Xenosaga Episode I cutscenes unbearably slow help

[Moonstorm]

Hey people! First off, sorry if this is in the wrong place.

So trying to play the Xenosaga (Episode I) for the first time, but I seem to be unable.
When ever I get to a cutscene the game just slows down to the point that a two minutes cutscene takes five minutes.
There's also a little slowdown in battles and just walking around (depending on what's around). And for some reason some times the audio doesn't sync with the video.
I tried changing settings and looking this up but it hasn't helped so far.
Any suggestions?

Oh and if it helps I'm using PCSX2 1.0.0 on Windows 8.
I have:
AMD Quad-Core A8-5500
8GB DDR3 System memory
AMD Radeon HD 7560D Graphics

Thanks in advanced.

[jesalvein]

1.0.0 is old and unsupported.
Please update

[ssakash]

the latest stable builds are available here.

[Moonstorm]

1.0.0 is old and unsupported.
Please update

Gotcha. Will update and see how it works!

the latest stable builds are available here.

Thank you

[Moonstorm]

So downloaded that and tried the game...and it's just as bad.
any help?

[ssakash]

what are the EE and GS values during slowdown ? and also, post the emulog.

[Moonstorm]

what are the EE and GS values during slowdown ? and also, post the emulog.

EE = about 80
GS = about 60
Does change a lot though.

emulog? What's that? Is it the thing that opens with PCSX2, would that even help?

[ssakash]

emulog is located at the logs folder of pcsx2 directory. anyway, try using software mode and set extra rendering threads to 3 and check if, there's any speed up. if that doesn't help, probably your hardware is limiting you.

[Moonstorm]

Nope, didn't work.
I attached the log.

I've played other PS2games just fine...

Thanks for trying so far btw, anything is better than nothing.

[jesalvein]

You'll probably have to keep playing it on your ps2.
That cpu won't cut it for a demanding game like this one.