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    Anyone here use pcsx2? what cpu should I get?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by mas5acre, Jun 4, 2008.

  1. mas5acre

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    Im a big pc & console gamer, I legally own over a thousand games from nes to genesis to snes to all the newer ones X360 and so forth. I read somewhere Pcsx2 is very processor intensive, can anyone recommend me a processor suggestion for the m15x to run games at full speed? aka 60fps....Ive yet to try this program and am very interested in taking my games with me on my notebook.
     
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  2. XPS1330

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    Is PCSX2 legal?
     
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  3. Ayle

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    Take the fastest processor you can get but even with that, most of the game wont be playable....
     
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    Yes it is. But you have to get a bios from a ps2 you own to use it legally as they don't provide one and the emulator don't work without one.
     
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    It is provided you own a PS2, dump your own BIOS, and only play games that you own.

    As for the processor, you're going to want to get it as fast as you can. PCSX2 is by far CPU bound, and it's fairly early in development so it's really well optimized. Really I would be surprised if you could achieve 60FPS from a mobile dual core, a lot of people use overclocked desktop dual/quad cores to get framerates that high, and only in certain games.
     
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    You need at least a 2.4 GHz dual core CPU, with at least 2GB RAM, and midrange videocard (7600 and up).

    I can run KH and FFX at full speed on my notebook.
     
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  7. mas5acre

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    A friend of mine runs a go 7900gtx 2gig ram and T2300 dual core and gets about 25-30 fps on Final fantasy X with speed hacks and music is loopy.
     
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    i get 60fps for all compatible games.

    60FPS is the key framerate for PS2.... anything under is okay, but laggy.
     
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    i ran it on my thinkpad t43p few years back, got like half frame per second. lol
     
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    I think the low framerate is clearly from the slow processor (1,66GHZ), so getting 60 fps on a faster one would be realistic
     
    Ever.monk, Jun 4, 2008
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    It's also optimised for 64bits so it should be a bit better un Vista X64. Remember that the PS2 actuallly uses 128bits instruction so that's kinda the hard part to emulate.
     
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    Fastest processor you can afford, my T7500 gets iffy performance emulating Tenkaichi Kenkakuden. The plugins you use help a lot as well for performance.
     
    Harleyquin07, Jun 4, 2008
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    i have an x9000... wud that be good enough ? its overclocked to 3.2ghz...
     
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    Yep your performance should be almost on par with high end gaming pc's you should get full speed in all COMPATIBLE games FFX,KH,FFX-2,FFXII,ect

    Heres a list of compatibility: http://www.pcsx2.net/compat.php?c=key
     
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    thanks alot rpgman !!
     
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    what about a 2.33 dual core?
     
    ArmageddonAsh, Jun 5, 2008
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