how can i fix this godawful performance

[ibrahimKS]

i have a i5 11th gen 
16 ram
iris xe graphics
and using 1.6.0

[envisaged0ne]

Well with that information, I'm sure we can easily solve your problem

[jesalvein]

Please post the contents of the emulog.txt file after the problem occurs. The file can be found in "My Documents\PCSX2\logs" for the installer version or in "PCSX2\logs" for the portable/binary version.

Please make sure to enclose your emulog in code tags like so (remove the empty space on the closing code tag!):
[code]
Pasted emulog goes here
[ /code]

[smartstrike]

will not work well unless you have nvidia or Ati

[zaim_92X]

Using intel GPUs? Good luck enjoying with that thing when running in hardware mode.

Anyway, try to run in PS2 native resolution in hardware mode and do not even attempt to upscale it and open up the task manager and make sure that both CPU and GPU level doesn't exceed 100%. Alternatively, you can just use software mode instead but less ideal.