You are not logged in.

#1 2009-02-20 02:01:14

BoppreH
Member
Registered: 2009-02-04
Posts: 47

ePSXe - GPU MesaGL acceleration plugin

I'm an inexperienced Arch user and PSX emulators are totally new to me, so excuse me if I'm missing something obvious.

I've installed the ePSXe package from AUR ("yaourt -S epsxe"). It took me some time to find the executable ("/opt/epsxe/epsxe"), but now it's running.

And now I'm trying to install the GPU acceleration plugin.  I downloaded and installed the package from AUR ("yaourt -S epsxe-plugin-gpu-mesagl"), but when configuring the video option to use the plugin, only the "disabled" option is there.

screenshot2009021921582vh3.jpg

How can I link the plugin to the "video config" options?

Last edited by BoppreH (2009-02-20 02:03:15)

Offline

#2 2009-02-20 05:51:55

sand_man
Member
From: Australia
Registered: 2008-06-10
Posts: 2,164

Re: ePSXe - GPU MesaGL acceleration plugin

epsxe can be a bitch to install. It's more likely a permission problem. Check the permissions on the plugin file. To be sure you can try running epsxe as root just to check but it's not recommended


neutral

Offline

#3 2009-02-20 15:13:27

BoppreH
Member
Registered: 2009-02-04
Posts: 47

Re: ePSXe - GPU MesaGL acceleration plugin

sand_man wrote:

epsxe can be a bitch to install. It's more likely a permission problem. Check the permissions on the plugin file. To be sure you can try running epsxe as root just to check but it's not recommended

The problem persists even with root running it.

A bitch to install? And what about controllers, does it support? Or shall I try it on Windows instead?

Offline

#4 2009-02-20 16:25:40

agapito
Member
From: Who cares.
Registered: 2008-11-13
Posts: 641

Re: ePSXe - GPU MesaGL acceleration plugin

yaourt -S psx

Non-free, but works perfectly.


Excuse my poor English.

Offline

#5 2009-02-20 17:37:42

BoppreH
Member
Registered: 2009-02-04
Posts: 47

Re: ePSXe - GPU MesaGL acceleration plugin

agapito wrote:

yaourt -S psx

Non-free, but works perfectly.

Non-free or non-open-source?

And does it require that "bios" file?

[EDIT]
Nevermind, it does require but I found it. Testing now.

Last edited by BoppreH (2009-02-20 17:41:25)

Offline

#6 2009-02-20 19:10:04

luciferin
Member
Registered: 2007-05-10
Posts: 144

Re: ePSXe - GPU MesaGL acceleration plugin

I'd recommend the epsxe-plugin-gpu-xgl2 for ePSXe video.  It allows you to get some incredible filtering.  If you have the ability it'll run a lot better under Windows though (sadly).  PSX runs great for me, but it doesn't allow and of the filtering/enhancement that the ePSXe plugins do.

Offline

#7 2009-02-20 19:35:55

BoppreH
Member
Registered: 2009-02-04
Posts: 47

Re: ePSXe - GPU MesaGL acceleration plugin

luciferin wrote:

I'd recommend the epsxe-plugin-gpu-xgl2 for ePSXe video.  It allows you to get some incredible filtering.  If you have the ability it'll run a lot better under Windows though (sadly).  PSX runs great for me, but it doesn't allow and of the filtering/enhancement that the ePSXe plugins do.

It's just for one game, so I think I will (sadly) stick to windows. This time.

Offline

#8 2009-02-21 11:59:43

bonusbartus
Member
Registered: 2009-02-21
Posts: 3

Re: ePSXe - GPU MesaGL acceleration plugin

When I use the glx2 driver epsxe just shuts down right after starting, I guess my old geforce2MX doesn't like glx2?
what driver is better for an old card like that? the MesaGL or the old glx driver?

thanks,

Bartus

Offline

#9 2009-02-22 00:17:46

Runiq
Member
From: Germany
Registered: 2008-10-29
Posts: 1,053

Re: ePSXe - GPU MesaGL acceleration plugin

bonusbartus wrote:

When I use the glx2 driver epsxe just shuts down right after starting, I guess my old geforce2MX doesn't like glx2?

Same problem here, though I have an old ATI card (the infamous Mobility Radeon 200M Series) and am trying to get it to work on x86_64. Gamepad works (can't access the plugin setup though, guess I'll have to fiddle with some lib32 stuff), and as for the graphics I'm just gonna try a software renderer plugin, since that looked good enough back on windows.

Offline

#10 2009-02-22 00:40:39

BoppreH
Member
Registered: 2009-02-04
Posts: 47

Re: ePSXe - GPU MesaGL acceleration plugin

I'm giving up. Here's a list of the problems:

- it doesn't respect the theme or use any openbox default widget, making everything greyish, squared and unnatural;
- at the config window most words are cropped because the font is too big for the window size. And it's not resizable;
- the "select file" window is really bad, since it doesn't use openbox's widgets;
- the default permissions for the plugin are all wrong. I had to to manually change them to make it work for non-root users;
- old documentation. I only found a lot of 3~6 years old topics in my first search results;
- instant crash without any kind of warning / error window when loading bios or iso files

And I didn't even start to try using my USB controller. And the game (chrono cross) looks really bad on PSX.

Everything went so smoothly on ZSNES...

Offline

#11 2009-09-13 17:49:53

smiletime
Member
Registered: 2009-09-13
Posts: 1

Re: ePSXe - GPU MesaGL acceleration plugin

ok I had this problem but it was just one of the files was in the wrong place so I just moved it and it started working :-)
the file was "libgpuPeteXGL2.so.2.0.9" I had it in the cfg folder instead of the plugin one where it was suppose to be!
hope this helped someone :-D xx

Offline

#12 2009-09-14 01:54:50

e_tank
Member
Registered: 2006-12-21
Posts: 80

Re: ePSXe - GPU MesaGL acceleration plugin

such a shame that there's no decent psx emulator (or emulator+plugin combo) for linux (or even windows for that matter, imo).  i think pSX is the closest but it's still way too buggy and has lots of compatibility issues.  i actually have a psx, along with a few other consoles, hooked up through my video capture card because of the poor state of the emus/plugins.

before you give up though, try pcsx-reloaded (link to project page in AUR).  it's by far the easiest to use, setup, and least buggy of the psx emulators on linux and doesn't require a bios file either.  it's not very efficient (high cpu usage) even with its own opengl renderer instead of pete's, which i feel is a mess and it stupidly doesn't bother to sleep while syncing the frame rate so it will always puts a max load on your cpu.  it's trivial to change but i feel it's just not worth using it at all.

Offline

#13 2009-09-14 12:33:10

techprophet
Member
Registered: 2008-05-13
Posts: 209

Re: ePSXe - GPU MesaGL acceleration plugin

e_tank wrote:

such a shame that there's no decent psx emulator (or emulator+plugin combo) for linux (or even windows for that matter, imo).

Probably because of this

Offline

#14 2009-09-14 23:59:08

sand_man
Member
From: Australia
Registered: 2008-06-10
Posts: 2,164

Re: ePSXe - GPU MesaGL acceleration plugin

Ahh memories. PSX definitely my favourite console.


neutral

Offline

Board footer

Powered by FluxBB