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ATTENTION: This guide is OUTDATED. The latest configuration guide for v1.0.0 can be found HERE.
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 v0.9.7 HERE. 2) PCSX2 comes in 3 flavors, full installer, web installer and binary. Full installer has the DirectX 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 don't know which, the full installer. 3) Run the installer (if you downloaded the installer) or if you downloaded binary open the archive and extract its contents into a folder. (e.g. C:\PCSX2) 4) Run pcsx2.exe which is in the folder you installed or extracted the files.
For Linux Users Get the binary from here or the source from Google Code. To compile from source, follow the instructions in the Compilation Guide for Linux. You need the following installed: libasound2-dev, libbz2-dev, libgl1-mesa-dev, libglew1.5-dev, libglu1-mesa-dev, libgtk2.0-dev, libjpeg-dev, libsdl1.2-dev, libsoundtouch1-dev, libsparsehash-dev, libwxbase2.8-dev, libwxgtk2.8-dev, libx11-dev, nvidia-cg-toolkit, portaudio19-dev, zlib1g-dev.
Plugins generally used Linux include: ZZOgl-pg (or ZZOgl), SPU2-X, ZeroSPU2, OnePad, Linuz Iso, EFP Iso, and EFP Polling.
Plugin Configuration.
Configuring PCSX2.
The new version of PCSX2 has a first time configuration wizard to help you configure it easier so we'll first go through that.
In the first screen, you will be prompted to select the language, then choose where the program will save its files and configuration settings.
In the first dropdown, simply select the language you want the program to be in (unimplemented yet).
For the program's files, you can either select them to be saved in your Documents folder of your Windows account (User Documents), or in a custom folder of your choice. For the program's configuration settings, you can either leave it on default, or uncheck the 'use default setting' checkbox and select a folder of your choice by clicking Browse. 'Open In Explorer' simply opens a file explorer window in the folder you have specified. If the folder you selected does not exist, you will be asked if you want it to be created.
In the second screen you will be able to choose which plugins you want to use. To decide which plugin you want to use from the ones listed, we recommend you first go through the rest of this guide that explains each plugin in detail. For the time being, you can leave the default plugins selected. 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. 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 can't 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 can't make a selection, you will not be able to use PCSX2 . Click Finish to end the First Time Configuration Wizard.
This is the main GUI(Graphical User Interface) of PCSX2. 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 =>Plugin/BIOS selector to select and configure the plugins PCSX2 will use. You'll see a screen like this (click to enlarge):
There are 3 tabs, Plugins, BIOS and Folders.
Plugins tab of the Plugins/BIOS 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. 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 DirectX (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 v0.1.16, ZeroGS v0.97.1, and GSnull driver v0.1.0.
GSdx v0.1.16 is a DirectX 9 and DirectX 10/11 plugin by Gabest which recently got greatly improved in both speed and image quality. It requires pixel shaders 2 and SSE2 to work and Vista/Windows 7 with a DirectX 10 compliant graphics card for the DirectX10/11 mode.
ZeroGS v0.97.1 is a relatively outdated DirectX 9 graphics plugin that requires a graphics card that supports pixel shaders 2 to work. It is not recommended to use except if you are having problems with GSdx. Use of ZeroGS is mostly superseded by a fork, ZZOgl, which uses OpenGL. This is the preferred plugin to use on Linux, as it fixes many of the issues you will find if using ZeroGS.
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 v0.1.16 and press the Configure button.
First of all GSdx comes in 3 versions,SSE2,SSSE3 and SSE4.1. Only IF your processor supports these instruction sets use the respective version since it will be faster for you. Otherwise you will get constant crashes when using it. 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 Corei5, Intel Corei7.
By selecting "Direct3D9 (Hardware)", GSdx will use the Direct3D capabilities of your graphics card, boosting the emulation speed significantly.
By selecting "Direct3D10/11 (Hardware)" ( only selectable in Vista/Windows 7 with DX10/11 graphics card ), GSdx will use its' Direct3D10/11 mode which is usually the fastest mode and sometimes even more compatible as well. Highly recommended if your system supports it.
By selecting "Direct3D9 (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 Direct3D renderer.
By selecting "Direct3D9 (null)", Direct3D10/11 (null)", "Null (software)" or "Null (null)" the plugin will simply not render anything, thus not giving any output on screen. Use it only if you want to e.g. Hear some music since with this mode you get a dramatic speed increase.
Scaling Subsection:
Only available if a Hardware Renderer has been selected above. Here you can tweak various settings to improve the visual quality of your games by increasing the resolution the textures are rendered at or applying filtering. Do keep in mind that changing the native resolution of games can cause various glitches (from the usual very minor glitches to more serious ones in rare cases).
Hardware mode Subsection:
Only available if a Hardware Renderer has been selected above. Here you can change some settings for extra performance or video quality.
Software mode Subsection:
Only available if a Software Renderer has been selected above. Here you will find options to tweak how many threads the render will use and turn on/off the software AA.
Hacks Subsection:
Only available if you manually edit the GSdx.ini file and change (or add if it does not exist) the line from AllowHacks=0 to AllowHacks=1. These settings are ONLY for advanced users that know what they are doing. These settings can and WILL cause serious glitches if used in games that need them! (only affect hardware modes).
Select ZeroGS v0.97.1 and press the Configure button.
ZeroGS is a DirectX 9 plugin developed by ZeroFrog and is aimed for graphics cards which support pixel shaders 2.0 or higher. As noted before if your card does not meet that requirement you will get an "Error opening gs plugin" message and pcsx2 will terminate.
None: Will not use any level of anti-aliasing 2x: Will use 2X anti-aliasing 4x: Will use 4X anti-aliasing 8x: Will use 8X anti-aliasing 16x: Will use 16X anti-aliasing.
ZeroGS Advanced Options.
ZeroGS exposes a couple of extra options to tweak its various settings. Sometimes games use the Graphics Synthesizer in many unexpected ways, and sometimes it is impossible for ZeroGS to predict how exactly it should emulate the GS. Some options can convert a game from a garbage screen going at 2 frames per second to exactly what the game would look like on the ps2 going at 60 frames a second.
GSnull v0.1.0 plugin.
As explained at the start of this section this is a Null plugin thus it will not render anything on screen. Press Configure to get a menu with a checkbox where you can check/uncheck "Enable Logging" which will enable/disable GS logging. It should be used for debugging and developers.
Sound:
SPU2-X.
Interpolation: Here you can select 1 out of 5 options: 1)Nearest: As the description says, no interpolation is done in this mode and is the fastest one. 2)Linear: This is the recommended option, and does linear interpolation on sound. 3)Cubic: This is another type of interpolation. Slower, with good highs. 4)Hermite: This is another type of interpolation. Even slower, better highs. 5)Catmull-Rom: This is another type of interpolation. Slow, higher quality.
TimeStretch: The default and recommended setting. This keeps audio and video in sync, and also helps eliminate cracks and other sound problems. Note that if your speed is low, your sound will also be as slow as your video with this setting. Async Mix: Makes the audio out of sync with the video, so you will get normal sound speed even if your frame rate is not optimal. Can cause games to hang or crash so use with caution! None: Audio will skip if you set this mode and you don't get max speed with the game you're running. Small FPS boost.
Stereo: Default setting, no audio expansion when this is selected. Quadrafonic: Will expand audio to 4 speakers Surround 5.1: Will expand audio to 5.1 surround speakers Surround 7.1: Will expand audio to 7.1 surround speakers.
ZeroSPU2.
ZeroSPU2 has a time-scaling feature just like SPU2-X. To enable this option, go into the ZeroSPU2 configuration dialog and check the correct box. The time-scaling feature works best under Windows, but is also implemented in Linux.
Here you will be able to use 2 plugins, Lilypad v0.10.0 and SSSPSX Pad v1.7.1.
Select SSSPSX Pad v1.7.1 and press the Configure button.
You'll see a window like this (click to enlarge):
Here, you simply press on each button's name and input the key you want to assign to it. If you want to clear a key from being assigned somewhere you can click on the respective button and wait until the "Timeout: " timer reaches 0. Then the selected key will be assigned to NONE again.
Select Lilypad v0.10.0 and press the Configure button.
You'll see a window like this (click to enlarge):
Lilypad is a very advanced input plugin supporting keyboards, mouse, game pads and XBOX 360 pads. Also it includes some very handy hacks for use with PCSX2 like the ESC hack or the Disable Screensaver option.
Cdvdrom:
In most circumstances, you will be able to use the built in ISO loader in PCSX2 by choosing ISO in the CDVD menu, and then, under ISO Selector, either choosing an image from the list or choosing browse to add one.
However, if you want to use a plugin to do things such as playing a game from the actual DVD disc or creating a dump of an ISO file, choose "Plugin" in the CDVD menu, and then select a CDVD plugin. By default, PCSX2 includes Gigaherz's CDVD v0.8.0, Linuz Iso CDVD v0.9.0 and CDVDnull v0.6.0.
Select Gigaherz's CDVD v0.8.0 and press configure.
Pretty simple really, just select the drive letter from which the plugin will read the disc from. It will then directly run your PS2 game from the CD/DVD you have inserted in your drive.
Select Linuz Iso CDVD v0.9.0 and hit configure.
This plugin has the extra ability of compressing your images to save you disk space apart from running your images for the emulator.
CDVDnull v0.6.0.
This is a Null plugin just like GSnull, meaning it simply does nothing. It doesn't have a configuration screen for obvious reasons.
Here are the plugins that handle the HDD(hard disk drive) and ethernet emulation. There is only Dev9null v0.5.0 included in the 0.9.7 package, yet another Null plugin which is exactly like all the other ones. Also there is a newer Dev9 plugin in development by Luigi__, the MegaDev9 plugin which is still in early stages but very promising. For the time being, it partially emulates the ps2 HDD. You can get it here.
Here are the plugins that handle USB(Universal Serial Bus) emulation. The release package includes USB Null v0.7.0 which is yet another Null plugin. Nothing to configure for the above reason.
Firewire:
Here are the plugins that handle the Firewire port of the PS2.Only the FWnull v0.6.0 is included in the release package. There are no other Firewire plugins available or in development. Nothing to configure for the above reason.
BIOS(Basic Input Output System)
In this list you will find your bios image, if you have one and have put it in the selected bios folder. Note that the only LEGAL way of obtaining a bios is dumping it from your OWN Playstation 2 console. DO NOT ask where to get the bios in the PCSX2 forum, because it's against the rules. That's because the ps2 BIOS is a copyrighted material of Sony and that makes its' distribution illegal, meaning we could get in trouble if it was found out that we were supplying people illegally with bios files. If your BIOS image does not even appear on list even after you have selected your right bios directory, it is an invalid image.
Attention: It is recommended that you have all files for BIOS newer than the SCPH-10000.bin. You will probably be able to run the bios or games without having them but there may be a chance that these affect compatibility somehow. This includes rom1.bin,rom2.bin,erom.bin and a SCPH-XXXXX.nvm file where XXXXX is the version of your bios(eg SCPH-34004.nvm).This last file can be also created from PCSX2 after you configure your bios(set time zone, language etc) but it's better if you have this file directly ripped from your Playstation 2. Once more DO NOT ASK where to get these files, since they are part of the BIOS too.
Here's a quick explanation about what these files do by auMatt:
A new Bios dumper is already available that can dump your PS2 Bios,ROM1,ROM2,EROM and NVM. Get it HERE.
Note: For maximum compatibility it is recommended that you use a BIOS image different than SCPH10000.BIN which is the oldest one. That's because with this BIOS there are problems in memory card emulation and in other sections.
How to extract the bios files from your PS2: Visit PS2Dev and a thread HERE.
So now we are done Configuring all plugins for PCSX2.
BIOS tab of the Plugin/BIOS selector window:
Here you'll see an identical screen to the last one of the First Time Configuration wizard, with the same usability, meaning to select a BIOS file from the list and change the folder where PCSX2 tries to find your BIOS images.
Folders tab of the Plugin/BIOS selector window.
Here you can change the folders where some of the files that PCSX2 creates will be stored at. By unchecking "Use default setting" you can click the "Browse" button to find a folder of your choice where PCSX2 will store: Save states, snapshots and logs/dumps respectively.
Core settings.
Next are the Core PCSX2 settings which can be found under Config =>Emulation settings. You'll see a window like this(click to enlarge):
There are 6 tabs, EE/IOP, VUs, GS, GS Window, Speedhacks and Gamefixes. We'll start with EE/IOP.
EE/IOP tab of the Emulation Settings:
Emotion Engine: Select "Recompiler" to enable the recompiler for the Emotion Engine, granting a really big speedup. It's extremely compatible, so you should always use it. By selecting "Interpreter" you will be using the really slow Interpreter mode, which in some cases is more compatible, but is mainly there for debugging purposes.
VUs tab of the Emulation Settings:
VU0: In this radio box you can choose one of 3 choices: Interpreter, microVU Recompiler and superVU Recompiler [legacy]. Interpreter: By selecting this PCSX2 will use the Interpreter for the VU0 unit, which is extremely slow and not very compatible either. Should only be used for debugging and testing.
GS tab of the Emulation Settings:
Framelimiter: The options in this group can be used to control the frame rate of your games in various ways. Disable Framelimiter: By checking this your games will run as fast as your PC can make them to, ignoring all below settings and limits. Toggle it ingame by pressing F4.
GS Window tab of the Emulation Settings:
Apect Ratio: Here you can select Fit to Window/Screen which will stretch the video to fit in your window, standard (4:3) which will set the aspect ratio of your video to 4:3 or Widescreen (16:9) which does the same with a 16:9 ratio. Keep in mind that the game's display will be stretched this way, deforming the normal display. For proper wide screen, you should set it in the specific game's menu (if it supports it).
Speed Hacks tab of the Emulation Settings:
Enable speedhacks: Check/uncheck this for a quick toggle to turn on/off all selected hacks below.
Default Cycle Rate - Slider Level 1: This is not a hack, this will emulate the EE on its' actual speed.
Slider Level 0: This is not a hack, this will disable VU Cycle Stealing.
Enable INTC Spin detection: This hack takes a shortcut in a known situation PS2 games do when they idle, check the tooltip for a detailed explanation. Instead of doing the idle loop it just jumps to its' end and continues from there. Can give big speed boosts but only in a few games. Very safe hack with almost no compatibility hit, recommended.
mVU flag hack: Check the tooltip for a detailed description about how this works. Moderate speed increase with very high compatibility, recommended.
Game fixes tab of the Emulation Settings:
VU Add hack: This hack is also needed because the PS2 doesn't follow the IEEE standard on floats. Enable it only for 'Star Ocean 3','Valkyrie Profile 2' and 'Radiata Stories'.
Miscellaneous options.
System =>Boot CD/DVD (full): If you press this the emulator will run the image you have selected in your CDVD plugin (or internal ISO selector) or will ask you to find an image if you haven't selected one in the CDVD plugins' configuration. If you are using the Gigaherz CDVD plugin this will instantly run the CD/DVD of the selected drive. The 'full' mode first goes through the BIOS intro just like on a real PS2 console. Use it for games that have different language translations or games with copy protection.
Iso Selector: This is the internal ISO loader of PCSX2, which does not use a CDVD plugin. You can choose any disc image PCSX2 supports by clicking Browse and run it. For your convenience, this menu entry also keeps a list of your recently used game images. This will only work if Iso is selected in the radial menu below! Plugin Menu-Plugin Settings: This will show you which CDVD plugin you have chosen and let you configure it from here (instead of manually going in Plugin/BIOS Selector and doing it from there). ISO-Plugin-No Disc: This radial menu controls the source from which PCSX2 will load games from. If you select ISO, the internal ISO loader will be used to load your selected games (described above). If you select Plugin, the configured plugin will be used to load your games. If you select No Disc, no game will be loaded and PCSX2 will simply boot in the BIOS.
Check/Uncheck Show Console: This will enable/disable a second window that will appear behind the PCSX2 display and is mainly used for debugging. There you will be able to see various messages that can help you identify a problem or when running a game what is being done each moment by the emulator. Red messages are errors and yellow messages are warnings.
That's it! Hope this will be helpful to all the people who are new in PCSX2 and for some members who like to fiddle with options to get more games working.
Thanks to Gigaherz for pointing out how to make the index work with Firefox. Many thanks to my buddy Regulus for the background, the smilies script and for his help. Thanks to Razor Blade for fixing the image borders. Thanks to crushtest for pointing out some problems with Firefox and for his suggestions. Thanks to Nachbrenner for his suggestions and additions. Thanks to Falcon4ever for bugging me with XHTML validation. Thanks to rama for helping me with some explanations.
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