I'm running epsxe with Pete's D3D Driver 1.77. I have OpenGL2, but can't run it as smoothly as D3D. I love the custom shaders for OpenGL2 (I'm playing FF9, and the BumpMap shader is amazing). Anyway, outside of battle, I get perfect framerate (of course), but the whirling effect battle transition slows it down do roughly 45fps. Then, once the battle loads, it's fine as long as it's a one on one type of fight. If the whole party is fighting something, then it slows the fps to about the same as I mentioned before. Common sense tells me it's due to the amount of polygons and all that good jazz that's being emulated onscreen. Anyway, here's my computer specs:
Acer Aspire 5515
Amd Athlon 64 2650e 1.6 GHz
3GB RAM
ATI Radeon X1200 Graphics
Yeah, nothing amazing, but for 350 bucks brand new, this laptop was seriously a steal. On to my question: from what I said about the fps earlier, have I reached the limit for this little laptop? Do you guys think I could squeeze a bit more out of it, or not? If so, I'll post my settings for the opengl2 plugin and work from there. I didn't want to make this post any longer.
[Sorry, after re-reading, I notice something may not be clear. D3d runs perfect, aside from framebuffer crap (whirls and such...and a couple spell graphics effect cast in FFIX...causes the fps to dip into the high 40's for a split second), I'd just like to run OpenGL2 smoothly is what I'm getting at.]
Acer Aspire 5515
Amd Athlon 64 2650e 1.6 GHz
3GB RAM
ATI Radeon X1200 Graphics
Yeah, nothing amazing, but for 350 bucks brand new, this laptop was seriously a steal. On to my question: from what I said about the fps earlier, have I reached the limit for this little laptop? Do you guys think I could squeeze a bit more out of it, or not? If so, I'll post my settings for the opengl2 plugin and work from there. I didn't want to make this post any longer.
[Sorry, after re-reading, I notice something may not be clear. D3d runs perfect, aside from framebuffer crap (whirls and such...and a couple spell graphics effect cast in FFIX...causes the fps to dip into the high 40's for a split second), I'd just like to run OpenGL2 smoothly is what I'm getting at.]