Is there any way to get GS to work w/ my ancient vid card? (perhaps another plugin?)

[enthrop]

Just not working and I assume it's cause my video card is ancient. I've been thinking about getting a new one, but I also plan on getting a new computer around Christmas time, so I perfer to wait till then and pick up a new mobo & vid card using PCI-E, vs the current AGP mobo I have.

My vid card is the old (but still solid) GF4 TI4200.

Is there any way - workaround, another plugin, some setting I missed - that I can get the emulator to work w/ this vid card?

Thanks.

[ShendoXT]

Yeah, use GSdx9 and change pixel shader to 1.1 or 1.4.

[enthrop]

That's what I tried... using the default plugins that come with the installer..

GSdx9:

Resolution: Windowed
Renderer: Direct3D
Shader: Pixel Shader 1.1

unchecked everything (including Linear texture filtering)

Kept everything else as default settings....

When I hit "test" for the video settings..:

:'( Pixel Shader version 1.3
:'( Separate Alpha Blend
^_^ Source Blend Factor
^_^ Destination Blend Factor

This plugin reports that should not work correctly.


When I actually execute it, I get a small windowed screen pop up in the middle of my monitor.. then it just goes away. The application has closed itself.

[ShendoXT]

It is not video plugin then, you are probably using VM build, try to run pcsx2t.exe instead.

[enthrop]

Interesting, thought I would be able to run under VM mode...

Anyway it gets a little further not under VM mode. The 'test' still says the same thing, but when I execute, I get a little further.

Basically it shows the first 5-10 secs of what you see when you turn on a normal PS2.

The little boxes on the screen w/ the Sony Entertainment logo... then the application closes again.

[edit] Actually I just tried something else. I had been trying to load an image of a game I have and it's been doing what I've described.

I just popped in my actual copy of Xenosasga1 (picked a random game) and tested it... it got further this time.

Previously it basically crashed on the transition from the Sony logo to the "Browser/ System Config" selection screen. This time I get to that screen, but upon enterting Browser I only see two memory cards...

[ShendoXT]

It is something with PCSX2, it should be the best to open a new thread in PCSX2 forum (http://forums.ngemu.com/pcsx2-official-forum/), because this one is for plugins.

Edit: just saw your edit, use file-->Run cd not Run-->Execute.