Amerish is too laggy for me.

Discussion in 'PS2 Main' started by Deathrus, Nov 5, 2012.

Amerish is too laggy for me.

Discussion in 'PS2 Main' started by Deathrus, Nov 5, 2012.

  1. Deathrus

    Deathrus .

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    It's sad Amerish Lag is so bad for me.
    This is the only game I have that plays like crap on my computer.

    Just annoys the heck out of me when I have a $2,000 laptop.
    I will probably build a computer soon to run ps2 :( becuase I love ps so much.
     
  2. Mortos

    Mortos Basement dweller extraordinare!!!

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    It does not lag me but I crash there a lot, looking in to building a new system after the new years here!
     
  3. Jaamaw

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    A $1000 desktop, at market price right now, could prolly run PS2 on full high settings flawlessly.
     
  4. ZeroXephon

    ZeroXephon .

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    My pc is pushing 3 years old and i have no issue. All settings on high. If your $2000 lap top does not have a dedicated video card you are kinda screwed.


    edit: This game has been taking FOREVER to load textures when I first start up after the most recent patch however...
     
  5. DaPoets

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    I don't even notice texture load times on my laptop. SSD drive ftw
     
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  6. Deathrus

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    It does it has a great video card for a laptop. I-7 2.4ghz 4Gb of ram radeon 6770m 1gb gdr. Some people tell me to up my ram to 8 gb or 16 and I'll notice a difference. I got it to run Adobe master suit ( MAC BOOK PRO late 2011).

    I would just OC the processor, however I do want to a chance of breaking my 2 years warranty by hacking the EFI. Not to mention it's a laptop heat will be an issue anyway. I am not sure hoy many therms, my heatsink atm can handle. I do however know it gets hot enough to scale down cores while running PS2.

    Me working as a Tech part time knows that is wishful thinking. It will increase load time and maybe smooth out the Frames. However, I won't get the performance gains I am looking for with the way Plansetside 2 is ATM.

    So my only option is to over-haul my Inspirion desktop. Which I can put a decent G card OC it with a new cooling ( still will be limited though by the dell MOBO) or start from scratch, which is probably my best option.
     
  7. DaPoets

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    8gb ram min for PS2, my system tends to hover around 6.5gb used during game play. Windows 7.
     
  8. LampShade

    LampShade Donating Member

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    I second the 8 Gig min for RAM. And 2.4GHZ is barely scraping by these days. The game isn't fully optimized for Quad cores so the higher the GHZ the better, rather than the more cores the better.

    Try increasing your virtual memory. Try getting an SSD and THEN increasing your virtual memory...
     
  9. Phragg

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    Just to give a price idea... I built this rig roughly six months ago for around $1250, including 2 year warranty on video card and processor from MicroCenter. I think SSD prices have gone up a bit, but this will give you an idea of what you need.

    CPU: i7 2600K, oc'd to 4.4 @ 1.36v stable on a CoolerMaster Hyper 212+ in push/pull (dual CPU fans) @~51C in PS2, ~59C in BF3 (102c is max rating for this chip)
    Video: nVidia 1.5GB V-Ram GTX480 OC'd to 450 Core / 2000 Memory (Good VRM's so they hold up well) reaching @~79C in PS2 - ~70C in BF3 (105c is max rating for this card)
    MOBO: Asus P8Z68V - nothing fancy
    Power: OCZ ZT series modular 750w
    RAM: 8GB Corsair Vengeance @ 1600Mhz (2x4GB matched)
    SSD: m4 128GB SATA 3
    Case: Phantom 410
    A few extra 120mm and 140mm blue LED case fans for good flow and to annoy the wife

    Getting 85-90FPS pretty solid recently, 50-60 while recording to MSI Afterburner. This is on Amerish with the latest patch. All settings maxed, 1080p, 100% render, Ambient Occlusion on, shadows low, Fog shadows off.

    EDIT: Paid 60 for my SSD, they are now 109. Wow.
     
  10. LampShade

    LampShade Donating Member

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    Im curious as to why you turned shadows down to low and fog shadows off? Performance or graphic problems?