Luckily for PS2 owners, they did just that. With expectations high after the success of God of War, new director Corey Barlog and his team had to deliver a masterpiece to live up to the hype. Oh, it also features one of the most epic opening levels ever created: an awe-inspiring fight against the Colossus of Rhodes that, in lesser games, would have served as the final boss fight. Continuing where the original God of War left off, the second installment in the God of War saga brings Kratos' one-man vendetta against Mount Olympus to a thrilling cliff-hanger ending that left gamers everywhere clamoring for the third and final chapter (soon to be revealed on the PlayStation 3). With new weapons, more godly powers, and larger levels, God of War II was everything its little brother was and then some. This is what I found I changed the VU0 setting to "Interpreter" and suddenly performance was perfectly smooth, even when I ramped up all of the graphics settings to near their max and switched to 4x native resolution.#1: God of War II Year: 2007 Why It's Great: How do you improve on a game that was almost universally hailed as being one of the best action games ever created? You make the sequel bigger and better. So there's a chance that a single counterintuitive setting will make a 500% difference in performance.
This is a handy approximation of how well the game is performing, and in my experience so far, audio performance problems are usually connected to video / general emulation performance problems, not isolated.
This will be obvious to most people who have spent more than a few minutes tinkering with PCSX2's settings, but on Windows you can see the framerate displayed in the title bar of the game window.My experience is mostly summed up by Mazura - you keep trying one thing at a time until you see improvements - but I have 2 things to add to that: Increasing performance in an emulator is complete trail and error an experiment that requires an unassailable control group (the one thing rule) and a whole lotta patience. It's the only way to be sure that everything you've done has increased performance rather then being a detriment and that whatever you've changed has actually taken effect. Loading time is the killer, because when I say one at a time, I mean (it!) close PCSX2, re-open it, and change ONE thing and then boot the game again and load a save. Rockstar Games’ critically acclaimed open world action game, Grand Theft Auto V, and the ever-evolving, shared world of GTA Online are getting expanded and enhanced for PlayStation 5. For reference (ignoring my old HDD score of 5.7) my Windows Experience Index average is 6.9 and my processor name doesn't start with an i. Grand Theft Auto V & Grand Theft Auto Online. IIRC, it took me 10+ hours to get FFXII running acceptably.
While it's unlikely that your GPU is the bottle neck, being that it's an emulator, absolutely everything has to go through the CPU).Ĭontinue repeating both of the above with different plugins until it works well enough that it's playable (unless you've an i7 processor, sometimes playable is as good as it's ever going to get). Repeat this with the video settings (the audio will stutter if the CPU gets bogged down.
With the most recent versions, many PS2 games are playable (although speed limitations have made play-to-completion tests for many games impractical), and several games are claimed to have full functionality. Try every audio option ONE AT A TIME and note performance ( do not ignore the 'one at a time' rule). PCSX2 is an open source PlayStation 2 (PS2) emulator for the Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems. If you're complaining about only getting 35+ fps. I'd tell you to look here, except that none of those answers go into just how much work it is to get an emulator running smoothly (on less than stellar hardware.