Wild Arms Problem

[lenoso1992]

Hello, I've been using pcsx2 time to play several rpg smoothly. But I am not able to configure it to play Wild Arms 3 or Wild Arms 5. The WA3 goes very slow in both hardware and software mode. And the WA5 goes to 60 fps but it looks blurry. If I disable Native resolution looks better but slows down.
Some of my laptop specs:

CPU: Intel ® Core ™ i7 2670QM Processor
RAM: 4GB
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX 1GB

What settings should I put?
Sorry for my Inglés, I'm Spanish. Thanks.

[jesalvein]

wild arms game may be pretty demanding, and both your CPU & GPU are quite weak.
you'll have to keep native resolution, use all recommended speedhacks, +ee cycle rate to 1 or 2, maybe vu cycle stealing to 1 or 2 too.

But don't expect miracles.

[lenoso1992]

Thanks for responding. He has forgotten me say that I am using:
pcsx2 1.2.1 r5875
This is the configuration I use:

I tried to increase + ee cycle rate to 1 and 2 and to increase vu cycle stealing to 1 and 2 but the speed is very unstable. I tried to Wild Arms 5. Can you think of anything else, please?

[jesalvein]

Keep your laptop plugged, don't run it on batteries. set windows power plan to performance mode.

...Or simply keep playing it on your PS2 until you can afford better.

[lenoso1992]

Ok, thanks. One last question, if pcsx2 run in Windows XP instead of Windows 7 is more performance notary?

[willkuer]

what is your cpu usage when you do nothing? Just look into the taskmanager in the performance tab and wait several seconds.

[lenoso1992]

[willkuer]

0%? Well I would say you will have zero performance win as well. Additionally you loose DirectX11. I would recommend to keep your system.
Please also keep in mind that WinXP is not longer supported by microsoft. If you don't know what you are doing I would not use it anymore.

(BTW: pcsx2 is normally not very RAM hungry. WinXP might use less RAM but since you are not limited...)

[lenoso1992]

Thanks for everything. You can close the post.