PCSX2 The Playstation 2 emulator. Created 0. 2 May 2. Written by bositman. Configuration Guide video For languages other than english, click here. Since this guide is extremely detailed and a long read, avih created a much shorter quick start guide which you can read here. If you still have questions or want to understand what each option does better, read the long guide In this guide I will try to explain how to properly configure PCSX2 and to give some tips for running games. Here it is in steps 1 Download the new PCSX2 v. HERE. 2 PCSX2 comes in 3 flavors, full installer, web installer and binary. Full installer has the Direct. X web installer bundled, web installer optionally downloads it from the internet, and binary is only the program with the plugins. Download the one you prefer or if you dont know which, the full installer. Run the installer if you downloaded the installer or if you downloaded binary open the archive and extract its contents into a folder. C PCSX24 Run pcsx. For Linux Users. Get the new binary from here or the source from Git. To compile from source, follow the instructions in the Compilation Guide for Linux. You need the following installed libasound. Plugins generally used Linux include ZZOgl pg or ZZOgl, GSdx SDL, SPU2 X, Zero. SPU2, One. Pad, Linuz Iso, EFP Iso, and EFP Polling. Index. Plugin Configuration. BIOS configuration. Core configuration. Misc. Settings configuration. Shortcutshotkeys configuration. YHb00WPPo/VYEYazXzXxI/AAAAAAAAABg/mboZ2clGlh0/s1600/pcsx2%2B3.png' alt='Pnach Files For Pcsx2 S' title='Pnach Files For Pcsx2 S' />Configuring PCSX2. PCSX2 has a first time configuration wizard to help you configure it easier so well first go through that. In the first screen, you will be prompted to select the language. In the first dropdown, simply select the language you want the program to be in. PCSX2 will automatically store all settings, memcards and new files generated in general in your Documents folder if you used the installers, or in the same folder pcsx. In the second screen you will be able to choose which plugins you want to use. The default plugins are the ones with the higher compatibility and usually fastest too, so before changing them make sure you know what youre doing. Here you can also specify a different folder for your plugins if you want, by unchecking the use default setting checkbox and selecting a folder of your choice by clicking Browse. Semprons/GodofWar2skipmpeg.jpg' alt='Pnach Files For Pcsx2 S' title='Pnach Files For Pcsx2 S' />Open In Explorer simply opens a file explorer window in the folder you have specified. In the third screen, you will be prompted to select your BIOS image from the list. If you cant see anything on this list, you need to either copy your BIOS files in the folder seen below, or change that folder to point to where you have your BIOS image saved. For more information about the BIOS, check the BIOS configuration section of this guide. If you cant make a selection, you will not be able to use PCSX2. Click Finish to end the First Time Configuration Wizard. This is the main GUIGraphical User Interface of PCSX2. PCSX2 a Playstation 2 emulator for Windows, Linux and Mac. Game Files In the database of the website you will find thousands of popular as well as rare file extensions, and the thousands of programs that can be used to. From here, you can change the settings or plugins used by PCSX2 as you see fit. We will start with configuring our plugins then we will move onto Core settings configuration. Go to Config PluginBIOS selector to select and configure the plugins PCSX2 will use. Youll see a screen like this click to enlarge There are 3 tabs, Plugins, BIOS and Folders. Plugins tab of the PluginsBIOS Selector First off, you can uncheck the use default setting checkbox at the bottom and select a folder of your choice by clicking Browse. This is the folder from which PCSX2 loads its plugins. At the left you see which component each plugin emulates GS, PAD, SPU2 etc, in the middle you have the plugin selection drop down, and at the right there is the Configure button which will open the configuration dialog for the respective plugin you have selected. Pnach Files For Pcsx2 S' title='Pnach Files For Pcsx2 S' />Keep in mind that whenever you change the selected plugin, you will have to press the Apply button for the emulator to load the new plugin and make the Configure button available for it. Now onto the actual plugin configuring Graphics First, you will want to check what version of pixel shaders and Direct. X on Windows your graphic card supports. You can do that here. For the time being you will be able to use 3 GS plugins GSdx v. Zero. GS v. 0. 9. GSnull driver v. 0. GSdx v. 0. 1. 1. 6 is a Direct. X 9 and Direct. X 1. Gabest which recently got greatly improved in both speed and image quality. It requires pixel shaders 2 and SSE2 to work and VistaWindows 78 with a Direct. X 1. 0 compliant graphics card for the Direct. X1. 01. 1 mode. Zero. Release Log 0. 06 Added move support for faster moving filesdirectories instead of copydelete. Added very basic LUA support only stringmath libs echo function. Updated multi language strings for Italian, Russian and Korean Added COBRA 7. Portuguese Added Portuguese Brazilian Added. GS is a very old plugin which has not been developed in years. A very small number of games works better with this plugin than with GSdx, you can try it as a last resort. GSnull is, as the name suggests, a null graphics plugin which will not output any kind of video. It is used for debugging purposes. Select GSdx v. 0. Configure button. First of all GSdx comes in 5 versions,SSE2,SSSE3, SSE4. AVX and AVX2. Only IF your processor supports these instruction sets use highest version you can since it will be faster for you in this order from slowest to fastest SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4. AVX and AVX2. The new AVX and AVX2 instructions give a minor speed up only with the software renderers of GSdx and not the hardware ones. Note AMD users do NOT mistake SSE3 with SSSE3 1 extra S and SSE4. A with SSE4. 1, they are totally different and are NOT supported. Medical Store Management System Project In Java. In this case use the SSE2 flavor. SSE2 supporting CPUs Check here. SSSE3 supporting CPUs Check here. SSE4. 1 supporting CPUs Intel Core 2 Duo Penryn series E7xxx,E8xxx and Q9xxx models, Intel Corei. Intel Corei. 5, Intel Corei. AMD BulldozerBobcat. AVX supporting CPUs Check here. AVX2 supporting CPUs Check here. To use the Direct. X1. 01. 1 mode, you will have to be running Windows Vista or Windows 78 with a Direct. X1. 01. 1 compliant graphics card check previous linkDirect. X1. 0 and Direct. X1. 1 modes of GSdx for the time being are exactly the same in both terms of speed and compatibility. The only difference is that you will only see the first if your graphics card supports up to Direct. X1. 0 and only the second if your graphics card supports up to Direct. X1. 1Adapter Here you can select which graphics adapter GSdx will use. Very useful for computers which have a dedicated graphics card and an onboard graphics chip, so the user can select the much faster dedicated graphics card explicitly. Renderer Here you can choose how the graphics will be rendered. By selecting Direct. D9 Hardware, GSdx will use the Direct. D capabilities of your graphics card, boosting the emulation speed significantly. By selecting Direct. D1. 01. 1 Hardware only selectable in VistaWindows 7 with DX1. GSdx will use its Direct. Usb Softv92 Modem Driver. D1. 01. 1 mode which is usually the fastest mode and sometimes even more compatible as well. Highly recommended if your system supports it. By selecting Direct. D91. 01. 1 software, GSdx will use its built in software renderer, which will not use your graphics card at all, but your processor instead. This way the emulation speed is greatly reduced but you get maximum compatibility. Recommended if you encounter graphics bugs with the Direct. D Hardware renderer. By selecting Open. GL hardware, GSdx will use the Open. GL backend, which at this time is a slower equivalent of the Direct. X renderers, with the same or worse compatibility. Its the best option for Linux users. By selecting Open. GL software, GSdx will use the Open. GL backend in software mode, with the same characteristics as described above.