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ok thanks. i will try them out if i see any more proper slowdowns
btw is this normal every now and then there are slowdowns and fps drops to around 40 in some areas of the game? on my old laptop when i was playing metal gear solid 3 in some areas the fps dropped to like 15. it was quite slow and i could sense game going frame, small pause, frame, small pause... when that happens then that means your machine is weak and u have a problem. however what about what is happening now and it drops to 40 fps in some areas? is it a must that if u are playing the fps should always stay 60fps or slowdowns happen every now and then and it drops to 40 or 50 fps?
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12-01-2014, 11:29 AM
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Well if your CPU runs at 2.9 GHz (that i7 model of yours) it could be too weak for some games. Especially Metal Gear Solid games are some of those games where you really need a beastly computer to run it at full speed ALL the time. I still get slowdowns in MGS3 too.
Another possibility is that you have Intel Speedstep enabled in your BIOS. This downclocks your CPU randomly when it's not being used as heavily, and then you can experience random spikes because it'll end up being too weak for PCSX2. I'd recommend turning off Speedstep anyway, as it's more of a hassle than anything.
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No.
The problem is that it's a laptop.
A very good one, but still with the inherent shortcomings when it comes to intensive single threaded applications.
I highly doubt you can overclock it to 4.1 ghz, btw.
Or you believe "overclocking" and "turbo boost" are the same things.
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i can overclock it. it said so in the laptop specs
if i overclock then performance of laptop is faster so i should get better speeds in pcsx2. am i right?
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(12-01-2014, 01:19 PM)solidus Wrote: i can overclock it. it said so in the laptop specs
if i overclock then performance of laptop is faster so i should get better speeds in pcsx2. am i right?
yeah, that's right but, the performance boost isn't worth risking your laptop by overclocking.
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(12-01-2014, 10:43 AM)solidus Wrote: these slowdowns are location based. now i have to see if there are noticeable slowdowns in fight scenes after i disabled speedhacks
no, the slowdowns happen when the texture that should be rendered are demanding. there is nothing you could do to improve performance than using speedhacks.
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