PS2 GTA III Performance?

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Rapurimanka

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So i'm digging into PS2 world. I've got PS2 FAT (for HDD), FHDB 1.66 is installed on my SSD and i'm using latest OPL 1.2.0. I've tried GTA San Andreas and it works flawlessly. But then I've tried GTA III and it is a disaster. All games are NTSC and i ran them on PAL PS2.

I do understand that most likely it's issue with the game itself, but it's interesting that googling GTA III PS2 Performance doesn't show me mass of forum threads that it runs like shit. I guess everyone was shocked by the game, so its poor performance was not a №1 topic?)

The thing that bothers me the most is inconsistency of frame flaw. Dunno how to explain it better.

Take a looks at the very end of this footage (maybe it's better to download it): https://disk.yandex.ru/i/b4TKoTo-Hz0AYg

The police cars are riding very strange. They are like jumping in time :)
 
Could have something to do with playing this game from burned disc or external source.

Could be that a simple config would fix your issues.

I've played this game on jailbroken PS3 and it runs fine and I own the disc for PS2 so I need not to ever worry about issues when trying to play it from an original source

Could be worn out PS2, model-based issue or one-of-a-kind problem that only you are experiencing, I dont know
 
Rapurimanka said:
I've tried both playing from hdd and burned dvd, no difference. Comparing to ps3 is not legit :)
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I wasn't trying to make my comparison ultimately about the PS3, just happened to be stating that it runs fine on newer generation of playstation console and it also runs fine on my PS2 from legitimate physical copy of GTA3 that was bought at a Walmart 20+ years ago

Game also runs fine on PS4 and I am not talking about the remastered version that is part of the trilogy... You say these comparisons are not legit but most people not even needing to run GTA3 on its original platform because it is available in so many forms across newer-gen machines.

But again, could be something to do with the brand of DVD that you are burning or could be that the PS2 HDD is struggling more to read the game data as you are playing that game in whatever specific scenario is bothering you

Like, the way the cop cars behave is 1 miniscule factor that maybe only you are experiencing and im saying it could be that you are running it from HDD or that it has to do with the ISO and whatever DVD you burned it to

You might be able to use ISObuster to strip the PAD0.DAT down to 0 bytes before burning this game and trying again but it seems like alot of effort for a game that is a dead horse which comes from a game company that is a dead horse.

10+ years of GTA5 and about the last 5 years of being teased about GTA6 like it's ever going to come out, yet they continue to milk the malnourished cow that GTA5 has become

I'm glad you like old GTA games but the path that Rockstar (formerly DMA and Taketwo) has taken in video games has really ruined alot of their content for me. Best of luck with troubleshooting old-gen console issues that people are caring less to answer as this game can be played on XBOX, PS2, PS3, PS4, iOS, Android, PC with mods and it can probably even play on PS5.
 
Rapurimanka said:
So i'm digging into PS2 world. I've got PS2 FAT (for HDD), FHDB 1.66 is installed on my SSD and i'm using latest OPL 1.2.0. I've tried GTA San Andreas and it works flawlessly. But then I've tried GTA III and it is a disaster. All games are NTSC and i ran them on PAL PS2.

I do understand that most likely it's issue with the game itself, but it's interesting that googling GTA III PS2 Performance doesn't show me mass of forum threads that it runs like shit. I guess everyone was shocked by the game, so its poor performance was not a №1 topic?)

The thing that bothers me the most is inconsistency of frame flaw. Dunno how to explain it better.

Take a looks at the very end of this footage (maybe it's better to download it): https://disk.yandex.ru/i/b4TKoTo-Hz0AYg

The police cars are riding very strange. They are like jumping in time :)
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I'm very late to reply but I've tested 60FPS patches for the GTA games on real hardware and they seem to help keep the framerate to be more consistent. You can use PS2 Patch Engine to patch your USA GTA games with these 60FPS PNACH files and be sure to select SLUS when it gives you the option.
 
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