05-04-2016, 04:47 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-04-2016, 04:49 AM by Terminusvitae.)
Hello! Let me preface this thread by stating that I'm not overly concerned with how pretty the game is: I just want it to RUN with only -occasional- slowdown instead of the slowdown that's happening every thirty-or-so seconds.
I apologize for posting in someone else's thread earlier; many of the emulation forums I visit have a policy of maintaining only a single thread per game, and I just presumed it would be bad form if I posted yet another thread on this subject. But, after some welcome guidance, I've posted my own woes in this one, and said woes doubly frustrate me because I somehow managed to get the game to run spectacularly with an inferior graphics card to the one I have now. But, when the hard drive I had all my emulators and other junk saved on decided to give up the ghost, I lost whatever settings I had and I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the game to run well again. The GPU is the only hardware I've changed since I last tried to play DQ8.
My system specs are:
OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
CPU: AMD A10-5800K (4 cores at ~3.8Ghz each)
RAM: 8 GB DDR5 RAM
GPU: AMD R9 380
I've fiddled around will the graphics settings in PCSX2 1.4.0 to no avail. Here's a screenshot of what they are right now:
http://imgur.com/2sSm2s8
Here's a screenshot of what the top-of-the-window numbers look like when the action is grinding to a halt:
http://imgur.com/ItfCrdU
It's been happening frequently, but it only started recently. I expect occasional slowdown, but up until today, it would happen only very infrequently, and typically only for a few seconds during cutscenes. I've tried rebooting and fiddling with some of the settings, but I by no means know my way around PCSX2 the same way I do, say, NEStopia or ZSNES, so I was leery of trying to change too much because I'm not confident I could fix it if I broke it.
If I need to provide further information, I will do my best to come up with it. I greatly appreciate any help you can offer!
I apologize for posting in someone else's thread earlier; many of the emulation forums I visit have a policy of maintaining only a single thread per game, and I just presumed it would be bad form if I posted yet another thread on this subject. But, after some welcome guidance, I've posted my own woes in this one, and said woes doubly frustrate me because I somehow managed to get the game to run spectacularly with an inferior graphics card to the one I have now. But, when the hard drive I had all my emulators and other junk saved on decided to give up the ghost, I lost whatever settings I had and I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the game to run well again. The GPU is the only hardware I've changed since I last tried to play DQ8.
My system specs are:
OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
CPU: AMD A10-5800K (4 cores at ~3.8Ghz each)
RAM: 8 GB DDR5 RAM
GPU: AMD R9 380
I've fiddled around will the graphics settings in PCSX2 1.4.0 to no avail. Here's a screenshot of what they are right now:
http://imgur.com/2sSm2s8
Here's a screenshot of what the top-of-the-window numbers look like when the action is grinding to a halt:
http://imgur.com/ItfCrdU
It's been happening frequently, but it only started recently. I expect occasional slowdown, but up until today, it would happen only very infrequently, and typically only for a few seconds during cutscenes. I've tried rebooting and fiddling with some of the settings, but I by no means know my way around PCSX2 the same way I do, say, NEStopia or ZSNES, so I was leery of trying to change too much because I'm not confident I could fix it if I broke it.
If I need to provide further information, I will do my best to come up with it. I greatly appreciate any help you can offer!