Final Fantasy X HD (PCSX2)

started a new game using an xbox360 controller into my PC and currently in omega dungeon. I took some video at the best res I could while the game was still playable (fraps+pcsx2 is pretty cpu intensive, results are much better when not trying to run capture software).

PC Specs
4.0ghz Dualcore
4gb ram (3.7 seen)
2TB of HDD
FFX disc in DVD drive
9800GTX.
Windows 7

The game speed runs when not limited at 80-150fps (varies wildly depending on effects on screen and view distances). It's the PAL version which was submitted in australia and runs naturally at 50fps. 150fps means it runs 3x faster, making the game far shorter which was intentional considering I've finished it twice before on the PS2, now I wanted to finish all the dark aeons etc.

I hope the quality of the video stays okay while uploaded on youtube, I'll want to later run a second video at regular PS2 levels so you can see the graphics detail that is visible in the PC compared to the PS2. Trust me, its glorious.

Video Settings for play were:
GSdx3068 (SSE4.1)
D3D Internal res 2048x2048
Interlacing was Blend tff
Renderer D3d10/11 (hardware)
Experimental HW Anti Aliasing 1
Texture filtering enabled

EE/IOP Settings
EE/FPU:
Round mode: Chop/Zero
Clamping mode: Full (Neccessary to stop random mobs from appearing on screen backwards, also in two screens in the game, controls will be reversed if you don't.. weird.)

Speed hacks:
Enable Wait Loop Detection [checked]

Tips:
Make sure when you set it up on an intel CPU - you select the SSE 4.1 if you've even got a nearly recent CPU.

Set Internal Res pretty high (way higher than monitor res) if you've got a good graphics card.

Leave almost everything else at default, they're designed to be compatible and fast for most common games.

On FFX you need a gamefix to make video's work 100%. It's just a selection in the options. Enable game fixes and check the one for FFX. After you change games, make sure you turn it off!

On the title bar of the window it'll say two constantly changing numbers: EE (emotion engine, what the PS2 called its CPU) and GS (which i think is Graphics Subsystem or something, same as your GPU). If your GS is at 100% you're doing something wrong in the GSDX plugin. Try dropping the internal RES, generally i try to keep the GS at only 20%.

With your FPS capped at 50 or 60 your EE should be less than 100% to tell you that your game is running fine. If EE is running at 100% but you've got less than 50fps, then you may want to overclock, try speed hacks, or something(not many options). It basically means the EE is taking all your processor and still needs more.

PCSX2 only uses two threads. Why? Because it's very hard splitting up the processes apparently. The Emotion engine was designed to run everything linerally so running things out of order by splitting them up is both difficult and can cause trouble if handled poorly.

There is one reason you may want more than 2 cores though: Background processes. With two cores on PCSX2 and one on background processes you won't get slowdowns from your other applications so much. But as a rule of thumb, two cores with high clockspeeds are going to be best. I've got a 3.0ghz processor clocked at 4.0 for the simple sake of running FFX at up to 150 fps to make it faster, the game could probably run quite comfortably 90% of the time on only 2.4ghz I'd wager. Possibly less. It'll still look just as good, just not run over speed so well.

Rule of thumb: CPU is how fast the game can run, graphics card is how nice the game can look.

That's about all I can describe for PCSX in general. I've already completed another RPG on it - Star Ocean: Till the end of time. It ran perfectly with a gamefix enabled for tri-soft(?) games. SO:3 is its other name. I'd reccomend it to JRPG fans, its not a good story, but the fighting is far more interesting than the turn by turn blows of FF series.

Pretty much out of things to say. The uncompressed version of this 30 second file was over 2gbs recorded at 1200x800. The monitor I had it on was a 42" tv which I'd normally have running at 1920x1080, which looks pretty wonderful to be fair. Except for bloom and other new effects, it looks like a current generation game. The resolution of the texturing is far higher than can be seen at any level the PS2 puts out and it's a big shame too, because they looked so good and its not till PCSX came along could we see them.

@RandoomDude to give you a comparison -
http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/7903/so3hidefvslowdef.jpg
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg195/skythra/starocean3.jpg
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/5151/ffxx.jpg

I wish that on these free image hosting sites they didn't get scaled down. I played both using the same TV, except one was at 1080p (1920x1080) and the other was at whatever a component out is off a PS2.

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[TheTitan9999]

Graphics HD but without sound xDD.

[skythra]

@TheTitan9999 check out v=0xprclx0wX0 if you want to see the same thing in 1080p and with sound.. also it's just the intro. Although because I'm not popular, it'll probably take a while to load.

[MrStanix93]

looks the emulated version better than the ps2 version???

[skythra]

@MrStanix93 That's the point, you can render it at 4000x4000 and then use filters to scale it back to 1920x1080p to make it very pretty. The reason the PS2 version looks bad is because it's barely 640x480. It also runs at a full 60fps without interlacing which helps make it look smoother. But only if your CPU/GPU Can handle it.

[titactaco]

How DARE you say SO3 had a bad story.

SO3 had THE GREATEST story in ANY GAME EVER.

You find out that the entire universe you live in and the 2 games before it are all a game in a simulation, and you travel to 4D space to fight GOD!

WHAT COULD BE BETTER!?

[ScientificNoodles]

Would be great if you could give me a hint and a lead on how to set the PCSX2 and the game up.

My last emulation experience on the PC was of playing FF8 on ePSX. That was great, but this will surpass even that.

Hell, I was even playing FF8 on a modded Xbox with the Xbox version of ePSX. XD

[MORELOCK1989]

Can someone tell me how to fix the sound of voices and music because they are like slurred/ the people sound like they are drunk... kinda annoying. please help. :)

[iloveboa1105]

is this the PAL version? or NTSC?

[Sekerajmusic]

@MrStanix93 Yes, with any cheap PS2 usb adapter.

[FullStrikeOG]

@Hakuru15 no doubt

[Hakuru15]

best game ever :)