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PS2 Emulation with PCSX2 - share your game configs!
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ProphessorX
Neo Member
Front mission 5 scars of war worked pretty well with that English patch.
More people need to know about this problem. I wondered why I couldn't bring myself to try the game for more than 15 minutes at a time, the difference is night and day for my eyes. The case might be similar for other Atlus games like Digital Devil Saga or even Devil Summoner if they have similar visual effects implemented?
FF XII - 1024x896 (aka 2x scaling) with FXAA
Even at low resolutions it looks pretty good, even moreso with FXAA. I could've done up to 4x res, but my video card's a tad loud. About the only thing I couldn't get to show up in FF XII were some of the real-time character shadows:
Even at low resolutions it looks pretty good, even moreso with FXAA. I could've done up to 4x res, but my video card's a tad loud. About the only thing I couldn't get to show up in FF XII were some of the real-time character shadows:
The top one looks closer to the game i remember.
lightchris
Member
Usually if one wants to know how the game should look on the original hardware, software rendering is the answer (press F9 to switch between the two). It displays all the effects correctly that the hardware renderer misses/gets wrong.
mylasthope
Neo Member
When i enable MTVU, am I supposed to uncheck mVU?
lightchris
Member
Is that an honest question? Your CPU is as fast as the fastest stock CPU on the market.
Yes, it should play most games at full speed 100% of the time.
Of course the emulator isn't perfectably compatible with all PS2 games, so you could consult the compatibility list or just try your games out.
What games were you having problems with on the old i5?
Not that I know of.
You can try experimenting on the game you're interested in with special mappings, joy2key and such but I doubt the mouse look would be as smooth and natural as in an original pc fps. No universal solution here, I'm afraid.
Been trying to run DQVIII using the config in the OP w'o luck, it only runs at 15fps. Maybe the info is outdated? or maybe my PC is weak?, please help.
Specs
OS: Windows 8 (64b)
CPU: Intel i7-4770 at 3.4GHz
GPU: 1GB nVidia GeForce GT 635
RAM: 12GB
PCSX2 1.2.1 (r5875)
Thanks.
Specs
OS: Windows 8 (64b)
CPU: Intel i7-4770 at 3.4GHz
GPU: 1GB nVidia GeForce GT 635
RAM: 12GB
PCSX2 1.2.1 (r5875)
Thanks.
lightchris
Member
Your graphics card is really slow, especially in relation to your high-end CPU. Lowering the internal rendering resolution should help.
Figured as much, oh well it runs kinda fine at x2, but that's it (at x3 it all goes to hell haha), time to check some graphic cards I guess!.
tyvm.
Some games run in Progressive Mode on PCSX2 (Persona 3 is one that comes to mind) but some games don't (Drakengard). The ones that don't, even if I chose a proper deinterlace method (BOB TFF), it still looks blurry (and I'm not talking about the textures, i'm talking about the models and the edge between them and whatever is behind them). Progressive games, obviously, don't.
I know that there's no way to force Progressive mode on PCSX2 itself (even though you can do it with a couple gameshark codes on a real PS2). Is there any way to improve the image quality on non-progressive games?
Here's how the games look on my setup (3x internal resolution)
Persona 3:
Drakengard:
Edit: and here are my settings:
I know that there's no way to force Progressive mode on PCSX2 itself (even though you can do it with a couple gameshark codes on a real PS2). Is there any way to improve the image quality on non-progressive games?
Here's how the games look on my setup (3x internal resolution)
Persona 3:
Drakengard:
Edit: and here are my settings:
NoSkillz187
Member
I'm having a weird problem in Budokai 3. The game runs perfect but for some reason in the story segments and the opening movie, the camera zooms all the way in at like 1000% or something, for a couple of seconds.
Anyone ran into this problem?
Anyone ran into this problem?
BlazeHedgehog
Member
Nope. I played DBZ Budokai 3 just fine when I tried about a month ago. The only major problem I remember is that some of the cel shading was weird when it came to showing texture/model seams.
Like on Goku's pants, there.
NoSkillz187
Member
I managed to fix that weird white lines problem. Not sure what I did though. It seems like I am getting this zoom in problem on other games as well though..
NoSkillz187
Member
Anyone know how to fix this odd problem? It's like the camera man is trying to look behind their head or something.
BlazeHedgehog
Member
More than likely. Final Fantasy games are apparently extremely optimized.
I can't actually run most games especially well, but Final Fantasy 10, Kingdom Hearts, etc. all run smooth as silk and my system's only a Core 2 Duo with 2gb of RAM and a Radeon 5670 HD.
Cave Johnson
Member
I'm thinking of getting a PS4 controller for the pcsx2. Is it suggestable I use the driver converter from the 360 pad? I've heard it has some issues running on Win 7. I'd use motioninjoy but it doesn't seem to work no more.
It's just not as big of a deal any more and I don't think it was as difficult of a problem to solve.
Also I imagine a lot of people here are the 'right' age now, where they want to go back and check out some of their favourites from their formative age in higher resolutions and such. That's my reason, anyway. The PS2 is still my favourite console and it's got a bunch of games I still haven't played but want to. Might as well clean up the visuals somewhat.
Violence Jack
Member
I tried playing Drakengard on this, and the game lags almost to the point that it's nearly unplayable when multiple enemies are on the screen. Played around with the config, and couldn't get it back. Definitely subbing to learn how to fix this.
Can someone help me understand what's going on with my MGS2 and 3 iso's? Neither of them work properly.
I can boot in and all. That functions just fine. However...
1. MGS2, square does not work for my tranquilizer gun. That is the only weapon that seizes to function. Even chaff grenades on Tanker mission work fine. It's just the tranq that doesn't seem to work with X on my Xbox controller (formatted for square).
2. All buttons on MGS3 do not work. I can only press start and get to the main menu and after that, the buttons seize to function. Can't even play.
Does anyone know what the issue could be? Everything is configured properly, and I use the SSSPSX Pad Pressure Mod for my controller. Most other games I have work minus these two.
I can boot in and all. That functions just fine. However...
1. MGS2, square does not work for my tranquilizer gun. That is the only weapon that seizes to function. Even chaff grenades on Tanker mission work fine. It's just the tranq that doesn't seem to work with X on my Xbox controller (formatted for square).
2. All buttons on MGS3 do not work. I can only press start and get to the main menu and after that, the buttons seize to function. Can't even play.
Does anyone know what the issue could be? Everything is configured properly, and I use the SSSPSX Pad Pressure Mod for my controller. Most other games I have work minus these two.
The clock rate of your CPU is pretty low, but it's a modern one, so I'm not sure if it will hamper you or not. I would just try it out. You can rip your games easily with any DVD drive. Check the compatibility list on pcsx2.net beforehand, just so you don't waste your time. You'll need a PS2 bios, but those are easy enough to acquire if you can't dump it yourself (which you can with FreeMcBoot, look for tutorials on Youtube), just look around a bit.
As an aside, games will be emulated at 100% speed or not. Their framerates are internal, so sometimes they are locked (or targeting) to 30, sometimes to 60 or 50 in case of PAL games. So long as you can emulate the game at full speed it will run at its intended resolution. I wouldn't aim for 30fps on a 60fps game, it would run at half speed, including the audio.
Thanks for the reply. I don't have the laptop yet but I was planning on getting it for around $590. I've read that the clockspeed seems low but it can overclocked to about 3.0ghz.
Wouldn't that possibly cause your laptop to overheat though?
Is there a guide to ripping games? I thought it would be pretty straightforward using Alcohol 120 and I did successfully rip and play some of them but when I put in others they don't show up. I've managed to back up Final Fantasy XII, X2 and Mega Man Anniversary collection. Final Fantasy X and Dark Cloud 2 don't seem to be working, I'm going through the rest to see what works and what doesn't.
Seeing the results made me giddy though, I can't wait to finish up the games I was in the middle of before my PS2 died on me.
Edit: Must have been some freak thing, successfully backed up my entire collection
Seeing the results made me giddy though, I can't wait to finish up the games I was in the middle of before my PS2 died on me.
Edit: Must have been some freak thing, successfully backed up my entire collection
Haeralis The BRave
Banned
http://m.newegg.com/Product/index?itemnumber=34-313-742
http://m.bestbuy.com/m/e/product/detail....9091868856
http://m.toshibadirect.com/product/detai...70-AST3G23
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834313743
https://m.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/think...:000038B4:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0096VCHMI/?tag=neogaf0e-20
How do these compare for PCSX2?
http://m.bestbuy.com/m/e/product/detail....9091868856
http://m.toshibadirect.com/product/detai...70-AST3G23
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834313743
https://m.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/think...:000038B4:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0096VCHMI/?tag=neogaf0e-20
How do these compare for PCSX2?
You don't need something like Alcohol 120% at all. (It's funny that I hadn't heard of that program in years.) You can use ImgBurn (free) to create an ISO. Then you can compress them further with PCSX2 to save a few gigs.
lightchris
Member
They aren't. The emulation of PS2 (or other console) games is CPU intensive, because all the machine code of this radically different architecture needs to be translated and adapted to be able to run on a PC.
BlazeHedgehog
Member
I actually wrote out a big post but while researching that I found this post from the PCSX2 forums that explains things:
Short answer: Emulating game consoles is super difficult. You might think that the SNES can be easily emulated on a 400mhz machine, but those emulators cut a lot of corners. Higan, an emulator that replicates SNES output 1:1, requires at least a dual-core machine to be playable.
It'll be decades before that style of PS2 emulation is possible. Until then, it takes a lot of research and corner-cutting, which takes a lot of time and a lot of effort.
Hey guys. I know it's not exactly the same thing but I'm trying to run ePSXe on my Windows 7 machine with a 3770k. I'm having trouble running a game, it looks like it loads up but just hangs on a black screen indefinitely.
I assume it has something to do with which plugin I used?
http://www.pbernert.com/html/gpu.htm
I just don't know which one I should be using.
Any idea? Thanks.
I assume it has something to do with which plugin I used?
http://www.pbernert.com/html/gpu.htm
I just don't know which one I should be using.
Any idea? Thanks.