Hi all
I am a great fan of Time Crisis games and I have had problems with PCSX2 running Time Crisis 2 and 3. The game slows down and becomes unplayable at times. I am running a Ryzen 7 1700 with a GTX1060.
I have found a way to get these to run smoothly by adjusting CPU affinity. Check out google for different affinity settings. I had to try different settings to find one that worked well on my processor.
By using an AHK script I can now run this directly from launchbox.
Onother way of changing affinity settings is to create a shortcut to pcsx2 and change the target to: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C start "" /affinity 7F "X:\Your PCSX2 directory location\pcsx2.exe" The only problem with using a shortcut is it is hard to use with launchbox.
Hope this helps some others. Took me a while to figure this out
Heres my AHK script: I highlighted the part with sets CPU affinity. My setting is 7F. Obviously you will have to change paths to emulator directories etc.
#NoEnv ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
; #Warn ; Enable warnings to assist with detecting common errors.
SendMode Input ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir% ; Ensures a consistent starting directory.
Run, C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C start "" /affinity 7F "H:\Playstation2 PSX2 (PS)\experiment\pcsx2-v1.7.0-dev-549-g3442ba748-windows-x86\pcsx2.exe" "H:\Playstation2 PSX2 (PS)\roms\Time Crisis 2\Time Crisis II (USA).bin"
Escape::
Process,Close,pcsx2.exe
Run,taskkill /im "pcsx2.exe" /F
ExitApp
Return