Help for console emulators. (all CPU's)

FPS-Russia · August 19, 2016

I have use emulators for a long time on a lot of different PC specs and the most consistent way to gain FPS and FPS stability is power state modes that you give CPU.

For anything lower than Playstation 2 / Gamecube / Wii / Dreamcast this may not apply, even potato or toaster can do PS1 and below.

Disable EIST (speeds step) and C1E and all power saving modes from your bios, on AMD i think this be Cool n Quiet.

What happens is emulator cannot use more than 2 or 3 CPU threads, PCSX2 will use 3 if you enable MTVU speed hack but this is not compatible 100% with all game.

When a CPU is not max out it will drop speed to be more green or tree hugger friendly. And then FPS drop or you see frame time variance because of altering clock speed from CPU.

In PCSX2 software mode you can use up to 6 threads at a time, and will use more CPU but you need super fast CPU for this method.

I hope this help.

FPS-Russia · August 19, 2016

1 minute ago, Thread212 said:

i have been there before..
speed hack can give a lot of speed but it will make some trouble with the games.
like i was trying to run GOD HAND in pcsx 2 with my old gtx+ 9800.

emulator is about the cpu and gpu. if ur spec is good enough then u have no problem.
though i am not really sure about it.
i am just saying after upgrading my rig.. i can play sengoku basara 3 on dolphin at 60 fps with max settings.

Well PCSX2 love a good CPU so do Dolphin but they not well made for multi core CPU, so even CPU that can run full speed is gimp because it down clock with only 2 CPU thread in use.