Beetle PSX - CPU Overclocking - Stable 30fps with Shadow Tower!

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Published on February 9, 2018 11:59:18 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SayOf-3zVc

Game:

Shadow Tower (1998)

Duration: 5:16

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Another From Software game from the PS1 era, which not only has many thematic similarities to their later work in Dark Souls/Bloodborne, but also technical ones.

As with most From Software games by now, the framerate is expectedly awful, the entire game more or less running at Blighttown-like framerates. You can see in the early part of the video the game running at the CPU's original clock rate, and it hovers somewhere from 20fps (high) to 15fps (mid) all the way down to 11fps sometimes.

When CPU overclocking is set to 300%, you can see the game maintaining a stable 30fps. You can push the game even higher than this but 60fps appears to be a bit too fast and the system requirements become even higher at such high rates.

System specs:
Core i7 7700k
16GB RAM
Titan XP
OS: Windows 10

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