Persona 4 on PCSX2 1.0.0

[StriderZero]

I just got ver. 1.0.0 and I'm playing Persona 4 on it right now. Cutscenes, Dialogue, and walking around runs at 60 fps, but whenever I get into a random battle, the fps drops to about 30-40. I'm using the default settings. Is there any way to fix it?

AMD Phenom II X4 830 Quad-Core
Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64-bit
ATI Radeon HD 4200

[PyroBunta]

What are your pcsx2 settings?

Note:

- Don't go over x3 upscaling
- Enable the MTVU speedhack
- Disable any other speedhacks or HW hacks

[StriderZero]

I really haven't messed too much with any of the settings, I just downloaded PCSX2 1.0.0 and rushed through the setup to play Persona 4. I will try out your speedhack settings.

EDIT: It didn't work.

[jesalvein]

Keep gsdx internal res to native, since that gpu is really weak.
Software mode may help too as long as you set 2 extra rendering threads & your cpu speed isnt below 3.0 ghz

[StriderZero]

That helped a little bit, though random battles are still not running at full speed.

[jesalvein]

What is your cou clockspeed ?

[PyroBunta]

Seems like 2.80 GHz after looking it up. Are you using a laptop?

Try setting it to "High Performance"

[naoan]

Those hardwares mean it's a dekstop PC. Use recommended speedhack and MTVU, no reason not to, try to set ee cycle hack to 2 and vu cycle hack to 1.

Your GPU is your main bottleneck.

[J-RPGOD]

Thats odd, it was always the opposite for me. My best settings was to set the EE to max or close to it and the slider to the right to 0 or none. But its been awhile since i touched any emulator.

[Ambient_Malice]

Remember that cycle stealing makes the battles slow.