ePSXe and modern hardware?

psyko12 · Jan 28, 2012

hat said:
I've been playing some games on my PS1 emulator, ePSXe, lately... specifically MGS. It seems to run rather slow on my machine for some reason. Usually it's fine, although there does seem to be a general slugishness with it. At times, it gets really bad. When I ride elevators, it drops to about 30FPS. At other times, the game will bog down really bad (running around in the communication towers is a good spot for this) and it will be showing 60FPS. It seems all the latest plugins (Pete's OGL2 2.9 is what I'm using) were released around the time the GeForce 7k series/Radeon x1k series were popular. When I watch my GPU usage with GPU-Z, I watch my core clock speed fluctuate between 400 and 850MHz, and the GPU usage doesn't seem to go over 10%.

Is my hardware too new to be used by ePSXe effectively, or is it that my hardware is well over what ePSXe could even ask for, and the emulator is just crappy in the sense it slows down like that for seemingly no reason?

Have you tried ePSXe shark? It's a stepforward from the older ePSXe and it's maintained/patched. It resolves most issues from the original one. Plus adds tonnes of new features which the older version needs plugins.

ePSXe Shark

try that it might help/solve your issues.

natr0n · Jan 30, 2012

I'm an emulation expert lol, try this

http://pcsxr.codeplex.com/

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ePSXe and modern hardware?

psyko12

natr0n