing anything dumb like sitting your laptop on a blanket, pillow or anything that could insulate it. If your laptop gets too hot it will throttle itself down to much lower clock speeds.
By using them, i dont mean actively use them (i.e only one is running at any time), i should have made that clearer, sorry... Also, i have even had to lower the the security settings and stop scheduled scans to achieve faster performance.
I've tried using PCSX2 at a large range of temperatures, from stone cold, to Boiling hot, and it makes little to no difference
The only competitors for CPU which i can see are compulsory Windows processes (i.e Rundll32.exe and svchost.exe) and also "AudioDG", which i believe is also a windows process in vista. although i never used to notice it before, and it takes up 0-20%CPU (Over 15% most of the time)... perhaps as i thought before, I've installed a program which makes AudioDG do this...
Although, I must reiterate that my laptop Used to run the emulator at near perfect speeds.
Thanks for the help, i really appreciate it guys! And keep it coming too! I really hope i can achieve the kind of speeds i used to achieve!