Gta 3 Pcsx2 Slow
Anna Pybus
Most games in PS2 Emulator run slowly or slow down to a rate almost unplayable. Nvidia Driver is enabled and running, are there some other Tipps from you guys what i can do to run it with proberly 60 FPS?
Also to add, just because you can run GTA IV (a nearly 10 year old pc game) doesn't necessarily mean that you can run emulators like pcsx2 at full speed, native games and emulators are a very different thing.
Hello, so i have retroarch for a few weeks now and im having an issue when runing pcsx2 on retroarch. All the games i try to play start and all but imediately have an extreme lag and audio problems, not to mention a few bugged textures here and there. Now, when running pcsx2 by itself, everything goes as it should, no lag or any issues whatssoever so my guess is that it is some issue between the emulator and retroarch.
That's not a real graphics card, it's just an integrated graphics circuit. It does support pixel shader 2 though which is all they state about it on the official site. PCSX2 is also very heavy on the CPU, what are the rest of your specs?
[edit]: You can look here: -Sticky-Will-PCSX2-run-fast-on-my-computer
Bullcrap. It's discrete, not integrated. In some computers it may be integrated, but in mine it's discrete (which is strange because I have a laptop). I know it's discrete because it says on the box "discrete class graphics".
I have seen a youtube vid where a guy had almost the exact same specs as me and was playing GTA 3 in PCSX2. I'll try to find it again. (I'm browsing in private mode, so can't just do a history search)...
Yes it is. The recommended specs call for at least double that clock speed. I have a Phenom II X4 at 3.2GHz and I was also struggling to run it at times. Your graphics might be discrete as opposed to integrated, but it's still running at only 500MHz and with shared memory.
We do not recommend the use of any laptop machines on the emulator unless otherwise mentioned above, if it supports SSE2 then it may work. if it does not have SSE2 then it is likely it will be extremely slow and have emulator compatibility problems.
To be honest, I was surprised you could run this at all. I suppose your hardware has the essentials needed to run the emulator, but if I were you I wouldn't expect much better performance than you are getting right now.
Videos which appear on YouTube are generally recorded with the GS plugin. What is actually recorded is each frame, which is then run at the full rate of the game, it is more than likely the person recording it had similar speeds to you, so don't take it too seriously.
PCSX2 needs really freaking powerful hardware to run GTA3 smoothly. However, I suggest you change your video plugin to the Direct3D11 hardware, change interlacing to Weave bff (saw-tooth), enable texture filtering and 8-bit textures. USE THE ORIGINAL PS2 RESOLUTION. See if that helped any.
I tried to play the ps2 one on the pcsx2 but for me it doesn't even load up at all. Most likely due to not having a gfx card. LOL
Which is odd considering KH1FM and Kh2FM+ works flawlessly for the most part. So does FF X and X2. But for some reason
all the GTAs don't seem to work.
Besides I also prefer pc version, that works far better. Plus Mods for it=auto win
PCSX2 is a free and open-source PlayStation 2 emulator for Windows, Linux, and macOS[5] that supports a wide range of PlayStation 2 video games with a high level of compatibility and functionality. Although PCSX2 can closely mirror the original gameplay experience on the PlayStation 2, PCSX2 supports a number of improvements over gameplay on a traditional PlayStation 2, such as the ability to use resolutions up to 8 times larger than native, anti-aliasing and texture filtering.
PCSX2, like its predecessor project PCSX (a PlayStation emulator), is based on a PSEmu Pro spec plug-in architecture, separating several functions from the core emulator. These are the graphics, audio, input controls, CD/DVD drive, and USB and FireWire (i.LINK) ports. Different plug-ins may produce different results in both compatibility and performance. Additionally, PCSX2 requires a genuine copy of the PS2 BIOS, which is not available for download from the developers due to copyright-related legal issues. Since September 2016, PCSX2 is partially compatible with PlayStation games.[6]
The main bottleneck in PS2 emulation is emulating the Emotion Engine multi-processor on the PC x86 architecture. Although each processor can be emulated well independently, accurately synchronizing them and emulating the console's timing is difficult.[7]
Development of PCSX2 was started in 2001 by programmers who go by the names Linuzappz and Shadow, who were programmers for the PlayStation emulator PCSX-Reloaded. Other programmers later joined the team, and they were eventually able to get some PS2 games to the loading screen. The team then started working on the difficult task of emulating the PlayStation 2's BIOS; they got it to run, although it was slow and graphically distorted. Version 0.9.1 was released in July 2006.
From 2007 to 2011, developers worked on Netplay and speed improvements.[8] PCSX2 0.9.8 was released in May 2011 and featured an overhauled GUI written with wxWidgets, that improved compatibility for Linux and newer Windows operating systems. In December 2022, PCSX2 was overhauled to remove all WxWidgets elements. The project has used QT since. The addition of a new VU recompiler brought better compatibility, a memory card editor, an overhaul of the SPU2-X audio plug-in, and numerous other improvements.[9]As of Apple is deprecating support for OpenGL and OpenCL with the release of macOS 10.14. PCSX2 officially stopped developing new versions of PCSX2 for macOS version.
In 2022, PCSX2 added support for the Vulkan API.[11] PCSX2 was used as a basis for AetherSX2, a PlayStation 2 emulator for Android.[12] In 2022, an unofficial fork of PCSX2 was created for the Xbox Series X/S known as XBSX2.[13]
PCSX2 supports save states and dynamic recompilation (JIT). There is also support for gameplay recording in Full HD using the GSdx plugin. Options such as the ability to increase/decrease game speeds, use unlimited memory cards, and utilize any gamepad controllers supported by the native operating system are also available. Cheat codes are supported via the use of PNACH patching files. Retroachievements support is also there (only for nightly releases,) it adds community driven achievement system for PlayStation 2, PlayStation games and homebrew.
PCSX2 makes use of plug-ins as a means of modularizing development efforts among the separate components (subsystems) of the emulated PlayStation 2 hardware. For instance, video plug-ins are utilized by PCSX2 to render images to the screen and emulate the graphics hardware of the PlayStation 2, whereas sound plug-ins emulate the sound hardware of the PlayStation 2. Not only does this allow different developers to focus their efforts on one aspect of the PlayStation 2 hardware, this also allows users that have a system configuration that does not yield good results with one plug-in to attempt to try another to see if they have better results.
Hardware requirements are largely game-dependent. Due to the demanding nature of emulation, PCSX2 is much more likely to perform well with modern mid-range to high-end hardware, with lower-end systems likely to experience less than full performance. The performance bottleneck in most cases is the CPU rather than the GPU. This is especially the case in software mode, in which only the CPU is used for emulation. In hardware mode, the GPU emulates the graphics, but can still be a bottleneck if the internal resolution is set too high. Some games may also run slower due to unoptimized graphics code or weak video cards. As computer hardware has continued to advance with time, the likelihood of performance issues with PCSX2 has experienced a corresponding decrease.
PCSX2 has been very well received. Matthew Humphries of Geek.com described it as "an impressive piece of work".[18] Alex Garnett of PC World criticized the difficulty of setting up PCSX2 but called it a "masterpiece."[19] Although David Hayward of Micro Mart also criticized the complexity, he also called it "technically amazing."[20] Sriram Gurunathan of In.com described PCSX2 as "arguably the most popular emulator around" and named it as one of the site's top five emulators.[21] Brandon Widder of Digital Trends included PCSX2 in his Best Emulators article.[22] John Corpuz of Tom's Guide mentioned PCSX2 in his Best PlayStation Emulators for PCs article, saying, "When it comes to stable, playable PlayStation 2 emulation, PCSX2 is pretty much the best game in town at the moment."[23]
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