

So that would mean you can 1) pick a graphics level default, then 2) uncheck "preset" and play around with settings one by one until you find a marked improvement. In many cases one key setting will get your PC's behavior more "in sync" with what the game needs, and then everything is super smooth. The gist of that advice is: A modern gaming PC is likely having trouble with PS2 emulation because it's overperforming on some calculations (magic?), not underperforming. (On Windows, with PCSX2 1.4, you can see the framerate % in the window titlebar.)

Boy was I wrong, Shadow of the Colossus (the only game worth playing in my book -) ran up to 70-80% performance, and dipped down to 10-50% performance when I looked at high-poly regions, depending on the graphics settings I chose. I recently got a PC rig capable of entry-level VR, so I assumed I'd be able to play PS2 emulated games easily enough.
