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09-03-2011, 05:44 AM
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(09-03-2011, 05:39 AM)Fezzer Wrote: Look you can easily play FFX-2 with that. With 1.8 Ghz duo I was playing full fps the whole way at 1440x900 and only areas like the calm lands would lag A LITTLE with 1920x1080. Believe me FFX-2 is definitely doable with that, just not the FMVs(Just see them as go make a cup of tea moments).
Oh and i remember in benchmarks you need to use SW mode and no Speed hacks you will probably get full speed with FMVs too
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native is fine no graphical glitches there
and don't know about magic but it do increases speed
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Just thought I'd report in to let you guys know how its going.
FFX-2 plays perfect; almost just like FFX.
I didn't notice but it seems I have been playing all my games on native x2 the whole time while still gettings 60fps.
DQ8 is another story though. Even on native it only runs at 45-50fps and it looks horrible. Doing a x2 makes it run at about 35fps, and with my screen resolution (1920x1080), it plays around 20fps. I suppose thats because its such a GPU heavy game and my 512mb Radeon HD 4650 can't handle it.
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09-04-2011, 04:43 PM
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I was considering upgrading my cpu to a quad core.
But now I wonder whether upgrading my cpu or gpu would have a bigger impact on performance with pcsx2 as well as on my computer as a whole.
I don't do much gaming on PC though, which lead me to believe that a better cpu would be more helpful.
I'm not too well informed about computers, but if I'm hardly gaming, wouldn't my gpu be idle most of the time?
So if I get a better gpu, I feel like it might just be sitting there and going to waste a lot of the time (and drain more power than my old gpu?)
On the other hand, I feel like the cpu would be put to work more often.
I'll relist my specs here again for convenience if anybody wants to drop their two cents about whether I should upgrade cpu or gpu:
Intel Core 2 Duo 6420 2.13GHz
ATI Radeon HD 4650 512MB GDDR3
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But which would impact the performance of my system more?
I'm not too keen to upgrade both because I probably won't need all the improved speeds besides from when I use pcsx2.