Crashing after trying to run CD.

[wat docdude]

So, I've been trying to successfully get a PS2 game running pretty much all day.

I'm pretty sure I've got everything installed and configured correctly, but for some reason I can't get games to run.

I've tried both GTA: Vice City and Star Ocean: Till the End of Time. Vice city's compatibility says I should at least get to the intro, and Star Ocean I should be able to get through the game.

However when I try to run the game it won't work. I get the message:
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An unhandled or unrecoverable exception occurred, with the message:
The GS plugin failed to open or initialize.
Pcxs2 will now close. More details may be available via the emulog.txt file
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I used to get an error that said I needed to update direct x, however I updated and now that message doesn't come up.

The cdvdrom is set to P.E.Op.S

I have windows 7 64x.
Also, I can emulate PSX games, just not PS2.

Any help would be really appreciated.

[Shadow Lady]

PC specs? PCSX2 settings? Plugin settings?

[wat docdude]

Okay.

I've got 8gigs of RAM.
Intel Core i5 3.2ghz CPU (4 CPUs) ~3.2ghz
Graphics is an ATI Radeon HD 5750.
Windows 7 64 bit.

And then Plugin settings:

Interface: W2k/Xp IOCTL scsi commands.
Drive: Drive D:
Caching mode: None-reads one sector
Try to limit speed, Don't wait until drive is ready, check tray state, show message box on reading error - all unchecked
Try again on reading error- checked, retry count is 5

And then I guess I don't really know what you mean by PCSX2 settings, there's quite a few different menus.

[Akira420]

You need to trouble shoot

[wat docdude]

Eh...Could you please be a little bit more specific?

I've tried to fiddle with the settings quite a bit, however nothing really seems to do the trick.
It's hard for me, because I don't exactly know what about half the settings mean.

[rama]

Create an iso of your game disc and work with that. Should be easier that way.

[wat docdude]

Ah man. I have no idea how to create an ISO.
I tried creating an image with Alchohal 52%, but that was like .mdf I believe.

I'll do some more googling.

Although I'd REALLY like to be able to run off the disk.

[rama]

Use the free tool "imgburn". Its easy and creates fine images.
Playing off of the discs is possible but comes with problems..

http://www.imgburn.com/

[wat docdude]

So, then will I have to use a different plugin to use the .ISO files?

[jesalvein]

or the internal iso loader if you are using latest beta.
if not, use linuziso plugin