I am very excited right now! I figured out why I’m getting slowdown in the PS1 and PS2 games I mentioned in my previous post, and there is a pretty funny story that accompanies my revelation.

Thanks to a Reddit comment, I have determined that the slowdown is caused by the game running off my SD card, as FF8 has zero slowdown when on the internal storage of my Razer Edge. The funny thing is, it’s an #AmazonBasics card, and just last night I watched a new YouTube video about the brand by MrWhosetheboss.

I still have to try a different SD card to definitively lay the blame on Amazon Basics but it’s an interesting coincidence.

Update: FF8 runs much better with an old SanDisk card I have, although I have had a couple of slowdowns. The transfer speeds of the Amazon Basics card are “up to 100MB/s”, whereas the SanDisk card says “up to 140MB/s”. I wonder if a microSD card with even higher speeds would alleviate the issue altogether.