Best Settings For PCSX2 On Potato PCs 2023

PS2 is one of the most popular gaming consoles in the 2000s because it has many interesting and fun games to play.

If at this time you want to play PS2 games but don't have a console, you can use an emulator like PCSX2 to run the PS2 games that you have.

PCSX2 is one of the best PS2 emulators that can be used so far. Apart from the new features, the performance of this emulator has also increased quite significantly at this time.

If you want to use this emulator, here's how:

Download & Install PCSX2

All you have to do is enter the PCSX Website and download according to the version you want.

Stable Version = 32 Bit

Nightly Version = 64Bit

For example, we will download Nighly 64Bit – AVX2 Qt because this one already uses the latest GUI.

After downloading, just extract the file and run PCSX2 immediately.

Then select settings and select BIOS. If you don't have a PS2 BIOS file, please download it here:

After downloading, immediately extract the BIOS to the bios folder in the PCSX2 folder.

Then return to PCSX2 and select refresh list, then the BIOS will appear.

SETTINGS PCSX2

In order to run PS2 games more smoothly, you can make the following settings:

Emulation Settings

Graphic Settings

CONTROLLER SETTINGS

To play games on PCSX2, you can use a keyboard or gamepad.

If using a gamepad, please install the Gamepad then select Settings and Controller

Then enter the Controller Port1 menu and just select Automatic Mapping to map the gamepad automatically

or you can also manually map according to your needs.

ADDED GAME LIBRARY

To add your game library, just select Add Game Directory and please select the folder where you store the PS2 games that you have.

AUTOMATIC DOWNLOAD COVER

After adding the Game library, the cover will not appear automatically, you can set it manually by right-clicking on the game and selecting Set Cover Image.

Or you can also set the cover automatically by selecting Tools and selecting Cover Downloader.

Then enter the following URL

"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xlenore/ps2-covers/main/covers/${serial}.jpg” and select Start

Then cover games in your library will be downloaded automatically.

And to play the game, just double click on the game you want to play

Have a nice play.