Despite having only a 'solid' CPU, this one still exceeds the recommended specs for PCSX2 and when i tweaked the settings in accordance to some online tutorials and settings to 'copy', my game performed at ridiculous FPS with the FPS-Limiter turned off (200 to even 300 sometimes in menus and 100 fps in matches), yet the matches still were sluggish.Īpparently the reason for this is the very same why Star Wars The Old Republic performs poorly on highend PCs and damn sweet on medium PCs - because that game has a tendency to calculate data way too much, as if the game was about to cheerfully say 'Oh shiney, I got so much stuff to work with. From what I got from the emulator documentation and my experiences with another game, it seems to have been a matter of my system overperforrming on the game. All it actually took was to use Preset 3 as a basis and then to find the proper settings for the GSD plugin. 'Actually I solved the issue myself now with some more hours of fiddling around. The following is taken from a lone user by the name of Harleyquincey on the PCSX2 forums. I don't know if this helps anybody but me but I thought I'd share.

60fps (120+ without the frame limiter) but the gameplay would drop to 40-52 fps and finally found this fix. So for days, I had been trying to fix the problem of of frame rate drops in games.

Pcsx2 emulator running slow