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a good program to play PS2 on PC

Jacobi

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I have my PS2 hooked up to my PC via Composite, it all works properly with Power VCR 2, the problem is you can't de-interlace. Is there a good program to play PS2 de-interlaced on PC ? I don't want to install DScaler, because it looks dangerous from its description (can crash discs, etc.)
 
I've always wondered if it might be worth getting a monitor somewhere, putting it in my room, and hooking up my consoles via a VGA adaptor. If it is cheap enough, I dont see the purpose in getting a new TV this year.
 
Jacobi said:
I have my PS2 hooked up to my PC via Composite, it all works properly with Power VCR 2, the problem is you can't de-interlace. Is there a good program to play PS2 de-interlaced on PC ? I don't want to install DScaler, because it looks dangerous from its description (can crash discs, etc.)

I think de-interlacing can now be done on driver level on most ATI and nVidia hardware.. I never tried it myself, but I think ATI have de-interlacing support for video output on the monitor, with several different kinds of adaptive filtering.
 
The only way to play consoles on a PC is directly connecting it to the monitor with a vga adaptor.

If you try to filter it through the PC, there will be a microsecond delay between when you move on the controller and something actually happening on the screen. Makes it unplayable basically.
 
Jacobi said:
I have my PS2 hooked up to my PC via Composite, it all works properly with Power VCR 2, the problem is you can't de-interlace. Is there a good program to play PS2 de-interlaced on PC ? I don't want to install DScaler, because it looks dangerous from its description (can crash discs, etc.)

Try Dscaler, it's what everyone uses and I have not heard or had any of the problems you are talking about.

DSCALER

Works best with at least S-Video but this should help you some.

Grug said:
The only way to play consoles on a PC is directly connecting it to the monitor with a vga adaptor.

If you try to filter it through the PC, there will be a microsecond delay between when you move on the controller and something actually happening on the screen. Makes it unplayable basically.

Not entirely true, it depends on how you have it hooked up. I'm using a TV tuner card (winfast 2000xp) that is software based. The delay problem comes in mainly when you use tuner cards that are hardware based.
 
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