Well, I would say that you should use PEOPs SOft plugin only on 2D games. And use Petes OGL or D3D(or whatever suits your graphic chip the best) plugin for the rest. Trying to run 3d games with softplugin is not the best idea. But IF every game you play slows down, then I don't know what to say, but if only some specific games slowdown, you should be more specific and tell us what these games might be.
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