Grandia III immediately freezes my PCSX2

[klausiboy]

So, I once tried to play Grandia III on pcsx2, but back then the game would run really slowly, and often completely crash. That was a long time ago, though, so i figured I's try again with the newest version of PCSX2, but now it freezes the moment i launch it. Any ideas? I'm running PCSX2 at the standard settings, since I'm a tech noob.

[Arcadius]

Hmmm, having played and beaten Grandia III, there shouldn't be any issues regarding what you just described. If you could, when PCSX2 crashes, go into your PCSX2 folder, find the logs folder, and post the contents of emuLog.txt here. Make sure you don't exit out of PCSX2 before you copy the emuLog.txt contents.

[Blyss Sarania]

Yeah post the log, I completed this game in PCSX2 recently. Also post hardware spec.

[klausiboy]

PCSX2 1.2.1.r5873 - compiled on Feb 3 2014
Savestate version: 0x9a0a0000

Host Machine Init:
Operating System = Microsoft (build 9200), 64-bit
Physical RAM = 5959 MB
CPU name = Intel® Core™ i5-3210M CPU @ 2.50GHz
Vendor/Model = GenuineIntel (stepping 09)
CPU speed = 2.493 ghz (4 logical threads)
x86PType = Standard OEM
x86Flags = bfebfbff 7fbae3bf
x86EFlags = 28100000

x86 Features Detected:
MMX.. SSE.. SSE2.. SSE3.. SSSE3.. SSE4.1.. SSE4.2.. AVX

Reserving memory for recompilers...

Loading plugins...
Binding GS: C:\Program Files (x86)\PCSX2 1.2.1\Plugins\gsdx32-avx-r5875.dll
Windows 6.2.9200
Binding PAD: C:\Program Files (x86)\PCSX2 1.2.1\Plugins\lilypad-r5875.dll
Binding SPU2: C:\Program Files (x86)\PCSX2 1.2.1\Plugins\spu2-x-r5875.dll
Binding CDVD: C:\Program Files (x86)\PCSX2 1.2.1\Plugins\cdvdGigaherz.dll
Binding USB: C:\Program Files (x86)\PCSX2 1.2.1\Plugins\USBnull.dll
Binding FW: C:\Program Files (x86)\PCSX2 1.2.1\Plugins\FWnull.dll
Binding DEV9: C:\Program Files (x86)\PCSX2 1.2.1\Plugins\DEV9null.dll
Plugins loaded successfully.

(GameDB) 9655 games on record (loaded in 345ms)
HLE Notice: ELF does not have a path.


Initializing plugins...
Init GS
Windows 6.2.9200
Init PAD
Init SPU2
Init CDVD
Init USB
Init FW
Init DEV9
Plugins initialized successfully.

Opening plugins...
Opening GS
Opening PAD
Opening SPU2
Opening CDVD
isoFile open ok: C:\Users\klaus\spil\emulatorer\ps2\grandia3.zip
Image type = Audio CD
isoFile: searching for layer1...

[ssakash]

you should boot the game in ISO format not in zip format.

[jesalvein]

Don't zip your game, pcsx2 won't be able to read it.
You can still compress it using linuziso plugin if you want to

[Blyss Sarania]

Don't zip your game, pcsx2 won't be able to read it.
You can still compress it using linuziso plugin if you want to

If it's gzipped it can read it(with avih's changes in the latest builds).

But I'm guessing it's not and that's the issue.

[ssakash]

isoFile open ok: C:\Users\klaus\spil\emulatorer\ps2\grandia3.zip

If it's gzipped it can read it(with avih's changes in the latest builds).

gzip uses the *.gz format. according to the log, it's not gzipped. (or) do you mean any other thing ?

[Blyss Sarania]

Zip containers can contain gzipped files too(at least in 7zip you can set the compression method separate from the container), but those aren't compatible either.

If it's gzipped it can read it(with avih's changes in the latest builds).

But I'm guessing it's not and that's the issue.

[klausiboy]

Thanks for the input, I'll try using ISO, only problem is, that my cousin is currently borrowing my game, so i can't really rip it again, and when i unzip it I can't find the ISO file, so all in all the problem was probably with my game-fil to start with afterall xD