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#1 ·
Hi, I am aware that this might not be the only topic concerning pcsx2 configuration but all the others I found seem to be old and deprecated.
Somehow I think that we can't compare someone trying to run pcsx2 on pentium 4 and (in my case) a 4 core computer with dx11 capabilities. (AMD A8-5600K with it's own APU)

Anyway I wanted to ask what would be the best setup for this kind of computer?
I see a lot of threads say that you should prefer to use dx10 (now dx11) over dx9 but no one says about should it be hardware or software mode.

I tried to boot ff-12 and the cinematics look great and run at 60fps, but when the game starts it runs at barely 20fps, changing to software mode I get 27fps, but still see that it is quite slow. After that changing all possible options gives no performance at all (even changing from native resolution to 256x256) so I really don't know what to do.
I also enabled MVUI, but no great boost there (if any).
Frame skipping is really not an option for me as I think it decreases the quality more than lowering resolution.
Did I miss anything???
 
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#4 ·
I have an APU build and it runs everything fine, as long as it's native resolution. CPU strength in Piledriver architechture is actually decent. Your system RAM is its RAM (up to 1GB I think). A mid-to-high end GPU uses GDDR5, which is light-years beyond DDR3 used on low end GPU (such as GeForce 210 like I used to own) and APU using your system DDR3. RAM speed helps significantly. Also, hardware mode DX10 or 11 is helpful. Also, Windows has a bad habit of auto installing some crappy generic driver. Make sure you have latest name brand Catalyst driver. Other than that I think your main bottleneck is GPU. It will crossfire with up to 6600 series (doube-check with AMD site) which has a DDR5 card version. Even though PCSX2 doesn't recognize crossfire, regular computer games will so it's not useless.

When you get slowdowns in FF12 what is your EE and GS% at the top of the screen?
 
#5 ·
dx11- software mode
fps-around 30
ee ~40%
gs ~100%

My ddr3 runs at 1866 (2x 4GB)
This is while fighting in the game so there is a bit of overload on the PC but I haven't tested it on anything more complex yet.
Don't get me wrong this is pretty playable by now but I hoped it would be a lot faster.

P.S.
I've been a fan of PS emulators forever, I always preferred playing PSX games on PC because I could max the graphics (and also load speeds).
Actually I heard about PCSX2 at least 3 years back from now and I thought to myself "this will never work on my pentium 4 3.0 with 4gb ddr2-667 and radeon 9700" but it did show about 5 fps, so I waited for four years to try it on my new PC which I thought would take it to 120fps even with AA, shaders, all the effects and higher resolution but no luck for me, three more years :(.
 
#6 ·
In SW mode try setting the extra rendering threads to 2. In SW mode the CPU is providing ALL the muscle. Very accurate but often overburdening to a CPU to get a decent framerate. On my APU the extra threads provides a little bit of help but the stupid shared modules system really hampers what PCSX2 needs. Steamroller is supposed to finally fix these issues.

What does HW mode give you at the top of the screen?
 
#9 ·
Thanks, I thought about getting an extra card but am really not sure if it would be 6670 or some geforce card. I read about trinity crossfire and it gives ok results, but not as much as expected. Though it rocks in the shaders department, geforce is still better for dx11.
If I do buy it though, could you recommend any other settings I should put to enchance graphics???
 
#10 ·
I would say native resolution during bottlenecks in FF12, x2 for other games that are lighter. That's pretty much it. I don't get into the MSAA and skipdraw and other hacks because personally I don't see the point and it confuses me. The 6670 is good but not an overly superior card. It will, however, get the job done. The used market on ebay has good prices.

I personally just got a used GTX 550 Ti for my APU build. The only reason is because I like to test Catalyst vs Nvidia drivers when advancements to the Linux port are being done. But for you, I don't think you will need to spend that kind of extra money. :)
 
#12 ·
I may be late in replying... but here is my observation after i setup the AMD APU A8-6600K using it's IGP. And the PCSX2 GS setting is GX9, Scaling x2, Interlacing = Auto.

If you have only a single stick of ram... the fps of FF-12 during gameplay will never reach 60fps... usually avg about 30fps.

But when you have two stick of ram, the ram will run in dual mode and the fps will reach 60fps most of the time, with occassional slowdown...

But if u set the Interlacing to None, the fps will reduce to about 55fps avg.

Weirdly when i set the GS to use DX11, the s/w will crash all the time. I suspect it might be the GPU driver issue. Will see if future update will solve this problem.

My best setup running the PCSX2 smoothly is still Intel Core i3, with ATI Radeon 4870, with directX 10.
 
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