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patrickp · February 5th, 2008

As GM says - but if you don't like emulators, is it because they're so much hassle? You really should try pSX, then!

Requirements are pretty simple: in fact, it'll usually run successfully on lower end machines than ePSXe will. You need a working 3D videocard (it's not nearly as dependent on a high end videocard as ePSXe) and a working soundcard.

In Windows, you need to make sure your DirectX 9.0c installation is reasonably up-to-date, and in Linux, in most major Debian distributions anyway, you need to make sure gtkglext (libgtkglext1 in Ubuntu - in the repositories) is installed. There's very little configuration involved to get it running successfully: a lot of people just set a BIOS and memory cards, configure their controller and that's it. If you have sound latency issues, you may need to increase the values for the Latency sliders on the Sound tab.

There's also an excellent frontend available for it: Ultima's pSX Frontend. This is far more comprehensive than most emulator frontends and allows you to preset almost every setting possible on a per game basis.

February 5th, 2008	#15 (permalink)
patrickp bebopper Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: in the groove Posts: 222	As GM says - but if you don't like emulators, is it because they're so much hassle? You really should try pSX, then! Requirements are pretty simple: in fact, it'll usually run successfully on lower end machines than ePSXe will. You need a working 3D videocard (it's not nearly as dependent on a high end videocard as ePSXe) and a working soundcard. In Windows, you need to make sure your DirectX 9.0c installation is reasonably up-to-date, and in Linux, in most major Debian distributions anyway, you need to make sure gtkglext (libgtkglext1 in Ubuntu - in the repositories) is installed. There's very little configuration involved to get it running successfully: a lot of people just set a BIOS and memory cards, configure their controller and that's it. If you have sound latency issues, you may need to increase the values for the Latency sliders on the Sound tab. There's also an excellent frontend available for it: Ultima's pSX Frontend. This is far more comprehensive than most emulator frontends and allows you to preset almost every setting possible on a per game basis.