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Originally Posted by Proxy1
I'm actually using more mature drivers than what's released to the public. I work at ATI 
Maybe Gsdx10 simply doesn't work nicely with the 3850/3870? I don't know... |
Seems one of the 3850 owners has figured out whats partially causing the slow down. And it almost certainly effects gsdx9 as well and possibly ZeroGS.
Also it effects other emulators he's using, pj64 gets ~6fps
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Originally Posted by John Aiton
bump!
I bumped this to say i have solved the problem with the 3850 card,
well....not solved, I just now know what it is
through all the lower fps in pcsx2, the trouble with the crysis menus
and various other new stuff I've noticed
I can say the problem is CPU offloading,
the 8600gts done a lot of tasks normally done by the processor
the 3850 doesn't!
studying some old ffxii videos i made against ffxii now shows my cpu is the bottleneck in both
it's the same one as before at the same clock speed,
so for it to max 100% on pcsx2 at a lower frames speed means it must have more to do
to everyone considering or owning the 3800 cards - I hope this helps
the future drivers should improve performance  |
sorry to rain on ATI's parade, not something I like to do to the underdog or a Canadian based and formerly owned company, but I'm thinking these drivers may never be optimized to perform properly with pcsx2 unless someone outside the company modifies the open source drivers. Even if they are optimized to put the load back onto the 3XXX it will likely mean even more work for the card and the gap between the nvidia 8XXX and ati HD 3XXX will widen even further.