LRPS2 replacing PCSX2

Libretro
#12

as i said, i am coming from lakka 5.0. there it was quit unusable. now it works better. I am just glad that the core has improved.

i have a bug with the new version. On some game (i guess mainly PAL Games) are showing a black bar on the top of the screen in 4:3 Mode. Overlapping the HUD and Gamesceen. No clue what happends there. i use mainly PAL Games. games with said Black bar: Prince of persia Sand in Time, LOTR Return of the King, 007 Everything or nothing, Gods of War (all PAL). Games that working correctly: Gradius V, Godzilla Save the Earth, Out Run 2006 (all NTSC)

#13

This seems still very young compared to PCSX2’s newest build, unless I’m misunderstanding. The project outline referenced in the OP mentions needing to manually set different options for different games (ex; different widescreen settings, different overclocks for uncapped framerates on certain games, etc).

This seems like a lot of work, whereas I thought the newest version of PCSX2 aimed to automatically take care of per-game settings of the entire PS2 library, unless I’m misunderstanding.

#14

it includes the same database of per-game hacks as upstream.

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#15

Probably not the right place to post this but…

Just tried the new core with GT4, had very little luck on my setup:

Left everything default, also native res

D3D11: screen is all black unless I press Fast Forward (!?!?)

D3D12: graphic are all messed up other then few screens (tried to take screenshot but all I get is a black screen)

GLcore similar things

Vulkan seems to work (not perfect) but frame rate (native res) drops a lot

On pcsx2 I use this settings:

settingspcsx2
settingspcsx22396×1402 435 KB

I run GT4 1080p wide screen and the framerate is rock solid.

Any suggestions?

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#16

That core hasn’t even been officially announced yet, to my knowledge. I’m guessing there is going to be plenty of work still to be done in the future. I know it’s exciting, but I would say hold off for a bit and keep checking to see how it develops.

edit Ok, I see it was announced, just today, on twitter… new RA 1.20 too. Ok, gotta go. :smile:

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#17

First of all, congrats and thanks to everyone involved with the new/revamped PS2 core.

I’m experiencing a problem with the core however in that well, it just doesn’t load for me. I don’t mean it crashes upon loading a game I mean if I try to manually load the core it fails to do so. Same thing happens when I try to load a game, obviously. Nothing happen. The only thing I get if I check with --verbose is this:

> [Error]: Failed to open libretro core
> [Error]: Error(s): The specified module cannot be found.

Guessing this is most likely due to some external dependency not being found. Maybe something with the OS version or even the gfx driver. I don’t know, it’s hard to say as those errors gives very little information.

The only thing I can think of is I’m on Win 8 (I know, I know, it’s old). And the standalone PCSX2 documentation does say the support for Windows 8 has been dropped at some point. So maybe the core doesn’t work with Win8 as well.

I can run the old LRPS2 core (last version was alpha 1.7.0 I think it was).

So…I don’t know. hunterk, do you know if the new core is known to be incompatible with Windows 8?

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#18

I haven’t had any game working with LRPS2 on Linux x86.

#19

I looks like it is saying you don’t have the right core. Did you try the steps listed on the blog? Update your info files, update the required system files, and update the cores? You can do it all through the online updater if you haven’t.

#20

Just tried and followed all the instructions: updated core info files, downloaded the core and the core system file through the downloader, put the bios in the bios folder. Just to make sure I also tried with a completely new 1.20.0 install/folder…Same error “The specified module could not be found”. Even though everything is there.

Searching online it looks this type of error mostly happened to some users with the Dolphin core (something related to some Visual Studio missing files) only I have those installed and I can run the dolphin core just fine. Which is why I’m wondering if it’s just related to the OS version.

#21

Sorry that didn’t work for you.

#22

I just get a Black Screen and Core/RA Crash[quote=“Hari-82, post:15, topic:40112”] D3D11: screen is all black unless I press Fast Forward (!?!?) [/quote]

I get exact same

Vulkan works but Games run Slow

#23

You guys with the issues, are you using Intel integrated graphics?

#24

Have to double check when I get home

But I know that on PCSX2 that Vulkan and Software Graphics don’t work

#25

Tried the core for the first time (on Windows 10 x64) and I can’t get the rumble to work on any game with my 8bitdo controller. It always works fine in every other core that supports it like swanstation or mupen64. Any tips?

#26

Nope. Nvidia card (with Nvidia driver obviously). The only two unusual things graphic card/driver related I noticed on my system is that the d3d11 and d3d12 drivers stopped working at some point for me while they worked before (if I try to set the gfx driver to either d3d11 or d3d12 it just crashes RA before even loading any content) starting at 1.11.0 though that was a long time ago. Might be related to this issue:

Glcore and Vulkan works well with one caveat regarding Vulkan is that with N64 cores using the parallel RDP it crashes for me. A few other users at least have reported the issue. As mentioned in that thread, might be gfx driver/card related.

In both cases it appears the issue only affect very few users/systems so understandably it’s harder to debug. Not sure if those issues are related to this problem.

If anyone else has Windows 8 installed please let me know in the thread whether you’re able to load the core or not.

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#27

I have windows 10 and have Simmlar Issues

#28

Well, my rig is relatively old, GTX 960 + i5 6400, but as I mentioned, with d3d11 standalone pcsx2 runs quite well @1080p.

#29

great core, congratulations! it works perfectly for me on linux by setting vulkan or glcore as video driver (with gl it doesn’t work) and using these ps2 bios:

$ ls ~/.config/retroarch/system/pcsx2/bios/
'Sony PlayStation 2 BIOS (E)(v2.0)(2004-06-14)[SCPH70008].bin'
'Sony PlayStation 2 BIOS (E)(v2.0)(2004-06-14)[SCPH70008].mec'
'Sony PlayStation 2 BIOS (E)(v2.0)(2004-06-14)[SCPH70008].nvm'
'Sony PlayStation 2 BIOS (J)(v0.1)(2000-01-17)[SCPH10000].bin'
'Sony PlayStation 2 BIOS (U)(v1.6)(2002-03-19)[SCPH39004].bin'
'Sony PlayStation 2 BIOS (U)(v1.6)(2002-03-19)[SCPH39004].mec'
'Sony PlayStation 2 BIOS (U)(v1.6)(2002-03-19)[SCPH39004].nvm'

i use CPU AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with integrated GPU

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#30

i used an intel iGPU (HD Graphics 630). For me vulkan runs as fast as opengl with LRPS2. To slow for some games but many ran just fine - for example NTSC Versions of god of war and silent hill 2 both run nearly flawless with both drivers. I use latest lakka 5.x GBM Image and imported the LRPS2 core nightly some days ago. Sadly for Parallel Renderer the intel igpu is WAAAYYY too weak for good speeds, but it works at least!

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#31

Yes, that’s been my experience with intel 630, as well.

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