Bizarre Stability Issues with PCSX2, any idea what the issue could be?

pierreangelique666

Hi, I have recently installed Batocera and am loving it so far but I am having a peculiar issue with the PS2 emulator (PCSX2) that I have been trying to troubleshoot and have been unable to sort out. So I broke down and made an account here just to ask for help with this…

Basically I have a PC with 2 hard drives, one drive has batocera and all games installed on it, the other has windows on it. On batocera, certain PS2 games that i’ve tested (there may be more, these are just what i’ve tested), namely Max Payne 1 and Vice City Stories, freeze or give me a black screen after the opening cinematics. What is bizarre is that if I boot my PC into windows and use PCSX2 there, and launch the exact same games with the exact same hardware, they work perfectly fine. In both cases I am using the same ps2 bios as well (US 2006). Why would there be a discrepancy in performance / stability between these two modes of play if I am using the same games, bios, and hardware? The only thing I can think of is these are running different versions of PCSX2? For windows I am using the latest stable release (1.6 I believe) and for Batocera I am using whatever comes installed.

I should mention, my pc is using an intel 9400f and a NVIDIA 1070ti, with 16gb of ram; Also for batocera I am using the dev build, most up to date version. Also for both batocera and windows I am using the default settings in pcsx2.

Anyway, does anyone have an ideas why there would be such a discrepancy?

Atari

are you using the default ext4 filesystem for your roms?

pierreangelique666

I think so, but how can I check this? The only things i’ve changed in batocera since installing it are:

1.) update to dev build

2.) enable Nvidia Drivers

3.) add bios to bios folder

4.) add roms to roms folder, ps2 roms in the ps2 folder, ect.

So I assume everything else should be default?

Batocera is installed on an internal M.2 hard drive.

Atari

pierreangelique666 If that’s all you’ve done, then yes, it should be using the default ext4 filesystem, so that wouldn’t be the problem.

pierreangelique666 1.) update to dev build

This might be the reason why. Dev builds tend to be buggy. If you could roll back to stable for testing purposes and see if the issue is there as well, that would help. If you’d like to just report that the slowdown/crashes is with the beta, you can do so in the #beta channel of the discord.

pierreangelique666 So I am guessing there is a setting somewhere in PCSX2 that I can change to get them to launch in batocera, though I haven’t found a solution yet. Worst comes to worse I can play the PSP versions.

You can use pcsx2-config to change things like that, I think those settings will be user accessible in a future build.

pierreangelique666

Just to update, after a lot of testing, I got Max Payne to run without crashing by setting the “clamping” to full under the emulation settings in the pcsx2 application. Its strange that I had to do this in Batocera, whereas in Windows the default settings work, but hey its a solution.

After testing all the games in my PS2 library, all seem fine except for Vice City Stories and Liberty City Stories. I tested in Windows and they launch fine there. So I am guessing there is a setting somewhere in PCSX2 that I can change to get them to launch in batocera, though I haven’t found a solution yet. Worst comes to worse I can play the PSP versions.

It is more the fact that there is a discrepancy in how the games run on batocera vs. windows that I find peculiar.