gaming is a kind of madness that takes in most of us

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Gaming is a kind of madness that takes in most of us. We play all kinds of PC games, but with

evolution of technology there came many more consoles which offered many more category

of games we always wanted to play. Sony Playstation 2 is one of them. It is fun when you

get to play these games on your computer. Though you may not get the same experience as

you might have got in a real PS2 but atleast it will reduce your madness to an extent. To play

PS2 games on your PC you have to do the following things:First you need to install an

emulator. An emulator is software that creates or emulates similar environment in PC as in

PS2 to make the game a fool and run it. There are many free emulators available, but the one

I will recommend is the best that I ever tried. PCSX2.Download PCSX2 and install it.

As you run PCSX2 your first task will be configuring its various plugins because it totally

depends on the plugins and the performance greatly increases or decreases according to their

configuration.

When you hit the config button and configure, all options including graphics, sound etc. will

appear. Lets see them one by one.

Setting Bios And Plugins Folder

PS2 Bios are trademark or Sony and not included in the emulator, you can download them by

Google searching. Once you download the BIOS, set its folder. A list of Bios versions willappear beneath the Bios section. Select the bios that matches the game region.

For plugins, most of them are included in the pcsx2 installer and are taken by default. You

only have to configure them properly according to your system specifications. If you want to

get new plugins for sound or graphics then google search again for PS2 plugins for the
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particular section, download it and put it in the default plugin folder. Keeping updated is

necessary as the plugins are regullarly updated to fix known bugs and performance issues.

Configuring Various Plugins

Here I will show you to configure properly the plugins that I use regularly due to their stable

performance.

Graphics
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Select the GDX 890 plugin, choose it according to your processor support i.e. SSE2, SSSE3

and SSE 4.1. Then press configure, the GDX window will open. Here you can configure

resolution, renderer type of rendering you would like to select, if you have a good graphics

card and windows 7 or vista you can usedirect X 10 hardware rendering else use other

appropriate options. If you choose directX 9 then you have to specify Pixel shader version

supported by your graphics card. Then select the aspect ratio and select an internalresolution, if you have a low end graphics card select the lowest. While running the game if

see shaky screen you can change interlacing by pressing F5.

Sound
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Spu2 is thebest sound plugin I used, Select it and configure it for the following.

Interpolation- Provides options like nearest, linear, cubic. Try to use between the first two

according to performance delivered. You can disable effect post processing if you feel theemulation is going slow.

Modules- You can select between X Audio2 and direct sound, do not use others till you do

not find any trouble with sound.

Latency- this has to be done using trial and error method, if you find sound to be delayed

adjust the latency according to it. If you are running on a slow PC try disable Time stretch

and Audio expansion for performance boosts.

Setting Up Controllers
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Select the lily pad plugin and configure it to your liking for gamepad or keyboard. Options

present on the screen are easy to understand, if you are using a gamepad follow same things

as shown in the image, for keyboard select the keyboard input type and substitute the

buttons. Configure both the controller 1& 2 using the same plugin. You can select one

controller as gamepad other as keyboard.
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Configuring CDVDROM Plugin

I will recommend you to make an ISO image of the PS2 DVD mount it and use

the Gigaherzs CDVD v0.7.0 or put the DVD ROM drive in the plugin config. making an

ISO will give better performance.

Configuring CPU
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Here you will get information of your cpu and others details, all settings here are self

explanatory can be done as shown in the image.

Playing The Game
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Once you are ready with all the settings you can go to file then run CD/DVD and your game

will start.

Conclusion

Every game is not compatible with PCSX2, and experience will vary from game to game , If

your game fails to run then you can try alternating the settings till you find the best suited for

your system. The graphics and cpu settings shown here are mostly for computers having

medium CPU power and low end graphics card. If still you face problem or get better plugins

and find more suitable settings and tricks, please do share with us.

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