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>Download PS2 Emulator
>Works great
>Time passes
>the same games that worked well now are having issues
>Haven't updated or changed anything in the emulator
what happened?

>> No.9498404

This is what people are talking about when they say games age poorly

>> No.9498406

>>9498395
Install Gentoo.

>> No.9498408

Bitrot.

>> No.9498417

government spyware of over 100 nations infesting your computer

>> No.9498429

>>9498395
me

>> No.9498549

>>9498395
The issue may be the system. Check for updates. Check the event viewer. If updates were installed, see what was updated. Perhaps roll the update back. If chipset or GPU drivers were updated, that could cause issues potentially. This is all speculative though.

>> No.9498557

>>9498406
suck the cock of my torso Gentoo is my only operating system and PCSX2 used to run on a 32bit pentium 4 with two*256MB of DDR ram. Now it struggles to play King's Field IV a launch title and essentially ps1 game.

>> No.9498586

>>9498395
Emulation is shit. Anyone who uses it deserves sub par quality.

>> No.9498606

>>9498395
Should have downloaded lossless games

>> No.9498608

>>9498395
You got to a different part of the game that doesn't run as smoothly.

>> No.9498613

>>9498395
aethersx2 > pcsx2

>> No.9498634

Seeing the difference now isn't the reason to encode to ROM. ROM uses lossless compression, while ISOs are 'lossy'. What this means is that for each year the ISO sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 21 FPS, assuming you have SATA - it's about 15 FPSon IDE, but only 7 FPS on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. You don't want to know how much worse it is on CD-ROM or other optical media.

I started collecting ISOs in about 2001, and if I try to play any of the games I downloaded back then, even the stuff I grabbed at 60 FPS, they just play like crap. The framerate is terrible, the anti-aliasing…well don’t get me started. Some of those games have degraded down to 15 or even 10 FPS. ROM rips from the same period still play great, even if they weren’t stored correctly, in a cool, dry place. Seriously, stick to ROMs, you may not be able to see the difference now, but in a year or two, you’ll be glad you did.

>> No.9498642

>>9498634
lol holy shit are you dumb. all you have to do is zip your IS0s to prevent this from happening. its your own fault for leaving them laying around out in the open on your harddrive like that. learn to take better care of your disc images retard.

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>>9498395
>game/emulator runs great
>several years worth of operating system updates, security updates, shared libraries updates, and device driver updates happen
>game/emulator remains untouched after all this time
>it now doesn't run so great

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9499481

>>9498395
>Download PS2 Emulator
>Works great

>> No.9499524

>>9498395
I know a similar feel, bro.
Higan sometimes crashes on me, seemingly at random.
AND I WAS ON A FUCKING ROLL IN GUN SMOKE I WAS ABOUT TO HIT 100000 POINTS REEEEEEE!
At first I thought it was maybe something to do with running in accuracy mode, but I switched to balanced and the same shit happened.
Other games have weird crashes too. Maybe something to do with a specific combination of game/location in game/score? I dunno. It seems to happen under roughly the same conditions, but I can't pin it down.

>> No.9499556

>>9498395
Nothing's changed, it's just the flashy glamour of PS2 emulation has worn off and you're seeing the issues that were always there.
Take the CRT & original hardware pill and come home.