Game:

Death by Degrees (2005)

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Let's Play

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Playing Playstation 2 games on Linux using PCSX2
Death by Degrees

This action-adventure game from 2005 is a spin-off the tekken fighting games series.

The player controls Nina Williams during the whole game using mainly the two analog sticks of the gamepad.

Scroll down for My specs, PCSX2 configuration, and Performances improvements tips !

~~ My Specs ~~
CPU : AMD FX(tm)-8150 Eight-Core Processor
GPU : GeForce GTX 770
RAM : 8G
OS : 3.16.3-1-ARCH x86_64 GNU/Linux

~~ PCSX2 Options & Plugins ~~
1/ Plugins :
GS : GSdx
PAD : OnePAD
SPU2 : SPU2-X

2/ Plugins config :
a) GSdx
Renderer : OpenGL (Hardware)
Interlacing : None
Use Scaling Custom
Custom Resolution 1200x720
b) SPU2-X
Interpolation : Linear
Disable Effects Processing
Synchronization Mode : TimeStretch

3/ Emulator Options :
EE : Recompiler
IOP : Recompiler
VU : MicroVU Recompiler
Activate SpeedHacks:
EE Cycle Rate : 1
VU Cycle Stealing : 0
Activate INTC Spin Detection
Activate Wait Loop Detection
Activate mVU Flag Hack
Activate MTVU

~~ How To Increase Performances ~~
1 / Set your cpu governor
Cpu governor can have a -HUGE- impact on performances.
You may try to set all your cpu to performance mode using the cpupower tool :
cpupower frequency-set -g performance
When finished, you can switch back to conservative using the following command:
cpupower frequency-set -g conservative
2 / Set process affinity
When it comes to multithreaded workload,sometimes more cpu doesn't mean more performances (it can even slow down your program).
By default, when launching a program, it will be able to work on all your cpu cores; wich can lead to performances drop for application that performs best on 2,3 or 4 cores.
As for me, running PCSX2 on 8 cpu cores lead to crappy framerate; the solution, set pcsx2 affinity to 4 cores :
taskset -cap 0-3 $(pidof pcsx2)
0-3 means the cpu number 0,1,2 and 3 (the first core is the number 0)

3 / Play an european version of the game (Pal) over NTSC
Pal games runs at 50fps and NTSC at 60fps. Wich means that you will be much more able to emulate pal games than NTSC ones.

OS : Archlinux rolling release ( http://www.archlinux.org )
Pcsx2 : 1.3.0-git ( http://pcsx2.net )
Capture : SimpleScreenRecorder 0.3.0 ( http://www.maartenbaert.be/simplescreenrecorder/ )

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