To help with this, turn on the Skipdraw hardware hack and set it to 1. So more than likely GSdx is eating up your VRAM when playing this game. According to the wiki page for this game, it uses a lot of VRAM, and from what I've seen HD 6850s either come with 1GB or 2GB of VRAM, which is not a lot. That's not taking into account that those Need for Speed games are known for being CPU-intensive so you need a particularly beefy CPU to emulate them smoothly. And that's just speaking in general terms of emulating any run-of-the-mill PS2 game. So that's your first problem right there, your CPU is just not up to snuff. All ISO images of a game are the same, only thing that changes this is if they are from another region or of another edition of the game.Īssuming your CPU is the AMD Phenom II X4 B45, its STR is 1058, which is quite a ways below the bare minimum of 1500 we recommend for PS2 emulation. What I'm try to say is that saying 'a really nice good working copy' is irrelevant. Either they are intact and work just fine or they are corrupted and have issues. ISO images are 1:1 copies of a game disc, there's no loss of data like there is when you encode a video file or an audio file using a lossy codec. Found a really nice good working copy of nfsu2 Featuring some tight customization features and fast sense of speed, Need for Speed Underground became one of the best selling titles last year This year EA is back with Need for Speed.

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