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Various Problems Solved of Ps2 Emu

The document contains summaries of various issues reported by users while emulating the game Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 using the PCSX2 emulator. The issues include graphical flickering on battle scenes caused by the GSdx plugin, a double image effect caused when using non-native resolutions, extreme slowness that can be fixed by disabling alpha correction in GSdx settings, and other audio, video and input issues along with proposed resolutions or workarounds where available.

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Various Problems Solved of Ps2 Emu

The document contains summaries of various issues reported by users while emulating the game Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 using the PCSX2 emulator. The issues include graphical flickering on battle scenes caused by the GSdx plugin, a double image effect caused when using non-native resolutions, extreme slowness that can be fixed by disabling alpha correction in GSdx settings, and other audio, video and input issues along with proposed resolutions or workarounds where available.

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Flickering Battle Scenes

SYMPTOMS
Graphical flickering occurs on battle scenes regardless of frame skipping.

CAUSE
This bug is caused by the GSdx graphics plugin.

RESOLUTION
There are no resolutions that are currently available.

WORKAROUND
An older version of the plugin, GSdx9 0.11.4, appears to be unaffected by this
bug, and may be used in place of the updated version for this game.

STATUS
Reported by multiple members.
No official confirmation exists.

APPLIES TO

* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 [PAL] - (?)


* PCSX2 all recent releases
* GSdx all recent releases

Double-Image Refraction

SYMPTOMS
A light refraction effect occurs on the character models in the game resulting in
a ghost double-image.

CAUSE
This bug is caused by the GSdx graphics plugin set in a non-native internal
resolution.

RESOLUTION
There are no resolutions that are currently available.

WORKAROUND
Set the internal resolution to Native.

STATUS
Reported by multiple members.
No official confirmation exists.

APPLIES TO

* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 [PAL] - (?)


* PCSX2 all recent releases
* GSdx all recent releases
Extreme slowness

SYMPTOMS
Game is slow as **** whether u use latest GSDX or ZeroGS

CAUSE
GS overuses alpha correction (FBA) effects.

RESOLUTION
Use latest GSDX with these settings:

* DX9 hardware renderer <DX9 is a must - u cannot disable FBA in DX10>


* disable Alpha correction (FBA) in GSDX config

STATUS
Playable and fast.

APPLIES TO

* PCSX2 0.9.4 to 0.9.5 SVN 335+


* Affected Plugin Name: GSDX 1.7 <rev 745 1.8 beta too>, ZeroGS 0.97.1
* Gundam Seed Destiny Rengou vs. ZAFT Plus II [NTSC-J] - SLPS 257.18

Particle Effects Lag

SYMPTOMS
Particle effects such as explosions decrease the game speed by 80% during the
interval of the effect.

CAUSE
This performance drop is caused by the FBA implementation for GSdx.
See KB-GSDRvZPII-Extreme Slowness for the root cause.

RESOLUTION
There are no resolutions that are currently available.

WORKAROUND
Set GSdx to render with DX9 without Alpha Correction.

STATUS
Reported by one member.
No official confirmation exists.

APPLIES TO

* GSdx, all recent releases


* Gundam Seed Destiny Rengou vs. ZAFT Plus II [NTSC-J] - SLPS_257.18
Freezing Video Playback

SYMPTOMS
Long videos freeze before finishing.

CAUSE
This bug is caused by the PCSX2 emulator.

RESOLUTION
This issue has been resolved since PCSX2 0.9.5 SVN 351.
Download the latest SVN build here.

WORKAROUND
Press START to skip the video.

STATUS
Reported by one member.
No official confirmation exists.

APPLIES TO

* PCSX2 0.9.2 to 0.9.5 SVN 343


* GSdx, ZeroGS all recent releases
* Gundam Seed Destiny Rengou vs. ZAFT Plus II [NTSC-J] - SLPS_257.18

Slow Distorted Sound

SYMPTOMS
All in-game music, voices, and sound effects are extremely slow and distorted.

CAUSE
This bug is caused by the P.E.Op.S SPU2 plugin.

RESOLUTION
There are no resolutions that are currently available.

WORKAROUND
Choose an alternative SPU2 plugin such as ZeroSPU2 or GiGaHeRz's SPU2.

STATUS
Reported by one member.
No official confirmation exists.

APPLIES TO

* PCSX2 0.9.2 to 0.9.5 SVN 330


* P.E.Op.S SPU2 all recent releases
* Gundam Seed Destiny Rengou vs. ZAFT Plus II [NTSC-J] - SLPS_257.18
A/V Out of Synchronization

SYMPTOMS
The audio is a fraction of a second slower than the video.

CAUSE
Unknown: Suspected to be caused by ZeroSPU2 and GiGaHeRz's SPU2 implementation.
This synchronization issue does not appear to affect P.E.Op.S SPU2.

RESOLUTION
There are no resolutions that are currently available.

WORKAROUND
There are no workarounds that are currently available.

STATUS
Reported by one member.
No official confirmation exists.

APPLIES TO

* PCSX2 0.9.2 to 0.9.5 SVN 330


* ZeroSPU2 or GiGaHeRz's SPU2 all recent releases
* Gundam Seed Destiny Rengou vs. ZAFT Plus II [NTSC-J] - SLPS_257.18

Improper Camera Reposition

SYMPTOMS

After camera position behind the unit is pushed against a wall, the view will be
within the unit and not return to normal after moving away.

CAUSE
This bug is caused by the PCSX2 emulator.

RESOLUTION
There are no resolutions that are currently available.

WORKAROUND
Avoid structures and landscape that will cause the scenario.

STATUS
Reported by three members.
No official confirmation exists.

APPLIES TO

* PCSX2 0.9.2 to 0.9.5 SVN 330


* GSdx, ZeroGS all recent releases
* Gundam Seed Destiny Rengou vs. ZAFT Plus II [NTSC-J] - SLPS_257.18

Characters going up(Tales of the Abyss and some other games)

SYMPTOMS
A directional key is on auto-fire after load-state

CAUSE
Unfinished game load

RESOLUTION
Load-state AFTER the game is fully loaded, as in main game menu.

WORKAROUND
Don't use the load/save state function

STATUS
Works all the time for me

APPLIES TO

* PCSX2 0.9.3 to 0.9.5 SVN 333


* Tales of the Abyss [NTSC] - SERIAL: SLUS 21386
* Many other games if seem applicable

FFX AURON LOOK CRASH

Symptoms
Game crashes at the beginning of the game after the blitzball gme.

Causes
PS2'S laser changes sectors at this exact point, old versions of pcsx2 can't
emulate properly

RESOLUTION
Run game from an iso using 9.4 and latest version of Gsdx

Workaround
Have FFX hack and mgts turned on

Status

Works all the time


Applies To

All versions of Pcsx2 after 9.2 including betas

No Sound and Crash

SYMPTOMS
The sound disappears after save-sate, then the game crashes after a while

CAUSE
the lag during savesate function causes the DVD reading to become unsynchronized

RESOLUTION
Don't save state during cut-scenes, scene change, or movies.
Only savestate when the screen is stable

WORKAROUND
Don't use save/load state

STATUS
Works most of the time

APPLIES TO

* All games on all versions

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