09-14-2014, 11:42 PM
A 3.1 ghz Haswell can get through it somewhat okay with a lot of speed hacks and no interlacing which provides the final FPS heightening push to make it tolerable (60fps much of the time). But there still will be occasional frame drops. This is except for heavier mech battles which require SW mode.
I was actually kind of shocked an RPG requires so much processing power given there's not too much going on physics-wise but I guess that's just the nature of the beast with gen 6 emulation, although I have to wonder how anyone was able to run this game decently in PCSX2 in say 2009 or so without a rather expensive processor.
I guess most of the progress that has been made in processors since then has just been "ADD MORE CORES" rather than making individual cores more powerful which is what PS2 emulation needs, although I hear Haswell does have some somewhat large improvements for emulation.
I was actually kind of shocked an RPG requires so much processing power given there's not too much going on physics-wise but I guess that's just the nature of the beast with gen 6 emulation, although I have to wonder how anyone was able to run this game decently in PCSX2 in say 2009 or so without a rather expensive processor.
I guess most of the progress that has been made in processors since then has just been "ADD MORE CORES" rather than making individual cores more powerful which is what PS2 emulation needs, although I hear Haswell does have some somewhat large improvements for emulation.