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On my relatively modern machine the emulation is everywhere - sound is off, emulation running 1.25 times slow-down. Graphics are all over the place in terms of

by bArray 7y ago

On my relatively modern machine the emulation is everywhere - sound is off, emulation running 1.25 times slow-down. Graphics are all over the place in terms of quality. I can't play many of the high-end games (at the time) reasonably. Try emulating any of the "Need For Speed" games, which made tonnes of use of graphics tricks. That said I do appreciate their efforts, it's just we're still a way off until it could be considered complete.

0xcde4c3db 7y ago
Have you tried a recent build? 1.4.0 is pretty outdated by now, and it's also worth noting that the snapshot currently in Debian/Ubuntu is significantly broken.
- bArray 7y ago
  Not for a few months, but it was out of the Ubuntu repo. If that's the case I'll give it another go, you would hope it improves after all. Thanks for the heads up.
karatestomp 7y ago
Luckily the PS2's still hanging on at the edge of "pretty easy to play with real games and real hardware", outside a handful of very expensive games. And the discs aren't old enough that tons of them have been lost to damage and rot yet, though I've seen several of mine rot to death in the last 5 years or so, even always being stored indoors, so that's changing fast. By 2025 I expect this to have joined most of the consoles before it in being easier to get an OK experience through emulation than to play on real hardware. Timing remains my main problem with emulation. Input and output lag have gotten really bad and so hard to predict until you start actually messing with the equipment you'll be using, and even then little config quirks or the way things are hooked up (adding a receiver to the mix, for instance) can throw it all over the place. Lots of games become unplayable or unreasonably hard with just a little extra lag, so it's a real problem.
- ohithereyou 7y ago
  Not only that, but it's easy to set up loading games from a hard drive with a broadband adapter and memory card exploit. From there, you can rip your own games or download rips and load to the external hard drive and play that way.
snvzz 7y ago
Are you using any of the speed up features? For most games, VU borrowing "cycles" from CPU can help a great deal, so can enabling the threading. The defaults are the most compatible, but also slowest. Also, GSDX is the only gpu plugin that works semi-decently, and only with actual DirectX. Opengl is all over the place. Most games work fine even on a ten year old computer, with these settings, as long as you're on Windows. Linux support could be better, but there's no manpower for that. It is kept alive by one or two developers who use Linux, most of the team being on Windows.

by bArray 7y ago

0xcde4c3db 7y ago

Have you tried a recent build? 1.4.0 is pretty outdated by now, and it's also worth noting that the snapshot currently in Debian/Ubuntu is significantly broken.

bArray 7y ago
Not for a few months, but it was out of the Ubuntu repo. If that's the case I'll give it another go, you would hope it improves after all. Thanks for the heads up.

karatestomp 7y ago

Luckily the PS2's still hanging on at the edge of "pretty easy to play with real games and real hardware", outside a handful of very expensive games. And the discs aren't old enough that tons of them have been lost to damage and rot yet, though I've seen several of mine rot to death in the last 5 years or so, even always being stored indoors, so that's changing fast. By 2025 I expect this to have joined most of the consoles before it in being easier to get an OK experience through emulation than to play on real hardware. Timing remains my main problem with emulation. Input and output lag have gotten really bad and so hard to predict until you start actually messing with the equipment you'll be using, and even then little config quirks or the way things are hooked up (adding a receiver to the mix, for instance) can throw it all over the place. Lots of games become unplayable or unreasonably hard with just a little extra lag, so it's a real problem.

ohithereyou 7y ago
Not only that, but it's easy to set up loading games from a hard drive with a broadband adapter and memory card exploit. From there, you can rip your own games or download rips and load to the external hard drive and play that way.

snvzz 7y ago

Are you using any of the speed up features? For most games, VU borrowing "cycles" from CPU can help a great deal, so can enabling the threading. The defaults are the most compatible, but also slowest. Also, GSDX is the only gpu plugin that works semi-decently, and only with actual DirectX. Opengl is all over the place. Most games work fine even on a ten year old computer, with these settings, as long as you're on Windows. Linux support could be better, but there's no manpower for that. It is kept alive by one or two developers who use Linux, most of the team being on Windows.