SoTC good FPS, but laggy still?

[rama]

Essentially the games starts skipping frames itself when it detects the hardware (the virtual PS2) can't keep up.
The more hacks you activate (especially VU cycle steal hack), the more often it'll do that.
Currently there is no machine available that can emulate this game full speed with no hacks,
so you'll have to find some okay speedhacks settings and live with the game's own slowdowns.

[farkiller]

Essentially the games starts skipping frames itself when it detects the hardware (the virtual PS2) can't keep up.
The more hacks you activate (especially VU cycle steal hack), the more often it'll do that.
Currently there is no machine available that can emulate this game full speed with no hacks,
so you'll have to find some okay speedhacks settings and live with the game's own slowdowns.

Seems perfect now, thanks to shadow lady. Just like PS2 without the ugly SD graphics, which is what I wanted, thanks guys.

[nosisab Ken Keleh]

People with powerful machines tend to become the easier prey to all kind of issues, that's mainly because they tend to look the emulator as a common PC application and does not imagine the complex equilibrium about the several blocks (which in the real machine are actually hardware pieces the emulator need to push on a poor PC CPU).

So they go wild with highest possible resolutions (oh, but my machine can play Crysis at ultra in my uber graphic card...)... soon they realize they will have to go yet wilder on speed hacks... The CPU still has to perform the work of many.

Trying with all speed hacks off and trying to achieve the desired performance dealing with Graphics internal resolution is the way to go...

once that satisfactory (or almost satisfactory) performance is achieved... so, tenderly, lovingly, begin to tweak on some less intrusive hacks and up, until the better compromise between graphical quality and enjoying gameplay is reached.

Of course the better the machine the better the experience, the abuse and misbeliefs are the real problem. Remember, The EE, VUs and etc and the own GS plugin still rely on the CPU to do it's part.

[CKL]

The problem is actually farkiller having too many BIOS'.

[farkiller]

The problem is actually farkiller having too many BIOS'.

Come on, really? Why do you have to start.