Comment on PCSX2 2.8.0 is now out! | PCSX2
kahjtheundedicated@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Some great improvements!
Also, thats the first time I’ve looked at the recommended specs in a long time. They’re reasonable, but man I remember running pcsx2 on a Core 2 Duo back in the day lol
but man I remember running pcsx2 on a Core 2 Duo
I still have my PC with Core 2 Duo (not using it). The highest I would have tried to emulate was Playstation 1 back then, wouldn’t even think of trying PS2 emulator. Let alone the emulator wasn’t as good as it is now.
I’m pretty sure I got through persona 3 on that core 2 system. Either an e8400 or q6600. I swapped back and forth a couple times because turns out quad core wasn’t a straight upgrade at the time.
Mine is the e8400 and it has 2 cores (+2 hyperthreading). The q6600 has 4 (but no hyperthreading, I think). BTW I was thinking to upgrade to it back then. Off course it also depends on the GPU and RAM too. I have researched in web now a bit. I found someone reporting with a similar setup I had (minus the CPU, as mine was e8400):
I’m trying to run as many (good) japanese PS2 games as I can on a computer that has an Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2,40GHz, 8GBs RAM, and an AMD Radeon HD 5700 series, and to my surprise, I’m very limited by the number of titles that run more or less decently, when this PC hardly has a problem running most Gamecube games (with Dolphin), or Dreamcast (with Flycast) games I feed it. Heck, for what very few original XBox titles I more or less managed to run (with Cxbx Reloaded), they run better! Castlevania Curse of Darkness for example.
Now this bugs me even more, because I should have tried Dolphin and Flycast too. Would be fun to bring it out again and try some stuff. But I’m not that bored enough to do that right now.
Dolphin was a pretty mixed bag at the time. I got through Xenoblade Chronicles on that system, but I remember one of the regions on the mechonis(?) would only do like 7fps at best, but other areas would do 20-30. But monkeyball worked pretty well, as did some of the other GameCube games.
Also I don’t think the e8400, or any of the core 2 duo/quad cpu’s had hyperthreading. I know the Pentium 4 had it, not sure about the Pentium D
BurgerBaron@quokk.au 1 day ago
Excuse the rancid salvaged screenshot from my old defunct photobucket account:
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That was when I had an Athlon XP 1500+ 1.83Ghz single core trying Medal of Honor.
Going from that to a Core 2 Quad 6600 was magical for PS2 emulation!
Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Metal of honor rising sun was such an amazing game. I don’t remember if I ever beat it, but nothing will outdo the opening Pearl Harbor attack.
OH MY GOD, WE LOST THE ARIZONA!
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Ah yes, the famous rhytm game spin off from Medal of Honor. Haha sorry, just poking and joking around your typo. Loved it to read.
Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The Most Brutal of all video games, Metalocalypse of Honor is where my brain went haha!
BurgerBaron@quokk.au 1 day ago
Since it had couch co-op I played through it quite a lot with my sister haha. The game was super impressive at the time yeah.
Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Heck yeah! Something me and my brother and some strangers on the internet have in common!
You reminded me the game had the option to do either vertical or horizontal splitscreen, something I don’t think I’ve seen since.