help, why is my game lagging even though i have high specs....

[Rezard]

I completely agree with you there. I've seen disabling HT improve FPS. That, and I think it may be the reason my i5-2500K out scores a i7-2600K on the benchmark for PCSX2. To think that one could spend an extra $100 for HT, only to benefit from turning it off...

[Shadow Lady]

HT is better for other tasks but for normal usage I'd turn it off anyway, really depends on what the CPU is used for.

[BadPuppy]

I seem to be having the same problem with Sung251. I wanted to add that your comments are super helpful. I'm not sure if i understood everything as I'm a newb to emulators. I have come to believe that my computer just might not be up to the task (she is getting old). I have an HP Pavilion P6000, AMD Athlon II 640 Quad Core 3.0GHz, 4GB DDR3, ATI Radeon 4200 video card (i could not find pixal shader for this card). I keep standard visuals and aspect ratios, nothing fancy. Nosisab Ken Keleh was very helpful.

What I'm experiencing: Cut scenes and openings play beautiful (NTSC 30-40fps) but in game menus, characterizations, movement becomes sluggish; almost shutter like; too the point of unbearable. I keep standard and default settings. I have used the disable frame limiter to try to speed things up; Cut scenes and openings fly by and in game is still sluggish. I don't wish to mess with my clocks speed, as i'm not too comfortable with that at this time; but did check my power monitor witch was indeed high performance (found that damn screen saver that was plaguing me for months). This occurs when I play directly off my disks or use a dumped , it makes no difference.

I believe I located the problem; thanks to above sung251 comments; but how to fix them is still beyond me (for now; research is your friend). I've noticed my GS likes to tap out at 100%, it currently runs above 90 on most games with the EE between 20-40. When the problems occur, the GS always exceeds 100 (occurs in what you call heavy games). GS Settings: Disable Frame Unchecked, Base frame 100%, Slow Motion 50%, Turbo 200%; NTSC 59. PAL:50; Frame skipping disabled,nothing checked. Is there a way to lower this GS usage? Sorry, I'm a smart guy but I'm learning. ??Should not NTSC be set to 30.?? I run NTSC. (Off note: I've noticed this same problem with Dolphin)

[KeyToTruth12]

Don't necropost.

[jesalvein]

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