09-02-2012, 12:18 AM
I did a LOT of trial and error with PCSX2 1.0.0 settings(with the default plugins). I have several games I tested:
Metal gear Sons of the Patriots
Metal gear SnakeEater
Shrek(it's a game I play with my son, hey!)
Gran Turismo 4
Fatal Frame 1
My specs are:
A sucky Core2Duo E7400
A kickass Nvidia 560 Ti
8gb RAM(1066 Mhz Dual Channel)
I almost gave up with the speed I get with this emulator. Compared to the wii emulator(my son broke our wii console), performance of PCSX2 was TERRIBLY SLOW regardless of game I tried.
Anyway, to cut the long story short, I read a LOT of articles and guides and such and FINALLY... FINALLY I GOT IT WORKING AT 100% on ALL of my games except Metal Gear 2.
Here are my settings:
GSDX 5334 SSE41(included)
- D3D11 Hardware
- Interlacing(Auto) - weird that performance takes a hit with any other setting
- Scaling(2x native) - this is my BIGGEST discovery. Using native resolution(which I always stuck to) was really SLOW. But when I finally tried upping the resolution, I was mindblown. Suddenly EVERYTHING was faster. I could only assume that with native setting, it did not use the GPU at all, but once I set it to anything else(even 6x), performance boosted to what it SHOULD be.
- Hardware mode settings
- Everything checked except Logarithmic Z(this took a lot of trial and error and I found this is the optimal setting, for those games I tried anyways)
- Configure HW Hacks so that 1. Skipdraw is 2 and Aggressive CRC is checked. everything else is unticked.(trial and error as well)
- Emulation Settings(Preset to 5)
Note that the LAST thing I tried was the native resolution change. Everything else, I got a gain of approximately 10fps. But the game changer was really the native resolution.
Please let me know if I'm right and if this helps you out. Remember though that my computer specs include a sucky CPU and a great GPU. Even then, if you have an external GPU and if my theory is correct, you should get a big boost on performance.
Metal gear Sons of the Patriots
Metal gear SnakeEater
Shrek(it's a game I play with my son, hey!)
Gran Turismo 4
Fatal Frame 1
My specs are:
A sucky Core2Duo E7400
A kickass Nvidia 560 Ti
8gb RAM(1066 Mhz Dual Channel)
I almost gave up with the speed I get with this emulator. Compared to the wii emulator(my son broke our wii console), performance of PCSX2 was TERRIBLY SLOW regardless of game I tried.
Anyway, to cut the long story short, I read a LOT of articles and guides and such and FINALLY... FINALLY I GOT IT WORKING AT 100% on ALL of my games except Metal Gear 2.
Here are my settings:
GSDX 5334 SSE41(included)
- D3D11 Hardware
- Interlacing(Auto) - weird that performance takes a hit with any other setting
- Scaling(2x native) - this is my BIGGEST discovery. Using native resolution(which I always stuck to) was really SLOW. But when I finally tried upping the resolution, I was mindblown. Suddenly EVERYTHING was faster. I could only assume that with native setting, it did not use the GPU at all, but once I set it to anything else(even 6x), performance boosted to what it SHOULD be.
- Hardware mode settings
- Everything checked except Logarithmic Z(this took a lot of trial and error and I found this is the optimal setting, for those games I tried anyways)
- Configure HW Hacks so that 1. Skipdraw is 2 and Aggressive CRC is checked. everything else is unticked.(trial and error as well)
- Emulation Settings(Preset to 5)
Note that the LAST thing I tried was the native resolution change. Everything else, I got a gain of approximately 10fps. But the game changer was really the native resolution.
Please let me know if I'm right and if this helps you out. Remember though that my computer specs include a sucky CPU and a great GPU. Even then, if you have an external GPU and if my theory is correct, you should get a big boost on performance.