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[flowsnake]

Is the AVG stuff opt-out or opt-in? I must have read it incorrectly because I thought it was opt-in and it installed it anyway...

 

[Pudge]

Is the AVG stuff opt-out or opt-in? I must have read it incorrectly because I thought it was opt-in and it installed it anyway...

You have to untick the box on the installation and then untick the two boxes below it that show up.

 

[Khaz]

It doesn't, PS2 games are just standard DVDs. There isn't any reason why a regular drive couldn't read them.

That said, the BEST solution is to make your DVDs .img/iso/etc files and run them from your hard drive. PC DVD drives don't function the same way as the PS2 drive, and thus playing from drive itself can lead to all sorts of oddities and slow downs.

It's because the DVD is used like a data drive: the emulator fetchs the data it needs as fast as it cans and makes the drive rest when it's loaded. Such behaviour is normal for hard drives but a disc drive is much slower to start spinning. As such, everytime you load some assets there will be some slowdowns corresponding to your disc accelerating to its reading speed. On a PS2 the disc is kept spinning and the data is accessed faster (but not loaded faster though).

DVD-based slowdowns would be easy to avoid, you just need to get CDVD to keep the disk spinning and you will have the same behaviour as on a real PS2, with faster loadings. I don't know why they havent squashed that bug yet, I guess everybody plays with pirated images anyway.

[edit] I know you know, I was just expanding a bit.

 

[Orayn]

I have no idea how this works...

'DEV9ghzdrk:

Improved support for online play and make the users MAC address unique.'

Does this mean i can play socom 1 or 2 on this one online? I guess not since an emulator cant provide servers, but yeah

Those still need master servers that were taken down some time ago. There are some games it works with, however, like Metal Gear Online (original) and Resident Evil Outbreak. Those use custom servers and not the originals.

 

[kick51]

Back everything up beforehand! Somehow lost all my saves when I updated to 1.0. then the saves I recovered didn't work for some reason.

 

[GraveHorizon]

Am I going to notice any difference compared to the previous version other than widescreen? When I played Spider-Man 2, it was either a mess of textures in hardware mode, or grainy slow motion play in software mode.

Also, SOCOM's first mission gas a bugged objective that doesn't let me get it for no reason. The one where you're supposed to sneak up and eavesdrop on the terrorists; the objective always gets failed because they automatically are made aware of me once I go up the ramp to the upper level. Anyone know how to get around that?

 

[[Fugo]]

does it run faster?

I wanted to replay DQVIII and my ps2 is dead, but on 1.0 (and earlier) the game ran bad even at low settings (FFXII plays flawlessly on my rig)

 

[Khaz]

Is this emulator compatible with REZ Trance vibrator?

 

[Metalingus5150]

Silent Hill 3 still has glitches with the flashlight.
:/

 

[Hesemonni]

Looking forward to possible performance improvements.

 

[jediyoshi]

Can you render out at that res but still output in the correct ratio?

Yep

 

[TheSeks]

They can, but you should still rip the discs on to the HDD to get the best performance.

I can't even get my drives to rip the DVD's despite being DVD-RW's. I'm guessing they're too old to do it despite being around the age of the PS2 and slightly newer. :/

It's annoying because I'm wanting to play Nocturne on PCSX2 but can't.

So if PCSX2 can finally run off the DVD-drive, I'll probably just go that route to play my PS2 titles.

 

[Dark Octave]

I was trying to find Rogue Galaxy at Gamestop, such a rare game at this point. Art style would hold up well today.

The game is great. You shouldn't miss out on it.

Has the issue with diagonals on the 360 sticks been figured out? It always registered as a walk instead of run.

 

[Fou-Lu]

Does Digital Devil Saga work yet?

 

[Jonm1010]

Ripping FFXII right nor to try it out, would try X but it ran awesome on the last version anyway at 1080/60

If you get a chance to post your results from XII I'd be really interested to know. Been wanting to play this game again but would love updated resolution and tweeks to get it looking decent.

 

[Shepard]

I was so happy to see FFXII running at full speed with 5x internal resolution and in 16:9, time to sink another 300 hours in this game. This emulator just needs a "widescreen hack", like dolphin has (though I'd prefer that Dolphin was as fast as PCSX2, tbh...)

 

[ronito]

Is it any easier to set up? I tried a few years ago and all those ISO files and esoteric settings

 

[inyue]

If you get a chance to post your results from XII I'd be really interested to know. Been wanting to play this game again but would love updated resolution and tweeks to get it looking decent.

It was working perfectly when I tried 2-3 years ago....

 

[Diablos]

Does Klonoa 2 work yet?

 

[Poetic.Injustice]

Back everything up beforehand! Somehow lost all my saves when I updated to 1.0. then the saves I recovered didn't work for some reason.

Aren't the save states in a different folder? They better fucking be.

 

[Chettlar]

I'm thinking of getting Kingdom Hearts and Shadow of Colossus for this.

Any other must have suggestions people have?

 

[enzo_gt]

Is there a significant difference in actual emulation between this and previous versions? Beyond just being the latest stable release?

 

[kuYuri]

I was just playing Mega Man Anniversary Collection, good timing for this release, heh. Maybe it will fix one of the bugs that I see in the game.

 

[Teletraan1]

Back everything up beforehand! Somehow lost all my saves when I updated to 1.0. then the saves I recovered didn't work for some reason.

I always have my memcard directory set to my D drive in a separate folder. I just point any of these releases to that directory so I dont run the risk of losing them if I ever uninstall or upgrade etc.

 

[ItsTheNew]

Is there a significant difference in actual emulation between this and previous versions? Beyond just being the latest stable release?

I noticed games that were nearly unplayable through my DVD drive (God of War) on the last stable version ran a lot better with the nightly a month ago. So yes, it's much more than a number change!

 

[Sublyminal]

I would die if someone figured out a way to host a Socom 2 online server.

Look up, SOCOM 2, X-link setup and prepare for imminent death

 

[CorvoSol]

I wish my laptop could run this at a stable frame rate.

 

[Nibel]

Seems to run slightly better, but I didn't play much with the settings yet

Will test my DMC DVD in a few moments

 

[R10Neymarfan]

If anyone cares for it. PCSX2 devs also have experimental AF for download somewhere on their forums. If anyone wants AF.

 

[mannerbot]

DMC and God Hand have some weird graphical glitches, help!

edit: ok, my system likes OpenGL more. Works fine now.

 

[DirgeExtinction]

I don't know if it's okay to ask, but does anyone know of a good program to rip ps2 games?

 

[evanmisha]

pcsx2-r5864.exe - Entry Point Not Found

The procedure entry point_except1 could not be located in the dynamic link library C:\Program Files (x86)\PCSX2 1.2.0\pcsx2-r5864.exe.

So, uh... I'm doing something wrong, right?

 

[chadboban]

I wish my laptop could run this at a stable frame rate.

What are your specs?

 

[ItsTheNew]

If anyone cares for it. PCSX2 devs also have experimental AF for download somewhere on their forums. If anyone wants AF.

Got a link?

 

[Easy_D]

Silent Hill 3 still has glitches with the flashlight.
:/

If your PC is capable of emulating PS2 games, why not try to track down the PC port of SH3? It's a good port and it allows you to downsample as well by increasing the internal resolution. And that's without editing any ini files.

 

[Dizzy-4U]

Widescreen hack works pretty nicely. I didn't noticed any graphical gliches or anything.

Also,

 

[R10Neymarfan]

Got a link?

forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-GSdx?pid=344348#pid344348

 

[Dolphin_Butter]

Ace Combat Zero's cutscenes are playing flawlessly, and the game itself now has collision detection. However, when actually playing, it runs like garbage, even in software mode w/ extra rendering threads. Dunno if I'm doing anything wrong.

 

[ussjtrunks]

Did they fix the FMVs in grandia 3 yet in software mode they are fine but in hardware mode the black bars have garbage in them

 

[TCKaos]

You really can't tell in this video, but I had Budokai Tenkaichi 3 running at 60FPS with no problems at 2x or 3x native resolution with a bunch of other stuff.

Goku vs Beerus

 

[Shepard]

Widescreen hack works pretty nicely. I didn't noticed any graphical gliches or anything.




Also, http://www.vmaxforum.net/new%20smilies/ryb.gif[/IM][/QUOTE]

What? where's the option to turn on ws?

 

[SapientWolf]

I've had a lot of trouble running Mercenaries full speed. Curious to see if this does the trick.

 

[Danielsan]

So is there a Nocturne Shadow fix yet? Really want to replay that game.

 

[robotrock]

This widescreen stuff is super useful

 

[ItsTheNew]

forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-GSdx?pid=344348#pid344348

Thank you! By the way, does anyone know how to enable the widescreen hacks? Is it really as simple as clicking the "Enable Widescreen Patches" and running the game? Or do I still have to go find the codes/patches/etc?

 

[Sora_N]

Awesome I should try FF12.

 

[Perfect Cha0s]

Does anyone have a list of WS-hack games that are natively supported now? I would imagine most of the more popular games are on that list, but would like to confirm.

Thread title is misleading because it implies that the emulator can be used to increase the framerate of games beyond what they run at on actual hardware, but in most cases it can't actually do this.

Unless this is what you're referring to, I believe there's a trick where you run the game at double speed, but have the emulator output at half speed.

 

[R10Neymarfan]

Thank you! By the way, does anyone know how to enable the widescreen hacks? Is it really as simple as clicking the "Enable Widescreen Patches" and running the game? Or do I still have to go find the codes/patches/etc?

No problem. Maybe OP can update front page.

Unless this is what you're referring to, I believe there's a trick where you run the game at double speed, but have the emulator output at half speed.

There are some cheats where you can force the game engine to render in 60fps. But I think the KH games are the only ones that have this.

 

[Grief.exe]

Thread title is misleading because it implies that the emulator can be used to increase the framerate of games beyond what they run at on actual hardware, but in most cases it can't actually do this.

Its a game by game basis though.

Some are locked at 30, others you can run at above 100. The majority you can run at whatever resolution you choose.

I only have so many character allowed in the title, I can't stipulate and allow for every variable.

 

[fertygo]

Does Digital Devil Saga work yet?

One of game that run almost completely perfectly since long time ago I thought.