11-17-2017, 04:43 AM
While browsing the forum, I stumbled across the list of the most CPU intensive PS2 games. I noticed that four of the Burnout games are on the list, which seems strange to me, since these games actually run fairly well on my older system.
Yes, they run a little slower than they should and there's an occasional, brief slowdown, but in general the framerate is pretty consistent and the games don't really feel slow when you're playing them. They aren't choppy and they move fast enough that if you showed them to someone who had never seen the games before, they probably wouldn't think there was anything wrong with them.
The Jak and Daxter games also run fairly well for me, considering that the levels are pretty large and open. I haven't played all the way through the games, but what I did play, they didn't really feel slow or sluggish to me. Jak X - Combat Racing was kind of laggy though. I could play it, but it didn't feel right.
Soul Calibur 3 is another game from the list that seems fast and smooth to me. The characters respond well and the action never seems like it's slower than normal.
That's not to say that all games run great on my system. The Incredibles sometimes seems like it's in slo-mo. Gran Turismo 3 was like watching a slideshow and Ben Hur was so slow when you tried to start the game, it sounded like the audio was doing a Friday the 13th impression; Ch-ch-ch-hu-hu-hu-ka-ka-ka...
My system is a 2.4Ghz Core-2-Duo with 4GB RAM, a GT430 graphics card and XP Pro, SP3, which I would have thought would be considered completely underpowered for running PCSX2, but yet it runs many games at what I consider playable speeds. Of course I only have the resolution set to 2x and the speedhacks turned up to 4.
It just makes me wonder when people with 4Ghz i7 processors, 8-16GB of RAM and $200+ graphics cards complain that the games are running too slowly. Are people just upset that the games don't run at 60FPS and 4K resolutions? Are more advanced systems actually worse at running PCSX2?
Yes, they run a little slower than they should and there's an occasional, brief slowdown, but in general the framerate is pretty consistent and the games don't really feel slow when you're playing them. They aren't choppy and they move fast enough that if you showed them to someone who had never seen the games before, they probably wouldn't think there was anything wrong with them.
The Jak and Daxter games also run fairly well for me, considering that the levels are pretty large and open. I haven't played all the way through the games, but what I did play, they didn't really feel slow or sluggish to me. Jak X - Combat Racing was kind of laggy though. I could play it, but it didn't feel right.
Soul Calibur 3 is another game from the list that seems fast and smooth to me. The characters respond well and the action never seems like it's slower than normal.
That's not to say that all games run great on my system. The Incredibles sometimes seems like it's in slo-mo. Gran Turismo 3 was like watching a slideshow and Ben Hur was so slow when you tried to start the game, it sounded like the audio was doing a Friday the 13th impression; Ch-ch-ch-hu-hu-hu-ka-ka-ka...
My system is a 2.4Ghz Core-2-Duo with 4GB RAM, a GT430 graphics card and XP Pro, SP3, which I would have thought would be considered completely underpowered for running PCSX2, but yet it runs many games at what I consider playable speeds. Of course I only have the resolution set to 2x and the speedhacks turned up to 4.
It just makes me wonder when people with 4Ghz i7 processors, 8-16GB of RAM and $200+ graphics cards complain that the games are running too slowly. Are people just upset that the games don't run at 60FPS and 4K resolutions? Are more advanced systems actually worse at running PCSX2?