Occasional Slowdown and crashing

[vanillathunder]

I've been running Kingdom Hearts on my Windows laptop and it usually runs fine, at 60fps, for awhile (about 30-45 minutes). After that point it will slow down a huge amount and run at about 30fps. These periods last for about 3 minutes until it goes back to normal for a little while.

The application also freezes randomly every so often and needs to be reset.

Are there are plug-ins/configurations that may help with this? I'm more concerned with the freezing than the slowdowns but I'm hoping both issues can be fixed.

I have a Studio 1747 with a quadcore i7 processor that clocks around 1.6 gHz without any encouragement (I've avoided any overclocking for added stability)

it has 8GB of DDR3 ram
a 120GB Sata III SSD
a 500GB 7200rpm 64mb cache HDD
a 1GB ATI Mobility Radeon 4650 video card.

I'm also running a ps3 controller to it via usb and using that as the input if that matters.

All plugins and settings are set to their default values

[Ice Queen Zero]

You could try to download latest PCSX2 SVN and enable MTVU speed hax along with recommended ones since you got a quad core processor...

http://pcsx2.net/download/development/svn.html

Also, try ticking "Native" in GSdx and see if it helps...

Don't forget to set your power plan to "High Performance"...

[ecchiless]

check ur temp when using pcsx2, http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php cause maybe thats ur problem.

[vanillathunder]

archer your recommendations seem to have worked as I have not had any speed issues. I'll post back if anything happens.

Thank you both!!!