optimizing Persona 4 to it's very best

[Visidan]

I currently run my 8400 at 4.05ghz, and the slow scenes are running at 60fps smoothly.

Im playing through Persona3 FES atm with a 8500 at 4.20 ghz and everything is also running at 60fps, except for a certain boss fight (the big floating heart gave me a massive fps drop to around 37fps)

I had to use s2d4's settings above to fix that, except I set frames to skip at 3 instead of 8 to get it running at 60fps. Definitely leave consecutive Frames before skipping at 0.

[tabasket]

Any idea how to fix the flickering?

I had that problem in persona 3 FES too, w/e is wrong, its in graphics settings.

Try using pixel shader 3. Changing the interlacing may help aswell.

Other setting's im usingidn if these matter, but w/e)
Tex filter, Logarithmic Z, and Alpha correction.

[Sheik]

Any idea how to fix the flickering?

I had that problem in persona 3 FES too, w/e is wrong, its in graphics settings.

Try using pixel shader 3. Changing the interlacing may help aswell.

Other setting's im usingidn if these matter, but w/e)
Tex filter, Logarithmic Z, and Alpha correction.

Fixed it by using Pixel Shader 3 and Logarithmic Z, thanks.

[idaten]

I currently run my 8400 at 4.05ghz, and the slow scenes are running at 60fps smoothly.

Im playing through Persona3 FES atm with a 8500 at 4.20 ghz and everything is also running at 60fps, except for a certain boss fight (the big floating heart gave me a massive fps drop to around 37fps)

I had to use s2d4's settings above to fix that, except I set frames to skip at 3 instead of 8 to get it running at 60fps. Definitely leave consecutive Frames before skipping at 0.

I ended up having to go to 4.5ghz. and yet, still, as you say, certain bosses and for some odd reason the white birds in 4th dungeon give massive slowdown even at that speed, note, with the birds, im sure its something to do with their color , as the normal ones dont have the same issue. also the boss fight..i dont think its the boss itself, but more the background, as certain angles of the boss speed back up to 60fps.

Either way, its unavoidable for now. but these are only a few out of many stable 60fps+ scenes / gameplay

[antipunt]

I second that general idea. For some reason, some enemies result in massive slowdown. others (most of them) do not.

I just kind of 'took it as it was', and accepted it (seemed rather minor in Persona 3 FES); admitedly, however, the slowdown is a tad more annoying with Persona 4. But still not to the point of unbearable (as we found out that the FIRST dungeon was especially slow compared to the later ones)

[neffernin]

Just wanted to give kudos to all in here, all of the settings you guys recommended have made this game very playable for me

[fxkun]

Is anyone else experiencing sluggish playback during pre-rendered scenes? For example the introduction movie?

Q6600 g0 3.0ghz
2gb ram
8800GT alphadog edition

CPU sits at 30% in Process Explorer, PCXS2 shows CPU at 99%, so does that mean the GSdx9 0.1.12 plugin is fully maxed out while hardware rendering these pre-rendered cut scenes?

Edit: Huge improvements after switching from Gigaherz dvd plugin to Linuzappz's / PEOpS, pre-rendered cut scenes are a little choppy but I can finally get over the 60fps limit I was stuck on, currently peaking at 600% speeds.

Also, CPU usage has dropped to 30% in PCSX2 during playback. The downside is that the sound is still choppy during pre-rendered scenes. Continuing to play with plugins for that.

Edit2: Disabling "EE/IOP Sync Hack (x3)" fixes the choppy sound.


Short version: Don't use Gigaherz dvd plugin, disable "EE/IOP Sync Hack x3"

[antipunt]

thx for the information; at first I thought you were talking about sound, but then realized it was the DVD plugins, so I wrote a little blurb that I now deleted

*EDIT: And then I tried deleting the post entirely but for some reason I don't the authority to... (so I guess i'll just leave it as this)

[moreno]

has anyone here noticed any improvement with persona 4 by using the latest PCSX2 playground beta svn528 located here?

http://forums.pcsx2.net/thread-2731.html

using the first release of the pcsx2pg i can run this game at perfectly good speeds.. but with svn528 the game doesnt even start

[apparition]

has anyone here noticed any improvement with persona 4 by using the latest PCSX2 playground beta svn528 located here?

http://forums.pcsx2.net/thread-2731.html

using the first release of the pcsx2pg i can run this game at perfectly good speeds.. but with svn528 the game doesnt even start

i finished the game on the stable build, but im replaying it now on SVN-528 and the performance increase is huge! cutscenes and battles that had huge fps drops are now very smooth. definitely a good update!

edit: you were running the game "at perfectly good speeds" on the first pg release?? what kind of computer are you running??? :|