ZeroGS - New GS Plugin

[Mad]

I was hoping you say: geforce fx 5200 support....

[PersianBoy]

@zerofrog

most people use geforce fx/radeon 9 series graphic cards. both of these cards only use shaders v2.0.
ZeroGs only supports shaders v3.0. also, I use radeon 9550 and I can't use ZeroGs properly.
some of old geforce ti cards are powerful enough to use shaders. they are old but they are not outdated.
many of them can outperform newer generations if we disable Anisotropic.
would you mind making another version of ZeroGs which support shaders2.0/shaders1.x ?
it will boost speed. you know shaders 2.0/1.x use less cpu power than shaders 3.0.
I don't want to disturb you nor wait your time. I hope you listen to my idea.

thanks
PersianBoy

[emwearz]

most people use geforce fx/radeon 9 series graphic cards. both of these cards only use shaders v2.0.
ZeroGs only supports shaders v3.0.

ZeroGs supports PS 2.0 and above (Im using a Radeon 9600pro which only have PS2.0)

[bositman]

PersianBoy i believe ZeroFrog was quite clear in his first post here introducing his plugin,here's the quote:

ZeroGS does most of its processing on the graphics card, hence the higher requirements because of decryption of GS formats etc. The disadvantage is that it won't work on ps1.4 or below, use gsdx for that and don't ask for ps1.4 support. (gsdx mostly uses the Cpu for its processing, so doesn't need heavy graphics requirements).

So as you can understand the plugin has been coded from the start with high end gfx cards in mind making it very hard to impossible to create a version supporting lower end cards.Its not that the author doesnt want to add support other cards,its that it is not possible to because of the way it handles emulation

[hexpor]

good for FFX

[Federelli]

You should support only PS3.0 cards an drop all the stupid PS2.0 code :P.

I can't believe people think of emulating a PS2 with such bad video cards.

[GDI1942]

Some people can't afford to go high high top end that support PS3.0... I'm sure the designers are aiming for the widest audience to use the PCSX. Now trying to support 1.4, even if it works out nicely, the card would still be to slow to keep up. But I don't agree with dropping 2.0 support

[slayer09]

Where can i find pixel shader???
Im finding it hard...

[Nachbrenner]

Originally Posted by slayer09

Where can i find pixel shader???
Im finding it hard...

Use DXCapsViewer from page 2

[IGMA950]

hi all, i'm new the emu is good, congratulations! , i have a problem with zerogs plugin
i have a laptop:
1.83ghz dual core
1gb ram
intel gma 950 video with 224ram, ps2.0 shader...

with gsdx9 work fine , but when i start with zerogs the screen put in white and the sound is listened, but the emu crash and pc send me error message in a blue screen,

any idea how to fix this error or my video card is not compatible with the plugin?

help! thanks

sorry for my english!

in the console appears:
Failed to create hardware device, creating software.
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GS WARNING: Need at least 2 simultaneous render targets. Disabing depth writing
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GS WARNING: Need independent write masks! Some Z buffer effects might look bad
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GS WARNING: Need MRT Post Pixel Shader Blending. Effects will look bad
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GS ERROR: Device doesn't support alpha blending for 16bit floating point targets.
Quality will reduce.
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GS ERROR: Device doesn't support G32R32F textures.
Textures will look bad.
*********

[mvntsdc]

zerogrog my uncle give to me 2 graphics Card: a Fx5600 and a Geforce Nx6600! Wich one is better to use your plugin? ( sorry my english, i will study )

[ldrancer]

hey.. good plugin. yea really nice. i had tried to play ffx with pcsx2 first time, and i used the default gfx plugin. tried it again today and the beginning is going faster. one thing. im using the zerogs plugin. at the top it says ps 2.0a and ffx looks like its running in ps 2 mode. anyway to get it to go to ps 3. i got support.

[Mad]

mvntsdc:Nx6600 is the best card.

[hbinhlove2003]

I have file BIOS for pcsx2.09 file size 11,8MB
(PS2 Bios 30004R V6 Pal.bin
PS2 Bios 30004R V6 Pal.MEC
PS2 Bios 30004R V6 Pal.NVM
rom1.bin
scph10000.bin
scph10000.NVM
scph39001.bin
scph39001.MEC
scph39001.NVM
SCPH-70004_BIOS_V12_PAL_200.BIN
SCPH-70004_BIOS_V12_PAL_200.EROM
SCPH-70004_BIOS_V12_PAL_200.NVM
SCPH-70004_BIOS_V12_PAL_200.ROM1
SCPH-70004_BIOS_V12_PAL_200.ROM2)
, but I can play , I configured follow the help file 10 step , when I chossed Run->CD ,
display is ZeroGS, my computer was freeze !!!, please help me, my computer is
Intel Celeron 1,7GHz, RAM 384MB, VAG GeForce MX 400.

[General Plot]

Heh, looks like you have quite a collection of BIOS files, and while I won't delve into where you got them from, I will remind you that FFX2's status is ingame only, and not playable.

[ulwan25]

no geforce 1,2,3,4,FX for ZeroGS. zerogs is for geforce 6 and ati x1000 and above.

[zerofrog]

ZeroGS KOSMOS supports any card with pixel shader 2.0. This includes all of GeForce 5000 series, ATI Radeon 9000 series, etc.

So far, there is barely any image quality impact when using these low end cards, although it will be slower.

[Mad]

Glad to hear that!
But im still saving for a gf 6600GT...

[hbk549]

From where can we download ZeroGs plugin
When i went through forum i was really shocked to see the increase in FPS
:guitar:

PCsx2 rocks:guitar: :guitar: :guitar:

[Wortany]

hmm, I have a Geforce 6600GT and ZeroGS works fine, a lot slower than GSdx9, but works. Only thing is, I read about that DXCapsViewer on this thread and tried it out. For some reason it shows this:

VertexShaderVersion 1.1
MaxVertexShaderConst 256
PixelShaderVersion 1.4

Now I'm just confused. Or is this program not trustable?

(edit) I think I answered my own question with the information I just showed here.