Octacore Ith a low str, as said before.
Don't trust YouTube videos. If recorded with pcsx2 internal recorder, it will always play at full speed gene if actual gameplay was around 2 FPS.
Moreover, that video is from 2017. I guess the pcsx2 version was 1.4.0 or lower.
Thankful for this thread for sure. Picked up an Acer Nitro 5 w/ the Ryzen 5 4600H CPU and GTX 1650. My primary reason for getting a gaming laptop was to be able to play PS2 era sports games as that was the best generation. I'm running them all at 3X resolution flawlessly!!
How high quality can I get? My old phat PS2's lazer is barely working and I've seen some PS2 games used on this looking amazing.
* Ryzen 5 1600 6 core 3.2Ghz
* Gigabyte AB350 Mobo
* 24GB RAM
* Radeon RX 580
Thanks for your feedback!
Should be okay. GPU should run most games at 4x minimum. CPU is also decent, maybe only stressed on the most highly demanding games e.g. SotC.
so there is a resolution upscale?
(12-11-2020, 05:52 PM)junknaut Wrote: [ -> ]Should be okay. GPU should run most games at 4x minimum. CPU is also decent, maybe only stressed on the most highly demanding games e.g. SotC.
Yup. I exactly match the "Recommended" PC settings with an i3 4170 (STR 2100, just 17 points over the Ryzen 1600) and a GTX 960 (3D Score: 6000). Using 1.7 latest dev build and i can't reliably run SotC even when using Native resolution with default recommended GSdx settings and with the Balanced preset: i get pretty much both EE and GS to 100% when getting out of the temple in that staircase. Using MSI Afterburner to read my hardware usage, running around it seems that the 960 can handle x3 resolution at around 70-90% usage on average depending on the scene, anything higher and it gets to 99% usage. The CPU in the other hand sits around 90 to 100% usage at all times no matter what.
Is SotC the harddest game to run by far? It has to be at least Top 3 right?
Now with my ryzen 3600 and nvidia 1650 even in the ITX version all work properly.
Shadow of the colossus is one of the hardest to run games, even on original hardware it didn't reach full speeds all the time.
What STR do you think is needed to play something like SotC and BLACK (wich are some of the hardest on the CPU i could find) at 100% without heavy speedhack usage, just the Safe or Balanced setting? I found my GTX 960 is enough to upscale them to 1080p just like the Recommended specs predicted, but the CPU is just not enough (an i3 4170, exactly 2100 STR).
I guess a better question would be, what kind of % increase in STR would make a noticeable difference in performance? Say a 10% increase is enough to feel it, or do you need 20 or 30% increase? Like around 2500-2700 STR?
Well if original hardware doesn't reach 100% , then having stronger hardware won't help that much, some games u can trick to force the internal FPS to be capped which makes it more stable. It also depends per game, the more STR the better and if you have atleast 6 cores then other programs (websites, windows,...) won't steal resources. I would try MTVU and EE cyclerate from -1 to +1, there is no universal setting or STR. I have about 2500 STR and i can run most games fine, but there are 4K PS2 games so u can get a wrong view about what you really need, not only that it can be the emulation which is struggling due to some quirk.