02-24-2013, 02:19 AM
Hey guys,
Relatively new to pcsx2 emulator. Downloaded, ran, and began seriously using today. The sticky mentions a dislike of laptop processors, but I'm currently using specs:
Windows 7 64-bit
Intel Core i7-2630QM @ 2.00 GHz
nVidia GeForce GT 555M
6 GB Ram
Playing Kingdom Hearts 1 (fullscreened on my computer, and it's smooth 60 fps except for a couple spots). I get super bad frames around the waterfalls on destiny island, staring into the water, and when the shadows take Riku/Sora during the shadow swallowing destiny island. Oh yea, and the Kairi/door scene, but everyone seems to be having problems there. My knee-jerk is that there is a rendering problem somewhere, but the game runs super fine everywhere else. It gets slow in specific cutscenes. The opening with Utada Hikaru was seamless, but the sunset of Destiny islands majorly messes the game up (30ish frame drop), and Riku sounds like he's high.
Some cutscenes that DO work (full 60 fps, fullscreened): opening cinematic, first and second disney character scenes (donald and goofy launching gummi ship, and donald discovering mickey's letter). I think it's anything high particle demanding, for example the boss fight on destiny island where you re-fight the intro shadow monster crashed the game, but I think that's because AVG was running in the background. I haven't tried again since then.
I don't know how to continue from here, I tried running GSDX software with 3 extra render threads, like mentioned in a previous post, and still had frame drops near the waterfall (and generally making the computer stare out at water). Running on native resolution in gsdx hardware also throws it off.
(noobish question: best way to upload snapshots of system specs? I'm using snipping tool and loading the pics from there.)
I'd really appreciate any help, and I'm sorry if I missed uploading any specific specs, but let me know and I can include them.
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EDIT: It's a Dell Alienware M14x, widescreen, that native runs 1600x900
Relatively new to pcsx2 emulator. Downloaded, ran, and began seriously using today. The sticky mentions a dislike of laptop processors, but I'm currently using specs:
Windows 7 64-bit
Intel Core i7-2630QM @ 2.00 GHz
nVidia GeForce GT 555M
6 GB Ram
Playing Kingdom Hearts 1 (fullscreened on my computer, and it's smooth 60 fps except for a couple spots). I get super bad frames around the waterfalls on destiny island, staring into the water, and when the shadows take Riku/Sora during the shadow swallowing destiny island. Oh yea, and the Kairi/door scene, but everyone seems to be having problems there. My knee-jerk is that there is a rendering problem somewhere, but the game runs super fine everywhere else. It gets slow in specific cutscenes. The opening with Utada Hikaru was seamless, but the sunset of Destiny islands majorly messes the game up (30ish frame drop), and Riku sounds like he's high.
Some cutscenes that DO work (full 60 fps, fullscreened): opening cinematic, first and second disney character scenes (donald and goofy launching gummi ship, and donald discovering mickey's letter). I think it's anything high particle demanding, for example the boss fight on destiny island where you re-fight the intro shadow monster crashed the game, but I think that's because AVG was running in the background. I haven't tried again since then.
I don't know how to continue from here, I tried running GSDX software with 3 extra render threads, like mentioned in a previous post, and still had frame drops near the waterfall (and generally making the computer stare out at water). Running on native resolution in gsdx hardware also throws it off.
(noobish question: best way to upload snapshots of system specs? I'm using snipping tool and loading the pics from there.)
I'd really appreciate any help, and I'm sorry if I missed uploading any specific specs, but let me know and I can include them.
[attachment=42699]
[attachment=42697]
[attachment=42698]
EDIT: It's a Dell Alienware M14x, widescreen, that native runs 1600x900