PCSX2 0.9.8 R4600

Description of PCSX2 0.9.8 R4600

Sony Playstation 2 emulator After nearly 16 months, here comes a new Pcsx2 version. Pcsx2 0.9.6 These months were somewhat problematic for pcsx2, due to an initial slowdown of the development process. Then, last fall, the Playground branch was created, and development picked up again. Finally, with the merge of Pcsx2 and Pcsx2 playground, the emulators development returned once again as it was before, and now we can give you a release which should (we hope!) leave you happy.

We would like to thank everyone that was still waiting for a release, and coming to our forums. We would also like to thank everyone to encouraged and otherwise supported us. This release is especially for you.

Key features

• Huge rewrite, mainly from the new members of the Playground branch! Too many speedups, optimizations and other fixes to write here! Many famous games will now work.
• Dropped VM build replaced by the all new Vtlb, meaning no more Cannot allocate memory errors at start up, more accurate emulation, slightly lower speeds but with many optimizations to come
• Full memcard support, working in all games
• Improved Frameskip/VU-skip
• Special Game Fixes Section
• Advanced Options Section for custom tweaking VU/FPU behavior.
• Rewritten Multithreaded GS (MTGS) mode, with as much as 15% speedup for HT machines (only 3-5% for Dual Core), and fixes many instabilities.
• Improved VU/FPU Flags and Clamping support (helps fix odd behaviors and SPS in some games)
• Improved EE/IOP synchronization (fixes many freeze-ups and vmhacks).
• Improved CDVD support.

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What is new in version 0.9.8 R4600

GUI:
• New, threaded GUI using wxWidgets.
• New menus, for improved usability and faster configuration.
• Convenient Memory Card editor.
• On the fly pause and resume, perfectly stable, safe and fast.
• On the fly setting switching and even plugin switching.
• Powerful new configuration that is more user friendly with its first time wizard, reset to default buttons and a global presets system.
• A plethora of new options that make playing games more fun!
• All options have tooltips explaining what each of them do.
• Comes translated, with many languages to select from.
• Compatible with Aero Glass and Windows eye candy.
• Looks and works great on Linux, too!

Core:
• Entire emulation core has been overhauled. Many components are rewritten.
• Countless code generation and runtime execution bugs fixed.
• Added microVU, an improved VU0/VU1/COP2 recompiler.
• New VIF recompiler
• Multi-threaded GS rewrite: Faster and more stable than in 0.9.6.
• Better BIOS splash screen skip method, better ELF support, host fs support.
• New Game database detects the game you run, displays compatibility info, and auto applies special game fixes/patches if needed.

Plugins:
• GSdx is faster, more stable and has more configuration options than ever before.
• SPU2-X is the preferred SPU2 plugin now.
• It has matured into almost completely emulating all the SPU2 quirks, making many more games work!

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by DZUL FAHMI on February 11th 2011, 13:44 I like it

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