Gran Turismo

[solarmystic]

Took the plunge and tried it on my ancient rig in sig.

The most glaring issue is definitely the text one. Unreadable and repeating letters in the text means that unless you've memorized what each icon does (and you should, from your PSP), getting into the game modes is a matter of trial and error.

Performance wise, this seems to be amongst the heaviest on the CPU usage, up there with the God of War games and Tekken 6. VPS ranges from 35 - 60 on my machine, depending on the amount of geometry it has to render, and enabling debug statistics shows a whooping 7-8k flushes and 12k draw calls made at times. Game is severely CPU limited, choking a single core out of 2 cores, and my GPU is just relaxing in the game, only at about 30% utlization at 3x RR.

Frameskip CANNOT be used to help with performance in this game because of how it handles alternate frames; the game will just look motionless/slomo the moment you enable frameskip, which goes back to normal when you turn off frameskip again. This puts the game well out of mobile devices reach for now.

(Refer to Henrik's link for further details:- http://pspslimhacks.com/why-gran-turismo...aliasing/)