Well, to give you an idea of what I'm working with:
Intel Dual Core T2300 1.66 GHz
1.00 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400
I did try a variety of plugins and settings, but this was about 2 or 3 years ago, they might have made some progress with the emulator. If you think I still have a shot making it work I'll look into it.
Honestly I don't know. I've only emulated Disgaea so far as I haven't really come across other PS2 games I'd wan to run yet (excepting MBAA of course
). This setup:
Core 2 E4500 2.2GHZ
2.0GB DDR2
NVIDIA 8600 GT
lagged pretty badly under the default PCSX2 setup (it had 10-15 FPS frame rate + some serious audio bugs).
Then I switched to the following plugin setup:
Base App: PCSX2 0.9.4
Graphics Plugin: GSDX 846 (MSVC 15.00, SSSE3) 0.1.9
Sound Plugin: P.E.Op.S. SPU2 1.9.0
Controller Plugin: SSSPSX PAD Plugin Pressure Mod 1.6.0
CDROM Plugin: Linuzappz ISO CDVD 0.7.0
Dev9 Plugin: STOCK
USB Plugin: STOCK
FireWire Plugin: STOCK
BIOS: USA v01.60(07/02/2002) Console
With that configuration I get perfect frame rate (no lag or audio stutter under any conditions, even during the most intense animations). I'm not sure how much "wiggle room" there is, though - it could be that it's just barely good enough, and a more demanding game or less powerful computer would bring the framerate woes right back.